Try not to let the days and nights of this week evaporate in a rush of 10,000 details. We're still in the midst of significant passages that mark endings and beginnings, and it wouldn't do to hurry across these thresholds. The most important turning point is the winter solstice on Sunday, December 21, at 6:03 EST. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice delineates the return of the light. "Solstice" means the Sun's standstill, and if you were to mark the position of the Sun as it rises in the east and sets in the west, as our ancient ancestors did for as many years as it took to observe a pattern, you would notice that for approximately four days in a row, the Sun's position on the horizon is the same. The solstice point marks the moment it comes to a "halt" before it retraces its path for another year...(read more).