What is this ritual all about, please..winter solstice..?

I wish I could explain it better cause it is a beautiful thing. I will do a search when I get a chance & see if I can find anything that describes what I know about this. I know the candle is symbolic of us coming out of the dark into the lightness. The seasons all are important times in our life. If we understand the meaning it is like understand life. If we can understand the good that comes from the dark or depressed times as well as from the sunny or fruitful times we truly live life to it's fullest rather than running from it as some of the people here who put the word evil in there answers. They can just run & hide & miss out on the beauty of life cause they are so afraid of evil which if you turn the word around is LIVE & once they decide to live they won't have evil in their life.