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Sunday, December 21, 2025

 15:03 (3:03 PM) in Greenwich

10:03 AM Eastern

5:03 AM in Hawaii

Monday, December 22, 2025 12:03 AM in Japan

The winter solstice has the least daylight of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sun is at its lowest angle.

Modern pagans and Wiccans use the Wheel of The Year.

Cookie or Biscuit Henge; image found on the interwebs.

There are many henges and rock formations created by ancient peoples in which the sun aligns with specific petroglyphs or chambers on different solstices.

Newgrange in Ireland, County Meath, is a neolithic passage tomb where the sunrise shines deep into the structure.

Learn more here.

Henges are a passion of mine, and since I keep finding Stonehenge lookalikes all over social media, I post them on the two solstices and two equinoxes.

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Midwinter

The word 'solstice' comes from the Latin 'solstitium', meaning 'Sun stands still' – because the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or south stops before changing direction.

December 21, 2024 at 4:21 AM Eastern/9:21 AM UTC

So let's celebrate with a few Stonehenge jokes!

Cool neon Stonehenge light!

Packing Peanut Henge

Henry camped out on the round rug all night last night, instead of hiding in the back room.

Of course, I snapped away at him, then played with one image in Prisma, to make a collage.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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The Long and The Short of It

Oh.  Yay.  It's officially Winter.

Gee.

Excited beyond belief.

But, worth a few giggles...

Ginger kitty, doing a selfie at Stonehenge

Sea Jerky Henge

Cracker Henge or Shortbread Henge

The world 'solstice' comes from the Latin 'solstitium', meaning 'Sun stands still', because the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or south stops before changing direction. 

At the winter solstice, the apparent position of the Sun reaches its most southerly point against the background stars.

Winter begins at:

Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 8:57 AM Easter Island Time

Thursday, December 21, 2023, at 10:27 PM Eastern Standard Time

Fri, Dec 22, 2023, 4:27 AM Central European Time

Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 12:57 AM Eastern Australian Time

Here's a thought...now that it's officially Winter, that means Spring is NEXT!

WOOT!

Something to be thankful for on the longest night of the year, after the shortest day.

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