Please join us for a Winter Solstice  Service Sunday

Dec. 21, at 5 p.m. Walk the Snake Labyrinth  lit with candles!followed by a soup dinner.

We will reflect on the realm of the Black Madonna, and the underworld of dreams and visions as well as the place of the unconscious-the dark night, the unknown. We will commune with the goddess cultures of our pre-Christian ancestors who lived close to the earth and celebrated the unity of nature and the cycles of seasons. The Goddess is reemerging in this time of ecologic crisis. She lives in the earth and within us and all life forms. We will chant, listen to guided meditations and walk our candle lit snake labyrinth.  Gathering on the longest night of the year we honor the darkness within our own psyches,  the night, the seasons and the beauty of  winter, the depths of the earth underground and in caves and the vast size of the cosmos we see at night.The winter solstice and the  darkness of precreation reconnects us to the Black Madonnna.

 Whatever our religious practice please come pray in community with us as we wait and incubate new stories that will guide us to honor the earth and our interconnected web of life. Religion has been part of the cause of this ecologic calamity we have created. Creative new religious stories and  rituals will help us to reclaim the wisdom from our ancient traditions we need desperately.   In the dark we will pray together as people have for 1,000's of years and give thanks for the miraculous cycles of the seasons, the changes of the moon and stars and the rotation of our holy earth.

She is speaking to us and this solstice.

May we rest in her love, and pray and give thanks as we ask for guidance.

Dear God/dess, We are in awe of you who are the Black Madonna. We give thanks for day and night, for the sun and the moon, for the changing of the seasons, of the hidden life that awaits under the ground, within the smallest seeds and within our spirits and souls. Please guide us in this time of ecologic and global darkness. We have dishonored and forgotten you. We pray for forgiveness and we want to make amends. We gather to pray and give you thanks and praise. Please  speak to us and guide us in our day dreams and our night dreams on this the darkest and longest night of the year.

Blessed be, Amen and Shalom