The winter solstice, when the sun is farthest south of the celestial equator, falls on the shortest day of the year. But it won't seem very short to Cheryl Masson of Rehoboth, a priestess in the Church of Wicca and chairwoman of the Witches League for Public Awareness.

''It's going to be a very long day,'' says Masson. Besides the customary Wiccan rituals associated with a full moon and solstice, Masson says, she will participate in the dedication of the site of a new temple for the congregation she has cofounded in Dighton with Laurie Cabot of Salem, dean of the area's self-declared witches.

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