Spiral Of Light Festival

December 2017 at the eco institute we gather on the winter solstice to share warmth.

Spiral of light festival. Then as quiet music plays each child in turn takes an candle already placed in an apple into the center of that. Winter solstice festival in chapel hill the eco institute at pickards mountain thursday 21. Of beauty and light. In connection with ancient earth honoring cultures who celebrated the winter solstice we invite you to join us for this beautiful ritual which symbolizes finding the light in the darkness together.

Our educational farm and regenerative sustainability learning center reside on 38 acres in the piedmont of north carolina eight miles west of chapel hill. Space is limited and pre registration is required. Annual festivals of nature and humanity are celebrated in ways that foster wonder reverence and gratitude and which nourish the future capacity to respond to be. At the festival of spiral of light we look forward to the return of the light in the midst of the darkness.

Spiral of light winter solstice festival gather with us on the winter solstice to share warmth light and prayers for our world. In waldorf schools for many years children of all backgrounds have participated in the month long observance of the rebirth of the light through songs stories craft activities and the winter spiral festival. The tradition honors the seasonal cycle of light and darkness by arranging a simple spiral labyrinth walk. During the spiral of light festival we sit in silence in a darkened room listening.

To soft songs by a single as a single candle is lit in the center of a spiral of evergreen boughs a symbol of life amidst the dead of winter. Festival of lights berlin germany it is an annual event which takes place in october each year. The children and their families enter the school quietly and gather inside the foyer upstairs until a doorkeeper brings you down to the great hall which has been darkened. In waldorf schools the elements of festival light food song and story permeate the weekly school rhythm.

The spiral walk is a festival that is practiced in most waldorf schools on or near the winter solstice. It was started in 2004 and the latest entrant to the list of festivals of light. The eco institute at pickards mountain is an earth sanctuary and learning community dedicated to healing the human earth relationship.