Solstice Greetings To All

Happy Winter Solstice, everyone! Today gives us sunlight for the shortest amount of time all year. Our ancestors were very grateful for more light each day, and celebrated the solstices and the equinoxes.

Wishing All A Happy Saturnalia

 

Here's wishing everyone a happy Saturnalia! From December 17 to December 23, festive role reversals, merriment, and gift giving were the practice in prechristian Rome. Io Saturnalia!

Winter Solstice Greetings

 

 Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!

Io Saturnalia, Everyone!

It's that time of year, once again! Io Saturnalia, everyone! If you exchange gifts this time of year, Saturnalia was the beginning of the holiday gift giving tradition!

Sol and Winter Solstice

 

And so it begins; the yearly nonsense over "Happy Holidays" and "Merry Christmas". It really doesn't matter, I suppose, as long as you remember to keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

Happy Winter Solstice

A Happy Winter Solstice to everyone!

A Song For The Season

May this year be punctuated by better choices among our planet's human population. Happy Winter Solstice.

Sol In Winter Solstice

Between Mabon and Samhain

Back in the day, before the retail industry owned most of our holidays and before corporations had become "people", (could a presidential candidate have chosen anything stupider to say?) it was customary among European Pagans to give gifts of homemade food to relatives and friends on Winter Solstice. At that time of year in the northern hemisphere, harvest had been completed and Nature was at a loll, in between seasons. Food was a highly appreciated gift. The process of canning, of course, had not been invented, but our Ancestors dried herbs, brewed wine, distilled spirits, and baked. In fact, dried herbs and teas were the traditional ways everyone got enough folic acid during the winter.

The time between Mabon and Samhain is a very busy season for any type of agriculture, but the Ancients probably never had time to spare as the days got shorter, and Halloween, the last holy day of the year, got closer. The Goddess has blessed this Witch with a great garden and lots of creative ideas, and this year, the retail industry will have one less customer for Winter Solstice gift giving. Blessed Be!

Jared Bowes, Kansas, And Axial Tilt

Just when I thought Festivus was finally over, the ACLU in Kansas noted that Jared Bowes, of the Kansas Department Of Commerce had disappointed them in the year 2013 by using his government email account to remind everyone that jesus is the reason for the season and that he is king of somewhere, and that if everyone has been good this year, Santa Claus would leave presents under the Winter Solstice Tree, or something like that. No worries about those who truly don't believe in christianity, and no sensitivity to those who might feel pressured, upon reading the newsletter from the department, to act if they believed in something they do not, in order to avoid any discrimination that may result from not being christian.

Doug Bonney, of the ACLU states that he has received a lot of complaints about the "overly christian-centric atmosphere" in Kansas government. This comes as no surprise to me. It also does not surprise me that Jared Bowes's statements about christianity were edited out of the newsletter; sadly, not before it was read by some of the recipients. Here is what Bowes had to say for himself:

"Let me be forthright in saying that my sole intent was to extol King Jesus as the 'reason for the season."

Here's what Bonny had to say about the whole mess: “People might, for example, say, 'I’m a Jew; I’m not really welcome here,' " Bonney said. "That’s the danger and that's the purpose of the (Constitution's) establishment clause. It’s to keep religion out of government because there is no official government religion in the United States. There cannot be. We’re a pluralistic society, and people have all kinds of religious beliefs.”.....Topeka Capital Journal

We are a pluralistic society. This is what Kansas, collectively, just doesn't understand, from the silly little school my children attended in Frankfort, Kansas, before I found that I could tolerate no more; to the insensitivity of a vocal government employee who uses his government email account for the presentation of imaginary icons as fact. The reason for the season has a lot more to do with axial tilt than it does with Judeo-Christian mumbo jumbo, and the only appropriate way to attribute spirituality to the season is to remember to keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

I'm Getting Nothing For Christmas

There will be no Christmas for me this year
That is the unvarnished truth

Above is a stray "wahwah" from a flock of "wahwahs" left over from Christmas, 2013. It got lost in Facebook, on the page of a homeless person who has been offered help many times over the past twenty years, but turns it down every time because she does not want the employment situation which would accompany a permanent address. The wahwah girl is someone who has an income, of sorts, and refuses to use it for food and shelter. Instead, she uses it for computers, and other electronics, and for accessories for them. She stays in shelters that are meant for people experiencing true emergencies. She also eats three times as much as she needs, caring very little about any children for whom the food is meant.

Santa Claus isn't real. This is important to remember when celebrating Christmas. Santa Claus isn't real, and Christmas is best celebrated by giving, not taking from those who cannot afford to buy into the commercial ideal that has perverted Winter Solstice.



The Wahwah girl who didn't have a Christmas this year needs to grow up. That is the unvarnished truth.

 

Last Minute Shopping?

Holiday Shopping? Don't do this:
 

Do this instead:

 

Before the retail industry dictated our holiday celebrations, food was a traditional Winter Solstice gift. Especially prepared from scratch.

 

Winter Solstice Today

 

Happy Winter Solstice

 

Keep Sol In Winter Solstice

 

Here's wishing the jesus-christing crowd would get over themselves. Please keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

 

Keep Sol In Winter Solstice

 

Blessed Be, Everyone! Remember to keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

 

Winter Solstice Wassail Recipe

 

Combine all ingredients in a cauldron and bring to a boil. Allow to simmer, while stirring occasionally. Everyone present should have a chance to stir the wassail, while concentrating on his or her wishes for the upcoming season. Share and drink! The Ancients would even sprinkle a small amount under any fruit trees that were dormant during winter, for luck and for health of their orchards.

 

*Optional: this recipe can also be made with about 2 cups of white wine and one cup of rum; but this does not make or break the positive outlook for the new season!

 

Brightest Blessings!

 

 

Please! Keep Sol In Winter Solstice!

 

Geesh! Leave it to fundamentalist Christians to turn the original holiday gift giver, Odin, into Coca-Cola's bitch! Santa Claus was not necessarily a fat white man in a red suit before Coca-Cola got hold of him and copyrighted him! But should anyone be surprised? Look how the Northern European Christian bunch has treated the mythical figure, Jesus, over the years.....If he really existed, he could not possibly have had sandy blond hair, or blue eyes. He would have looked a more Osama bin Laden than most fundies would like to imagine.

 

Fox News's Megyn Kelly was dreaming of a white president before the election last year, and this year, she told us all that not only is Santa Claus white, but that Jesus is white, too. It's almost as if.........the fundy Christians had the copyright, not only to Santa Claus, but to the Gnostic Teacher, who was really called "Yeshua". Over the years, they have run with both de facto copyrights, and they have destroyed Winter Solstice with commercial greed and destroyed Messianic mysticism with violence and lies.

 

No one owns the copyright to prophecy, myth, or actual events in the past or the future. And if Fox News thinks that anyone owns a copyright to Odin, they might wanna rethink that whole idea. The very idea that anyone should "keep Christ in Christmas" not only assumes that Christ had something to do with Winter Solstice in the first place, but also assumes that everyone wants a white Jesus in a copyrighted religion that was stolen from the original author and re-written. Megyn Kelly couldn't think of anything better to do than get on national television and mock a person who finds reality more appealing than copyrighted christianity!

Happy Holidays, everyone, and please.......keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

 

Keep Sol In Winter Solstice

 

Whenever someone feels the need to tell yours truly to keep christ in Christmas, I usually shake my head and respond with the admonishment, "Keep Sol in Winter Solstice"! And I suppose the discount stores should keep the "L" and the "I" in "flickering lights".

 

In Case You Missed Church On Sunday

 

The season is cranking up again! Please remember to keep Sol in Winter Solstice!

 

 

Private Message

 

The day you start to reimburse

Is the day I lift my curse!

 

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

Unless, of course, you wait until after Ancestor Night. If you do that, I will not assist you until after Winter Solstice.