Happy Summer Solstice Everybody!!
I want to wish all the Cellarites a happy, fun Solstice today!! Enjoy!! Go ride a pony to honor Epona (Celtic goddess of the horses) and have a bon fire!!
:muse: :ivy: :elkgrin: :queen: :destiny:
We're not supposed to touch the horses at forks. They cost more than we do.
But we will have the bonfire.
Happy Solstice, indeed!
Guess what time the sky turns from black to blue on this day? 4:05. The answer to how I know is the subject of another post, for when I have more energy to say. :)
Happy Solstice, indeed!
Guess what time the sky turns from black to blue on this day? 4:05. The answer to how I know is the subject of another post, for when I have more energy to say. :)
Oh, come
on ! You can't do that! Now you HAVE to tell us!
Merry Litha, dear ones.
Burn some oak and myrrh for me.
Guess what time the sky turns from black to blue on this day? 4:05. The answer to how I know is the subject of another post, for when I have more energy to say. :)
According to my version of
Star Pilot, Civil Twilight started at 4:00am. (Astronomical started at 2:29am, but who's willing to get up that early?)
So, where did you get 4:05?
- Pie
heh... actually sadly enough I was up then... happy solstice to you all. (and a full moon to boot?)
[size=1]Goddamn hippies...[/size]
baby, if you want to see hippies check out the Plastic Forks thread. It's inspiring! It makes me wanna break out my ritual drum!
Ritual in the park on Sunday at 2:00 PM CDT (2:15 PST - Pagan Standard Time), probable 50 to 60 attending. Burgers and dogs and potluck to follow. Selene and I do not have to conduct the ritual as we are having a covener do it on his way to his First Degree...but I do get to call a corner.
We loves us some Sabbats around these parts. Happy Litha, all!
I am so not parsing that last post, els. ;)
Ritual in the park on Sunday at 2:00 PM CDT (2:15 PST - Pagan Standard Time),
Solstice ceremony, time date etc
probable 50 to 60 attending. Burgers and dogs and potluck to follow.
Plenty people will enjoy the ritual. Picnic fare afterwards.
Selene and I do not have to conduct the ritual
Not performing normal leadership role in ceremony.
as we are having a covener do it on his way to his First Degree...
So as to permit another person to do so as part of advancement requirement.
but I do get to call a corner.
Although Els will participate in a supporting roll.
We loves us some Sabbats around these parts.
It's a fun part of what I believe in.
Happy Litha, all!
yeah, I don't know what this means either.
what - an explanation with no links?
hahahahahahhaa, *snif*. heheh...
(Astronomical started at 2:29am, but who's willing to get up that early?)
I go to bed that late ... does that count?
baby, if you want to see hippies check out the Plastic Forks thread. It's inspiring! It makes me wanna break out my ritual drum!
Drumming has been a feature of Forks for the last several years. Come on over!
Litha is the pagan name for the Summer Solstice. It sounds cooler, and you don't get caught in that trap of trying to remember solstice vs. equinox.
Sabbat is a high holly-day, kinda like for Jews, only we get to have cheeseburgers on bread whenever we want, and don't have to feel guilty about it, unless we're on Atkins.
I just found out this evening that, not only is our degree-seeking covener not going to conduct Litha, but he has in fact announced his departure from the coven.
We are very perplexed and unhappy about this. He has been a vital and active part of our coven family, and he is leaving, essentially without explanation. In fact, perplexed and unhappy doesn't really begin to cover it. Devastated is more like it.
I am now forced to say "Happy Fucking Litha". Sigh.
--clip--Sabbat is a high holly-day, kinda like--zip--
High holly or high holy or is there a clever play on words here I'm just too ignorant to enjoy?
I just found out this evening that, not only is our degree-seeking covener not going to conduct Litha, but he has in fact announced his departure from the coven.
We are very perplexed and unhappy about this. He has been a vital and active part of our coven family, and he is leaving, essentially without explanation. In fact, perplexed and unhappy doesn't really begin to cover it. Devastated is more like it.
I am now forced to say "Happy Fucking Litha". Sigh.
More seeking, p'raps? What I know about your beliefs and traditions would fit in a thimble and leave room for my foot, so, so, so, crap. Els, I don't know nuthin, I just empathize with you. I change the books and the words and the titles around and I can understand how
I'd feel. Sorry friend.
I hope it is something that honestly simple, but based on what little he has emailed to my wife (our HPS - High Priestess) and said to a few other coveners, it really sounds as though there's something deep and ominous that he feels would be better left unsaid. Needless to say, that's not good.
Nothing ever gets solved, changed or understood without revelation and discussion.
Them Christer folks prob'ly got 'im.
Either that or just raging self doubt.
Possibly both.
EDIT TO ADD: Actually it doesn't have to be any one path that called him away, but his understanding of what the commitment of taking the first degree really means ... what the cords bind not just him, but his soul, to.
That can be some scary stuff, even when you are ready for it.
There are, after all, a lot of pagans who don't accept the reality of what we do.
High holly or high holy or is there a clever play on words here I'm just too ignorant to enjoy?
The play is between holy and holly, actually.
Holly's a sacred plant for us, see ...
I anticipated that, so...high holly-day==high holy-day. see, and they said i was untrainable.
Huh. I thought it was "holly day" = "holiday"
Wolf, you may be right on the internal crisis thing, but it is hard to say. Bill was our most gung-ho covener, and threw himself almost obsessively into everything. Very impressive guy. Excellent at crafting things as well as being a good chef, a juicemaker, organizer...yet not gay. At least, not willing to admit it to himself.
He was formerly in seminary, so yeah, maybe there's a crisis of faith, since he's had one before, but as it ends up he is leaving only the coven, and not his other Pagan activities.