Solstice ARC Giveaway

[ashnistrike]

For Deep Ones, darkness is safety and comfort, the longest night a time of revelation. Honoring the hope of safety, comfort, & revelation, I’m giving away an ARC of Winter Tide for Winter Tide. Share your favorite made-up holiday tradition by 9PM on the 22nd, & I'll pick an entry at random (from here and from Twitter) to get a Winter Tide ARC.

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[nineweaving]

I get a new green bunch of holly, mistletoe, &c., and burn last year's bough.

Nine

[acelightning]

My son has a Winter Solstice feast every year - this year it's tonight (Wednesday night). One of the traditions is a flaming Yule Log cake, which I'm about 2/3 of the way finished with right now. When it's time to serve it, my son will warm up a ladle full of 151-proof rum and pour it over the cake, while we all sing - probably a very short Pagan song written long ago by my late High Priest: "The turning of the Wheel,/The dying of the light;/The turning of the Wheel,/The coming of the night./The turning of the Wheel,/the night will come, and then,/The turning of the wheel,/The Sun shall rise again!" (It works very nicely as a round.)

Personally, I rejoice at the Longest Night, but I'm also sad because the days are going to start getting longer again... I'm not terribly fond of daylight, or warmth. I keep threatening to write a series of "Hymns To Cold And Darkness", but I'm really not that good a writer :-(