Winter Solstice 2021

Whereas we now have been transitioning to Winter for about one month, Winter Solstice formally marks the beginning of the season. Ceremonies, just like the Dongzhi Pageant in China, are held to honor this momentous event every year. In the course of the Dongzhi Pageant, which suggests “winter arrives”, folks relaxation and luxuriate in soups, dumplings, and/or bean muffins with their households. The celebration marks the shift in season and the connection to steadiness and concord throughout the cosmos.

From dawn to sundown on December 21, we’ll expertise 9 hours, 26 minutes, and 12.9 seconds of daylight. As we journey by means of the longest evening, we attain the second to arrange for brand spanking new beginnings. Like an awesome blue heron ready in full stillness to catch a fish on the exact second it arrives, we put together in Winter to catch the Spring. As we cross the brink of the Winter Solstice, every day lengthens till we attain the treasured present of Spring.

Astronomically, two equinoxes and two solstices mark the 4 seasons. Nature’s cues in Winter deliver us seen shows to watch, like naked branches and blanketing snow, whereas she turns inward to preserve vitality for Spring. Throughout this lunisolar occasion, develop into conscious of the interwoven relationships that seamlessly circulate in cooperation to create the steadiness of the seasons. Take this event to face within the Qigong posture, The Dragon Stands Between Heaven and Earth, to attach your physique, thoughts, feelings and spirit with Nature’s messages of steadiness and concord.