{"id":728,"date":"2010-12-17T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/sol-invictus.html"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:57:54","slug":"sol-invictus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/sol-invictus.html","title":{"rendered":"Sol Invictus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautiful piece someone sent me long ago in a Winter Solstice Card. &nbsp;I have no idea who wrote it, and would love to know. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve inserted copies myself into Yule cards and used it in Yule rituals, where it&#8217;s worked wonderfully well.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But it takes a bit of memorizing<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\"><b>Sol Invictus<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/b><b><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a golden egg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is the yolk of<br \/>\nthe egg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is the Ostara<br \/>\negg, a cosmic egg, the egg of beginning<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is the ring of<br \/>\nSolomon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is the luminous<br \/>\nbull of great horns goring the darkness<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a golden<br \/>\nhaired lion<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a shaman, a<br \/>\nshape-shifter, a magician of hairy and furry and wondrous parts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun disguises itself<br \/>\nas a hog, a world boar, a goat, a ram<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is an elephant<br \/>\ntrapped in a net of night<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun hides itself in the<br \/>\nwolf-skin of night<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun takes the moon as<br \/>\nhis mistress of dreaming<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is the red cock<br \/>\nof morning, the cock with the golden crest, the cock with the jewel crowing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a winged horse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a hawk with<br \/>\niron claws<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is an eagle with<br \/>\nfar-staring eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a lion-headed<br \/>\nbird<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun disguises itself<br \/>\nas a cuckoo and sits on the scepter of Hera<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a crested lark<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a quail,<br \/>\ncrying out against the moon who lures him into the darkness of night, into the<br \/>\ncold of winter<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is called<br \/>\nLohengrin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is honored with<br \/>\nfire, holy fire<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun acknowledges the<br \/>\nsacredness of lizards and fireflies<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun takes as a bride<br \/>\nthe aurora of morning for whom the moon sews a wedding robe with a thread that<br \/>\nwill not break<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is king of the<br \/>\nhill, the great mathematician of the year, the phoenix dying and being reborn<br \/>\nagain, always and forever<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is a crab<br \/>\nretracing its steps backwards to winter<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun sleeps in the<br \/>\nhouse of Capricorn<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun breaks its iron<br \/>\ncradle and leaps out on the back of day, startling the dreams of animals and<br \/>\nchildren<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">The sun is free and<br \/>\nlaughing and dancing the birthday gavotte on the solstice day in December<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">Felix natalis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">O sol invictus<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">Felix natalis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">O holy sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">Felix natalis<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">Beloved sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;line-height: 19pt\"><span style=\"color:#262626\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color:#262626\">Felix natalis, felix natalis,<br \/>\nfelix natalis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/b><b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautiful piece someone sent me long ago in a Winter Solstice Card. &nbsp;I have no idea who wrote it, and would love to know. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve inserted copies myself into Yule cards and used it in Yule rituals, where it&#8217;s worked wonderfully well. 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