{"id":12213,"date":"2025-12-04T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:05:37","slug":"youre-invited-to-our-5th-annual-winter-solstice-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/youre-invited-to-our-5th-annual-winter-solstice-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Invited to Our 5th Annual Winter Solstice Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-Solstice-2025-1920-x-1080-px-1-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blanketed in Beauty: A Winter Solstice Ritual Honoring the Gifts of the Darkness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunday, December 21st<br>4pm PT \/ 7pm ET<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter solstice offers an opportunity to pause at a pinnacle, honoring Earth\u2019s longest night. For many moons leading up to this darkest moment, trees have been baring themselves of their leaves, offering a blanket to the Earth below. How can we as humans enter into the energy of this sacred time, using it as medicine, and aligning with the season\u2019s offerings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join the UU Ministry for Earth and some very special guests on the evening of Sunday, December 21st for our 5th annual winter solstice service that honors the energy and teachings of Earth\u2019s darkest time of year, which encourages us to rest and seek nourishment in the sacred dark.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"lts_button lts_button_sc lts_button_default lt_rounded lt_flat  \"  style=\"background:#0b1654;color:#ffffff;border-color:#0b1654;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/2025-winter-solstice\/\"   >Click here to learn more and register.<\/a>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanketed in Beauty: A Winter Solstice Ritual Honoring the Gifts of the Darkness Sunday, December 21st4pm PT \/ 7pm ET Winter solstice offers an opportunity to pause at a pinnacle, honoring Earth\u2019s longest night. For many moons leading up to this darkest moment, trees have been baring themselves of their leaves, offering a blanket to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}