“My eager heart aspires
To be a torch,
To bear the Spirit’s light
Into the dark night
Of a wintry world blessing and blest.”
~Rudolf Steiner

When all seems dead and barren on the face of the Earth, below the surface, the inner life is strengthened. And if we can let go of the false hustle and bustle imposed on us from without, and sit in the stillness of the darkness, where the heart-beat can be heard -There we will find the inner strength to let go of our fear of the dark – To let our eyes adjust to the dark, and soon we will see quite clearly in the dark. And then we can begin the work of re-patterning and opening to the inspiration of our Immaculate Conception, our pure thought, which creates the new paradigm. Energizing Hope for the Sun’s return and the Earth’s renewal we make a ‘spiritual manger’ – a sacred space – in the cold black frozen places, that seem devoid of life, but are really just a sterilized palate – a clean slate, fresh and ready for the newly conceived light to be born into and fill.

And did you know? At the potent time of Winter Solstice, the human souls waiting to be born in the coming year are gathering, they are there right now, near the rainbow bridge. They are still carried in the arms of their guardians, angels who will show them a vision of their future life on earth. Maybe one of them is looking down at you right now?

At Advent, all our souls are pregnant with the possibility of giving birth to the light within.
Wisdom fills us with this possibility, that we may birth the Being of Love. This pure light is a
becoming; it becomes a rainbow in us – shining with the colors of hope, truth and goodness – radiant with the hues of integrity, beauty and virtue, which overflow as joyous praise – Consecrating the Nativity of a New Solar Year. In growing this rainbow within, we become enlightened with Good Will, bringing the power of Peace to bear in the world.
~Hazel Archer Ginsberg

SOL INVICTA { THE FEAST OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN }

THE BREATH OF NATURE IS SUSPENDED
IN THE VAST & HOLY NIGHT
WE WAIT WHILE WITHIN
THE DARK KING IS TRANSFORMED
INTO THE INFANT LIGHT

THE MOTHER
SLUMBERING THRU THE WINTER OF HER LABOR ABIDES…
HER COLD VELVET CHAOS
INDUCING THE IMMACULATE PROMISE OF LIGHT

HER BODY IS SALT
SAVOR ITS PATIENT SONG OF DEATH IN LIFE
PLUNGE INTO HER DORMANT SERUM
& RISE WITH THE MIDNIGHT SUN

PAY YOUR PENNY –
RECONCILED PROCEED –
COMMENCE THE JOURNEY STEEP
OF THE CARDINAL EARTH
FROM SOUTH TO NORTH
IN ADVENT DEEP

WE ARE AWAKE IN THE NIGHT
TO FEAST ON CAKES OF CARAWAY SOAKED IN CIDER…
PASS THE SPARK TO THE NEW WISHING LOG
FOR THE ALL NIGHT VIGIL
FIRE OAK ROOTS IN A CIRCLE
LET THEM BURN UNTIL DAWN

THE HUSHED CENTER THICK AS FRUITCAKE
& THE EVERGREEN CIRCUMFERENCE
A LIGHTED WREATH – ARE ONE – FOR ALL

A STATE VAST ENOUGH & STILL ENOUGH
TO ALLOW THE POWER OF LOVE
TO RETURN AT LAST

LET THE TANG OF JUNIPER & HOLLY
SHOUT WITH INCENSE TO THE COMFORTER
& THE BELLS RING OUT THE WORD –

‘THE KING IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE KING’
WE CALL OUT EMMANUEL –
SHEPHERDS QUAKE & SERAPHIM SING
FOLLOWING THE STAR THAT SHOWS US THE HOMELESS AVATAR
OUR WINTER BORN KING

EAT PHOSPHORUS WITH THE IVY GIRLS –
AMULET SPRIGS ABOVE THE PORTALS –
TRANSMIT THE RIDDLE OF MISTLETOE WITH WASSAIL KISSES –
& PASS THRU THE GATE OF YULE-TIDE
TO SUCCEED THE ZENITH & CALL THE SUN RISE
IN CRIMSON SASH & CANDLED CROWN
WITH LUCY BRIDE

SHE DANCES THE SILENT SPACE
WITH OPEN HANDS
TO SPIN THE WHEEL THROUGHOUT THE LONGEST NIGHT
SINGING ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ SWEET SUN KING
SOON TO REVEAL LOVES PURE LIGHT

IN THE VAST & HOLY DARK
THE VAST & HOLY DARK
THE VAST & HOLY DARK
SOON TO REVEAL
LOVES PURE LIGHT

IN THE VAST & HOLY DARK
THE VAST & HOLY DARK
THE VAST
& HOLY
NIGHT

~hag