With Thanksgiving under our (maybe slightly tighter) belts, we turn our gaze toward winter festivities. But during this time, in the natural world, of increasing darkness and shorter days, it’s also a time when we are called to take our gaze inward as we search for and stoke our individual, inner light to carry us through the season.
This week marks the beginning of our school’s Festival of Light Emerging, a universal take on the Festival of Advent, that runs four weeks as we journey into the darkest days of the calendar year. Today, to discuss this festival, we are joined by Waldorf educator and spatial dynamics expert Charlie Orphanides who will break down each of the four weeks which goes from the mineral realm in Week 1 (the week of the stones), to the plant realm, the animal realm, and finally the human realm in Week 4.
