SOLSTICE: Why is the longest night so magickal?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, calls us to brood and turn within. Retreating to the unconscious is a psychic wintering, calling our life force down into our archaic patterns. It can trigger a sorrowing that helps us adjust to inevitable losses, just like the forest that silently drops its foliage without lament. At the nadir of darkness, light is reborn, and each successive day grows longer. Ancient and modern rituals celebrate the light’s triumph over darkness. No matter our background, attunement to light is woven into our bodies, for we are all part of the cosmic progression.
Prepare to discover who interacts with the winter solstice, from ancient to modern cultures, how solstice triggers introspection and transformative mourning, what cultural and psychological themes it embodies, whether solstice is a profound inner experience or merely an astronomical event, which aspects of culture and psychology are connected to the solstice, why winter solstice has such historical reverence, and so much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:04.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:10.0 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological |
| 0:15.0 | perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Lisa Marchiano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a young |
| 0:25.5 | analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on |
| 0:31.2 | Cape Cod. Hello everybody in our podcast episode today we talk about the solstice. This is one of those strange and amazing astronomical events. |
| 0:58.8 | We have the longest night of the year and at this particular moment there is a return of the solar forces. |
| 1:10.0 | Cultures from the beginning of time have noted this particular moment. |
| 1:17.0 | Psychologically we discuss how to rest into the wintering process when our life force goes down under the ground? |
| 1:29.0 | What are the different solstice traditions, some of the myths of the return of light, and perhaps most importantly |
| 1:37.1 | the pregnant darkness of the long night. After that, we interpret an interesting dream about the survival of the |
| 1:46.7 | inner feminine in the face of intense aggression. |
| 1:53.3 | So we're glad to have you here and we look forward to talking with you. |
| 1:58.3 | Well it seems to me and I think to the three of us that the obvious overt meaning of solstice which has |
| 2:08.1 | been celebrated for eons by cultures all around the world is the theme of the return of the light. |
| 2:16.8 | And so it seems very obvious and yet somehow mysterious about what is the big deal about the return of the light. |
| 2:28.1 | And I guess just to sort of put this out at the beginning, we are obviously thinking about the winter solstice in the northern |
| 2:35.2 | hemisphere. Our listeners in Australia and elsewhere down there and in South America will be experiencing something very |
| 2:46.1 | different this time of year they'll experience the return of the light six |
| 2:51.4 | months from now but our freedom of reference, of course, is the Northern Hemisphere. |
| 2:57.0 | So, I thought, let's just think about what the solstice is astronomically. So the Earth |
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