Winter Solstice Prayer Walk
Sat, Dec 21
|Wildwood Park
We will gather together on the night of the Winter Solstice, the longest and darkest night of the year, to light a candle and walk contemplatively together with prayers for justice and love to prevail within our own souls and in the world.
Time & Location
Dec 21, 2019, 4:20 PM – 6:00 PM
Wildwood Park, 648 W Bank St, Bridgewater, VA 22812, USA
About the Event
As the momentum of our days change and the energies of the sun wane, we prepare ourselves to welcome the dark. This is the night of the Winter Solstice, the longest and darkest night of the year, while paradoxically also the beginning of the hopeful return of light from the womb of darkness. In a time of cultural darkness and unknowing, loss of basic civility, democracy, extinctions, etc, in addition to our own personal losses, this time beckons us inward, to sit with the reality of what is, allowing space for what is asking to be born. Solstice marks the transition time between what has been and what will be, between death and new life. It invites the feminine energies of waiting, yielding, and non-efforting. It is a time to reorient ourselves to the truth that darkness and light are intertwined.
We will simply gather at Wildwood Park for a…