Tonight, Witches, Pagans, Druids, and other magical practitioners celebrate our most holy, reflective, deeply sacred time. We’ve come to the end of the Celtic year. As the deepest dark that will carry us to Yule descends, let us walk together and look at some of the lore, magic, and beauty of this most hallowed sabbat.

This week’s card speaks directly to us from his throne in the hallowed halls of knowledge, societal leadership, and spiritual authority. This is the interpreter of both current events and the Mysteries of the ancients. If he has come to offer instructions for the ultimate betterment of society, what might they be?

It’s time for those celebrating Christmas to light (or re-light, if you were also observing Solstice) your final candle. Whether this holiday is deeply spiritual for you or not, its heart is Good, and is an offering of hope and rebirth that humanity could surely benefit from. May Grace bless you this day and always. So mote it be

Light the final candle on your Solstice wreath! Ring the bells! The long, slow descent of the Sun has ended, and the ancient promise of rebirth is come. Life and Light now return. This is the day of Solstice – Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and Happy Summer Solstice below the equator!

Now we arrive at the day before Winter Solstice. It marks the ancient celebration of Mother Night. Make way for the Dark Goddess, who holds us at our beginnings and our endings. Welcome the gift of quiet pause preceding the Yuletide birth.

We stand on the final threshold before Winter Solstice, the last Sun Day before Solstice. This holy night, as the birth of the Child of Promise draws ever nearer, we celebrate our Joy to the World. May the Keeper of Earth’s deepest places, the roots that are beyond knowing, guide our way home.

In view of the noise, the divisions among us, the ceaseless rancor, and escalating attacks on our principles, we need this ancient time out.

Tonight at sunset wherever you are, gather with us to light the next candle in our multifaith Advent ceremony. If you’re counting down to Solstice, it’s your 3rd candle. If you’re counting to Christmas only, it’s the 2nd candle. Learn more and join our holy circle spanning the globe, as we prepare for the birth of the Light.

Tonight, those who are counting down only to Christmas, as well as all who are counting down to Solstice now join together. United at last, from every continent around the globe, we are simultaneously all in the eternal Circle, in our own liminal moment, as evening sweeps across the Earth.