Comments on: Pagans, Christians and the Winter Solstice

By: travesti

travesti — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:01:10 +0000

Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:08:15 +0000

Thank you so much for the thoughtful comments. In the last few years I’ve been growing into my Pagan-Christian hybrid self but I’ve yet to find a community like that. So I tend to move back & forth, Pagan to Christian… I’m grateful for (& really enjoy!) the little pockets online where we make these connections that can be more challenging to find in daily life.

By: Renae C

Renae C — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:02:00 +0000

My last post was about the paradox between the dark and the light – but I LOVE your juxtaposition of the two viewpoints:

The former group recognizes the immanent holiness of the physical world. The latter group honors divine grace transcending the natural world. When held together, Pagan and Christian portrayals of this day inform the meaning that each offers, rendering something more robust and life-giving than I can find in either one alone.

Holding the two together – allowing them to inform one another. It’s beautiful. Thank you for this thought – I think it will be something I ponder on as I am unfolding the new me that is being born into the year to come. Keep unfolding yourself – the possibilities are limitless.

By: rowena

rowena — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:52:36 +0000

That is lovely. A lovely way to look at this season. I sit more along the pagan spectrum, but I like the way you address the spirit here.

Oh, and finding the balance between the spirit and the body… the self and the mother, the living and the dreaming.

By: Ashley Jennings

Ashley Jennings — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:01:43 +0000

That is wonderful! At a place in our lives where we are sort of over the Christian church, but I can’t deny that they were doing great things.
It’s a wierd conundrum.

By: Sunrise Sister

Sunrise Sister — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:04:34 +0000

Paraphrasing you – our little world upended every few years – don’t know who I’ll be as the light returns. These words I find rather comforting and exciting. If I was the same person today that I was 40 years ago – narrow, single-minded, small world vision. As the new light dawns this year, I am alive with creativity, physical strength of mind and body. That excites me to think of the next decade in my life – to grow, to stretch, to be – to be all that God has laid out for me…..wow, that’s a task I think and I love the thoughts of my upended world being bright and alive when it’s rightside up again….whatever that may look like!

By: wholly jeanne

wholly jeanne — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:09:16 +0000

unraveling to open yourself up. i like thinking of it that way, the polarities and cycles of women’s lives. good post to start my day with. thank you.

By: Kristi Stender-Weessies

Kristi Stender-Weessies — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:12:55 +0000

Lovely thought combining the pagan and the Christian. I agree, I am much more complete celebrating the strength, depth, and traditions of both than either one exclusively.