I’ve just had two Winter Solstice rituals in quick succession - last night and this morning. This morning we (my partner, son and I) went down to the beach very early - ie before sunrise) and watched the gradual changing of sky and light, before red-gold, the sun emerged… (then we went swimming, of course!)
Last night we did a quiet-ish, inner ritual, a lot of it in the dark or semi-dark. We did a meditation of being a seed in the dark earth, letting our husk fall away, reaching down with new roots for nourishment and then finally feeling a green sprout heading upwards towards the light. In total dark we entered the chaos-sphere, with sound and movement and then, into the silent dark, we recited Charge of the Star Goddess and Charge of the Earth God. Then we each lit a tealight and sat meditating on our own light…