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Winter Solstice and Jule Celebrations

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Winter Ritual of Re-Creation and Re-Membrance:  Crested Butte, CO Winter Soulstice/New Year Ceremony - Going A-Souling!  Re-creating the Ancient Tradition of our European and Nordic ancestors, as we walk through our community offering blessings and Good Cheer to all businesses, local family, friends and all visitors.

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Join our Seasonal Celebration Community as we Sing Up the Solstice Sun with sacred
​Fire &Drumming

DECEMBER 21 through 24 Celebrating 18th Annual Winter Solstice-Wintertok!
~Friday, Dec. 21​, 6am, meet at the Top of Elk Ave. and we will walk to the Town Overlook for the BONFIRE Welcoming the Return of the Light over the Elk Mountains at Sunrise

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FATHER WINTER & THE MAIDEN OF LIGHT RETURNING
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KRAMPUS Wild Santa Procession of Beauties and Beasties
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Welcoming up the Newborn Winter Solstice Sun ~ Return of the Light
Remember the Wild Santa and Krampus with his Helpers
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Wintertok Snow Gratitude, Commitment and Remembrance Ceremony for the New Year
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PictureAll-Community Winter Blessing Ceremony.
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 9:30am
FAMILIES, FRIENDS, all FOLKS
Gather at the Octopus Cafe to create evergreen wreaths, paint faces and don our warmest regalia of White, Red and Fur as the entire community of Crested But
te, CO honors the Solstice by going A' Souling in a procession through the village to honor plentiful Snow as Father Winter passes the torch to the Green Man of Spring to com
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KRAMPUS WILD SANTA PROCESSION OF BEAUTIES AND BEASTIES
Let's get Hairy, Scary and Sacred with Old Krampus and his horned minions. 
Or wear your Warmest, most wonderful Wintertok Regalia of White, Green and upcycled furs and shine in your most wondrous Winter Solstice glamoury
At @11:15am We join together at Elk Ave and 2nd Streets ready to follow that most ancient of St. Nick's, and the oldest of them all--Krampus, and his partner the Gray Ghost Mare, or Pale Horse of Welsh tradition call Mari Lwyd. Follow her ghostly effigy as we drum our way through the Center of the Village.

NOON~WINTERTOK RITUAL gather in Totem Pole Park for a spontaneous Ceremony to honor the Ancestors, the Spirits of Fire, Ice and Frost, the Nature Spirits, the Maiden of Light, the Mountain Spirits and the wild man Krampus as the denizens of the Deep Dark arise and enter the land of Sun's Return.  
Fiddling and songs of the seasons performed by Lizzy Plotkin and Isabel Russell.

The Green Man and the WiseWomen Norns of Norse tradition share Seeing, promises and blessings for the times to come. The stories of our ForeParents, the sacred Land, the ever-changing Seasons and our communal generosity of spirit are shared.  Songs, traditional dance, Elders' and Wisdom-Carriers narratives are shared around the sacred Snow Circle. Every person has an opportunity to make their personal Commitment to Self, Others and Earth as Father Winter, the Holly King gathers us in ancient ceremony. We make time to re-Member and re-Claim our history and most ancient heritage from Norse, European, Slavic, Germanic and Celtic traditions.
We celebrate our Ancestors and Native Spirit!   

Glad Jul och Glatt Vintersolstand!  Happy Yuletide and Soulstice Season!

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PROCESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR SNOW!
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WINTER GREEN MAN
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  • WELCOME
  • Beltane Celebration - Mountain Style
  • White Elk - Welcoming Spring
  • SPRING EQUINOX POEM
  • Spring Equinox
  • Valentine's Day-Making Love with Mother Nature
  • Candlemas, Imbolc and Teachings of the Old Ones
  • Imbolc Candlemas Celebration
  • New Year's Blessing
  • Winter Solstice Celebration
  • When Santa was a Woman
  • Priestesses of the Wise Blood/Wild Womb Rituals,
  • Samhain: Ritual and Healing
  • Autumn Equinox and Mabon Traditions and Celebration
  • Vinotok Ceremonies & Autumn Equinox
  • Lughnasad Harvest Rituals
  • Thanksgiving with the Dalai Lama 2012
  • Summer Solstice Celebrations
  • MARRYING THE EARTH
  • Mother Earth, Father Sky Retreat
  • Indigenous Priestess Medicine
  • Ceremonies of Elderhood
  • Earth Blogs
  • SHAMANIC OFFERINGS
  • LABYRINTHS OF LIFE
  • Ritual and Healing - the book
  • Past Blogs
  • Earth Essays
  • Poetry
  • Notes from Goats & Big Kids Farm
  • Exerpts From The Comfort Queen
  • Sheros Journey