Advent is the season of the year leading up to Christmas and lasts for four Sundays. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, or the nearest Sunday to November 30. and ends on Christmas Eve

On the First Advent Sunday, just when the days grow noticeably shorter, there is a celebration called the Advent Garden, or the Advent spiral. Karl König, an anthroposophical doctor, brought this celebration in the early part of the twentieth century, to the Camphill Villages, to give community members a way to picture the need for light in the darkness, a way to anticipate mindfully the return of the light.

At the Advent spiral a large spiral of evergreen boughs is created which frame a path into the center where one bright candlelight stands alone. Each person, one at the time, walks the path with an unlit candle until they come to the center where they light…