That's the day – the winter solstice – when I will celebrate.
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During the winter solstice, evergreens signified the coming of spring.
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Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
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Our daughter was born on the winter solstice, June 21.
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In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice happens on Dec.
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Tonight is the winter solstice, and it is time for dinner.
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"Ice Spectacular: Winter Solstice," specialty acts and professional ice skaters. Feb.
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The Sun enters Capricorn on December 21: It's the winter solstice!
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Typically, it starts on the second new moon after winter solstice.
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Here's an image from a recent winter solstice at the site.
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The winter solstice arrives as the Sun enters Capricorn on December 21.
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The winter solstice marks the beginning of Capricorn season on December 21.
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RIDGEFIELD "Ice Spectacular: Winter Solstice," specialty acts and professional ice skaters. Feb.
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Here's another cool way to visualize the extreme of the winter solstice.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, and boy is it busy!
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The winter solstice arrives with the Sun entering Capricorn on December 21.
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You're always looking for a reason to party, Leo, so happy winter solstice!
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Wasn't the world supposed to end around a winter solstice at one point?
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Her appearance is supposed to represent light and hope during the Winter Solstice.
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It's the winter solstice, when the sun appears at its most southerly position.
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And, conversely, the 1912 winter solstice was the longest night we've ever seen.
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The first new moon after the winter solstice, it is China's biggest holiday.
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Mike wrote the Back Story we used today for last year's winter solstice.
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Candlemas Day was the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
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And, conversely, the 23 winter solstice was the longest night we've ever seen.
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The winter solstice is here and a festive spirit is in the air!
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Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson's rituals tuning in to the sun.
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It's determined by the occurrence of the second new moon after the winter solstice.
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A total lunar eclipse on the arrival of the winter solstice in Arlington, Virginia.
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Of course, a little self-care is warranted every year on the winter solstice.
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Friday's winter solstice ignites a new sense of personal empowerment as Capricorn season begins.
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But she loved the winter solstice because she knew it marked the light's rebirth.
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It's an auspicious dessert, mostly eaten during the winter solstice or Chinese New Year.
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You're the sign of balance, Libra, but the winter solstice is a time of extremes.
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Tonight is the winter solstice, and Maryia-Antonina Alekséïevna finally decides to breaks her silence.
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The winter solstice, in particular, is a special time to visit, according to Irish Central.
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The baby was born on the winter solstice, emerging into a world of lengthening light.
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It will be on our new record, Prelapsarian, which will be released this Winter Solstice.
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We explain how the winter solstice works, and why humans might not exist without it.
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The Sun enters your sign, kicking off the winter solstice, on December 21: Happy birthday!
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It flurried in Brooklyn today, but *technically* the winter solstice isn't until next week. WHATEVER.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, with the Sun entering Capricorn on this date.
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I was reminded, too, of my mother, who died just before the winter solstice of 2006.
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The Ursids tend to illuminate the night sky around the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The common thread throughout winter solstice celebrations is that they were meant to be for everyone.
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December 21 marks the winter solstice on the northern hemisphere, when days are at their shortest.
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It marks the winter solstice, which, on the upside, also signals the longer days to come thereafter.
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On Friday's winter solstice, it will see just three hours, 41 minutes, and 39 seconds of sunlight.
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We'll officially welcome the winter season tomorrow, December 21, on what's traditionally known as the winter solstice.
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Well, "Yule," as a thing, comes from the winter solstice celebrations of various Scandinavian and Germanic peoples.
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Today is the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice, also known as the day that gets the least sunlight.
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December 21 is also a very special day: the winter solstice and the beginning of Capricorn season.
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Like a goose with an inverted compass, I traveled north — far north — as the winter solstice approached.
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They chose December 25th for the celebration in the hopes of piggybacking on existing winter solstice parties.
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But because of their close association with the winter solstice, Christmas parties also became loud, unruly events.
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The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, happened at 5:44 a.m.
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Once again, there are four opportunities — this time, flanking the date of the winter solstice on Dec. 2500.
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Imbolc is celebrated at the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox, on or around February 1.
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By the arctic circle, the earliest sunset and the winter solstice happen on or around the same day.
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The winter solstice is Friday, the day the Northern Hemisphere will get the least sunlight of the year.
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Mike Ives, on the briefings team, wrote the Back Story we used today for last year's winter solstice.
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New York Today Good morning on this sunny-but-nippy winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.
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That will be Thursday, December 21, the winter solstice, which brings the year's longest night and shortest day.
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ALTERNATIVE CROP LON816 - People watch the sunrise at the northern Winter Solstice celebration at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, Thursday, Dec.
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In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs when the sun is at its southernmost location in the sky.
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December 21 is a very special day indeed: It's the winter solstice and the first day of Capricorn season.
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Monday marks the summer solstice, the first solstice of the year before the winter solstice rolls around in December.
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Just in time for the winter solstice on Friday: the shortest day with the longest night of the year.
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Tonight is the winter solstice, and the Aquaviva brothers are hosting the Forgers Club gala, as they do every year.
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Historically, festivals honoring the Disir were also held around the winter solstice or at the start of a new year.
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ON THE winter solstice in 2017, a team of researchers waited in the pre-dawn chill of the Atacama desert.
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The fact that the waxing gibbous and its corresponding influences coincides with the winter solstice is truly the happiest coincidence.
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Last year, we spoke with seeress and shaman Deborah Hanekamp of Mama Medicine about the meaning of the winter solstice.
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"We have made it past the shortest night of the year of the Winter Solstice at this point," she says.
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The Sun enters Capricorn on December 21, the winter solstice, joining Saturn in illuminating the communication sector of your chart.
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During the winter solstice, however, the vibe will be sober, as the Sun will meet with Saturn on December 21.
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What are your traditions this time of year, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, the winter solstice or anything else?
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Make Music's participatory programs on the winter solstice are dotted throughout the city, and take the form of roving performances.
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Each year, the Aztecs would honor Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun and war whose birth was linked to the winter solstice.
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In northern latitudes, the best time to see Alpha Ceti is reportedly at around 9pm close to the December winter solstice.
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The moon has also been called the "Moon before Yule" because it rises close to the winter solstice, on December 21.
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It hyped up the winter solstice-lunar eclipse combo that occurred on December 21, 2010 (the last time it's ever happened).
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Today is the winter solstice, the day of the year with the shortest period of daylight and the longest, darkest night.
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The Ursids Meteor Shower, the final one of the year, will take place following the winter solstice, December 22 to 23.
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If you choose to observe the winter solstice, you'll have the opportunity to illuminate even the darkest, quietest parts of yourself.
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According to The Farmer's Almanac, the precise moment that the winter solstice will occur this year is at 5:23 p.m.
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Yes — 2012's winter solstice coincided with the end of the Mayan calendar, which many interpreted with sadly unfulfilled apocalyptic connotations.
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The lunar new year starts after the second full moon to occur after the winter solstice, hence the February start date.
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"Now it doesn't feel like it right now, but the Winter Solstice is the shortest day -- the darkest day," said Sen.
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The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year, before the sun reverses course and climbs higher into the sky.
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But there are many people who live even farther north who, after the winter solstice, don't see the sun for weeks.
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The event was sponsored by Hobart's winter festival, Dark Mofo, and staged at the "crack of dawn" on the winter solstice.
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Sunday • Celebrate the winter solstice with an afternoon of poetry and music at the Voelker Orth Museum in Murray Hill, Queens.
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The holiday, one of the most important in many Asian countries, typically begins on the second new moon after winter solstice.
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The winter solstice, sometimes celebrated as Yule in Pagan and Wiccan traditions, marks the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
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YuleThis holiday occurs around the 21st or 22nd of December and celebrates both the winter solstice and the end of the year.
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Imbued with some of the same energy as the winter solstice, this lunar phase is also great for stoking the holiday spirit.
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And the sun will crawl across the horizon — like a sailboat skimming across a pond — throughout this incredibly short winter solstice day.
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The winter solstice is upon us: Friday, December 23.5, is the shortest day of 2018 for anyone living in the Northern Hemisphere.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Capricorn, or 223.5° south latitude.
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The poet Annie Finch is the author of "Winter Solstice Chant" ("the edge of winter sky/leaning over us in icy stars.").
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This coven might not celebrate Christmas, but it's the winter solstice, and the Church of Night still has some celebrating to do.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Capricorn, or 23.5° south latitude.
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The winter solstice, December 21, is one of the most magical days of the month, so circle the date on your calendar.
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The Sun enters Capricorn, initiating the winter solstice, on December 21, and new moon in Capricorn comes soon after, on December 29.
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But on the same axis, in the opposite direction, is the point on the horizon where the sun sets on the winter solstice.
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A bird drops a message into their hands from Margot, who's instructed them to meet her in Central Park for the winter solstice.
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Well, we're officially past the winter solstice, which means that technically the days are only going to get longer from here on out.
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This YouTube video by AccuWeather explains that winter solstice is caused not by the Earth's distance from the sun, but by its tilt.
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WATCH THIS: Winter Weather Devastates Toddler This year's winter solstice is special, as it falls on the night of December's Full Cold Moon.
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The winter solstice, which marks the longest night and fewest hours of daylight of the year, arrives this morning at 11:28 a.m.
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But whatever your feelings about the longest night, the winter solstice — transcendent, yet precise; celestial, but very local — is worth pausing to savor.
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The winter solstice is almost upon us: Saturday, December 21, is the shortest day of 2019 for anyone living in the Northern Hemisphere.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, when the sun appears at its most southerly spot.
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The Sun enters Capricorn on December 21, marking the winter solstice, and soon after we have a new moon in Capricorn on December 29.
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It's ridiculously cold this time of year, but at least we're past the winter solstice and I can tell myself that we're gaining daylight!
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But after the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year, meaning we'll experience the least sunlight in 24 hours — they'll get longer again.
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There are four cross-quarter days in the year, plus the four "quarter" days (the spring equinox, summer solstice, fall equinox, and winter solstice).
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, bringing you many opportunities for adventure, travel, and learning as the sun enters fellow earth sign Capricorn.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21 with the Sun entering Capricorn, and a new moon in Capricorn follows soon after, on December 29.
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By contrast, the Southern Hemisphere reaches peak sunlight on December 21, 22, or 23 and the north hits peak darkness — that's our winter solstice.
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Friday is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, so we're thinking about cold weather, and home heating.
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Phill Niblock's annual winter solstice concert — stuffed with six hours of video and sound art — will descend on Roulette in Brooklyn on Dec. 21.
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The spiced wine of pomegranate mingles with the tannic nose-bite of olives and tree nuts on Persian Yalda tables marking the winter solstice.
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STONEHENGE, England (Reuters) - More than five thousand pagans, druids and revelers gathered at Britain's ancient monument Stonehenge on Wednesday to celebrate the winter solstice.
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By contrast, the Southern Hemisphere reaches peak sunlight on December 21, 22 or 20183 and the north hits peak darkness — that's our winter solstice.
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By contrast, the Southern Hemisphere reaches peak sunlight on December 298, 22009, or 227 and the Northern hits peak darkness — that's our winter solstice.
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Your focus will turn to your relationships due to the winter solstice, as the Sun enters Capricorn and illuminates the partnership sector of your chart.
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Tonight is the winter solstice, and Maryia-Antonina Alekséïevna will not recover from the glass of Chablis she has just mistakenly pressed to her lips.
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The winter solstice begins with the Sun entering Capricorn on December 21, and soon after, we have a new moon in Cap on December 29.
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This Friday, December 21, marks the winter solstice, aka the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, where most of the world's population lives, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night.
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With the arrival of the winter solstice, you're in a nostalgic mood, and you want to stay cozy by the fire with your loved ones!
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Ms. Finch also pointed out that the winter solstice, traditionally a time of introspection, can be a moment of warmth for communities small and large.
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Today is the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice, also known as the shortest day of the year — shorthand for the day that gets the least sunlight.
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" 1960s: "Since man was first aware of the changing seasons, the winter solstice has been occasion for awe and wonder and a challenge to faith.
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At the winter solstice each December, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, which remains low in the sky throughout the short day.
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This is when the winter solstice occurs, marking the shortest day (or the day with the least amount of sunlight) and longest night of the year.
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Tonight is the winter solstice, and Maryia-Antonina Alekséïevna sits wistfully at the end of the table, drowning out her melancholy with long sips of Champagne.
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Though the winter solstice — the shortest and therefore darkest day of the year — is this Friday, Dark Chocolate Oreos won't actually be available until January 2.
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The winter solstice, also known as the first day of the winter season and the longest night of the year, will arrive this Thursday, December 21.
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For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the beginning of fall, with daylight hours continuing to shorten until the winter solstice in December.
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"Pais Nublado" is a dreamy and reflective piece of pop, a perfect accompaniment to the passing of winter solstice / the fact days are getting longer again.
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The winter solstice begins a period of recognition for your accomplishments, as the sun transits your house of legacy—important people recognize how responsible you are!
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Originally, this was done on the winter solstice, and it symbolized rebirth; the log was then burned and its remains kept in the home for protection.
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The genre-crossing Paul Winter Consort began offering its annual winter Solstice Celebration during the Morton era; it just celebrated its 40th annual concert in December.
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As we approach the winter solstice, the time the sun takes to set lengthens, due to the angle the sun takes in setting into the ground.
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The reason Christmas crackers have crowns is traced back to the ancient Romans, who wore decorative headgear to celebrate Saturnalia, a festival around the winter solstice.
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An especially romantic energy flows on the winter solstice, December 21, as the sun enters lusty Capricorn and illuminates the romance and creativity sector of your chart.
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STONEHENGE, England (Reuters) - Wrapped in warm and brightly colored clothes, thousands of revelers gathered at Britain's Stonehenge to watch the first sunrise after winter solstice on Saturday.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, and the sun enters Capricorn to illuminate the sector of your chart that rules your career, reputation, and worldly success.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, with the Sun entering fellow Earth sign Capricorn, and a new moon in Capricorn comes soon after, on December 29.
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Enjoy it, because things are about to get way more sober when the winter solstice arrives with the Sun entering Capricorn, and meeting Saturn, on December 21.
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Look on the Bright Side Day (December 21): It's the winter solstice, the day when the Earth's Northern Hemisphere is at its maximum tilt from the sun.
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For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the beginning of astronomical fall, with daylight hours continuing to shorten until the winter solstice in December.
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His original idea was to hold a "Saturnales de la Musique" twice a year, on the summer solstice and the winter solstice (June 210 and December 21).
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Today, even as we approach the winter solstice, Lilly Pulitzer and S'well announced their second collaboration, which includes three new water bottles in Lilly's signature eye-catching prints.
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If you've never observed the winter solstice, this day has deep roots in nature-based faiths, such as Wicca and Paganism, where it's also referred to as Yule.
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"Hogmanay" is the Scots word for "last day of the year" and its origins stretch back to celebrations of the winter solstice by the Vikings in late December.
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In fact, Christmas itself began as a celebration of the winter solstice, commemorating the end of the darkest days of winter and welcoming the return of extended sunlight.
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But in a practical sense, how does one talk about the winter solstice, which is today, and invoke the proper arcane spirituality via the medium of Lil Wayne lyrics?
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Even then, the later a country switched over, the more days had to be dropped in order to stay in sync with the vernal equinox and the winter solstice.
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One last bonus: As we approach the winter solstice, the time the sun takes to set lengthens, due to the angle the sun takes in setting into the ground.
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That year's summer solstice was the longest period of daylight the Northern Hemisphere has ever seen (and, conversely, the 1912 winter solstice was the longest night we've ever seen).
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The brand decided to announce the news timed to the upcoming winter solstice, the day with the shortest period of daylight (so the darkest day of the year), on Dec.
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The omens are good that 2012 will be an excellent year, a druid said today, after the sun shone on Stonehenge during a dawn ceremony to mark the winter solstice.
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This week, there's a trio of events to mark the winter solstice, plus an animal-inspired dance by Simone Forti and a chance to help shape the city's cultural plan.
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As the winter solstice draws near, so does the advent of the fabled "cuffing season," where humans are driven by the impulse to form temporary partnerships and become extremely cozy.
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The last time these events coincided was 2010, and according to the Almanac, the next time a full moon will actually peak during a winter solstice won't be until 2094.
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Lunar New Year is the celebration under the lunisolar calendar — which is based on cycles of the moon — and typically falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice.
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The winter solstice sometimes brings damp and bitter cold, so Make Music Winter, the explosion of mostly participatory, mostly al fresco musical "parades" held throughout New York City each Dec.
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During that time, the North Hemisphere experiences the winter solstice, or the shortest day of the year, while those living south of the equator experience the longest day of the year.
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It is on Midsummer that the Holly King (think hipster Santa Claus), god of the waning year, succeeds the Oak King (a fertility god), who has ruled since the winter solstice.
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HOBART, TASMANIA Dark Mofo, June 225-18763 This festival, organized by the Museum of Old and New Art, marks the winter solstice in Hobart, one of the southernmost cities in Australia.
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He brought back reports of a land called Thule, six days north of Scotland, "where... there are no nights during the [summer] solstice...and also no days during the winter solstice".
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The luck-infused Chinese New Year is celebrated after the second full moon after the winter solstice and ends in a parade of dragons and fireworks that scare away the bad spirits.
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As we mentioned, the winter solstice essentially signals the end of the year, making it a natural time to look back and see how far you've come in the last 12 months.
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Much like how Halloween dates back to pagan celebrations of the end of farming season and the harvest, winter solstice celebrations were one big party before everything shut down for the winter.
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Mercury meets lucky Jupiter on December 21, bringing some fantastic news your way, and the winter solstice also arrives, with the sun entering Capricorn and illuminating the relationship sector of your chart!
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Whether you and your loved ones are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanza, all of the above, or a combination of several different holidays, everybody loves to receive a little personal mail.
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We asked readers who live around the Arctic Circle — where in some places the sun doesn't shine for weeks after the winter solstice — to share their stories and photos of life there.
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This time of year, Newgrange takes on a special significance when the site becomes mysteriously aligned with the rising sun at the winter solstice, flooding its interior with an almost mystical light.
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And finally, in December there's the Cold Moon , when the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year ( a day, ironically, I celebrate ) – marks the start of the coldest season of the year.
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"At the city where I work near Chiapas, we've determined the entire city was set up and aligned with a local volcano as well as the sunrise and the winter solstice," he said.
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Similar clouds observed in 2009, 2012, and 2015 coincided with the winter season, so it's not surprising that this one showed up a few weeks before the Martian winter solstice on October 16.
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The winter solstice also lands on December 21, with the sun entering Capricorn and illuminating the sector of your chart that rules your social life and the groups and organizations you associate with.
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The winter solstice on Friday is a powerfully romantic day, with love and money planet Venus harmonizing with fantastical Neptune at 12:12 PM, encouraging you to get carried away in your feelings.
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It was oddly cheering, then, to learn recently that even the most impressive- and immovable-seeming of monuments associated with the winter solstice has some of this here-today-and-gone-tomorrow character.
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A pagan spin on the Christmas tale, Xena is tasked with convincing a curmudgeonly king to end his ban forbidding subjects from celebrating the winter solstice (with stockings, pine trees, ornaments and all).
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This supermoon is also known as the Long Nights Moon, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, because it takes places close to the winter solstice, the day with the least amount of sunlight.
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The winter solstice marks the beginning of Capricorn season on December 21, which will find you spending time networking socially and professionally over the next month, as well as getting involved with your community.
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With the rapid changes that come with the fall equinox and all the preparations that the winter solstice demands, July is one of the last few moments of total calm before the year ends.
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For instance, this was the scene at Stonehenge on winter solstice 2016, where pagans, druids, and other revelers gathered to celebrate the sunrise as it lined up directly with some of the stone monuments.
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The WannaCry hack shows North Korea's emergence as a cyber powerhouse The winter solstice is Thursday: 7 things to know about the shortest day of the year We're witnessing the wholesale looting of America
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"There is no doubt Venus will be shaking up the status quo inside relationships, specifically around the Winter Solstice," because of the way the planet will align with Uranus in Taurus at that time.
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"12 Shouts: Ten Forgotten Heavens: Winter Solstice" by the American playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson, will commemorate this shift toward the light in a performance that takes over various floors of the Whitney Museum.
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The winter solstice, also known as the shortest day and longest night in the year, will occur this Wednesday, December 21, when the East Coast will see only nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight.
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Traditional owners like Bryon Powell and the scientists they're working with say the stones have possible solar indications, marking the movements of the sun over the year, including the summer solstice, equinox and winter solstice.
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Winter-solstice rituals predate the Christian holiday, and it was part of the wisdom of the new faith to piggyback, spiritually, on the old, folding its cosmic message into the universal faith in returning light.
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For those who still aren't feeling the Christmas spirit — or really miss Halloween — there's the just-announced Christmas-themed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter's Tale, which is sure to bring plenty of winter solstice magic.
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We document our entry into the Arctic Circle, which is the geographic region where the sun does not set on the day of summer solstice and does not rise on the day of the winter solstice.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Today's crossword by Timothy Polin has a lot going for it, not the least of which is that it serves as a handy reminder that the winter solstice is coming up in December.
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Right now, at the winter solstice, sunset in New York comes around 4:30 and there are only nine hours and 15 minutes of daylight — nearly six hours fewer than at the summer solstice in June.
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While its placement varies, November's full moon is always a signal of the changes to come; as the last full moon before the Winter Solstice, it's seen as the final bit of light before the darkness of winter.
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But anyway, today is the winter solstice, so light some candles and enjoy the moonlight and shit: It's the longest night of the year, and tomorrow it will start getting dark later for the first time since June.
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This Saturday, one day after the winter solstice (the first official day of winter), the moon will wax to fullness in the lively sign of Gemini before heading into homebody Cancer for the rest of its full phase.
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Traditionally, the winter solstice — sometimes called Yule in Pagan and Wiccan traditions — has marked a time of spiritual rebirth and coming together with community, which is why we see many cultures and religions celebrating holidays around this time.
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KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, indigenous farmers gather at the top of mountains the night after the winter solstice – not to enjoy the view, but to forecast the timing and quantity of rains.
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Jutting out beside it and toward the sea is a rectangular, 70-meter-long underground chamber, open at both ends and angled to capture the winter solstice, made of Cor-Ten steel used for the hulls of ships.
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The annual swim takes place on the winter solstice, which marks the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere, and this year, a record number of swimmers in nothing but red caps ran for the River Derwent.
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There was the Dutch performance artist Marja Samsom in a black-and-white checkerboard hat and Susanna Cuyler, a writer who collects the names of people who have died during the year to read aloud on the winter solstice.
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The midpoint between the winter solstice and vernal equinox (which you might know as Groundhog Day) lands in early February, and this month's full moon has long been associated with the first signs of spring, or the quickening of the seasons.
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The winter solstice marks the beginning of Capricorn season on December 21, finding you winding down from all the partying you didn't during Sagittarius season, and needing to retreat— it's time to catch up on rest and spend some time alone.
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December 21 brings the winter solstice and the Sun entering Capricorn—it's the darkest time of the year (well, if you're in the northern hemisphere), but new opportunities are ahead: We have a new moon in Capricorn on December 29.
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Yes, the fresh start in your relationships that you've been hoping for is on the way: The Sun enters Capricorn on December 21, marking the winter solstice, and soon after we have a new moon in Capricorn on December 29.
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Whether your rockin' around the Christmas tree, spinning like a dreidel, dancing through the winter solstice, raising your voice for Kwanzaa, or any other holiday season celebration, you are going to need a solid playlist to set the party off.
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It's strange how our 20th and 21st-century selves seem to be convinced that all Neolithic peoples who used big rocks and had an understanding of the winter solstice also listened to Hearts of Space and Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack.
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They sent a group of people out camping for a week in the middle of winter — around the time of the winter solstice — to see if the shorter days and lower levels of sunlight would be enough to achieve a similar effect.
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Aside from the late dawns and early sunsets around the time of winter solstice, the shadows around noontime will be longer in the winter, when the day is almost done, and shorter in the summer, when there's still several hours of sunlight left.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the opposite is true of the winter solstice, when the sun is at its southernmost location is the sky, making for the least amount of sunlight and the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
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When the semester concluded, just before the winter solstice, those thoughts had also reached a nadir, giving way to the fear that I had failed, once again, in my 30-year quest to turn bright and eager undergraduates into readers, and lovers, of ancient Greek.
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In an attempt to increase their chances of survival, Irish pagans would curry favour with evil spirits during the festival of Samhain—which fell at the midpoint of the equinox and the winter solstice—by inviting occupants of the "Otherworld" to feast with them.
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It's the shortest day of the year because, during the winter solstice, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun and the sun's position is at its most southerly point, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn -- right across the middle of Australia.
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The winter solstice, December 21, is especially exciting: the sun enters Capricorn to create a grounding energy; Venus connects with Neptune to create a wonderfully romantic energy; and Mercury meets with lucky Jupiter to bring an exciting conversation, meeting, and/or invitation your way.
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But the storm that has been slashing across the country is correctly called a winter storm, because "winter" means something a bit different to a meteorologist than it does to astronomers and calendar-makers, who mark the start of the season with the winter solstice.
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There are plenty of ways to commemorate the occasion, from a "Shamanic Winter Solstice Ceremony" in Long Island City to a "silent yoga celebration" in (of course) Williamsburg, to a concert channeling "the greater symphony of the Earth" at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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And then, the demonstration — how, for 16 minutes on the morning of the winter solstice, and only then, the sun shines through the roofbox, down the passage right to the bottom, right to what might be some sort of altar with a basin sitting on it.
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The internet claims it'll be the darkest night in centuries because it's the winter solstice, which is the start of winter and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and because there's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight that will shut off the moon's light.
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This time last year, a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, another pollster, found that 89% of Americans planned to celebrate the Christian Nativity, compared with 3% for the Jewish festival of Hannukah, another 3% for the winter solstice, and 1% for the African-American festival of Kwanzaa.
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Although in some parts of the country, it may seem like it's been winter for a few weeks, it's still technically fall in the Northern hemisphere until the winter solstice, which occurs this year on Friday, December 21, and marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
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Read more: The speed of light is torturously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a scientist at NASA prove itAbout 89 days and 19 hours after the fall equinox, the Earth will reach its winter solstice — when the most direct sunlight strikes the Southern Tropic (or Tropic of Capricorn).
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They also found ceramic burial urns, suggesting that at least part of the Rego Grande site may have been a cemetery, while colleagues from Amapá's Institute of Scientific and Technological Research discovered that one of the tall stones seemed to be aligned with the sun's path during the winter solstice.
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While the winter solstice signals an emphasis on sitting with the intentions for the coming season and what the waxing year will hold, the summer solstice celebrates the vivacity and passion of the sun and of the energy it ignites, namely through the action of doing, collectings and reaping the rewards of what's been sown.
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In this particular winter solstice, Sabrina is more interested in welcoming spirits to the Spellman home, and in this special — which is nearly a stand-alone episode, occurring after the events of Season 1 — Sabrina conducts a séance, Susie moonlights as an elf for a store-based Santa and Madam Satan enjoys a gingerbread house.
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The winter solstice arrives on December 21, with the Sun entering Capricorn on this date; a few days later, on December 29, we have a new moon in Capricorn, bringing you a fresh start around all that love and creativity stuff that you've been reflecting on, thanks to the Mercury retrograde, which is also in Cap.
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The winter solstice is behind us, the days are getting longer, and the calendar year is coming to an end, which can only mean one thing: It's time to check back with some of the experiential artists we hailed as up-and-comers last winter, and see what they've been up to the last few months.
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There's Amaterasu in Japan, the Shinto faith's sun goddess, whose emergence from a cave is celebrated on the winter solstice; there's a prehistoric Irish tomb called Newgrange that's aligned to capture the winter solstice's sunrise; and there's the Roman feast of Saturnalia, which was a week-long feast in December that included the observance of the solstice.
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Using the term "balæna" to describe an unknown species of whales, Pliny wrote: It is said that [the whales] are not to be seen in the ocean of Gades before the winter solstice, and that at periodical seasons they retire and conceal themselves in some calm capacious bay, in which they take a delight in bringing forth.
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And while the Saudi clerics may insist on taking the Quran literally on fasting for 22 hours from dawn till dusk, a future Muslim colony right at the North Pole, which gets only darkness at the winter solstice and only daylight at the arrival of summer — or, more radically, on Mars — would force even them to change their minds.
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I feel most drawn to the Winter Solstice essay because when it comes to entertaining for the holidays, Hannah describes herself exactly as I would describe myself, "bossy and anxious," which brings me back to the fact that I somehow have to throw the perfect dinner party for a group of people I really care about.
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Word of the Day noun: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves adjective: idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity adjective: marked by peace and prosperity _________ The word halcyon has appeared in 32 articles on nytimes.
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The impending winter solstice hastened a disquieting horizon; Collins took the stage with a six-piece backing band, just as the sky went fully black at the suspiciously early time of 6 PM. A Decade Deeper—the comp and the concert alike—sold out well in advance, but the bodies trickled in with no urgency whatsoever (except for Collins's father, a guest of honor, who saw the concert, front to back, from a perch in the loft).
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