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Winter Solstice

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,334
    The last great day of the festive season.


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,314
    So what does the last day indicate? (can't be bothered to google).
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,334
    Taking your tree out. Its a Scandi thing.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,334
    Solstice at 15.03 today. Woohoo!


  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,903
    Stig said:
    Happy Solstice everyone. The most important day of the festive period. Can't wait for summer to start tomorrow!
    I don’t consider it the festive period yet. I don’t open the first box of chocolates or The Baileys, or cook anything special until Christmas Eve. 
    Nowadays some people seem to think it starts in November.

    I like your recognition of old traditions though. Do the traditional twelve days of Christmas start today or on the 25th?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,518
    jimmymelrose said:
    Stig said:
    Happy Solstice everyone. The most important day of the festive period. Can't wait for summer to start tomorrow!
    I don’t consider it the festive period yet. I don’t open the first box of chocolates or The Baileys, or cook anything special until Christmas Eve. 
    Nowadays some people seem to think it starts in November.

    I like your recognition of old traditions though. Do the traditional twelve days of Christmas start today or on the 25th?
    You may not but those who celebrate or mark Yuke (other names are available) see today as significant.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,334
    jimmymelrose said:
    Stig said:
    Happy Solstice everyone. The most important day of the festive period. Can't wait for summer to start tomorrow!
    I don’t consider it the festive period yet. I don’t open the first box of chocolates or The Baileys, or cook anything special until Christmas Eve. 
    Nowadays some people seem to think it starts in November.

    I like your recognition of old traditions though. Do the traditional twelve days of Christmas start today or on the 25th?
    As far as I know the first day of Christmas is, was, and always will be 25th December. There's a difference here though between Christmas and the seasonal festivities that Christmas was grafted onto.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,898
    The winter solstice is one of my favourite days if the year. Knowing that the days will become longer, and spring is around the corner breathing new life into the world. 

    By the same token midsummer solstice even with the bulk of the hotter months left to come is a downer knowing we are in the half of the year where things decay and days shorten. Mid- november is my least favourite time of year in the northern hemisphere. Still long enough to go until the turn of the year that it seems a way off.

    i can see why christianity moved its main celebration to this time of year as the coming of spring is a renewal. Today is the day i celebrate most of the year, at least in my head, rather than with prezzies and booze. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,239
    Alwaysneil said:
    The winter solstice is one of my favourite days if the year. Knowing that the days will become longer, and spring is around the corner breathing new life into the world. 

    By the same token midsummer solstice even with the bulk of the hotter months left to come is a downer knowing we are in the half of the year where things decay and days shorten. Mid- november is my least favourite time of year in the northern hemisphere. Still long enough to go until the turn of the year that it seems a way off.

    i can see why christianity moved its main celebration to this time of year as the coming of spring is a renewal. Today is the day i celebrate most of the year, at least in my head, rather than with prezzies and booze. 
    I definitely agree, as I get older I find the winter months and the lack of sunlight/daylight more and more depressing. Good to know that as of
    tomorrow the days start to get longer again!

  • Masterbrew
    Masterbrew Posts: 281
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  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 600
    edited December 22
    Mrs Fattmatt and I got up early to enjoy the sunrise and sunset together from Koh Yao Noi, Thailand. Happy to escape the darkest days of the winter. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,149
    There’ll be a grand stretch in the evenings from today.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,632
    guinnessaddick said:
    There’ll be a grand stretch in the evenings from today.
    I get entirely too much pleasure saying that to people over the next few weeks, it goes down really well....
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,117
    Yule is the true mid-winter festival, highjacked by the Roman Church under Constantine in AD336 - it was a deliberate act to utilise the existing solstice festivals. There is no record of the 25 December being the date of the birth of Jesus, but Constantine decreed it was!

    The twelve days of Yuletide commence on Solstice Eve (20 December) and run through until New Year's Eve. For me, having no religion, I have always viewed it all as the mid-winter festival of rebirth (maybe I'm a closet Pagan!) and when we lived in Kent we used to host a feast (dinner) on the 20th December, and our tree has always been decorated with fruits and berries rather than tinsel and baubles.

    It is a mystical time of the year and spiritually very important to me.

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