Coming Home

Daylight has decreased markedly and the strength of the Sun has lessened. WeatherUnderground tells me that Visible Light is now 10 Hours 20 Minutes; Length of Day is 9 Hours 19 minutes. Tomorrow will be 18 Seconds shorter, as we head toward Winter Solstice, the Longest Night of the Year and the marker of the Sun's Longest Distance from the Northern Hemisphere.

Peoples of Yore saw this as a time when the Sun was in Winter Sleep. The Sun's Rising and Setting are farther to the South on the Eastern and Western Horizons. The Sun's Warmth has faded significantly as we now live in a Land of Cold. Much of Nature sleeps. For Peoples of Yore, they were not so sure of the Sun's return.

Indigenous Peoples see the relationship between the People and Creation. In many of their belief systems, People were felt to actually be able to interfere or assist in the Natural Earth Rhythms. At these markers, it was important for the People to honor the Natural Cycles, to tell their Stories and to pray for the Sun's Return.

Many of us in Modern Society have forgotten our elemental connection to the Rhythms of the Creation which support our Being. Simultaneously, in so-called "Modern Times", the Cycles seem "off". In my travels to various and places these past 10 years, People commonly talk about how "normal" patterns of Weather and Climate for their Place has changed. More and more are concerned.

We 3 C's try to honor to Cycles of Creation. We are not separate from Nature or Nature's Cycles. We are a part. You could call this honoring our own "Coming Home".