{"id":4117,"date":"2011-12-18T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2011-12-18T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:09:21","slug":"sunday-poetry-for-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/12\/sunday-poetry-for-the-winter-solstice.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunday poetry for the Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?attachment_id=8445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8445\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8445\" src=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/Winter_Sunrise-e1324217164166.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Solstice 2011\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janebmiluski.com\/work\/traditional-watercolor\/14\" target=\"_blank\">artwork by Jane Miluski<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">WINTER SOLSTICE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Journeying around the sun,<br \/>\nat Yule, she turns furthest from the light.<br \/>\nHere In the dark of the long night she is veiled,<br \/>\nand here she comes to the fullness of her union with creation.<br \/>\nTo enter is to hold Death closest to our hearts.<br \/>\nAnd as we do, Death has her sensuous way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Slowly, we come to a clearing, and the solstice.<br \/>\nAnd in deep stillness, we enter.<br \/>\nOur journey from the sun has come to its full,<br \/>\nand we wait in a rare quality of quietness.<br \/>\nTime is no more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Here in this place, we gently slip into the emptiness, and depth of the void,<br \/>\nand bathe in the energies of creation.<br \/>\nwhen we are cleansed, and fully drunken from the cup,<br \/>\nshe continues on her journey around, and we edge back closer to the light.<br \/>\nslipping out through her veils in birth, we are new, and journeying to the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holographic-breathing.com\/3\/index.php\/the-winter-solstice\">Martin Jones<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note: In the southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed, and the December Solstice is the Summer Solstice. \u00a0The seasonal references are different, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/does-astrology-work-in-the-southern-hemisphere\/\">astrology works the same.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>artwork by Jane Miluski WINTER SOLSTICE Journeying around the sun, at Yule, she turns furthest from the light. 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