Someone doesn't know much about ASTRONOMY!
As a side note: have you guys noticed Venus and Mars together in the evening sky this month?
Venus is brilliant and Mars a weak sister off to the right about 1°.
Winter solstice is the day with the fewest hours of sunlight during the whole year. In the Northern Hemisphere, it occurs around December 21 or 22.
Most FREEPERS are in the Northern Hemisphere, and have never even SEEN the southern cross.
It's a poor Southern sister of the North Star (which is off true north by about 3/4 of a degree) but it'll have to do for those sailing the southern seas. (It's closest star is 27° away from true south.)
The Sun, since the first day of summer, has each day been moving southward, and stops when it reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemispheric sky (December 22nd - our winter solstice).
At this lowest point, the Sun stops its journey southward. For three days, December 22nd, 23rd , and 24th, the Sun rises on the exact same latitudinal (declination) degree.
This is the only time in the year that the Sun actually stops its movement Northward or Southward in our sky. On the morning of December 25th the Sun moves one degree northward beginning its annual journey back to us in the Northern Hemisphere, ultimately bringing our spring. Anything steadily moving all year long that suddenly stops moving for three days was considered to have died. Therefore, God’s Sun who was dead for three days, moves one-degree Northward on December 25th beginning its annual journey back to the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun is symbolically ....BORN AGAIN.
There aren't any stars up there...It's all snow...There isn't any sun either...