Calling all Shamanic Circles – Celebrating Winter Solstice Season Dec 21, 2012 (3:12AM, PST) Dear Circles & Friends, Winter Solstice is Arriving Sh

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Calling all Shamanic Circles – Celebrating Winter Solstice Season Dec 21, 2012 (3:12AM, PST)

Dear Circles & Friends,

Winter Solstice is Arriving
Shortest Day and Darkest Night
Deep Stillness comes approaching
Silent Night…oh Holy Night..
The old refrain starts rising in our minds
Calling us to Bless this Night
The seeming Pause in the Sky
Before Returning of the Light

In Winter’s dark we see the Lights
Of Candles lit and Fires set
around which People gather.
Beneath the Starry-bright and Moon-lit Sky
We hold collective breath, as Sun seems forever to have gone…
We gather with our Circles, our Families, our Kin..
Sounding with our drums, and our voices,
Silent Night…oh Holy Night…Solstice Time is Here
And just as Sun stands still so do we…
Joining All in the Pausing
And the Hope for Sun’s Return
from Sun’s Long Journey..
Silent Night…Oh Holy Night…May the Light return again….

Calling All Circles

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This is an invitation to Circles everywhere to gather in this Winter Solstice Season and focus your activities on behalf of each and all. We invite each Circle to send to us the time you will be gathering and perhaps include your plans for the evening.

Or you might wish to share what your Circle did and send a description for posting. Such sharing is a powerful way for Circles to weave together consciously around the World.

Regardless of the Winters one has lived or how many times we have seen the Sun return, every Winter finds us with feelings special to this time. Winter is the Season that brings to us a profound sense of our vulnerability and an awareness of our frailty.

This year has seen several events of Nature (Typhoon, Earthquakes, Storms, Hurricanes) that have devastated communities around the world. May we remember them in our Circles and send our healing Prayers.

Surely will Winter cold and darkness pose exacting challenges for those people as they seek to recover and to heal. May we remember, too, all species living at risk in these times of climate changes threatening their very survival. With the hope for Sun’s return, may more Light be cast on actions we can take for tending our Planet more Mindfully and Lovingly.

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Shamanic Peoples in their Circles everywhere know Winter Solstice is a time for gathering, listening within the Silence of this Longest Night, Lighting our Candles or our Fires, lifting Prayer for Each and All with whom we share this Mother Earth…and special prayers for this very Earth Herself.

This year of 2012 also brings us wondering was their something the Mayans knew to which we should attend. Some have read the Mayan Calendar as telling us the Earth will end; while others of us understand it is the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.

Certainly do events of this year signify the tottering of some old ways and the challenge to find a Way in which our Collective Life respects and honors every Voice…winged, finned, leafy & flower beings, four legged, two legged and all others that crawl, slither, or walk this plant….and, indeed, the waters and the ground covering Earth’s Skin.

Always does the Winter Solstice deliver to us the singular question of: “How are we tending the Light and Life of Others with whom we share the Earth Community”.

Thus do shamanic Circles gather in Prayer and Ceremonies with intention to assist and pray for All in this Season when shelter, food, and kinship is essential for surviving Winter---being able to greet Spring’s arrival.

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We are asking Shamanic Circles to send us information as to when your Circle will be meeting and any activities you are planning. These will be posted at our Shamanic Circles website (www.shamaniccircles.org). Give us the name, city, state, and country of your Circle and an email address of the contact person for your Circle. If Circles have WebPages, we will include a link to them if the web address is sent. Our Circles website provides a listing of Shamanic Circles around the Earth.

Please send your Circle information to Dan Jordinelli at jordinelli@earthlink.net. Dan is the Keeper of our Global Circles webpage and tends the Circles weaving together.

Whether in Circles or as Individuals, may we together Circle and Encircle the World with our Love and Light in this Solstice Season 2012.

Silent Night….Holy Night….Blessings Bright..

Love and Blessings of Solstice Night,
Carol Proudfoot-Edgar
&
Dan Jordinelli
jordinelli@earthlink.net

for: Tending Sacred Circles
www.shamaniccircles.org

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