Starcodes December 20, 2024

Blessings on this Solstice. The Sun will rise and set in the same northern point for three days- then begin to inch southward. We celebrate the return of light, hope, and potential as the days grow longer. But first we need to get through a couple of cold months.

This cycle can be symbolically powerful in years when the world seems dark and that spark of hope hard to find. Nature’s cycles remind us that no condition stays the same, the darkest nights grow shorter, spring returns, summer arches full, and the Sun cycles back down into the winter’s quiet. In that quiet we can rest, burn our woes in the fire and find fresh dreams to inspire the new year ahead.

The Sun enters Capricorn on Saturday and asks us to look again at the traditions of our life, honor what grounds us, supports us, connects us to the best of our ancestors. Whether we celebrate the solstice on the 21st at 2:21 am, Christmas, the birth of Mithras, or the beginning of Hannukah on Dec 25, or begin Kwanzaa December 26, on these first lengthening days we can invite joy into our hearts in defiance of the winter’s cold and our world weariness, and have faith in cycles, in the return of the light, the return of a compassionate world.

Along with the Solstice, the two planets of social structure and culture, Jupiter and Saturn, square off this week. Usually when these two planets square…