Winter Solstice: From the longest night of winter, when pagans celebrated death, reflection, and rebirth, for millennia; until of course, they were persecuted, their festivals stolen, and their rituals repackaged into the plastic, capitalistic holiday we celebrate today.
#wintersolstice #yule

My favorite artist and person, @rkelders.bsky.social is being harassed by other social media outlets for her nude art based on pagan gods and goddesses. I hope she can find a following here, as she depends on her earnings as an artist to raise her two daughters and, because she is terribly talented.

Benjamin's fragment from "On the Concept of History" reminds us of the chain of events which keep piling wreckage...what we call progress is this storm.