The math behind how fast the days are getting longer now in Spring – or shorter, in the Autumn:
https://joe-antognini.github.io/astronomy/daylight
Le Chant du Silence⎪Song of Silence
Un coucher de soleil magique dans le Vercors...⎪A magical sunset in the Vercors mountains...
Texte en français en "ALT" en cliquant sur l'image, ou en commentaire...
Ma grande passion, ce sont les fêtes païennes. J'ai écrit une vingtaine d'articles dessus et je suis en train de terminer un cycle de dessins sur le sujet.
Voici "Le cercle de Litha", la fête du Solstice d'été, encore célébrée dans des endroits mythiques comme Stonehenge, qui m'a donné l'idée des pierres dressées pour ce dessin numérique.
A4:
https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/le-cercle-de-litha-dessin-numerique-imprime/
Et en carte postale:
https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/le-cercle-de-litha-carte-postale/
Mt. Baker Ridge Sunset Stones in Seattle, Washington
These split boulders mark equinoxes and solstices along the Seattle skyline.#solstice #sun #equinox #section-Atlas
Mt. Baker Ridge Sunset Stones
The Sunwheel in Hadley, Massachusetts
Each solstice, students and astronomy enthusiasts gather at a primitive but functioning sun wheel to witness how humanity first used this calendar.#solstice #sun #calendars #sundials #section-Atlas
The Sunwheel
#Snowdrops in the grass #meadow. A photograph to acknowledge #Candlemas, or #Imbolc, tomorrow, 2 February.
The #Christmas period is truly over now as we head into late winter.
Imbolc falls halfway between the winter #solstice and the spring #equinox. It is a #Gaelic traditional festival celebrating light and the first signs of #spring.
Every year I hope for the snowdrops to rise up through the snow - in vain.
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Sun + Snowy Woods Winter Solstice: Darkness to Balance Light
#winter #Solstice #NatureWorship #GetOutside
#Spectra #Peertube and YouTube links:
https://spectra.video/w/7QiTf1CRCYKuwEAraqQ5BK
https://youtube.com/shorts/J9gBqE1_wq4?feature=share
as i return to this platform, may i wish everyone a cozy winter season. here's a belated post of my winter greetings image made for the SF chapter of the IWW.
gold starts to anyone who can name the easter eggs / references on the toy shelf!
This gorgeous white squirrel visited Fifth Street Christmas afternoon. #nature #wildlife #squirrel #squirrels #albino #whitefur #furrypal #wildlife #maples #mapletrees #christmas #solstice #WINTER
Our #resolution this 'new year' is that in fact it began with the Winter #Solstice and runs through 13 Dark s to the next Winter Solstice. We will celebrate each dark and full Moon.
We intend to #ReclaimTime and the #patriarchal control of #time in the settler-colonial #Gregorian #calendar. This completely eliminates the #Moon which belongs to virtually every #Indigenous #cosmology. Cosmic time reckons with
and
Look Westerly on a bright #London horizon this evening for the setting. Tomorrow late night lie with your feet NE and look up for the #Quadrantids (bring a blanket!)
Read more on #lunarchy here
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48713458
On this day of light
Rainbow coincidence caught
Palm prism imprint
#haiku #Window #Solstice #Photography #MyBody #ArtAsMeditation
Break in the grey days #today; celebrated the sun w/ a trip to Dick Blick Art Supplies, knowing it would not dissapoint.
#mini #tinsel #tree #pegasus #unicorn #rubber #ducky #oasis in #Manhattan #NYC #DickBlick #art #supplies #pencil #case #three #pack #sunny #post #Solstice #day #Sunday #funday #celebrate
Under a 'grandma moon,' Native Americans honor their sacred pact with salmon
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5232064/under-grandma-moon-native-americans-honor-their-sacred-pact-with-salmon
Under 'Grandma moon' Native Americans honor sacred pact w. salmon
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/29/nx-s1-5232064/under-grandma-moon-native-americans-honor-their-sacred-pact-with-salmon
* Puget Sound area, WA state
* lush lands home of Nisqually tribe
* Nisqually Indian Tribe members gathered for Winter Moon Celebration on this soggy solstice
* salmon a 10k-year-old taste, wh. recalls their ancestors: "It just tastes like time"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually
For those who celebrate, Habari gani? Ujima (collective work & responsibility).
Happy #Kwanzaa!
Running from Dec. 26-Jan. 1, festival draws on African 1st fruits celebrations.
#Seasons are reversed in northern/southern hemispheres, so #wintersolstice (north) is #summersolstice (south).
#seasonoflight #solstice #timekeeping #calendar
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