In darkness and stillness, we turn and open
Partial playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVgf7tuIASU36UsRTX4b5whfSEsi3nYyU
Individual links to video / audio are below with lyrics to each song
Song List:
- Winter Solstice Chant Phillip Palmer, arr. Jeanne Gagne
- Silent Night, Solstice Night Ellen Reed / Franz Xaver Gruber
- Slow it All Down Wendy Luella Perkins
- May Your Life Be As a Song Jim Scott / Russian trad.
- Bless the Turning Gretchen Sleicher
- Light Is Returning Charlie Murphy
- Let it Blow Through Maggie Wheeler
- Oh To Be Alive Gretchen Sleicher
- May This Be an Opening Gretchen Sleicher
- Don’t Go Back to Sleep Anon
- Now the Sun is Rising Up Sammy Hurden
- Little Piece of Sun Jes Karper
- Turning of the World Ruth Pelham
Winter Solstice Chant Phillip Palmer, arr. Jeanne Gagne YouTube: Winter Solstice Chant
Children of the Earth—
we have come to sing to each other,
Sister to Brother,
songs of our Mother Earth.
Children of the Earth—
Autumn soon will breathe her last breath and
quick will her death bear
witness to Winter’s Birth.
Children of the Earth—
can you feel the air getting cold as
darkness takes hold and
sleep covers Mother Earth?
Children of the Earth—
we have come to sit in the darkness,
breathe in the silence,
think of our Mother Earth.
Silent Night, Solstice Night Ellen Reed / Franz Xaver Gruber
YouTube: Silent Night Solstice Night
Silent night, Solstice Night
All is calm, gone is light
Nature slumbers in forest and glen
Till in Springtime She wakens again
Sleeping spirits grow strong!
Sleeping spirits grow strong!
Silent night, Solstice Night
Silver moon shining bright
Snowfall blankets the slumbering Earth
Yule fires welcome the Sun’s rebirth
Hark, the Light is reborn!
Hark, the Light is reborn!
Silent night, Solstice Night
Quiet rest till the Light
Turning ever the rolling Wheel
Brings the winter to comfort and heal
Rest your spirit in peace!
Rest your spirit in peace!
Slow it All Down Wendy Luella Perkins https://www.wendyluellaperkins.com/music.php
Slow it all down,
take it all in,
let it all go,
open open. Song available for purchase on CD Baby and iTunes
May Your Life Be As a Song Jim Scott / Russian trad.
YouTube: May Your Life Be As A Song
May your life be as a song,
Resounding with the dawn
to sing awake the light.
And softly serenade the stars,
Ever dancing circles in the night.
Bless the Turning Gretchen Sleicher
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/originals/bless-the-turning/
In the nest of solitude
Dreams burn bright
And the darkness that is home as well
Feeds us through the night
Blessed be the winter chill
And the time of grieving
Bless the turning toward the light
And the time of conceiving
Are we midwives attending birth
Or hospice for the dying?
In our brief time on the earth
A net of love we’re tying
Blessed be….
Oh, the path we’re on, we cannot know
What it’s bringing
As we walk alone or hand in hand
We bless it with our singing
Blessed be…. 2x
May This Be an Opening – Gretchen Sleicher
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/honoring-our-pain-for-the-world/may-this-be-an-opening/
May this be an opening
May I be an opening
May we be an opening
An opening to love
v.2: An opening of love
v.3: An opening for love
Let it Blow Through Maggie Wheeler youtube Let it Blow Through
Let it blow through, let it blow through.
Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.
Hard times come, and hard times go, let it blow through.
Open up the windows of your soul, and let it blow through.
Light Is Returning Charlie Murphy youtube: Light is Returning
Light is returning
Even though this is the darkest hour
No one can hold—– back the dawn
Let’s keep it burning
Let’s keep the flame of the hope alive
Make safe our journey through the storm
One planet is turning
Circle on her path around the sun
Earth mother is calling her children home
Oh To Be Alive Gretchen Sleicher
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/songs-of-gratitude/oh-to-be-alive/
Oh, to be alive amid the Great Turning!
Oh, to be alive in this time of change.
Embrace the changes!
Open new ways for life to sustain
Don’t Go Back to Sleep Anon, Rumi-inspired
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/dont-go-back-to-sleep/
Don’t, don’t go back to sleep
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
The door is round and open
Where the two worlds meet
Step across the threshold
Don’t go back to sleep
Don’t go back to sleep
Don’t go back to sleep
Now the Sun is Rising Up Sammy Hurden youtube Now the Sun is Rising Up
Hoohm way mm wa (4x)
Ooh may oo nay oo maya 4x
OOH, OOH OOH, OOH
Now the sun is rising up
I feel the warmth of it
in my HEART & in my SOUL
Little Piece of Sun Jes Karper youtube: Little Piece of Sun
Come come come little little little piece of sun
Sing the song of where you’re traveling from
Your glow is warm, your colors are so bright
Come come come little little little piece of light.
Turning of the World Ruth Pelham youtube: Turning of the World
Let us sing this song for the turning of the world
That we may turn as one
With every voice, with every song, we will move this world along
And our lives will feel the echo of our turning
With every voice, with every song, we will move this world along (2x)
And our lives will feel the echo of our turning
for turning, turn, substitute
2) loving, love
3) healing/heal
4) dreaming/dream