Winter Solstice

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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 22nd at 12:30 am EST and in 2012 it will occur on December 21st 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 essence of the harvest of evolution and awakening from the previous year. As the wisdom gained from the past is mingled with the potentiality of the future our awakening and the awakening of all is catalyzed. Even though it is the shortest day outwardly, it is the longest day inwardly and represents a great period of potentiality for the future and for the coming year.  So in the New Year, that wisdom gained from the past is mingled with the potentialities of the future, in this way nothing of what we have achieved through success or suffering is ever lost – it is mingled in the seeds of rebirth for the New Year.

Thus we appropriately use this time of the year as a time of reflection and goal setting – New Year’s Resolutions!  In fact, the entire winter season is a fine time for deep reflection, journaling, seeking inwardly the divine qualities that comprise our essential being, reconnoitering our purpose in life to see how it may have changed, and then setting our intentions and planning for things we wish to do in the new year to awakening and actualize more of what we truly are.

There is a blessing (a wazifa or Divine Quality in Arabic) which expresses this: Ya Zahir -Ya Warith. 
Explanation: This blessing will help manifest in our lives the new potentialities we continually accrue in the process of living and which become part of our ever evolving divine inheritance - this comprises (Zahir, the manifest) our own unique manifestation of divinity in life (Warith, our divine inheritance) and by this manifestation the divine purpose is fulfilled.

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