{"id":70547,"date":"2025-12-21T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70547"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:37:45","slug":"winter-solstice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/winter-solstice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice ritual in Anglesey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel that impassioned ritual<br \/>\nAs Anglesey\u2019s Druids<br \/>\non a grassy hillock<br \/>\nWith a cauldron below<br \/>\nSteaming it\u2019s message<br \/>\nA Mistletoe<br \/>\ncalling<br \/>\nThe great sky above them<br \/>\nTheir words<br \/>\noverhauling<br \/>\nThe shortest of days<br \/>\nAnd the longest night<br \/>\nAll sharing the wisdom<br \/>\nOf what is the light<\/p>\n<p>A stirring account<br \/>\nA Ritual most high<br \/>\nThe players committed<br \/>\nAnd we knew why<br \/>\nRobed participation<br \/>\nMoving along<br \/>\nPoetic embraces<br \/>\nRichly decked with song<\/p>\n<p>Respect of the  elders<br \/>\nFormerly they<br \/>\nWith the winds off the sea<br \/>\nNot so far away<br \/>\nBeholden to the goddess<br \/>\nAnd to the Mari Lwyd<br \/>\nA wassailing spirit<br \/>\nNo one doth avoid<\/p>\n<p>Participants sparkle<br \/>\nAll in good time<br \/>\nA ritual where spirit<br \/>\nAnd worship entwine<br \/>\nA Capricorn Solstice<br \/>\nFormidably<br \/>\nTo the scent of the forests<br \/>\nAnd the call of the sea <\/p>\n<p>Impassioned creatively<br \/>\nHearts came to be<br \/>\nBeating together<br \/>\nIn situ the free<br \/>\nDruidic brethren<br \/>\nSeemingly they<br \/>\nDrew  down celestial<br \/>\nMoments today<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is coming<br \/>\nA celestial time<br \/>\nAn ethereal subsequence<br \/>\nTo peacefully climb<br \/>\nTo a place where<br \/>\nThe tears of the Gods will appear<br \/>\nAnd Sporadic meteors<br \/>\nbringing us cheer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel that impassioned ritual As Anglesey\u2019s Druids on a grassy hillock With a cauldron below Steaming it\u2019s message A Mistletoe calling The great sky above them Their words overhauling The shortest of days And the longest night All sharing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/winter-solstice-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70555,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70547\/revisions\/70555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}