Welcome pootie, woozle, birdie and general critter lovers to a special Winter Edition of the Wednesday PWB Peeps diary. This is a diary to relax, share pictures and stories about our animal friends, and to build community. Come on in and join us... |
When we (the royal we) asked the Pootie Queen for Wednesday, December 21 to do a Woozley Winter Solstice, we (no one I know) had failed to consult our "calendar" which would have told us that Winter Solstice is ... not until Thursday, December 22nd at 5:30 UTC. Oops!
So while we (the everyone we) cannot technically celebrate Winter yet, we can certainly Wait for Winter. And who better to wait with than our Woozle friends ... who are all about Anticipation!
UPDATE: 11:30pm Central - The Wait is Over. Happy Solstice! May the returning sunlight give you warmth and comfort.
Twice a year, on the solstice holidays, Basement Cat and Ceiling Cat are locked in mortal combat over the Light. At summer solstice, Basement Cat prevails and the light starts receding ... gradually at first and then more quickly until the light and dark are equal.
Then finally, on Winter Solstice, ceiling cat prevails!!
First the science (this is a teaching blog, you know):
The winter solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet's polar hemisphere is farthest away from the star that it orbits. Earth's maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26'. More evidently from high latitudes, a hemisphere's winter solstice occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year, when the sun's daily maximum elevation in the sky is the lowest. Since the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, other terms are often used for the day on which it occurs, such as midwinter, the longest night or the first day of winter.
The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days.
And now let's Hurry Up and Wait!
Waiting (in line)
Waiting (and watching)
Waiting (for spring thaw)
And because the guarantee of SUCCESS in a PWB diary is posting a cute puppy pic:
(Shameless? Yes!!)
The winter solstice or midwinter is one of the eight pagan festivals or "sabbats" from the Wheel of the Year. It is a "quarter day" along with the equinoxes and the summer solstice. The Solstice Night brings celebration as our ancestors awaited the return of the sun to warm the frozen Earth. To all my pagan friends: "Bright Blessings on Solstice and may the warmth of the returning sun bring you great joy and hope".
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