🎄✨ A Winter Solstice Gathering: The Beauty of Stillness and the Great Mother ✨🎄
📅 December 21st, 2025
📍 In the Great Room at H.I.C.
🕕 4:30 PM
👉 Admission: LOVE DONATIONS ACCEPTED
👉 Hosted by: The Hope Interfaith Center (H.I.C.)
Amidst the flurry of holiday plans, rolls of wrapping paper, and the inevitable tangle of twinkling lights, take a moment to pause. This evening gathering invites you to step out of the seasonal rush and into a space of peace, reflection, and renewal.
As the world outside sparkles and hums, we’ll come together to honor the quiet turning of the wheel - the longest night of the year - and to celebrate the Great Mother and the beautiful darkness that nurtures balance and rebirth.
This is not a night for hustle, but for stillness. It’s an evening to feel the comforting rhythm of the earth beneath your feet, to breathe deeply, and to remember that even in darkness, there is deep and sacred beauty. Through poetry, meditation, and shared presence, we’ll explore how the season of stillness reconnects us to our bodies, our breath, and the cycles of the natural world.
✨ What to Bring: Your open heart, your favorite cozy wrap or shawl, and perhaps a candle or token that symbolizes renewal for you. Together, we’ll create a warm and nurturing circle to welcome the returning light.
About the Presenters:
🌿 Megan Welti is an artist, poet, synesthete, Reiki Master Teacher, and lifelong rock hound. A wife and mother of four, Megan recently returned to the area after many years away. For over 35 years, she has walked a nature-based, goddess-centered spiritual path, weaving creativity, healing, and reverence for the Earth into all she does.
🌙 Alorah (Welti) Hill is a feminist, synesthete, prize-winning artist, poet, and Goddess-worshipping Pagan. Her poetry has been published more than 25 times in both print and online journals. When she’s not writing, she works at an ABA therapy clinic supporting autistic children and at a local quilt shop. She lives with her wonderful husband in Mankato, MN, where she continues to create art and poetry that celebrates spirit, love, and connection.
Following this Event will be our 2nd Annual Cookie Exchange and a Vintage Holiday Collection Silent Auction @ 6:00 PM. We will have joyful music, prizes, and fun!
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