winter solstice sunset outside Newark
Winter Solstice sunset outside Newark.
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Winter Solstice sunset
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Winter Solstice Stonehenge
Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.
Stonehenge is an astronomical observatory.
Celebrating the Winter Solstice
December 21, 2012
Mary Magdalene Church
Mary Magdalene Church
end of the mayan calander
I am the single radiance by which all is aroused and within which it is vibrant…
For the man who has found me, the door to all things stands open…
I am the magnetic force of the universal presence and the ceaseless ripple of its smile.
— Excerpts from Hymn To the Eternal Feminine by Teilhard de Chardin
Today was the shortest day.
At a little wholefood stall in at the Central Market in Lincoln, maybe a new stall as I have never seen before, a little typewritten notice of celebrations for the Winter Solstice.
0700 Walk up Hoe Hill, near Fulletby, near Horncastle to observe the sunrise
1100 Mary Magdalene Church, Castle Square, Lincoln for a silent meditation at 1111.
1130 Tea shop at Lincoln Cathedral.
1530 Heartwood near Branston to observe the sunset.
The only one I was able to make was the silent meditation at Mary Magdalene. Walk to the top of the High Street, then up The Strait and Steep Hill. I must be unfit as hard going.
Mary Magdalene is rarely open, it was a pleasant surprise to find open. No mention of mediation, no one knew what I was talking about.
Rather annoying, very noisy people in the church.
Unbeknown to the church the silent mediation did take place, and luckily the noisy people had left.
But why can people not be quiet in a church? In the main Catholic Church in Puerto de la Cruz, it is always quiet, those in the church are either silent or converse in quiet whisper.
Silent meditation in a church, one very quickly becomes aware of surroundings, every little sound.
Nine people turned up, ten counting me.
I like this idea a group of people unannounced descending on a church.
I walked with them to Lincoln Cathedral. I was curious why these two locations?
Mary Magdalene represents the sacred feminine, Lincoln Cathedral masculine (I assume St Hugh), yin and yang.
Mary Magdalene lies immediately outside Lincoln Cathedral. At Winchester there is a little church immediately outside the cathedral.
Mary Magdalene, an old Saxon church, lies on a ley line (I do not know what evidence). It is also at the junction of two Roman roads. One I know to be Ermine Street, I assume the other to be Fossway.
A little south of Lincoln, where you can still walk on the old Ermine Street, not a modern road that follows the route, is an ancient Templar building.
At least one of the group of nine had read The Alchemist several times (the tenth anniversary edition is currently available as e-book reduced price). I said there was a new book, Manuscript Found in Accra available next year, Aleph was in The Works at a low price, The Pilgrimage preceded The Alchemist, and to check out The Alchemist pen from Montegrappa. And do not forget audio book of The Way of the Bow is free!
Today the world was going to end (the day has not yet ended). A misinterpretation of what Mayans predicted. They predicted a new era of understanding, not the end of the world. (14th Baktun).
The image of the Turning Point
December 22, 2011
Amaterasu - Gareth Hinds
winter solstice
Sunrise Stonehenge Winter Solstice
A wheel in the Maya Calendar
The image of THE TURNING POINT.
Thus the kings of antiquity closed the passes
At the time of solstice.
Merchants and strangers did not go about,
And the ruler
Did not travel through the provinces.
The winter solstice has always been celebrated in China as the resting time of the year—a custom that survives in the time of rest observed at the new year.
In winter the life energy, symbolized by thunder, the Arousing, is still underground. Movement is just at its beginning; therefore it must be strengthened by rest so that it will not be dissipated by being used prematurely.
This principle, i.e., of allowing energy that is renewing itself to be reinforced by rest, applies to all similar situations. The return of health after illness, the return of understanding after an estrangement: everything must be treated tenderly and with care at the beginning, so that the return may lead to a flowering.
— I Ching
At 0530 this morning, the Winter Solstice, the shortest day, the longest night, occurred.
– December solstice in 2011 on Thursday 22
– Time of the December Solstice
The December solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. Depending on the Gregorian calendar, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and December 23. On this date, all places above a latitude of 66.5 degrees north (Arctic Polar Circle) are now in darkness, while locations below a latitude of 66.5 degrees south (Antarctic Polar Circle) receive 24 hours of daylight.
In layman’s terms the Winter Solstice is when the sun is at its lowest elevation in the sky. At the Tropic of Capricorn the sun is directly overhead.
Stonehenge, a huge astronomical clock on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, is aligned on the Winter Solstice.
The Mayan Calendar ends one of its great cycles December 2012, which led to a mistaken belief the world was due to end at 11:11 GMT on 21 December 2012. The world is not due to end, one cycle ends and a new cycle begins.
For the paranoid a live countdown.
Amaterasu by Gareth Hinds, his second painting with ArtRage. This is the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu, who shut herself in a cave when her brother Susano-O went on a rampage.
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