
Ready to grow your spiritual practice in 2022? As mentioned earlier, the new year is a great time to start or expand your Naturalistic Pagan practice. Wouldn’t it be helpful to have daily encouragement and Pagan input? You can, with Circle Sanctuary’s daily Pagan podcasts!
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Here comes New Year’s Eve! What will you make from it? A fun evening? A window into the vastness of space and time? Steps towards a better life, a better you? Even as the Omicron mutation keeps many of us at home this New Year’s Eve, all of these are possible!
Happy Winter Solstice, or Yule! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Summer Solstice (Litha) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. With the exact Solstice moment at 4 pm (UTC) on December 21st, the longest night for most of those in America is the night of the 20th, but for some in Eastern North America, and certainly most of Eurasia, the longest night is tomorrow night, the night of the 21st. This is different for every time zone, and is easy to figure out. If the instant of the Solstice is in the morning (before noon) in your local time zone, then the longest night is the night before. If it’s in the afternoon or evening, the the longest night is the night after the Winter Solstice for you.
Remember how illuminating Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar is? By mapping the history of our Universe onto the Calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1, and today at midnight the night of December 31st, it’s a lot easier to see how tiny our own part of history is. The highlight of the year comes in the last minutes before midnight on New Years Eve, when ancient history flies by with blinding speed! Now, with this tool, it’s even simpler for anyone to experience this, with no preparation needed.
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