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The Moonlady Holiday Compilation: Winter Solstice

Amy Martin
December 16, 2013

The Moonlady Holiday Compilation: Winter Solstice

Overview

Winter Solstice: astronomy & traditions

Lore

The Siberian Shamanism Origins of Santa Claus: Reindeer, Pine Trees, and.. Mushrooms

Global Goddess: Yule 2013

A Solstice Tale by Hecate Demeter

The Winter Solstice: The Sun Is Born! by Donna Henes

Global Goddeess: Yule 2012

Literature

Poetry for Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice: The Pause at the Bottom of the Breath by Amy Martin

Deep Winter by Gary Zukav

Commentary

Winter Solstice Caught in the Crossfire on Patheos

A Solstice Walk by John Beckett

The 12 Days of Solstice on Patheos

Long Dark Solstice of the Soul by Morpheus Ravenna

Winter SolstiCelebration: the finale photo essay w commentary

Winter Solstice at Sacred Sites

Winter Solstice at Stonehenge

Winter Solstice at Newgrange

Music Videos

Solstice Song by Finley and Pagdon

The Longest Night by Peter Mayer

Winter Solstice, a tune written for the English bagpipes by David Faulkner

Christians and the Pagans by Dar Williams (Live)

Winter Solstice Song (Yule) by Lisa Theil

Silent night, Solstice night

In Perfect Trust: Into the Darkness

Jethro Tull Solstice Bells to imagery

Astronomy

Everything you need to know: December solstice 2013

Winter Solstice in the Arctic (time-lapse video)

Science and history of winter solstice

Earliest sunsets are not at winter solstice

Everything you need to know: Winter solstice 2012

Will our solar system cross the galactic plane on December 21, 2012?

Amy Martin

Amy Martin is the author of Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas (https://moonlady.com/amy-martin-selected-to-write-wild-dallas-fort-worth-explore-the-amazing-nature-of-north-texas/), to be released by Timber Press in 2022. She is the North Texas Wild columnist at GreenSourceDFW (https://greensourcedfw.org/) and author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash (http://itchy.biz/). She was the senior comedy, magic and cirque critic for TheaterJones, The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. A journalist for over 40 years, she wrote for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, Senior Voice, and D magazine, and was contributing editor and columnist for Garbage magazine. She was known by many in North Texas as the Moonlady for her alternative newservice of 15 years, Moonlady News, and served as creator/producer/promoter of the acclaimed Winter and Summer SolstiCelebrations for 20 years.