Winter Solstice

 Today is the celebration of the turning of the season and symbolized in Celtic tradition by the waxing sun Goddess Grian, who rules the light half of the year.  The baking and eating of sweets is a tradition that honors Grian to insure the "sweetness" of the year to come. There are many traditions, customs and ways of celebrating this changing of the season. A juicy book to guide your own celebrations is The winter Solstice, by John Matthews.  For me I think mostly of Winter Solstice as a time when the energy of growing things is focused on the feeding and deepening of the roots.  It is a time to travel inward to bring out inner strengths. Every year my soul sister and I get together at this time spending the whole day celebrating what we've come to understand about the lessons of the year that was and plan what we want to create for the year that is beginning. This is always enhanced and enlivened by the traditional drinking of the scotch.  May your day be filled with sweetness and light.