Goddess Calendar and Feast Days for December 2017

For the advent of our Winter Season, we are celebrating by setting magickal intentions and inviting manifestation for the New Year. Don’t forget to join me and Brandi Auset for our Winter Solstice Goddess Full Moon Group, when we will be planting seeds for the New Year with the West African Goddess Mawu!

Beginning with Winter Solstice (December 21 this year), the shortest day and longest night of the year, it is time for us to tend our light and plant seeds of luminous hope for the coming year. We gather with those we love, or even in the silence of winter, to fan the flames that will sustain us in the next few months as we keep the promise of Spring and new growth in our hearts.

We welcome the Goddesses of Winter – the Grandmothers tending the hearth and singing our souls through the Winter months: An Cailleach, Spider Woman, Baba Yaga, La Befana, the Norns, and the Fates. We turn to the Goddesses of the Tundra who are standing vigil and ready for the sacrifices of the past year: Freya, Skadi, Holda, and Demeter who wanders in the wild. What do you need to shed and leave to the harsh energies of the tundra?

Winter Solstice is symbolic of the Return of Light. In ancient times, when the agricultural calendar was the focus, people knew that Winter Solstice signified the halfway point of Winter. There was hope in the fact that half of the hardest, coldest months were behind them and the thaw was eventually coming. Astrologically, the Sun becomes stationary and then slowly begins to move in an upward motion in the sky to culminate at the Summer Solstice.

We honor the Mothers that are preparing to birth the Sun – Mother Mary, Isis, Frigga, and Maya; each bringing the Sun/Son into the world to be the symbol of Light across the continents.

Gather in joy and merriment this month and also make some time to reflect, meditate on the gifts that are being offered by the Goddesses of Winter.

Wishing you ALL the blessings of the Season!

xo Kimberly

For those who are interested, Priestess Within Winter Session – The Magic of Earth is featuring the Goddesses Isis, Freya (of the Tundra), and Lilith. Registration closes 12/16/2017 and there is an early bird reading available before 12/1/2017!