Solstice

2022 - 12 - 21

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Welcoming Winter Solstice through Storytelling (Shared Health)

In early December, Indigenous Health staff gathered inside the Child Life Library located at HSC Winnipeg's Children's Hospital to share stories in celebration of the upcoming Winter Solstice. “Winter Solstice is a very special time.

I was very grateful to have had the opportunity to have grown up where I did. Around the Winter Solstice, we get an opportunity to meet – and see – our friend, Air,” Thibert said. “Normally we don’t see air during the three other seasons, but we always know air is there.

Solstice Sauna: Une nouvelle expérience nordique de sauna à ... (Silo 57)

En effet, il y a du nouveau qui se trame à North Hatley, dans les Cantons-de-l'Est. Il s'agit du Solstice Sauna: un sauna social. Ce sauna se démarque par son ...

Pour le moment, il est campé à la plage municipale de North Hatley. C’est d’ailleurs dans ce lac que vous pourrez aller vous rafraîchir après le sauna. Il n’y a donc aucune politique de silence à l’intérieur du sauna! Dans le sauna, vous pourrez profiter d’une vue sur le lac Massawippi. En effet, il y a du nouveau qui se trame à North Hatley, dans les Cantons-de-l’Est. Il s'agit du Solstice Sauna: un sauna social.

Indigenous group celebrates winter solstice with traditional ... (Globalnews.ca)

Wednesday brought about the second annual traditional Indigenous ceremony to celebrate the winter solstice. held outside the legislature in Regina.

We just decided to come and help do some of the labour that used to be done by women in the past but now with the weather and challenges we are here to help.” But we have a pre-spring then we have spring, and in the fall we have a pre-fall and a fall – we have two more seasons.” We see the first buds on a tree – that’s a sign that Mother Earth is waking up.” In Indigenous culture, it is considered a time for prayer, reflection and healing over the year past. Belanger said they were taught that when the snow falls and covers Mother Earth, it covers all the medicines, which is why they gather before the snowfall. “We’re kind of a broken people and we’re mending ourselves back together, a lot of us are involved in a lot of ceremony, or a resurgence of our language, a resurgence of our traditions and our culture and this is this is one aspect of it.”

'Gratitude for life': Indigenous group marks winter solstice with ... (CTV News)

Dozens of people gathered on the sacred space outside Saskatchewan's legislative building to honour the winter solstice on Wednesday.

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Dozens gather in Regina to celebrate winter solstice and reflect on ... (CBC.ca)

Koby Mountainhorse spent hours in frigid temperatures Wednesday morning chopping wood, piling it into a sled and stockpiling it for the circle of teepees ...

The ceremony has defined roles for men and women, Belanger says. We are caretakers — not only of one another, but we are also caretakers in our relationship to dance now with a different rhythm with our other mother and our grandmother." They survived this for us to be here," she said.

The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony (redlakenationnews.com)

In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 will be the year's day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North.

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