Halcyon Blessings

[unpredictablebijou]

Allow me to offer you the good wishes of a peculiar little tradition.
My Old Book explains it this way:


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Halcyon
Sundown Dec 15th thru Sunset Dec 29th

Anciently among the Greeks this was the merged myth of Alcion and the Kingfisher bird. This became a Time of peace when all wars were suspended during the period starting seven (7) days before the Winter Solstice and ending seven days after the Solstice. This evolved into an extended Solstice (Yule) celebration. .

Halcyon was adopted as a time of peace by the Arch Druids in about 30 C.E. Halcyon is celebrated as a fifteen (15) day period where in the members of the Craft hold an "open house" symbolized by a light in the window. Such a house has potables and consumables on hand, and good cheer is offered to all. This is a time when old differences and conflicts are resolved or at least held in abeyance for the duration of Halcyon. The candle is viewed by some as a light offered against the darkest time of the year.

A candle displayed in the window during Halcyon is also seen as an invitation to resolve old conflicts as well as a time of sharing the joy of the season.
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We keep this tradition where I live. Our light is always on. Do stop by.

May all wars and conflicts, both individual and national, find peace during these sacred days. And may the generosity and hospitality of the season bring blessings to you all.

I do love this mad little village.

bijou

 

[FifthFlower]

I never heard of this before. So you actually celebrate it? I was thinking there must be something besides Christmas and perhaps Hanukkah, when it arrives late enough, for the winter solstice season.

Does anyone celebrate anything else?

 

[LeBroz]

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Damn! And here I've been thinking that y'all been celebrating my birthday with all the cheer and gift giving. I think I'm worth two weeks of partying and just plain celebrating. And then top it all off with a New Year's Eve all-bets-are-off fest. Then y'all get to stumble into that desolation known as January.

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[FifthFlower]

Ah, New Years Day. That's as close to a midwinter's festival as anything.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Bump.


Peace to all.


bijou

 

[champagne1982]

and to you as well. It's a lovely sentiment and I really need it this year.

A friend in my mother's congregation was in a terrible accident yesterday which finds this lady in the hospital at high risk of losing a lower limb and her niece, a young mother, dead. I am truly beginning to detest December.

I need poetry.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

and to you as well. It's a lovely sentiment and I really need it this year.

A friend in my mother's congregation was in a terrible accident yesterday which finds this lady in the hospital at high risk of losing a lower limb and her niece, a young mother, dead. I am truly beginning to detest December.

I need poetry.

Peace, white light and poetry are all on the way.

bj

 

[unpredictablebijou]

It’s our sun

You toss it from your house in the morning
and by evening it is a red balloon over Silverado.
It turns the hallway orange and I think of you
over the hill, to the east.
I throw it back to you underhand
and kangaroos get warm as we sleep.
We belong to the kangaroos.