May I wish all New Moon Enterprise customers old and new a very blessed Yule Eve. The solstice sun will rise tomorrow and may it warm and light your way through the dark winter days.

There is always light and shade, happiness and sadness and in many way the solstices echo this. The days will slowly lengthen but there is a long way to go before new life and the earth wakes up again. All the carols and Christmas songs sing of hope and celebrations, and this is right, but there is often mixed emotions experienced at this time. Christians celebrate the birth of a babe, death has no place at this feast, but light and shade in all things, and this was brought vividly home to me today, with the news of the death of the partner of my closest friend. The wheel of life turns with the seasons.

Yule blessings