Category Summer Solstice
A Summer Solstice Ceremony
This video (about 25 minutes) is a collage of footage from a homely Summer Solstice ceremony in December 2023 (as it is in Southern Hemisphere) with my partner Robert Taffy Seaborne, and photos from past Summer Solstice ceremonies in MoonCourt over the years, with my voiceover – and some music added in places. The script […]
The Universe Story and Summer Solstice
A supernova event may be understood as expressing the poiesis of Summer Solstice: the Star matures, after billions of years of shining forth, and explodes. It is “simultaneously a profound destruction and yet an exuberant creativity.”[i] As Swimme and Berry tell it: The more closely we look at any place in the fifteen billion years of […]
To Be is to Be Related
The entrance into traditional PaGaian Summer Solstice ceremony is with this initial part of the Breath Meditation: Breathe deep, and sink into the weight of your body – feel Earth holding you. This is how She holds you – feel your weight, Earth holding you. With this same power Earth is held in orbit around […]
Attending to Summer Solstice Poetry
In the Southern Hemisphere, the Poetry of Summer Solstice is particularly ignored because at this Seasonal Moment, mainstream is celebrating Christmas, which is really a Winter Solstice thing appropriated by Christian faith long ago, and now appropriated by the capitalist consumer faith. Frequently even in Southern Hemisphere Pagan circles, where Summer Solstice is celebrated, the […]
A Summer Solstice Reading from PaGaian Cosmology
When asked to read something for Summer Solstice for her Open Heart Spiritual Center, former student of PaGaian Cosmology (2012-2013) Margaret Lee chose to read a segment from the book PaGaian Cosmology. Margaret read the section on Summer Solstice/Litha in Chapter 5 (p. 145-146). Her partner Matthew Lee put it on YouTube.
O Mother Sun
( … for the Solstices in particular) O Mother Sun who is with me wherever I am. … May I always remember your presence surging through my nerve fibres breathing in my body. Present in the forms all around me. … May I remember to be gracious For Thine is the planet. […]
Celebrate Summer Solstice: Decolonise the Mind
To celebrate Summer Solstice in Summer, and indeed the Wheel of Earth’s orbit around Sun, the Seasonal Moments as they express themselves in your region, is an act of decolonising the mind. It is to set your self free of imposed arbitrary calendar, imposed by colonisers who have had an agenda of what constitutes a […]
We bless you and the Gift that you are
Each one/being is gift: that gift is all that is required, presence, the giving of your fullness of being. If you don’t have that, you might feel you have to go the shops (to buy a gift). But in the contemplation of your own self as gift, how you feed the world with your being […]
Summer Solstice: Omega Gateway
This essay is an edited excerpt from Chapter 5 of the author’s book PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. Dates for Summer Solstice: Southern Hemisphere – December 20-23 Northern Hemisphere – June 20-23 The “moment of grace”[1]that is Summer Solstice, marks the stillpoint in the height of Summer, when Earth’s tilt and orbit cause the […]
Summer Solstice Moment of Union
In the traditional PaGaian Summer Solstice ceremony, the fullness and wholeness/unity of being that is celebrated in the peaking of Sun’s light at this time, is expressed in the ceremonial invocation as a dyad poem, or “Conversation of Union” as I name it. It is my adaptation of Starhawk’s “Invocation to the Ground of Being”” […]
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