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Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« on: December 21, 2014, 12:06:33 am »
Hey, what is this thread? The night beginning at sunset on Sunday, December 21, 2014, is the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate the solstice (summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere; in the North, it's winter solstice, a.k.a. Yule, Midwinter, and probably other things, depending on your tradition), a bunch of us plan to stay up all night and post here in this thread off and on throughout and/or chatter in chat, sharing our experiences or random thoughts...sharing photos or artwork throughout the evening...or just encouraging each other to stay awake!

So if you’re trying to stay up till dawn, or just want to pop in to converse with those of us who are, this is the place! Or if you're lucky enough to be in the Southern Hemisphere, enjoying the warmth and sun of summer solstice, tell us what we're missing!

In that spirit, here it is again, folks--that modest rhyme I composed specifically for our winter solstice efforts. Tradition dictates that I offer it as invocation to kick things off:

A WINTER SOLSTICE REVEILLE

by Altair

Light dwindles, life despairs
A bitter chill is in the air
The sun departs, and with it goes
A fruitful season free of woes
As winter’s icy grip takes hold
The sleeping landscape to enfold
Many hours of dark must pass
Before the sun returns at last
To make its long-awaited climb
With promise of a flowering time
Until that hour, let dark prevail
Greet longest night with strong wassail
Sing and dance, feast and drink
Or solemnly reflect and think
From strange and hidden wells partake
With one rule only: Stay awake!
From dusk till dawn, hear our refrain:
Let the solstice revels reign

[In the last line, swap in the word “vigil” for “revels” if the feeling is more contemplative than festive]
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2014, 12:13:05 am »
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Hey, what is this thread? The night beginning at sunset on Sunday, December 21, 2014, is the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate the solstice (summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere; in the North, it's winter solstice, a.k.a. Yule, Midwinter, and probably other things, depending on your tradition), a bunch of us plan to stay up all night and post here in this thread off and on throughout and/or chatter in chat, sharing our experiences or random thoughts...sharing photos or artwork throughout the evening...or just encouraging each other to stay awake!


It's just after midnight in NYC on December 21--the dawn isn't even close, let alone the sunset that will kick off the all-night vigil here--but I figured I'd get the thread started now for Cauldronites in the Australasian region, for whom late afternoon is soon to give way to evening and the start of their nightfall.

You vanguards of the east, give us a preview of what's heading our way!

This year's non-theme--inspiration for what to post, which can be completely ignored if you want to post something completely different (hence the "non" in "non-theme")--is:

Home Is Where the Heart(h) Is

Show us/tell us about the place you call home, or that you want to call home, or that is your spiritual home even if you've never been there. Dazzle us! And/or make us yearn for home.
« Last Edit: December 21, 2014, 12:18:55 am by Altair »
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2014, 01:54:03 am »
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Here are December 21 sunset/December 22 sunrise local times for some places that Caudronites call home:

Sydney, NSW, Australia -- 8:05 PM/5:41 AM
Munich, Bavaria, Germany -- 4:22 PM/8:02 AM
London, England, UK -- 3:54 PM/7:54 AM
Dublin, Ireland -- 4:08 PM/8:39 AM
Buenos Aires, Argentina -- 8:06 PM/5:38 AM
New York, NY, USA -- 4:32 PM/7:17 AM
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- 4:29 PM/8:25 AM
Waco, TX, USA -- 5:30 PM/7:25 AM
Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 4:32 PM/8:38 AM
San Diego, CA, USA -- 4:47 PM/6:47 AM
Portland, OR, USA -- 4:30 PM/7:48 AM

All times are per http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html where you can look up the times for your own locale.

The precise moment of solstice will occur on December 21 at 23:03 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), with the new moon effectively coinciding on December 22 at 01:36 UTC. So if you're in the UK, hold onto your hats at midnight!
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2014, 07:47:20 am »
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All times are per http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html where you can look up the times for your own locale.

I just noticed that this page will also give you the exact local time of the solstice. In my case (Garland, TX), it is 5:02 PM today.
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2014, 08:32:42 am »
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I just noticed that this page will also give you the exact local time of the solstice. In my case (Garland, TX), it is 5:02 PM today.

 
7:03am tomorrow (the 22nd) for me (Perth, Western Australia), though I'm not sure if I'll do ritual tonight, or do it first thing tomorrow, whenever I get up. Not sure an all-nighter is useful this close to Christmas, but we'll see.
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2014, 09:49:34 am »
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And hi everyone!
Tho' I highly doubt, I will make it through the whole night, I will serve my duty as vanguard.

Sunset is 16:34 local time. Now it's 15:48 and already grey and gloomy, we might drown this year. :p

The Solstice will be happening two minutes after midnight exactly which is pretty neat. I think I will stay up until then.
\'You had to repay, good or bad. There was more than one type of obligation.
That’s what people never really understood.….Things had to balance.
You couldn’t set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked out for long.
All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.\'
Terry Pratchett \'Lords and Ladies\'

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2014, 10:32:02 am »
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And hi everyone!
Tho' I highly doubt, I will make it through the whole night, I will serve my duty as vanguard.

Sunset is 16:34 local time. Now it's 15:48 and already grey and gloomy, we might drown this year. :p

The Solstice will be happening two minutes after midnight exactly which is pretty neat. I think I will stay up until then.

 
Hi :D

About 30 minutes to sunset here according to that site. It's still pretty light, nice blue sky :D

I might stay up all night, not sure. I can't do anything else. Can't do any rituals. I have a very nosy crippled dog who has to be with me all the time, and her huge bed is taking up all the space where I normally do my rituals. (I can't even get to my altar because she's in the way. )
If the weather isn't too bad I do sometimes try to get to the local stone circle or even just up on the hills for sunrise but again, that's out this year because of the dog. And I can't do anything outside of my room because family.

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2014, 10:34:16 am »
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Sunset is 16:34 local time.


And the darkness has begun.
Going to light my candles now for the vigil.
(Even if it's just a part-night one.)
\'You had to repay, good or bad. There was more than one type of obligation.
That’s what people never really understood.….Things had to balance.
You couldn’t set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked out for long.
All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.\'
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2014, 10:40:34 am »
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And the darkness has begun.
Going to light my candles now for the vigil.
(Even if it's just a part-night one.)

 
It's 11:30pm at the moment, and I'm attempting to paint something for Heru to offer during my ritual. I have an 8"x10"canvas that I'm working on at the moment. I am not a great artist, but I want to paint something for Him anyway. It keeps me busy.

I decided it made more sense to do my solstice ritual tomorrow morning, when it's daylight, so I'm getting everything prepped tonight, and all laid out, so I can get some sleep, and it's all ready for tomorrow. Besides, it's weird doing a midsummer ritual at night. I need me some sunlight :D

Not sure when I'll sleep, though, but we'll see. I might be up for another few hours, or I'll collapse at 1am. IDK. We'll see.
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2014, 11:34:27 am »
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Besides, it's weird doing a midsummer ritual at night. I need me some sunlight :D

Not sure when I'll sleep, though, but we'll see. I might be up for another few hours, or I'll collapse at 1am. IDK. We'll see.


Well, the vigil thing is more for the Winter Solstice, that's true.
\'You had to repay, good or bad. There was more than one type of obligation.
That’s what people never really understood.….Things had to balance.
You couldn’t set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked out for long.
All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.\'
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2014, 11:35:28 am »
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And the darkness has begun.
Going to light my candles now for the vigil.
(Even if it's just a part-night one.)


Our first report of the spreading darkness! Thanks as ever, Tana. We count on you.
The first song sets the wheel in motion / The second is a song of love / The third song tells of Her devotion / The fourth cries joy from the sky above
The fifth song binds our fate to silence / and bids us live each moment well / The sixth unleashes rage and violence / The seventh song has truth to tell
The last song echoes through the ages / to ask its question all night long / And close the circle on these pages / These, the metamythos songs

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2014, 11:38:53 am »
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Our first report of the spreading darkness! Thanks as ever, Tana. We count on you.

 
It's dark here now as well. Just started dropping over the past 15 minutes.

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2014, 11:44:26 am »
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Well, the vigil thing is more for the Winter Solstice, that's true.

 
Oh, yeah, definitely. It's always a good thing to do at winter solstice. I'll be honouring Heru/Horus tomorrow for midsummer, and sunlight is definitely better for Him. Sobek is more of a night creature, in my experience.
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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2014, 11:58:48 am »
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It's dark here now as well. Just started dropping over the past 15 minutes.

 
It's totally dark here and my candles are lit. I won't be up all night - I'm travelling tomorrow - but I'll be in and out while I'm up.

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Re: Up All Night: A Technopagan Solstice Celebration 2014
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2014, 12:11:27 pm »
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It's totally dark here and my candles are lit. I won't be up all night - I'm travelling tomorrow - but I'll be in and out while I'm up.

I missed reporting falling darkness here, as I'm having a mad busy research day and got distracted. It's been dark here for about an hour. I'm currently in a London pub drinking mulled wine -  the perfect start to the solstice! We might play some D&D later.
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