Winter Solstice - Sunday, December 21, 2025
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!
The word Solstice evolved to Middle English, from Old French from Latin solstitium, from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)
The Winter sun rises.
Promises of Summer’s warmth,
Gilding the trees’ bark.
Haiku by CDI
Saturday, December 21, 2024, 4:19 p.m.
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!
The word Solstice evolved to Middle English, from Old French from Latin solstitium, from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)
Seven Sisters
(serigraph on mulberry) C.D’I.
“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet.
Make you want to move your dancing feet.”
Bob Marley
Summer Solstice – Midsummer
Thursday, June 19, 2024
4:50 p.m.
One of the four solar holidays;
the turning point
at which summer reaches its height,
and the sun shines
longest.
Solstice Sunset Shadows
(Photograph by CDI)
“Brightness appears showing us everything
it reveals the splendors it calls everything
but shows it to each of us alone
and only once and only to look at
not to touch or hold in our shadows
what we see is never what we touch…”
Winter Solstice
10:27 p.m.
Thursday, December 21, 2023
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!
The word Solstice evolved to Middle English,
from Old French from Latin solstitium,
from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)
Paperbark Maple in Winter
Photo by
C.D’I
It sifts
from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
…
On stump
and stack and stem, —
The summer’s empty room,
…
It ruffles
wrists of posts,
As ankles of a queen, —
…
Emily Dickinson
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
5:39
p.m.
Samhain
…begins
at sundown…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:
“Muntins Series IV … Moon Shadow”
"All to myself, I think of you.
Think of the things we used to do,
think of the things we used to say,
think of each happy yesterday.
Sometimes I sigh, and sometimes I smile;
but I keep each olden, golden while
All to my self."
Wilbur Dick Nesbit
American, 1871-1927
Summer Solstice – Midsummer
Tuesday, June 21, 2023
Sunrise: 5:07a.m.
Sunset: 8:25 p.m.
One of the four solar holidays; the turning point
at which summer reaches its height,
and the sun shines longest.
"SUNBEAM" (monoprint)
Good Day Sunshine
I need to laugh, and when the sun is out
I've got something I can laugh about.
I feel good, in a special way
…
Paul McCartney
2022 Winter Solstice
4:48 p.m. Wednesday, December 21
"Red Motion"
Monoprint
(by C.D'I)
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"I need to laugh, and when the sun is out, I've got
something I can laugh about; I feel
good, in a
special way."
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October
31, 2022
5:39 p.m.
Samhain
Observance
begins at sundown…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."
“Spirit Conversation” Monoprint (CDI)
“I'll be seeing you in
all the old familiar places …
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.”
Summer Solstice – Midsummer
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Sunrise: 5:10 a.m. - Sunset: 8:23 p.m.
One of the
four solar holidays;
the
turning point at which summer reaches its height
and the
sun shines longest.
Summer Solstice Sunset
(Photo by CDI)
“What you are watching
is light unlearning itself,
an infinite unfrocking of the prism.
Before your eyes
the ordinary life
is being glazed over:
pigments of the bibelot
the cabochon, the water-opal
pearl to the intimate
simple colours…
Can't you feel it?
Aren't you chilled by it?
The way the late afternoon
is reduced to detail -
the sky that odd shape of apron -
opaque, scumbled,
the lazulis of the horizon becoming
optical greys
before your eyes…”
Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening
Eavan
Boland
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 |
The trees are bare now.
With new buds forming,
hidden;
Their journey starts today.
October
31, 2021
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."
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| Monoprint by C.D'I. |
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
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| 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
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.)
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(Mixed Media)
Quote is from Eavan Boland's “Achill Woman”
"Tonite, I've watched...The moon and ...Then the Pleiades go down …”
Sappho
Winter Solstice - Yule
Monday, December
21, 2020; 5:02a.m.
The
word Solstice evolved to Middle
English, from Old French from Latin solstitium,
from Latin (combination of sol, the sun, and stitium, to stand still.)
Leonard Cohen
“Anthem”
October
31, 2020
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 CDI
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
“Round
like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon….
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!”
~The Windmills of Your Mind~
Nana
Mouskouri
Yoyos
Covid-19 Fabric Art Project
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“Summer Solstice Sunset”
(Photography by CDI) |
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| (Monoprint by CDI) |
