SOLSTICE – Sun enters Capricorn
– December 21, 2025 (15:03 GMT)
The Sun enters Capricorn on December 21. This heralds the Solstice, the change in season when the Sun ‘stands still’ in the sky, the literal meaning of sol-stice (Sun – stands still).
The Solstice is one of the four markers of the zodiac, when we reach the shortest day and longest night or longest day and shortest night, depending where you live. Here in the UK, the days will soon be growing longer and the nights shorter.
One of my favourite quotes about the Solstice states, “something in us needs to know that at the end of the longest night there will be light”. This seems especially poignant at this time of year.
The Solstice heralds a beginning as it welcomes in a new season. Make sure to honour the Solstice and light a fire or burn candles. This tradition is in honour of the heat and warmth of the Sun which brings us vitality, energy and life. Honour the Solstice through meditation, journalling or completing the year that’s gone.
The Sun in Capricorn makes us think of work, duty and responsibility. Yet, Capricorn is the shaman with hidden depths, who finds fulfilment and meaning by being alone, not lonely. You might want to stride up a mountain this weekend, take yourself off somewhere quiet or sit in silence.
A Solstice Poem
My dear friend Clare Prendergast hosts a wonderful monthly meditation group in Manchester entitled ‘Stillness In The City’. Here’s this month’s poem/touchstone which I asked her if I could share with you.
Here is their link on Instagram: Stillness In The City.
Before Winter Solstice, I Remember
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
A Hundred Falling Veils, 17 Dec. 2024
This, too, is what we are born for,
this waking in darkness, unable
to see, but still able to hear the shush
of wind in bare branches, able to feel
the charge of our heartbeat, the swell
of our belly as it fills with borrowed air.
I have spent my life learning to love
these shapeless hours before the light
finds us, these shadowsome nights when
my whole being seems to stretch beyond
the bed, beyond the room, beyond the home,
beyond the valley, beyond even the globe,
as if I rhyme with the dark all around us,
the dark that holds us, the dark that surrounds
this whole swirling spiral of galaxy.
Sometimes, I feel how that infinite darkness
calls to the darkness inside me as if to say,
remember, remember where you come from,
remember what you are. And the darkness
inside me sings back.
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