Blessed Solstice!

[Lovelorn]

Happy summer solstice, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.  Anyone do anything fun? 

I work tonight, so this morning I lit a candle and said a small blessing.  We did suncatchers and redid our kitten's bed area and are making cleaning lists to clear out clutter and negativity over the summer.  When I get home from work, there will be summer themed drinks waiting for me.  Oh, also recharging my necklace in the sun today.  So nothing big, but it feels nice to be practicing again.

[Altair]

Happy summer solstice, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.  Anyone do anything fun? 

Yes, happy solstice to all!

In the modified Wheel of the Year that I adhere to, this is one of the two most sacred days of the year (and if I'm being honest, my favorite). The other is the December solstice.

Many of us here at the Cauldron do "Up All Night" to mark the December solstice; we gather here at the Cauldron and stay up all night for what for us in the North is the winter solstice and the longest night of the year (or we pop in for as long as we're willing and able).

I do the inverse for the June (northern hemisphere's summer) solstice: "Out All Day," where I'm required to rise before dawn and go out to watch the sunrise, and then I'm not allowed to set foot indoors (except for the briefest possible bathroom breaks) until the sun has set. It becomes a wonderful "smell the roses" kind of day, where I take the pace off of things, savor life at its fullest, explore places I've never stumbled across before, eat and drink whatever catches my fancy, and do a lot of walking or bike riding. (After many years of this, my boss is broken in, and no longer gives me shit for taking the day off.)

If I get my act together, maybe I'll find a way to post a few photos from this year's wide-ranging edition that I just finished. (I was on the bike this year, so I rode from home in downtown Manhattan to the Bronx and back.)

[Altair]

If I get my act together, maybe I'll find a way to post a few photos from this year's wide-ranging edition that I just finished. (I was on the bike this year, so I rode from home in downtown Manhattan to the Bronx and back.)

I got my act together. I posted some photos on my Facebook page and made it public:

[Noctua]

I got my act together. I posted some photos on my Facebook page and made it public:

Nice photos. Your mystery flower is common chicory, I always see tons of it on the roadsides this time of year.

I actually went to my first semi-public ritual yesterday, with a Pagan meetup group I'd joined last month. It was a small group, but neat to see because it was so diverse in age and experience- the youngest participant was in his early 20's and had been raised Pagan by his mom, the oldest was in his 70's and had converted about 40 years ago. We also shared some of my mead that I'd brewed this time last year, which turned out surprisingly well for something that I started in a gallon plastic jug.

[Sorcha]

Happy summer solstice, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.  Anyone do anything fun? 

I work tonight, so this morning I lit a candle and said a small blessing.  We did suncatchers and redid our kitten's bed area and are making cleaning lists to clear out clutter and negativity over the summer.  When I get home from work, there will be summer themed drinks waiting for me.  Oh, also recharging my necklace in the sun today.  So nothing big, but it feels nice to be practicing again.

I went for a nice long hike after work up to a mountain near my home that's rarely climbed (I have around 25 peaks ranging from 350-1600 feet within 30 minutes of my house, and this one is billed as having "limited views" and is slightly off the beaten path), saw not one person (rare even on some of the more remote trails), sat on top and munched pizza Combos, hunted around for a memorial to a guy who was responsible for engineering a lot of the trails around here back around 1915, didn't find it, and then headed down because I was losing the light. I think I might make this particular peak a solstice tradition.


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[PerditaPickle]

Happy summer solstice, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.  Anyone do anything fun?

Hope everyone had a good solstice - I've not been on the site much lately so a bit belated in posting this.  But I actually had the opportunity, thanks to a friend of mine, to visit the Avebury stone circle on the day of the solstice this year (not in time for the dawn, unfortunately, due to both our work commitments).  I was able to do some meditation/visualisation and recharged an amethyst pendant whilst we were there.  I was really pleased with the opportunity.

Many of us here at the Cauldron do "Up All Night" to mark the December solstice; we gather here at the Cauldron and stay up all night for what for us in the North is the winter solstice and the longest night of the year (or we pop in for as long as we're willing and able).

I do the inverse for the June (northern hemisphere's summer) solstice: "Out All Day,"

That sounds really neat!  I'm going to try and take a look at your photos when I get the chance, too.