Spiral Of Light Festival

Of beauty and light.

Spiral of light festival.

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 eco institute at pickards mountain is an earth sanctuary and learning community dedicated to healing the human earth relationship. 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. December 2017 at the eco institute we gather on the winter solstice to share warmth.

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 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. Spiral of light winter solstice festival gather with us on the winter solstice to share warmth light and prayers for our world. Festival of lights berlin germany it is an annual event which takes place in october each year.

Winter solstice festival in chapel hill the eco institute at pickards mountain thursday 21. The spiral is often associated with the cycle of rebirth time and seasons and sometimes a spiritual journey. 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. 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. Space is limited and pre registration is required. The spiral walk is a festival that is practiced in most waldorf schools on or near the winter solstice. T he flower of life the kabbalah tree of life the seed of life the sri yantra the endless knot the torus the golden ratio spirals the vesica piscis the harmonics of music with 13 strand dna.

In waldorf schools the elements of festival light food song and story permeate the weekly school rhythm. But the cadence of the year receives its form through festivals. At the festival of spiral of light we look forward to the return of the light in the midst of the darkness.