Darkness, Riddle, Charm

Christmas Eve harks back to many other Solstice legends; the magic of light gleaming at the darkest time of the year is evocative and timeless, as anyone knows who has seen the big stars burning in the icy air, and the soft gleam of candlelight on snow.

Let us celebrate the wisdom of the dark in which we all have our origins.

“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.”

― Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Here is a new amulet called Roots and Beginnings. Created at the Winter Solstice, it supports delving deep to uncover secrets, learn great knowledge, and untangle knotty problems.

Learn more about Roots and Beginnings (and what plumbers and metaphysicians have in common) at my Etsy shop here.