Join the celebrations, for this is one of the most powerful and happy holidays in the Wheel of the Year! Light fires, dance with the Wild Ones, and surrender to enchantment.

Each year’s numerology corresponds to a Major Arcana card, setting the global agenda. This is an eight year, which means this is a Strength year.

Happy New Year! Everything you do today can set the tone for the coming year, so make sure you encourage good fortune and avoid the bad. Here’s how!

We are facing some of the darkest times ever seen. But we’ve made a global, holy circle that cannot be broken. Rejoice! The Child of Promise is born.

By bone and stone, seed and flower, from darkest caves to highest mountaintops, we light candles of Joy for the sweet Earth and coming birth.

Call your friends and loved ones! Share EVERYWHERE! Tonight is the beginning of our Solstice countdown — a global prayer circle for all beliefs.

Blessed Litha! Now we align with the ways of our ancestors, and join together to protect our descendants. On this day, we honor the Turning.

Rejoice this happy day, when we dedicate to new studies, renew our devotions, undergo initiation, and simply bless the seeds of new beginnings.

In Part 2, I discuss The Chariot Year’s global influence, starting with some of my astrology colleagues’ views, then some conclusions for us all.