Preparation
Fasting for three days before is useful for you.  You can fast from sweets,  meats, bad thoughts, whatever you want.    What is important is the choice to fast and the act of fasting.  They prepare your body, mind and heart for the change that is coming.  They help you focus on creating your Intentions for 2012.

Have a meal of celebration ready for yourself and others to eat afterwards if this ceremony is done with others.  Have water to drink during the ceremony. 

Your Altar:

One white candle;  matches; a small bowl.

Paper on which you have written your hopes for 2012; 

Tenderness for your self and all human kind; 

Love for your self and all humankind; 

Gratitude for all that is our experience here as we don't know how it has helped us move toward our highest aspirations.

Make sure that you can see the sunrise. 

Honor the 4 directions.  Here are some sample words.  You can create words that work for you.  On this longest night of the year, the desire for a return to seasons of abundance drove ancient peoples to entreat the Sun to return.    Winter Solstice became a time of celebrating the end of dark times in our lives and the hope of good things to come
Calling in the 4 directions
We embrace the East, the spirit of air, sunrise and the lengthening days of the spring to come.
Welcome South, the spirit of fire and the long warm days of summer toward which we are moving
We bid welcome West, the spirit of the shorter days of autumn and of water. 
Please join us North, the spirit of the darkness of night and winter

Step forward and greet the sun with love and anticipation.  With your paper in your hand,  raise it to the sun,  show it to the earth and to the 4 directions.  Declare your personal hopes for this coming year of 2012;  declare your hopes for the people of the earth in 2012; and declare your hopes for the earth herself. 
State your commitment to your self,  the people of the earth and to the earth herself.

Burn your paper in a small bowl.   Place your finger in the cool ash, marking your forehead, throat and heart.  Pledge again your desires for 2012 for self, the human race and the earth and your commitment for the same as you repeat putting the ash on your forehead, throat and heart.
 

Place the remaining ashes in the earth.  Enjoy your meal by yourself or with others!