Pagan Celebration Marks Return Of Light

Seventeen people stood around the center of the outdoor labyrinth at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Frederick Tuesday, ready to welcome the coming of the winter solstice.

A hazy moon hung in the sky and distant lights from Frederick city lightened the darkness of the labyrinth — a center circle marked in the ground with nine concentric rings circling it.

Sea Raven, a Unitarian Universalist pagan, led the group in meditation as they walked around the labyrinth and sang to the beat of a drum:

‘‘Oh the moon and the stars, guide our footsteps on our way; soon the sun returns and light will be reborn.” Full Story

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