December 20, 2025

5 Reasons to Celebrate Winter Solstice

Here are 5 reasons to celebrate the winter solstice at your house this year:

1. To lure the sun back to our atmosphere and welcome his return and the longer hours of light he brings with him. (In many beliefs the sun's gender is male, to the moon's female.)

2. To honor the growth, energy, and life force of things and concepts we cannot see, and recognize that they are manifesting even when hidden.

3. To honor our FAITH in the silence, darkness, and mystery of life, from which new creation emerges. To honor the places of dark, silent, safe incubation: the earth, the sea, the human heart, the human mind, the womb...where life, solutions, and inspirations find the nourishment and fertile space in which to begin their journeys.

4. To reclaim HOPE in the face of troubles, knowing that the seeds of change are always present...to honor our own STAYING POWER, collectively and individually...for having the energy to "see" something through until the end, despite the darkness.

5. To say, 'Thank You" for all the stages of the seasons and of our lives.

What beautiful reasons to celebrate the winter solstice!