The Solstice Gateway of 2013 – 12/21/2013

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The Winter/Summer Solstice Gateway will take place this Saturday, December 21. The 12:12 Portal and Full Moon gave us the energy to prepare for this Gateway. Between the Portal and the Gateway, we have taken another step in clearing the old 3D attitudes, beliefs and patterns in preparation for this giant leap forward into the New Earth and New Life. And in these last few days, take a good look at how you’ve shifted in just a week! With the Portal, for those who actively took part in it, we received more Soul Codes and further activated our Soul DNA. This has allowed us to have a heightened sense of Awareness that showed us where we’re holding ourselves back, has merged us more with Soul and has propelled us further in order to step through the Gateway fully ready to embrace Who we, in Truth, have always been, but have denied ourselves of that Sacred Truth.

The Gateway takes us into next year, when it is about merging fully with Soul, being completely clear of the old; duality. Do know, however, that depending on where you are in your clearing, that this is not a deadline, but rather an opportunity to move forward in a huge way. Whether you are ready to fully embrace the New depends on how much of the old you have cleared. No worries; know that wherever you are is perfect.

The Gateway will be open to walk through any time after the Solstice as well, so take stock of how ready and clear you are. At the least, the Gateway will put you in touch with what still needs to transform. You may still be feeling the physical manifestations of transformation. If you still are hanging on to the old, you may be experiencing pain. This pain is the resistance to change. You may still have expectations that the New looks and feels a certain way, you may hold judgment for others who you perceive are different from you, you may still be blaming circumstances and others for your inability to move forward, you may feel as though the Earth and Her lifeforms need saving (they don’t, for everything is in Divine Order and is in a state of transformation), you may still feel limited, victimized and cling to “the way it’s always been done;” whatever you notice and perceive as separate is where you are encouraged to let go.

Can you allow things to be just the way they are without the compulsion to rescue, control or fix? Can you be with others who vibrate differently than you and still maintain your own Peace and vibration? Can you have Compassion for all others without telling them how to feel better? Do you still think others can heal or help you, because you don’t believe you can do it yourself? Have you let go of attaching yourself to anything or anyone outside yourself who/that you think you need? (This doesn’t mean you push people away; it means you accept others, love them and honor where they are.)
As you let go, you open yourself up more to receive refined and lighter energies, thereby helping you shift into the New. Can you imagine how free you will feel without the judgments, attachments and expectations you have for anyone or anything outside yourself? Imagination is as real as what you experience in life on Earth. And what you can imagine, you are that. Eventually imagination becomes form.

Because we are holding so much more Light, we are seeing what is emerging from our subconscious. What a gift this is, for then we can release them, if you choose, and replace with Soul Essences (Joy, Love, Peace, Abundance, etc.). Thus New Life is created. While it is essential to release the old, it is best not to dwell there, for then you get caught up in self-pity and nothing changes. So place attention more on what you are creating; not on what you perceive you are without.

We are being called to step into our mastery; to be sovereign (knowing truly the glory of Who we are in Divine Truth and acting from this Truth). As we step into our mastery, and this Gateway helps us do just that, we merge with our I AM/Higher Self/Soul/Source. We allow our emotions to transform into unemotional Agape Love. We are the Compassionate Observers, in non-judgment or attachment to right/wrong, light/dark, this/that, us/them, etc. and we see and understand and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is for our highest evolution.

As we step into our mastery, we also see that each one is serving Divine Will in their own unique way. We see our lives as a perfect expression of Divinity and every thought and feeling and act is Love. Folks that have been doing the work of letting go and facing difficult choices as they arrive, may receive new purposes or an expansion of the purpose they are currently expressing. The masters (us) will feel fulfilled, will have no expectations and will accept What Is without “wishing it was different,” without judgment or comparison and are open to things shifting moment to moment. As you trust your guidance and honor your Path, you rise in Self-Love. And from this place you give of yourself in a way that you have never been able to give before. You give without expectation of receiving anything back, for that is conditional. Unconditional Love is Source Love and so as we let go of how our gift is received, we give more and in the giving we receive more.

We, through this Gateway, have our New Blueprint (far more expansive than our Original Blueprint) more anchored and we empower it throughout next year. This New Blueprint enhances our mastery, our mission and gives more understanding to being multidimensional. We are being asked to step up into our sovereignty and mastery.

Through this Solstice Gateway, we have a powerful opportunity to be Soul-driven. It will affect us on all levels. It marks the end of the old and the beginning of the New. Here is a suggestion for stepping through the Gateway into the New:

Create a Ceremony. This may include candles, crystals, your Guides and Angels…whatever you’re guided to do. You might create a circle of crystals and candles (the Winter Solstice is actually the “return of the light”) and sit in the middle. Bring in the Light to infuse you and your circle. Close your eyes. Before you see the Gateway. It will appear in a way that is perfect for you. When you are ready, step through. Notice who is on the other side greeting, loving and congratulating you. Make a commitment to be all that you are. You may be handed a scroll that is your commitment to being an ascended master. Sign it and then allow your experience to take you to wherever you’re guided. When you are done, give thanks and write down your experience, which anchors the energies.

See you on the other side!

~ Kara

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Winter Solstice 2013: December 21 is the shortest day Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 09:55

Winter Solstice 2013: 

December 21 is the 

shortest day

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 09:5

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New Delhi: The official onset of winter has begun as the winter solstice this year falls on December 21 thereby making it the shortest day and the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. 

On a solstice the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The solstice happens when the sun reaches a point where it will appear to shine farthest to the south of the equator, over the Tropic of Capricorn. 

The reason behind the occurrence of winter solstice is that the Earth does not spin upright, but on an axis 23.5 degrees from the vertical. 

In the southern hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs on June 21 or 22 when the sun is placed in the farthest north. 

In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night, but the sun continues to rise later for some days afterwards. 

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Winter solstice 2013: Were you really waiting until now for winter? Winter solstice 2013: The sun is lowest, the night is longest, the (Northern Hemisphere) winter solstice is here, and so is winter. Unless, of course, you take your cues from the weather, and you're three weeks in already. By Mark Guarino, Staff writer DECEMBER 21, 2013

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Winter solstice 2013: Were you really waiting until now for winter?

Winter solstice 2013: The sun is lowest, the night is longest, the (Northern Hemisphere) winter solstice is here, and so is winter. Unless, of course, you take your cues from the weather, and you're three weeks in already.

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CHICAGO — Winter begins Saturday with the winter solstice. Or does it?

It depends on whom you ask.

Meteorological and astronomical winter seasons run along different time schedules. The former pegs winter as having been already under way; it started Dec. 1 and will run through Feb. 28. The latter defines winter as starting with the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21 this year, and continuing through the vernal equinox on March 20.

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The difference is temperature: Meteorological winter is defined as the three coldest months of the year, December through February, during which theNational Weather Service does its official winter record-keeping. However, astronomical winter is more generally accepted by the public and is based on the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun.

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Astronomical winter watchers will note that the US will receive just 9 hours, 32 minutes of daylight Saturday, which occurs at 12:11 p.m. EST. The solstice, which this year occurs at 12:11 p.m. EST on Dec. 21, is not a fixed date; in 2015, it will take place Dec. 22.

Those in the north made weary by a succession of cold, dark days have reason for hope: The days will appear longer each day through June 20, the summer solstice, as the midday sun creeps higher above the horizon each day.

The solstice is derived from the Latin words “sol” (sun) and “sisto” (stop). With the approach of the winter solstice, the sun’s highest point in the sky every day sinks lower and lower toward the southern horizon. On Saturday the sun’s retreat halts, after which it will appear to start moving northward. The reverse will take place on June 21, when the day will be longest.

Another difference between both categories for winter is that the winter solstice is not necessarily the coldest day of the year, nor does it even fall in the coldest month of the season. According to the National Weather Service, there is a delay between the shortest day and the coldest average temperatures, especially for most of the mid- and high-latitude locations.

While most winter watchers may cheer for the longer days, no place will celebrate more than Stonehenge in England, which hosts an annual celebration of the date. Many believe the Neolithic monuments were built as an astronomical observatory used to track the sun’s movement.

This week, a $44 million visitor center opened its doors to provide visitors a virtual “Stonehenge experience” before entering the monument area, a UNESCO World Heritage site, by foot or via shuttle.

Of course, it’s notable that not every part of the globe will experience a shortened day Saturday. While the Northern Hemisphere will see the sun rise and fall in about 9 hours, the South Pole will receive more sunlight than any other location on Earth. There, temperatures are frigid, however: about -10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service.

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Triqui, shoeless Mexican team, plays basketball exhibitions in LA

Triqui kids basketball team, from the mountainous region of Oaxaca, Mexico, who have been called the "Barefoot Champions of the Mountain," are known throughout their native Mexico for playing basketball without shoes took on the local Top Flight boys team at the Pacific Boys Lodge in Woodland Hills, CA Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Before the game teams pose together for photos. (Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News) 

By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News

POSTED: 12/19/13, 7:49 PM PST | UPDATED: 1 HR AGO

Triqui kids basketball team, from the mountainous region of Oaxaca, Mexico, who have been called the "Barefoot Champions of the Mountain," are known throughout their native Mexico for playing basketball without shoes took on the local Top Flight boys team at the Pacific Boys Lodge in Woodland Hills, CA Wednesday, December 18, 2013. The Triqui team defeated Top Flight 31-29. (Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News) 

WOODLAND HILLS >> The boys had arrived from their remote Mexican pueblos the day before and had gotten about four hours of sleep but the “barefoot champions of the mountains” had come to do what they love the most: play basketball.

And they didn’t disappoint. In their first visit to Los Angeles, the children from the indigenous Triqui region of Oaxaca played two thrilling exhibition games Wednesday against their U.S. counterparts in the Woodland Hills-based Top Flight community basketball club.

Although many members of the Triqui kids basketball team, which is famous in Mexico and other Latin countries, have received donated athletic shoes to participate in tournaments, they prefer to practice and often play barefoot to avoid ruining their shoes and because they have grown accustomed to training without them.

With several players shoeless and the electrified crowd chanting “Triqui, Triqui” and “Si, se puede!” a team of the Oaxacan boys ages 10 and 11 defeated a Top Flight team by a score of 31-29 in their first scrimmage at the Pacific Lodge Boys Home gymnasium.

“They come out here with no shoes and play their hearts out,” Top Flight player Derek Morhar of Calabasas said shortly after the game. “They’re really good.”

Morhar, a sixth-grader at Alice C. Stelle Middle School, said he learned from his Mexican counterparts, most of whom were significantly shorter than their opponents, how “to play with heart” since they fought again and again for control of the ball.

“If we got the rebound,” he said, “they would slap it out of our hands.”

But Morhar, who aspires to play college and pro basketball, said he also enjoyed hearing about life in their Mexican villages, how they are so poor they often eat just one meal a day and play basketball barefoot, which he found “really inspiring.”

Speaking his indigenous language, Triqui player Melquiades Ramirez de Jesus, 10, said through an interpreter before the game that they appreciated everyone coming out to see them play.

“For them, this is a way to get out (of the country) and they’re amazed by all the things that they have here because in their town, they don’t have them,” said Triqui coach Guillermo Merino Ramirez in Spanish. “For them, it’s a big deal to be here and a dream come true.”

The Triquis, who are on tour in the U.S. through Dec. 29, are one of many indigenous groups that inhabit the mountainous region of Oaxaca, where so many young men and adults have crossed the U.S. border to work that many of its communities are left mainly with children and seniors.

The Triqui kids basketball team is famous in Mexico for discipline and for fighting for what they want, said Gerardo Vasquez, president of the Federation of Oaxacan Communities and Indigenous Organizations in California, which sponsored the Mexican children’s trip to Los Angeles.

“Poverty doesn’t stop them,” he said in Spanish. “With or without shoes, they are always fighting to move forward. This is what inspires us.”

The kids, who won an international basketball championship in Argentina in October, will be playing additional exhibition games and attending a Lakers game during their visit. There will also be a large Christmas party in their honor at the federation’s headquarters downtown.

Top Flight player Mason Oppenheim, 12, who played the first game said it was “really tough” to play the boys from Mexico since they played very aggressively.

But “it felt really good to give them gifts,” he said, “because I know I’m really lucky to have all the things I have.”

The next match by the Triqui team is Friday 10 a.m. at Toberman Park, 1725 Toberman St., in the Pico-Union district, where they will play one match against adult members of the media and another against a team of young local immigrants.

On Saturday, they will play against teams affiliated with the Federation of Oaxacan Communities and Indigenous Organizations in California at 10 a.m. in Toberman Park. The second part of that tournament will take place at 10 a.m. on Dec. 28.

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"Posadas", Nativity Scene and "Acostada del Niño Dios" are three of the Mexican Christmas traditions. There are also "Pastorelas", "Levantada del Niño Dios", "Día de Reyes" (Wise Men celebration) and "Día de La Candelaria" (Candle Mass Day).

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Nativity Scene: Belén also called Nacimiento is set up usually on Dec 16th. It has representations of traditional Mexican scenes combined with scenes of how the artisans imagine was Bethlehem in the time when Jesus was born. The center of the Nacimiento are the figures of Joseph and Mary with Baby Jesus. Important part of a Nativity Scene are the Bethlehem Star, the 3 wise men (Los 3 Reyes Magos), the angel, a cow, a ox, shephers and the devil (diablo).

Posadas : is a 9 days celebration (Novenario de Las Posadas) that symbolizes the journey of Joseph and Mary to Belen and the problems they had to endure to find a place to stay (posada).

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 Posadas traditionally begin on Dec 16th when the Nativity Scene is set up in most of the houses in Mexico, and the last posada is on Dec. 24th. In a traditional Posada the Rosary is prayed and images of Joseph and Mary are taken on a pilgrimage by the "peregrinos" (pilgrims) carrying candles and "bengala" lights and singing the traditional songs looking for a place to stay where Jesus will be born.During the pilgrimage Joseph and Mary are rejected until they are finally allowed in a place where Jesus will be born. Traditional songs are song by the participants, a piñata with seven cones (that represent the seven capital sins) full of candies, oranges, mandarins and sugar cane pieces  is broken and bags with colaciones (special type of candy for posadas), cookies, oranges, mandarins, sugar cane pieces and peanuts (bolos) are given to all the attendants.
Posadas can be organized by families, friends, neighbors, churches, companies, etc. The following is the program of the Posadas organized by the Church in Barra de Navidad where everybody is welcome to participate.

Traditional Mexican Posadas in Barra de Navidad barrio "San Felipe de Jesus", Jalisco, Mexico

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Acostada del Niño Dios - On Dec. 24th it is also very common the celebration of "Acostada del NiñoDios" (bedding of Baby Jesus) where the image of Baby Jesus is put in the Nativity Scene on a special ceremony with prays and songs. The image of Baby Jesus is cleaned with perfume by the "godparents" (usually children are invited as Baby Jesus godparents), and putting to "sleep" with prays and songs.  The image of Baby Jesus is putting on a tray with candies and chocolates, the tray is passed to everyone to kiss Baby Jesus and take a candy from the tray. Then Baby Jesus is  put on the Nativity Scene usually until Candlemas day on February 2nd. when the "Levantada del Niño Dios" is celebrated.

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By Neal Erickson

Posada in Spanish can mean inn, lodging, shelter, boardinghouse, home, etc., depending on 
context. Traditionally in old Mexico, when people were traveling, at the end of the day they 
would seek a place to spend the night out of the elements. When no inns or hotels were 
available, travelers would seek “posada” in private homes, asking for their hospitality and 
kindness and sometimes receiving a meal with the resident family. Often they simply slept 
on the floor. As the population became converted to the Roman Catholic faith by the Spanish 
Conquistadors, a tradition developed based upon the Biblical story of Joseph and Mary 
arriving in Bethlehem on the eve of Jesus Christ’s birth.

In neighborhoods (barrios, colonias) across Mexico, beginning on the 16th of December 
you will find groups of friends participating in the tradition of “La Posada”. Each night for 
nine nights, a different home is selected as the “Inn” for that evening, and the other participating 
members of this group gather at another place and proceed through the streets to the 
selected “Inn”. Sometimes they are carrying images of Joseph and Mary, and other times 
they have two of their members dressed in costumes representing them. The hosts have 
prepared their home for that night’s gathering, usually making tamales, ponche, atole and 
other food and refreshments for the participants, a piñata with candy for the children, and 
other festive decorations.

The “travelers,” representing Joseph and Mary seeking a place to spend the night, begin to 
sing outside the chosen host home. The traditional song has twelve verses that are sung back 
and forth in a question/response format between the people outside and the people inside, 
plus a final verse they all sing together as the travelers are finally invited into the host home. 
The English translation is available online here: 
 http://gomexico.about.com/od/christmas/a/posada-song_2.htm  
and the Spanish lyrics are also available through a link on that page.

It is said that the nine nights of Posada represent the nine months that Mary carried 
Jesus in her womb, and also represents the nine days she and Joseph traveled to get 
to Bethlehem. The final night of Las Posadas is Christmas Eve, referred to in Mexico as 
Nochebuena.