The Winter Solstice happened early this morning at 00:22 Universal Time on December 21, 2006. It happens the same time for everyone, although our clocks say different things. The solstice is unique among days of the year — the time of the longest night and the shortest day. The dark triumphs but only briefly. For the solstice is also a turning point. From now on (until the summer solstice), the nights grow shorter and the days grow longer, the dark wanes and the Sun waxes in power. December 25th was the date of the winter solstice in the calendar Julius Caesar devised for Rome in 46BC. Today the winter solstice…