2021 Winter Solstice 

10:59 a.m. Tuesday, December 21

The Winter Solstice…is the shortest day of the year.  Long ago it was believed on that day the Sun stood still in the sky.  Then, the next day, the Sun continued on his journey; and the days began to lengthen!

 

“Winter Trees”

Hand-printed monoprint

& Haiku by CD’I

 Winter Trees

The trees are bare now.

With new buds forming,

hidden;

Their journey starts today.

 

 

October 31, 2021

 5:38 p.m.

             Observance begins at  sundown

 Samhain

            …when the veil between the two worlds is most pervious.

            This third and last of the three pagan Autumn harvest festivals acknowledges a time of cleansing and preparation for the darkness of Winter.  It is the most important of the four "greater Sabbats."  

 

Monoprint
by C.D'I.

 I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places …

I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day,

In everything that's light and gay;

I'll always think of you that way.

 

I'll find you in the morning sun;

And when the night is new

I'll be looking at the moon,

But I'll be seeing you.

          Irving Kahal

 

Mabon - the Autumnal Equinox

One of the four solar holidays; the second of the three pagan autumn harvest festivals

 

 3:20 p.m..  Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Fire Sky
(watercolor)

 

… and I knew

winter was in store for every leaf

on every tree on that road.

Was inescapable for each one we passed.

 

The Pomegranate,

By Eavan Boland

 

 

Summer Solstice – Midsummer

 

Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 11:32 p.m.
Sunrise: 5:07 a.m.
Sunset: 8:24 p.m. 

One of the four solar holidays;
the turning point at which summer reaches its height
and the sun shines longest.

Solstice Dawn

(Monoprint)

I wake slowly. Already

my body is a twilight: Solid. Gold.

At the edge of a larger darkness. But outside

my window

a summer day is beginning. Apple trees

appear, one by one. Light is pouring

into the promise of fruit.

 Ceres Looks at the Morning

Eavan Boland

 VERNAL EQUINOX

 

Saturday, March 20, 2021, at 5:37a.m. 

One of the four solar holidays marking the beginning of spring.

The rejoining of the Mother Goddess and her lover-consort-son,

who spent the winter months in death;

or the Goddess returning to her Maiden aspect

(e.g., Persephone returning from the Underworld.)

 

(Mixed Media)

Quote is from Eavan Boland's “Achill Woman”

"Tonite, I've watched...The moon and ...Then the Pleiades go down …”

Sappho