5 Voices on Welcoming Solstice

“This is the solstice,” Margaret Atwood once wrote, “the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”

Many know Solstice as the retreat and return of the sun, the “Sol” that canonically fits so well within many Pagan and polytheist wisdom traditions. Whether it’s our great god’s death to be reborn or the Goddess’s deep descent to return anew, we have centuries of myth and lore to e...