Summer Solstice

The Solstice Women's Double Diamond Ski Parka combines elements of street style, working class function, and devoted powderhound performance. It looks like cotton canvas, but acts like waterproof breathable nylon, which it is. Solstice cut the Double Diamond to flatter your figure and bestowed it with boatloads of snow-specific features.  

Tomorrow night is the Longest Night of the Year to snuggle up to someone warm. The Solstice is exact for us here in Los Angeles at exactly 9:47 AM this Morning. It’ll be the shortest day, and the longest night of the year. And that’s pretty much the story for the whole hemisphere. But in L.A. it’s [...]  

MOSCOW - Like the sweep of a second hand around the face of a clock, the ebb and flow of the seasons is a timeless cycle upon the face of the Earth."We call it the wheel of the year," says Debi Robinson-Smith, who, with members of the Coyote Cooperative, will celebrate the winter solstice tonight. "It's all to [...]  

What prompted humans to imagine that religious impulses and the rational quest for insight are at war with each other? Once it became clear that the sun would "return" whether or not blessed candles were lit, why did the idea of prayer come to seem naive?  

Sheffield University archaeologists believe enigmatic prehistoric monument was used for ritual banquets on special occasionsSome 4,500 years ago, as the solstice sun rose on Stonehenge, it is very likely that a midwinter feast would already have been roasting on the cooking fires.Experts believe that huge midwinter feasts were held in that period at the site and a startling picture is now emerging of just how far cattle were moved for the...  

Around lunchtime on Monday, astrological winter will begin. At precisely 11:47 a.m. CST that day the sun will be directly over the Tropic of Capricorn - its southernmost point in its journey across the seasons - at 23.5 degrees south of the Equator. Most people won't observe the winter solstice, but their bodies and dispositions might well take heed. And many holiday preparations are rooted in ancient rites associated with the year's...  

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FARMINGTON — Seeking knowledge, seeking light: Both can be found at the Farmington Public Library during the annual Winter Solstice celebration beginning at 11 a.m. Monday. The Winter Solstice is the single day out of the year, when the sun is at ...  

If people wish you a "serendipitous solstice" or the like tomorrow, it's because they're godless Earth-worshiping pagan soldiers of the War Against Christmas. Or so I gather from reading various right-thinkers who have something against the winter solstice.  

MARBLEHEAD — First, a news flash. It isn't winter yet. But the big day comes Monday, and the Clifton Improvement Association (yes, the CIA) will mark the change in seasons with a visit to its new Sun Circle at Beach Bluff Park. The $70,000 mini-Stonehenge designed by Marblehead architect Bruce Greenwald was erected this past fall and will mark the winter solstice for the first time as the sun beams past a stone pillar and scores an interior...  

Tonight is your last chance to catch this concert, which has been led by musician Paul Winter for 30 years, at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Tickets are $35-$80. For more information, visit www.livingmusic.com/solstice....  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Now in its third year, the Winter Solstice Ball runs 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 520 Kanawha Blvd. W. Not quite a ball, it starts with a drum circle (percussion provided or bring you...  

Exactly one week from today is Monday December 21--the shortest day of the year, when the earth's axis is farthest away from the sun or the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice, or "Midwinter", had special cultural significance for the ancients...  

The winter solstice - that instant every year when the sun is farthest away from earth - has always been a "magic" time for mankind. As About.com's guide to Ireland, Bernd Biege, speculates: "The nights had become noticeably longer for weeks, the days murkier, the sun styling low on the horizon. You can just imagine cavemen muttering to each other 'If this carries on, we'll have to invent fire to see anything at all!'" You can read about...  

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A secular display celebrating the winter solstice and "freethinkers" such as Albert Einstein and Bill Gates can be placed at the state Capitol alongside a traditional Christian nativity scene, a federal judge said Monday.