Join Facebook to connect with Winter Equinox and others you may know. We celebrate the promise of new life and recommit ourselves to the protection of everyone’s right to his or her own radiant humanity.Ĭelebrating the winter holidays is an excellent opportunity for Unitarian Universalist congregations to express their commitment to our Sixth Principle: We covenant to affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. View the profiles of people named Winter Equinox. With the arrival of winter’s low dark sky, communities around the world look to the miracle of light as a sign of rebirth and a source of hope. Faith Without Bordersįor everything there is a season-a time to die and a time to be born. Themes can include light amid darkness the death of nature and the cycle of life the darkness just before the dawn the miracle of every birth. During summer the day of the solstice is the longest day of the year and during winter the day of the solstice is the shortest day of the year. Solstices occur on 20 th or 21 st June and 21 st or 22 nd December each year. She is the hag aspect of the Triple Goddess, and rules the dark days between Samhain and Beltaine. During Solstices the tilt of the axis of the Earth (with respect to the Sun) is the maximum at 23° 26. 1The solstice that marks the onset of winter, at the time of the shortest day, about 22 December in the northern hemisphere and 21 June in the southern. The Winter Solstice has become important to both humanists and pagans, who can find common ground in celebrating this occasion. n Scotland, she is also called Beira, the Queen of Winter. “Solstice” in Latin means “the sun standing still.” Traditionally, it is a time of both foreboding and expectancy, as the longest night leads to the return of the sun. Winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

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