12/20/2025
❄️ Winter Solstice Gathering — Closing the Final Chapter ❄️
As we arrive at the Winter Solstice, we step into the deepest stillness of the year—the longest night, where the outer world grows quiet and the inner world speaks. This Solstice is especially potent as it marks the final season of a 9-year cycle, a sacred threshold where reflection, release, and integration naturally occur. It is not a time of loss, but of completion. What has been learned, carried, endured, and transformed over these nine years is now ready to be honored, witnessed, and laid to rest with reverence.
This gathering invites us to close a chapter consciously, rather than unconsciously dragging it forward. The energy of the Solstice asks us to pause, to acknowledge how far we have come, and to recognize the wisdom earned through experience. This is where the Crone archetype steps forward—not as an ending that diminishes, but as a culmination that empowers. The Crone is the keeper of lived truth, discernment, and deep knowing. She represents sovereignty, clarity, and the strength that comes from having walked through both light and shadow. In welcoming her, we honor our own maturation, resilience, and authority over our path.
This Solstice is further amplified by the presence of a New Moon, creating a rare and powerful convergence of energies. The Solstice closes the arc of the old cycle, while the New Moon opens the unseen gateway of what is yet to be born. Together, they create a sacred pause—where endings and beginnings coexist. In this liminal space, the Crone blesses the void, ensuring that what is planted next is rooted in wisdom rather than repetition. This is a moment of both surrender and intention, where we release with grace and seed the future with clarity.
🌲 Elemental & Sacred Ritual Items🎄
Pinecones — Symbols of regeneration, inner wisdom, and the pineal gateway; reminders that life continues even in dormancy.
Evergreen Wreaths (Pine & Cedar) — Represent continuity, protection, resilience, and the eternal cycle of life through darkness and return.
Oranges — Sacred solar symbols of abundance, vitality, and the promise of the returning light.
Eucalyptus — Clears stagnant energy, restores breath, and invites renewal at the threshold of change.
Lavender — Calms the nervous system, soothes grief, and supports rest and integration.
Cloves — Offer protection, grounding, warmth, and ancestral remembrance.
Palo Santo — Blesses and seals sacred space, inviting alignment rather than banishment.
Crystals — Hold intention, witness transformation, and anchor wisdom into the physical realm.
Fire Medicine — Transmutes what is complete into light, warmth, and clarity.
Drum Medicine — The heartbeat of the Earth, guiding the body and spirit across thresholds and calling in ancestral support.
✨️ A Sacred Message from the Crone✨️
“Beloved, I am the keeper of what you have survived, learned, and become.
Do not rush past me in your longing for the new. Sit with me.
Honor what has ended, for it has shaped your strength.
Release what is finished without bitterness, and carry forward only the wisdom.
I bless the seeds you place in the dark, so they may grow from truth, not fear.
Rest now. The light will return—and you will rise renewed."
Jessica Blunt | Emergence Readings LLC
