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GreenSpirit 2025 Summer Magazine

Green Living in Changing Times

The magazine is free if you join GreenSpirit. To find out more about the magazine and buy your individual copy, tap here.

Article from the 25th-Year Anniversary issue: History of GreenSpirit Magazine.

Advent (zoom)

Monday 1st December 2025 19:00 – 20:15

The beauty of the Advent season could easily be lost as, for many, it is the four-week, headlong rush to Christmas — a crazy-busy season of to-do lists…

Many keep the December darkness at arm’s length, but humanity has a deep, inner congruence with the rhythms of the natural world, and the symbolism of Advent is beautifully aligned to the natural season leading to the Winter Solstice — the play of light and dark, the waiting, even a kind of deep and prophetic longing. Celebrate the quiet pull of the dark and light with us. Bring a candle, readings, songs, or something to share with us all.

Click here for the November newsletter (scroll down) for the zoom link.

New Release in the GreenSpirit Book Series

Edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain, Ian Mowll & Santoshan/Stephen Wollaston

Spiritually Green includes a selection of articles and interviews from GreenSpirit Magazine, spanning a period of twelve years. It presents a diversity of green wisdom and Earth-centred practices, such as the importance of stories, eco-therapeutic work in green relationships, herbal medicine, rewilding, problems of consumerism, and much more.

Spiritually Green is the fifteenth title in the GreenSpirit Book Series, which is a low-cost series on Earth-centred spirituality, sold at production price only.

Tap here for full details of the book and how to buy it. Free eBook downloads are available in different formats for members of GreenSpirit in the Members Area (password protected).

Winter Solstice Celebration (zoom)

Monday 22nd December 2025 19:00

December is a holy month. The dark, silky silence that descends so early each day speaks of reverence. The promise that December holds — no matter how dark, how cold, how empty it can get, is that the light is coming back. We embrace the darkness and are eager for the coming Solstice when the whole world is “standing still” and holds its breath, waiting for light to be reborn. This sense of stopping, of the (temporary) deadness of the natural world, is central to our understanding of midwinter, and is fed every year, by our experience of what’s (not) going on outside in the natural world.

Do bring readings, songs, stories and maybe a candle to light together.

See the November newsletter for full details (scroll down).

GreenSpirit Calendar 2026: Living with the Seasons

The 2026 GreenSpirit Calendar: Living with the Seasons has beautiful photographs and inspirational quotations for each month.

It is free for GreenSpirit members. For each month, the calendar has a landscape A4 page with a picture and quote. And below it, another landscape A4 page with a box for each day of the month (the weeks start on a Monday) to write your own notes. The lunar cycle is included as well as UK holiday dates and Celtic festival dates.

To find out more and to buy the calendar in the UK, go to:

www.greenspirit.org.uk/community-calendar/

Video: Winter Solstice

~ the Shortest Day – a Celtic Celebration

Enter into the experience and meaning of Winter Solstice through this short, meditative video. The Winter Solstice is celebrated by many people all around the world and is one of the eight Celtic festivals in the year. It happens around the 21st of December when the night is longest and the day is shortest. It signifies many things including the coming of the light.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rXAdOsLljQ

This is part of a series exploring the months and Celtic celebrations throughout the year.

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See a page with all of the celebrations through the year here:

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As he says: “The more I am ‘out in nature’, the more I realize that I am not just in nature. I AM nature. I am the biosphere evolving through me and within me. To spend any time ‘out there’ is to awaken to the reality that we are nature evolving”.

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth

Around 10 years ago, despairing environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth left his urban home and moved to the west coast of Ireland. He wanted to escape the excesses of what he called ‘The Machine’, and also to understand it. His new book, Against The Machine’, explains what he means by that term. It is an understanding that goes deep into the malaise of modern humankind, which of course includes our ecological crisis.