Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas: 

Merry Christmas, from a non-Christian to all my Christian friends, to people of all faith actually, and atheist and other non-believers as well. It's a holiday for everyone. Or we can make it so. December 25th is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, there is some historical debate on the actual date, but it doesn't really matter, this seems to be a holy time of year, auspicious for many traditions dating back through time, most importantly for me being the winter solstice and soon after the arrival of a greater length of light to fill my days. 

it's no coincidence that Jesus might share this birth date with many other gods, with Dionysus deity of wine and fertile earth, a vegetal god invoking ecstatic dance in worship to our own divine nature. I love celebrating the most earth-based gods, wild and wholly in their ways. This is why I believe Christmas is such a wonderful holiday, signifying that Christ was born in a manger, animals nearby, a wilderness of land stretching in all directions, an auspicious birth in humble surroundings. 

Jesus is of the land. 

earth based.

divine by his very nature. 

when I wish Merry Christmas to another it's with this light in mind, that there is a true divinity within each of us ready to be born, a returning to our earth-self, being both humble and holy at once. The word Christ is a title, a bestowing, and it's ours to earn, or more truly, being ours to recognize within ourselves. There is a consciousness born this day, light filled, earth-based, a vegetal god that returns us to our truest nature, calling only for the worship of our deepest, most holiest self. 

with this Christ born...

it's indeed a Merry Christmas.

and may peace of earth soon follow. 

~

Love, Eric