Wishing you all a happy and warm Winter Solstice!
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It’s The Solstice To Be Jolly
We are so accustomed to beginning things when the light is turned on, when the sun rises and when we open our eyes and adjust. Yet nature says the beginnings are in the dark.
https://paraigdeburca58.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/its-the-solstice-to-be-jolly/
Happy Solstice, my Mastodon friends! I was thankful for the dark but now I'm ready for the light.
For the #wintersolstice2025 we're visiting Drombeg stone circle, at "Rosscarbury" - the woods of Cairbre.
The name is appropriate - Cairbre is the "Oak King" god, who brings increase and warmth until Fionn slays him at Bealtaine, triggering the change toward wintertime.
Mythological connections point to Cairbre's birthday: Midwinter, often rerendered as "Christmas" in his Christianised forms.
We're celebrating his birthday in a town named for him, tonight. :)
This year, I will be the one dying and (hopefully) being reborn... [koffhackkoff*Snort**hronk*koffkoffkoffsplutter]
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