Christmas Day....50 Words for Snow

Christmas Eve

"Somewhere across the winter world tonight 
you will be hearing chimes that fill the air;
Christmas extends its all-enfolding light
Across the distance....something we can share.

You will be singing, just the same as I,

These familiar songs we know so well.

I shall remember you and trim my tree,
One shining star upon the topmost bough;

I will hang wreaths of faith that all may see--

Tonight I glimpse beyond the here and now.

And all the time that we must be apart

I keep a candle in my heart."

Candle-lit heart by M.E. Linton

                           

Winter Solstice

                                        The longest Night
                                    A light in the darkness 
                                       

Cold Moon Eclipse in Gemini

The Cold Moon


"This is the month when the winter cold fastens its grip and the nights become long and dark. This full moon is also called the Long Nights Moon by some Native American tribes".


From The Farmers Almanac

                                          Eclipse in Gemini


"Balthomos felt the death of Baruch the moment it happened. He cried aloud and soared into the night air over the tundra, flailing his wings and sobbing his anguish into the clouds." 

"Lovers really do feel things like this, even when they are far apart. So do identical twins. That makes sense, because identical twins start their lives as a single egg cell which splits in two. You can't get much more entangled than that! Science can't yet explain what is going on when lovers and twins know things about their partners even when the partners are far away. It still seems like magic to us, just like the way the planets move round the Sun seemed like magic hundreds of years ago. But it might have something to do with quantum entanglement".


Mary and John Gribbin
The Science of Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials"

My Body is a Cage..Peter Gabriel

Always touches the core

Full Moon in Aries.

A potent and powerful time. A time to remember our

individual paths, and to initiate new projects and new 

beginnings. Move forward assertively in direct motion 

towards our goals, with courage and certainty. Listen 

to our intuition and take action.  Allow for a new spark 

of life.

                                       Hunters/Blood Moon

So called because this was the time for hunting, and storing provisions for the harsh winter months ahead. Also known as the Blood Moon and the Dying Moon.

Jelaluddin Rumi 30th September 1207 - 1273

Star Studded Rumi


Tonight is a night of union for the stars and of scattering,
scattering, since a bride is coming from the skies, consisting of a full moon.
Venus cannot contain herself for charming melodies, like the
nightingale which becomes intoxicated with the rose in spring-time.
See how the polestar is ogling Leo;
behold what dust Pisces is stirring up drom the deep!
Jupiter has galloped his steed against ancient Saturn, saying
"Take back your youth and go, bring good tidings!"
Mars' hand, which was full of blood from the handle of his
sword, has become as life-giving as the sun, the exalted in works.
Since Aquarius has come full of that water of life, the dry
cluster of Virgo is raining pearls from him.
The Pleiades full of goodness fears not Libra and being
broken; how should Aries flee away in fright from its mother?
When from the moon the arrow of a glance struck the heart
of Sagittarius, he took to night-faring in passion for her, like Scorpio.
On such a festival, go, sacrifice Taurus, else you are crooked of
gait in the mud like Cancer.
This sky is the astrolabe, and the reality is Love;
whatever we say of this, attend to the meaning.
Shamsi-Tabriz, on that dawn when you shine, the dark night
is transformed to bright day by your moonlike face.

"Mystical Poems of Rumi 1"A.J. Arberry
The University of Chicago Press, 1968