Winter Solstice (Warz)
“Hibernate the sound and now we out like bears”
TLDR:
This is a preview of what to expect in Season I: Enter The 42 Chambers starting January 2025. It is a tool to understand how the winter astronomical event happening in the northern hemisphere affects and impacts humans on planet earth. It can be used to prepare for the season ahead.
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The Winter Solstice: Dec 21st through Dec 24th
For as long as I can remember my family has observed the yearly Solstice and Equinox astronomical periods that mark the changes of the season. 4 times a year we orient our lives to what is happening with the Sun. Each period symbolizes a time for a certain type of activity. The Winter Solstice is the time of year for rest.
From December 21st until the morning of December 25th, the best way to observe the Solstice is to go inward. Surround yourself with family, friends and other close people. Reduce the amount of work, emails, phone calls and social media application time and increase the amount of “me” time.
The purpose of observing the Winter Solstice is for the "purification" of the psyche. The individual is reborn psychologically at the winter solstice.
To the ancients, the most religious, astronomical and mathematical day was the beginning of the new year, the winter solstice. It is the day that the sun is reborn again and begins to release the light of the earth. The sun is seen symbolically as the cleanser, the purifier and the eliminator. Representing the illumination of the soul. This period of time begins the annual cycle of involutionary and evolutionary embodiment.
Having passed through a series of experiences throughout the solar year. It is necessary for the individual to summarize what they have accomplished. It is necessary to transform these experiences into an awakening of inner value. To discover what you have learned, what mistakes were made, how you corrected those behaviors that were discovered, what weaknesses of character are still holding you back, and what has prevented you from manifesting the magnificent revelations that are yet to be received.
The work that you do during the Winter Solstice prepares you for the observances that you will make from Dec 25th to Jan 6th. The benefit is that you will receive ‘epiphanies,’ revelations, insights and clarifications on what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and why to do it during this period of time.
The key term to focus on is ‘epiphanies.’ As in “Epiphany, or Epi-Pha, meaning after Fa. What happens after Fa is the receipt of revelations, the so-called epiphanies that will come to you between midnight Dec 25th and Jan 6th. Fa/Pha is the note F on the keyboard, in musical scale. Every part of the psyche corresponds to a particular vibration rate or note. Throughout this period, beginning midnight Dec 25th and ending Jan 6th, the planetary energy is sounding the note Fa. Those who have prepared themselves psychically and continue to keep working at it, will benefit from the vibration rate or key note Fa.” - Ra Un Nefer Amen
The Holy of Holies, Season of Epiphany, of awakening: Dec 25th through Jan 6th
There is a part of your psyche that is like a portal to communicating with God. It is referred to as the "Holy of Holies." That portal opens from Dec 25th midnight and closes on Jan 6th. When you go into the Old Testament, and into the Judaic system and the Jewish religion; You find that at the time of their “New Year” the Jews observe Yom Kippur, when the Rabbi goes into the “Holy of Holies,” meaning the most innermost temple to communicate with God; and they have an oracle that they consult, to find out what is the most important message from God for the next coming cycle of the year. That innermost temple, the inner sanctum, the most sacred part of your psyche and spirit is not an external temple, it is an internal temple in the psyche of every human being. That part of your psyche opens up between Dec 25th midnight until Jan 6th. If you are receptive and go inward, you can access this portal of omniscience.
It is only between incarnations that we get a good look at ourselves. That is the time when the facts of life are fully available to our Self. It is the great sabbath, the time of rest and peacefulness within. Quite self contemplation.
The time when the soul comes to a temporary condition of after death awareness and is judged by itself. The individual bestows their own judgment upon themselves in the reviewing of their own conduct. Our soul becomes detached from the body to contemplate what it has learned while embodied, which will aid in our becoming un-embodied forever. True salvation.
This is the time when the spirit is most receptive to the will. An auspicious time to arrange all of the wisdom and divine laws into a unified and integral system of communication, guiding you in your day to day existence. The elements which make up your belief system must be unified in a manner that supports your incarnation objective and powers your life force.
A Time of Austerities
In ancient times, during the period leading up to the Winter Solstice, the people of Kemet submitted to a process of purification with the objective of advancing the goal of achieving their divinity. These people, our ancestors, engaged in the symbolic festival practice of searching for Ausar. It was the ritual exercises associated with these practices that culminated in the Utchau Metu (The Weighing of the Heart and Words Ceremony) aimed at the realization of divinity during the Winter Solstice.
The Austerities mark the period of purification by denying the desires of the person (the lower self) in order to empower the Higher Self. The process aids in centering the Initiate in their divinity by addressing specific entertainment and dietary conditionings. Through this process, along with specific Initiation practices, it is expected that one will receive the following benefits:
Change in Conditionings
Improvement in Health
Improvement in the flow of the Life-Force thus leading to more successful outcomes
The dates of interest for the coming Holy Season:
Period of Austerities: Nov. 11 – Dec. 21: 40 Days
Winter Solstice/Heb Nen: Dec. 21 – Dec. 24: 4 Days
12 Days to Epiphany: Dec. 25 – Jan. 6: 12 Days
Total: 56 Days
In addition to dietary considerations, particular attention should be paid to one's choice of entertainment and the over indulgence of sexual relations, with an emphasis placed on spiritual work and study.
Physical Tools to Construct a Peaceful Setting:
Wear: Solid Whites
Build an Altar
Use: White Candles to create natural lighting settings
Focus on:
Slow Breathing
Somatic Movement
Mindful Awareness
Shift to Divine Self presence
Mental Tools to Embrace:
The power of creative visualization.
The suggestive power of belief.
Unlimited ability to change via trance.
The physical ability to affect your life force.
Research Notes:
Excerpts from The Sacred Magic of Ancient Egypt by Rosemary Clark:
The creative worlds become accessible through the rhythms of cosmic life-the Solar, Lunar, and Stellar resonances of sacred astronomy.
The passage of the Sun across the sky through the seasons has throughout the ages marked episodes of profound consequence in nature that alter the course of human activity and in turn, the awareness of spiritual realities. When the orb of the Sun approaches the constellation of Libra at dawn, the season of fall begins and ushers in a short period of equal light and darkness, followed by a lengthening of the night that heralds the dark of winter.
In concert with these cosmic events, the cycle of mysteries commenced in ancient times. The departure of agricultural powers that comes with the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is a signal of both regret and preparation, a reminder of the diminishing flux of life that must be honored and preserved for the longed-for renewal of the next spring. But these mysteries were not only an acknowledgment of the change in the celestial current. They were also an opportunity to descend, as the Sun descends in the southern horizon in the latter half of the year, to the realm of dark powers that confine the body but renew the soul in the darkness of the season.
Within a vast repertoire of ceremonies that comprised the mysteries of Ausar celebrated annually throughout Egypt, The Lamentations emerge as the most powerful and the most poignant. It is at this stage in the great saga of the god's life, death, and renewal that his sisters Auset and Nebt-Het have lovingly reassembled his broken body and realize the loss that his absence represents to themselves and to all of Egypt. Their laments convey the grief of this event, as well as the sorrowful hope that by calling his soul back into the world of life, he will return restored and whole to them. This observance is a metaphor of both the season and human mortality; it evokes our power to withdraw into the invisible sky, surrender to its powers, and thereby ourselves find the means to becoming whole and restored.
According to a Ptolemaic papyrus of The Lamentations, the performance took place on the 25th of Choiach, a date that corresponds to the Sokar Festival in the Lower Kingdom (a few days before the winter solstice). In ancient Egypt, this was the time of year that Orion receded from the night sky and did not return to visibility for approximately three months. And while it was performed throughout Egypt to coincide with the implantation of seed in the renewed land following inundation, its premier observance took place in Abydos.
Although associated with the funerary tradition, Sokar truly represents alchemical processes in activity, the entombment of matter in the winter soil and its subsequent transformation. One of his names, "the coffined one," alludes to the phase in the great Ausarian mythos when the god was locked in a chest by Set and traveled to sea. Here, the return to the primeval waters and a renewal by emerging from them is symbolized. And death is not the only event that impels this process; incarnation into the physical world is merely the involution of the same powers.
The Festival of Sokar is an acknowledgment of these processes and a reminder of our mortal existence as the darkness of the winter solstice ushers in the isolation of the season. At the same time it generates the expectation of the return to life in the next season, when the hibernating life force awakens in spring.
Other References of Major Cultures Observing the Solstice:
Hindu
Makar(a) Sankranti (Sanskrit: मकरसङ्क्रान्ति, romanized: Makarasaṅkrānti),[1] (transl. Capricorn Festival) also referred to as Uttarayana, Makar, or simply Sankranti, is a Hindu observance and a festival. Usually falling on the date of 14 January annually (15 January on a leap year),[2][3][4] this occasion marks the transition of the sun from the zodiac of Sagittarius (dhanu) to Capricorn (makara).[2][5][6] Since the sun has made this transition which vaguely coincides with moving from south to north, the festival is dedicated to the solar deity, Surya,[7] and is observed to mark a new beginning.[8] Many native multi-day festivals are organized on this occasion all over India.
Chinese
The 24 solar terms are a Chinese concept used to divide the year into 24 equal parts, based on the sun's position in the ecliptic. These terms were established through observations of the sun's annual motion and the changing seasons. The 24 solar terms include:
The Dongzhi Festival or Winter Solstice Festival (Chinese: 冬至; pinyin: Dōngzhì; lit. 'winter's extreme') is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated during the Dongzhi solar term (winter solstice), which falls between December 21 and December 23.[1][2] The origins of this festival can be traced back to the yin and yang philosophy of balance and harmony in the cosmos.[3] After this celebration, it is believed that days will have longer daylight hours and therefore create an increase in positive energy flowing in. The philosophical significance of this is symbolized by the I Ching hexagram fu (Chinese: 復, "Returning").
Hexagram 24, Fu / Return (Turning Point)
New Beginning, Yang.
Hexagram 24 is named 復 (fù), "Returning". Other variations include "return (the turning point)". Its inner (lower) trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = (雷) thunder, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☷ (坤 kūn) field = (地) earth.
The winter solstice has always been celebrated as the resting time of the year. In winter the life energy, symbolized by thunder, the Arousing, is still underground. Movement is just at its beginning; therefore it must be strengthened by rest so it will not be dissipated by being used prematurely. This principle, I.e., of allowing energy that is renewing itself to be reinforced by rest, applies to all similar situations. The return of health after illness, the return of understanding after estrangement: everything must be treated tenderly and with care at the beginning, so that the return may lead to a flowering. December 21st will be the longest night of the year. It then takes 4 days to achieve maximum darkness, in order to give way to the light. Every day after the end of the winter solstice a little more light begins to come in. These 4 days are a stellar event. Sun rises and sets at the exact same time for only 4 days. Then sun rise increases roughly a half minute per day. We catch up with this reality by resetting our clock for “daylight savings time.” During these 4 days where the sun “stands still” (definition of “Sol Sticia”), our solar force is balanced. Which makes us receptive. Being receptive at this time makes this period the time to implant your growth ideal. Your spirit will receive your directive to grow and change and echo it for the rest of the year. Like the Program and Run modes of a computer. Your mind runs during the year and programs during the solstice Whatever you do or dwell on during solstice will program in.
Cappadonna - “Winter Warz”
Never considered the solstice this way before! thanks for this
this was so insightful and powerful to read. aligns perfectly with the visions I've been receiving in my dreams, and the energy that's been calling upon me to surrender to it. 💫 thank you for sharing!