Living Light

Years’ end - Winter Solstice The Winter solstice is actually the true year’s end and the day after is New Year’s Day. “The December solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. Depending on the Gregorian calendar , the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and December 23.” (http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html)   This year (2011) the Winter Solstice occurred on Thursday, December 22 nd at 12:30 am EST and in 2012 it will occur on December 21 st at 6:12 pm EST.   According to mystics who were masters of the cycles of time, such powerful celestial events have an immediate influence in the world. The Winter solstice is the infusion, into the roots and seeds of our consciousness, the essence of the fruits of our life from the previous year.   The egg of the New Year’s purpose is impregnated with the...

Christmas Trivia In the West we celebrate Christmas on DEC-25, as the day when Yeshua of Nazareth was born, which equates to JAN-07 of the Julian calendar used by some Orthodox Christian Churches. This is not actually the date of Jesus' birthday which most biblical scholars believe occurred in the autumn (I bet on or very close to the Autumnal Equinox). Christmas celebrated on Dec-25 can actually be attributed to attempts to increase its acceptance and cultural integration by aligning with two other popular festivals: (1) the ancient Roman celebration of Saturnalia 1 ; and (2) the Germanic/Nordic celebration of Yule 2 .   Saturnalia and Yule were/are not ‘religious’ holidays per sae but from my perspective they did have something in common with Christmas, and that was that they created powerful focalizations which catalyze light in the world... In the case of Saturnalia and Yule it was the light of the sun, the external cosmic light f...