20/12/2025
I just learnt about this night by
and am amazed I didn't know about it before!
"Mother's Night" - Dec 20th - is the night before the Winter Solstice. A threshold moment in time. Signifying the liminal space between death and rebirth, the old and the new. And, significantly, honouring female power and lineage. Honouring the fertile dark. Honouring the work of mothers and grandmothers (and mothering energy).
All human life grows within the mother, the dark womb space of creation. The nurturing energy and fierce protection at the core of the mother’s primal nature is revered in cultures across the globe.
As Christianization of the Celtic and Germanic cultures ensued, Mother’s Night was either suppressed, or re-interpreted. Many of its elements morphed into aspects of Christmas eve, and/or ancestral folk traditions but were stripped of the feminine or goddess context.
Mother’s Night marks the death of the old year, the womb space before rebirth. A holy time of quiet, inward, nocturnal reverence. Not a time of outward revelry, or celebration. A time of remembrance that honours the Feminine as the Source, as Origin. Where humanity is reminded that the Night beholds creative intelligence, and the Dark holds the power of gestation. It is not malevolent. The opposite - is it Benevolent and Sacred. Much to the contrary of our patriarchal dogma infused socio-cultural programming to fear the dark. Which is in it’s roots - the dark is the holy powerful embodiment of the feminine.
One of the ways people honour this night is by baking sweet honey infused bread (bees represent goddess energy). Or lighting candles for the motherline. Now more than ever I feel we need to reclaim our connection with mother honouring. I think if this was more embedded in our lives, the world would look very different. And better. We can all do our bit to mend the fragmentation 🖤✨️
Blessed Mōdraniht to you!
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Second image, my Mum .libera.3
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Fourth image "Ancesters song"
