VIRTUAL HOLIDAY AUCTION FUNDRAISER Friday, November 24 - Friday, December 8, 2023   Deadline to submit offerings is Sunday, November 12! Back by popular demand, we're once again planning a holiday fundraiser centered on crafts and services.  It's a chance to pick up some great items, be creative, connect with others, and have some fun! We're seeking offerings that might include:                                                   - Handcrafted and other items/gifts for sale - Craft classes or do-it-yourself craft kits/materials - Gift baskets, gift cards - Meals, treats, baked goods - Help with end of year/holiday preparations - winter storage, decorating - Help with shopping, transporting

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with Natalie Johnson This month’s New Moon falls in the sign of Sagittarius, the great cosmic archer and the higher octave of Gemini.  It is he who urges us to take our thoughts and ideas and elevate them to a higher level with the big picture in mind.  What might be good for ourselves and our innermost circle of family and friends is encouraged to radiate out in ever widening circles of kinship to include all of life on this planet and indeed, the cosmos.  Sagittarius aims his arrows high, and we are invited under his careful watch to do the same.

We are continuing in the tradition of meeting and discussing various genres of books. We continue to meet on the third Monday of the month from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. New and old members are welcome. For December, we are reading Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. If you enjoy reading, please pick up the book and join us!

Join us as we honor the Longest Night and rejoice in the knowledge that from this time on, the sun will rise each day higher and stronger in the sky. Like many cultures worldwide, we celebrate the return of the Light, the triumph of Light over Darkness, the rebirth of the Sun. Once we have reached this point on the Wheel, we can be assured that even though it is still cold and wintery, Spring will come, and life will once again be abundant and easier. In these current times of darkness in the world at large, it is an act

Information for the January Newsletter may be sent tooffice@uumiddleboro.org. Any items submitted after December 26 may be included in the UU Updates. 

with Natalie Johnson This Full Moon falls in the sign of Cancer, the sign most associated with the  Divine Feminine, the Mother.  Beginning last month with the festival of Diwali, we have cycled through Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and Christmas, all centering the triumph of light over dark, good over evil.  Now the Holy Nights are upon us.  In the Christian tradition, these are the twelve days following the birth of Jesus until the arrival of the Magi. However, there is an older, more esoteric meaning to this time…rather than an outward celebration, one that invites an inner journey, one that must be