Special Winter Solstice Video Just Released

Dec. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Artist, photographer, video producer, and astrologer Anne Nordhaus-Bike has just released the high-definition (HD) video Capricorn: A Meditation for the Solstice to honor this year’s winter Solstice.

This 10.5-minute HD video, available on YouTube at http://youtu.be/6BV_v-KlEpE (http://youtu.be/6BV_v-KlEpE/oWinter%20Solstice%20Video), offers a peaceful, uplifting mix of spoken word narration with music, photography, painting, and motion graphics.

This year, the Sun leaves Sagittarius and enters Capricorn on Friday, December 21, at 5:13 a.m. CST (11:13 a.m. GMT). "This shift brings the Solstice, a new season (winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern), and new opportunities to build an improved and abundant future on a firm foundation," Nordhaus-Bike said.

Capricorn: A Meditation for the Solstice explores the Solstice’s spiritual significance as well as the significant opportunities available to everyone when the Sun enters Capricorn each year. The video’s narration also provides background on the astrological sign Capricorn and shares insights about this sign’s symbol, the goat, and other images associated with it.

The narration closes with an inspiring meditation to help viewers "understand Capricorn’s lofty potential so they can aspire to expressing this cardinal earth sign’s best qualities," Nordhaus-Bike said.

To complement the narration, the video presents Nordhaus-Bike’s serene nature photography supporting the piece’s winter theme. It also presents several colorful, original watercolors and oil paintings by Nordhaus-Bike that help tell the Capricorn Solstice story as well as special motion graphics designed to convey astrological and mystical concepts. To ensure viewers enjoy these images fully, the video was created in full high-definition (1920 X 1080) resolution.

The video also features musical variations based on the hymn tune Cranham by Gustav Holst (popularly known as Midwinter, as it was written specifically for the Christina Rossetti poem of that name). This tune can be heard during the video’s opening in a solo piano version; a full orchestration with strings, choir, and bells appears during the video’s final segments.

Combined with the text narration, these artistic elements offer a complete experience that appeals to the senses as well as the emotions, mind, and spirit. In this way, the video speaks not only to the intellect but to the soul, allowing its mystical message to reach the higher self and convey what words alone cannot.

After clicking on the video on You Tube at http://youtu.be/6BV_v-KlEpE (http://youtu.be/6BV_v-KlEpE/oCapricorn:%20A%20Meditation%...), viewers also will find more details on the video’s text, artwork, and music; just click the "Show more" link that appears in the text area below the video player.



To see other mystical, spiritual, and astrological videos, visit the Mystical Music Videos & Short Films (http://www.anbcommunications.com/mystical-music-videos-an...) section of Nordhaus-Bike’s website at http://www.anbcommunications.com (http://www.anbcommunications.com//oANB%20Communications%2...) or go to her ANBLivinginHarmony channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/ANBLivingInHarmony/oANB%20Communications%20Living%20in%20Harmony%20channel) on YouTube.

"The Solstice helps us attune with nature’s seasonal rhythms and reinforces the role of light on all planes of our being," Nordhaus-Bike said. "Take a few minutes to enjoy this peaceful, uplifting video. Let yourself be inspired, especially by its closing meditation and music. Afterward, allow yourself a few moments to note what new inspirations have arisen in you."

About the Producer

Anne Nordhaus-Bike is president of ANB Communications, www.anbcommunications.com (http://www.anbcommunications.com/oANB%20Communications%20website). The author of the award-winning Living in Harmony astrology column for the Gazette newspaper in Chicago, she has won several journalism awards and in 1997 was added to the "Wall of Fame" of the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY.

Nordhaus-Bike is the author of the astrology/art book Follow the Sun: A Simple Way to Use Astrology for Living in Harmony.

Working as a professional artist in watercolors and oils, Nordhaus-Bike has shown her works in numerous solo and group shows. An accomplished musician and theatrical performer, Nordhaus-Bike frequently combines her talents to create multimedia works featuring music, spoken word, photography, painting, and video.

Since 2002, she has dedicated most of her efforts to writing, astrology, art, and performance. In the past few years she has focused her work in the performing arts on themes inspired by nature and by spiritual and mystical subjects.

For more information, go to www.anbcommunications.com (http://www.anbcommunications.com/oANB%20Communications%20website), call (773) 229-0024, or e-mail media@anbcommunications.com. To see Capricorn: A Meditation for the Solstice, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV_v-KlEpE&feature=youtu.be.