The Winter Solstice: Sign of the Sion
The Darkest of Days heralds the Turning of the Light. Star/LAMAT is the Sign of the Scion and the Day of “pure luck.” Whatever we hold in our thoughts as the highest object of our affection will be multiplied to abundance. We’ve been prepared to stand in Faith for a Time such as this.
We know the Sun will carry on. I wonder about the first Human who charted the Sun’s movement, and saw the “sun stand still” for 3 Days. Our thoughts are turned to Spring and a promise that our Darkest Days will soon be over.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice will occur on December 21, 2025, at 15:03 GMT (10:03 a.m. EST). (Source: StarWalk)
Ancient sites aligned with solstices
Stonehenge
Scientists believe that Stonehenge was specifically designed to line up with solstices. If you stand at the center of Stonehenge on the summer solstice, you’ll see the Sun rising exactly behind the monument’s Heel Stone.
The Great Pyramids of Giza
In Egypt, the Great Pyramids at Giza appear aligned with the Sun. When viewed from the Sphinx, the Sun sets precisely between the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre during the summer solstice. What’s more, this spectacle forms an image that replicates the Egyptian hieroglyph Akhet, meaning “horizon.”
The Temple of the Sun
The Temple of the Sun was a sacred precinct built by the Incas to pay tribute and give offerings to the Sun inside Machu Picchu. During the sunrise on the summer solstice, when the very first light rises over the distant mountains, it shines through one of the two windows of the Temple of the Sun and illuminates the ceremonial stone within. The second window was for the Sun’s rays on the winter solstice.
If One Day was special, so is every Day that led to the Time, before and after.
THE TRECENA OF WIND/IK: TRUTH OF THE CREATOR’S WORD
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
7 Star/LAMAT (Cherokee, Rabbit/NOQUI’SEGWA), Destiny Kin 228, Position 8
December 21, 2025, 12/21/2025; Rounds Before: 04/05/2025, 07/19/2024, 11/02/2023
Greetings Beloved Kin,
7 Star / LAMAT
The thoughts, memories, emotions and beliefs that consume our mind control our life and manifest our experience of reality. The Power to Create our own reality is an offering of “pure luck” that the Lord would share the Gift of Creation.
Venus is the Heavenly Sign of the Scion, the 2nd Brightest “Star” to the Sun. Venus is Our prevailing thoughts determine the outcome. “Pure luck” can be good or bad luck. To manifest good luck, we have to focus on what we Love. LAMAT is a “bad luck” Day to focus on what we don’t want.
LAMAT’s totem is the Rabbit, a symbol of Instant Manifestation. We can instantly manifest happiness by making God the Highest Object of our affection. Counting our blessings all the day long is the Choice for our Highest Good. This is a Day to walk in the footsteps of the Christ Spirit. We were born to become a living personification of the Creator’s Light. Tone 7 completes Human’s climb to see “all that is” and “all that is not” God’s Will for our Life. Love is the Law of the Highest Order.
Advent candles are four candles, typically purple and pink, placed in a wreath and lit sequentially each Sunday leading up to Christmas.
Week 1 (Hope): A purple candle (Prophecy Candle) is lit, representing the hope and prophecy of the coming Messiah.
Week 2 (Peace): Another purple candle (Bethlehem Candle) is lit, symbolizing the peace Jesus brings.
Week 3 (Joy): A pink (or rose) candle (Shepherd’s Candle) is lit on Gaudete Sunday, marking the halfway point and a reason for rejoicing.
Week 4 (Love): The final purple candle (Angel’s Candle) is lit, representing God’s love.
Christmas (Christ Candle): A central white candle (Christ candle) is lit on Christmas Eve or Day, symbolizing Christ’s arrival.
The glyph for Star/LAMAT shows the Light of the Scion at the center of the 4 directions. The Scion shines its Light equally in all directions. When we Give Love Back to the Source on behalf of the whole, God will share the Light in perfect Balance and Harmony.
Meaning of Time: The Word of the Christian Calendar
Fourth Sunday of Advent, Lectionary: 10
Reading 1, Isaiah 7:10-14
The LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying:
Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God;
let it be deep as the netherworld, or high as the sky!
But Ahaz answered,
“I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!”
Then Isaiah said:
Listen, O house of David!
Is it not enough for you to weary people,
must you also weary my God?
Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign:
the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and shall name him Emmanuel.
Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6.
R. Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory.
The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R. Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R. Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
R. Let the Lord enter; he is king of glory.
Alleluia, Matthew 1:23
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
God promised there would be Signs in the heavenly vault — Signs to tell the Time, and to mark Sacred Events of Time.
Is it not enough for you to weary people,
must you also weary my God?
Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign:
the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and shall name him Emmanuel.
We wanted a Sign. We’re not supposed to Ask for Signs, but we’re supposed to Receive the Signs that are ordered by God’s Time. We have enough evidence. TODAY IS A SIGN.
Receive it as a Sign and Give Thanks for it, and Honor the Gift of God’s Salvation as the Light that will be born within. When you See a Sign, it’s a Sign to Look for the Signs. Star/LAMAT holds Position 8, the Sign of Abundance and Eternal Life. Love is God’s Message. The Gift for Christmas is the Light to Know the Truth as our own reality. Today we’re called to obey the Greatest Commandment of Love.
Matthew 22:37 KJV
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There’s a Time for everything, and This Time was meant to Love the Lord with all our heart.
love, in lak’ech, i am another you
Debra, 9 Eagle/MEN
I’ve never seen this celebration before.
Matthew 24:36 NIV
The Day and Hour Unknown
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Psalm 91 – Under God’s Wing
PRAYERS FROM THE THIRD WATCH
The next time you’re Called to Pray, refer to the 8 Watches by the Time of Day. You may discover it was the reason for your prayers. Someone somewhere else is praying. We can remember them in Divine Trinity in our Amen.
THE EIGHT WATCHES
Night Watch
First Watch: 6 pm – 9 pm – Contemplation and laying foundations in prayer.
Second Watch: 9 pm – 12 am – Intercessory prayer for protection of ourselves and those around us
Third Watch: 12 am – 3 am – Spiritual warfare
Fourth Watch: 3 am – 6 am – Prophetic prayer because you are commanding your morning with prophetic decrees and declaring God’s word
Day Watch
Fifth Watch: 6 am – 9 am – Petitions. Ask for strength and surrender. Ask for the Holy Spirit to help you before you start your day
Sixth Watch: 9 am – 12 pm – Thanksgiving prayer
Seventh Watch : 12 pm – 3 pm – This is the seventh watch of rest. 7 Biblically represents that. This is a time to seek God in the secret place
Eighth Watch: 3 pm – 6 pm – This is the eight and final watch of the night and a time for prayer for revival and renewal. Symbolically, Christ died at 3 pm.
This trecena is dedicated to Minisa Crumbo Halsey, 1 Wind/IK.
‘Winter Solstice’ excerpts from ‘Spirit Talk’:
Minisa shares the Sacred Fire from the Longhouse, her prayers on behalf of the whole, along with the traditional wisdom of the Winter Solstice on Dawn Woman’s Blog.
Happy Holidays from the Bodewadmi Longhouse! ~ Minisa
THE TRECENA OF WIND/IK: THE WEIGHT OF THE CREATOR’S WORD
Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide Page for the “Tzolk’in Field Guide: A Daily Practice for Personal Discernment.” My gift for the Tzolk’in round offers an overview for each 13-day trecena and the aspects of each day of the Tzolk’in round. The page also offers a link to resources for your own practice of counting the days to conceive your own discernment of the Meaning of Time.
THE SEASON OF ASCENSION: The Wind/IK trecena is in the 4th Season, found in VOLUME 2: Tzolk’in Seasons 3 and 4 (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2020)
The Lexicon Concordance is a resource for looking up the meaning of number in the Bible Codes of the Hebrew gematria. Every letter has a numerical value that expresses the Truth written in the Word. The Tzolk’in Calculator of Ian’s creation is a place to calculate your Mayan birthday, and to find the meaning of Time for other major events.
7 Star/LAMAT (Cherokee, Rabbit/NOQUI’SEGWA) – Day 7 of 13 of the 1 Wind/IK trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Free Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 7: Reflective. Seven stands as a mirror to divide light and dark and to reflect all that is and is not. Seven is associated with the source of creation and the flow of Divine Will. With a keen sense of ethics, Seven establishes purpose to current and future goals.
Star/LAMAT: Star energy is multiplication of all things to abundance. Star has been associated with the fertility of rabbits for its ability to multiply. As each sun in the sky, Star persons shine equally in all directions. This natural tendency of harmony and balance can become compulsion, motivating Star to be too agreeable and too generous, rejected gifts cause fear and resentment. When a Star believes it has been given too much, they are weakened or may even collapse. In this “Black Hole” state, Stars are prone to verbal jousting and arguing to force their point of view on everyone.
A GOOD DAY TO: Ask for abundance in all relations.
Cherokee, Rabbit/NOQUI’SEGWA: Symbol-Venus, The Morning Star cycle of 260 days and Evening Star cycle of another 260 days, inspired the 13 numbers, 20 Day sign Sacred Calendar. Rabbit is the Trickster of Cherokee culture, matching the Coyote in other nations. The personification of Light and New Life, Sunrise, the scion of the Moon-Father of earth children, the Rabbit is fertility, be fruitful and multiply. Represents softness, gentleness and vulnerability. LAMAT– Totem Rabbit. Energies of re-birth, regeneration, ripening, harvest and abundance. This person is overflowing with love energy in all areas of life. Spiritual growth is natural and with ease due to the unconditional love energy that flows.
[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. ~Debra]
