Showing posts with label Winter Solstice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Solstice. Show all posts

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Winter solstice

What are the prayers for the winter solstice? I'm hoping to gather some. You can always just do a regular puja and reaffirm the program of your particular sect or what inspires you most. I didn't find much:


Nyingma lineage

Here are 12 pagan prayers.

Tricycle

Homage to Tara


Renewal Rituals:

You can burn your confessions, written on paper.





Sunday, December 20, 2020

Reading up on Yule

I'm a Buddhist who loves mythology, anthropology, Jungian archetypes, non-Jungian archetypes, and all kinds of thinking, not just emotional or rational.

Wikipedia Is German about the collective female spirit Dis, and for Anglo-Saxons it's Mōdraniht.

The Dises by Dorothy Hardy

For the Celts they had Des Matrona


For Anglo-Saxons it's Mōdraniht, or Mother Night. For the Romans it was Saturnalia.

The tradition is Dongzhi in China and throughout Asia. There is a connection to yin and yang. 

Makar Sankranti in Hindu India, which is January 14/15.

Yaldā Night in Iran, where they can read Hafez, the height of Persian literature, late into the night.