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Free Online Event · Winter Solstice Ritual with Selena Madden, PhD on December 21
7pm ET (NYC time)
Sunday, December 21, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
Winter Solstice, around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, is the shortest day of the year — the moment when the sun’s daily arc in the sky is at its lowest. After the solstice, the daylight begins to increase. Because it’s the deepest point of night, many traditions view the Winter Solstice as a time of stillness, introspection, gestation, and mystery. It is also a turning point — the sun’s “rebirth” after the longest, darkest night.
In the mythic framework, the Goddess gives birth to the God, who is also the Sun, returning to the world after his descent at Samhain (Oct 31-Nov 1). The God is reborn as light, while the Goddess rests after her labor, embodying both mystery and renewal. This is a time of stillness and sacred turning, when the cycle of death and rebirth is most evident.
Our ritual will include simple symbolic actions — writing, releasing, candle-lighting, and mythic invocation —accessible to both seasoned practitioners and those new to ritual work.
Our leader, mythologist and ritualist Dr. Selena Madden, suggests you bring:
• Central candle: pillar, tealight, or votive. Round shape represents the womb
• Red taper candle to represent the warmth of flame and the masculine energy
• Earth: stone, pinecone, rosemary, branch, etc.
• Air: feather, incense, wand
• Water: bowl and/or seashell
• Charcoal disc to burn cinnamon
• Journal and pen
• Warm beverage: tea, mulled cider
Dr. Selena Madden is a mythologist, educator, and ritualist whose work dwells in the liminal spaces where psyche, symbol, and the sacred converge. She holds a PhD in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, with expertise in archetypes, goddess traditions, and ritual symbolism.
A lifelong practitioner of witchcraft and diverse spiritual traditions since her teens, Selena blends scholarly insight with embodied ritual practice. Her offerings invite participants into direct relationship with archetypal energies through seasonal rites, mythic storytelling, and symbolic enactment. She teaches ritual as a living language—one that speaks to the soul, honors the unseen, and reconnects us to the rhythms of the natural world.
7pm ET (NYC time)
Sunday, December 21, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
Winter Solstice, around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, is the shortest day of the year — the moment when the sun’s daily arc in the sky is at its lowest. After the solstice, the daylight begins to increase. Because it’s the deepest point of night, many traditions view the Winter Solstice as a time of stillness, introspection, gestation, and mystery. It is also a turning point — the sun’s “rebirth” after the longest, darkest night.
In the mythic framework, the Goddess gives birth to the God, who is also the Sun, returning to the world after his descent at Samhain (Oct 31-Nov 1). The God is reborn as light, while the Goddess rests after her labor, embodying both mystery and renewal. This is a time of stillness and sacred turning, when the cycle of death and rebirth is most evident.
Our ritual will include simple symbolic actions — writing, releasing, candle-lighting, and mythic invocation —accessible to both seasoned practitioners and those new to ritual work.
Our leader, mythologist and ritualist Dr. Selena Madden, suggests you bring:
• Central candle: pillar, tealight, or votive. Round shape represents the womb
• Red taper candle to represent the warmth of flame and the masculine energy
• Earth: stone, pinecone, rosemary, branch, etc.
• Air: feather, incense, wand
• Water: bowl and/or seashell
• Charcoal disc to burn cinnamon
• Journal and pen
• Warm beverage: tea, mulled cider
Dr. Selena Madden is a mythologist, educator, and ritualist whose work dwells in the liminal spaces where psyche, symbol, and the sacred converge. She holds a PhD in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, with expertise in archetypes, goddess traditions, and ritual symbolism.
A lifelong practitioner of witchcraft and diverse spiritual traditions since her teens, Selena blends scholarly insight with embodied ritual practice. Her offerings invite participants into direct relationship with archetypal energies through seasonal rites, mythic storytelling, and symbolic enactment. She teaches ritual as a living language—one that speaks to the soul, honors the unseen, and reconnects us to the rhythms of the natural world.