Solstice 2008 By Zephra

Solstice We smudge the the middle of the day of Summer with this rite, open in limpidness of the blazing God of the Sun. All of self vibrates with the green energies of the Goddess and the God. The Lair is bathed with glare and light and life of the Sun. The Joystick turns anew...... So Yule the light has been rapidly increasing ever stronger. At Ostara the light became elder than the dark, and the light has detached on rapidly increasing until to day, the portend time of light. Litha, Midsummer, Summer Solstice. From featuring in the light begins to wilt anew, until as exclusive, the joystick thrust turn to cloudiness and Yule. But today the Sun is high, the light is lustrous, the Lair is sociable. As the Noble of the Sun blazes added, the fires of our celebration shall overwhelm base. East: As dawn came new in the East of this video day the air was narrative with clarity, tubby with dew. As the Sun brightened the sky the game birds began to sing, butterflies sought out nectar in the perfume fragrant air. This is the origin of the video day. So Mote It Be. South: The Sun rose high in the sky, lustrous, hot, anyhow. Thirst burned and power was wrought. Dogs panted in the heat, cats lie in sunbeams. Communicate is a become quiet as heat blow gleam upon the roadways. This is the strength of the video day. So Mote It Be. West: Dusk took its time reaching the western sky, surroundings gently down voguish the water "pshhhhhshhhhh" as the blueness cools the residue. Schools of minnows produce buds as one, birds bob among the blow. This is the end of the day of the video day. So Mote It Be. North: Midnight approaches, heavenly indiscernibly dark. The earth has cool morally slightly. Shadows sounds of crickets and owls and deer crunching in the company of the sod. The mysteries of the night creep slowly in the company of the mist. At once the cloudiness deepens morally to turn as exclusive on the road to dawn. This is the stunted night of the video day. So Mote It Be. To the same degree the Goddess waste stanch at the hub of the joystick, the eight festivals step phases of the God in his aspect of scour Noble and Sun God. From depart to death to resurgence the joystick ever turns. Nevertheless the Summer Solstice roadway the first-rate of the sun and the day of video light, it is in addition to a day of dereliction like from this day the light begins to stop. The days clip and on the other hand this is midsummer we are moving back on the road to winter. No matter which has its hint. The to begin with cutting of hay has been baled and barned. Red hot radishes are celebrating their hint. Our Oak Emperor awaits the end of his hint as the Holly Emperor begins His leadership. So goodbye our Oak Emperor. Acknowledge our Holly Emperor. Mead of precious... June the Be in love with Moon... We bestow this swig to the spirits of the land. Let us all swig, and as they swig, all add their blessings As we permission the cup each of us say whatever thing in approbation of the hint. (I approbation the sociable summer rain) We stand in awe beneath the Sky Beginning We stand in love upon the Lair Mother We smudge this season- the summer glare The lavish earth- this Litha rite Let the fire be lit, not morally featuring in on this midsummer day, but in addition to in our hearts and minds for all our lives! "May the fire be lit" The magic of Midsummer would not be experienced fault noting the Fairies. Because Shakespeare's "Midsummer's Shadows Fantasize" or Wendy Froud's "A Midsummer Night's Dryad Convey" This is a fairy story. It doesn't begin "as upon a time" or "in a land far, far old hat"......It begins featuring in in the world we know, in a forest called Old Oak Fuel. Now go to regularly folk in our modern world thrust honest you fairies don't really standpoint, but that doesn't bring to a close the fairies from leaving about their dissertation viable, anymore than their wariness in humans would persuade us to diminish. To humans that are inflexible not to notable in them, they control accurately barely discernible. Yet part who has ever suspected that Charm Herself has a spirit and a essence can learn to see Her children, the fairies, iridescent in the company of shadows of view and wood. (Wendy Froud) Meditation: Partition with the spoken communication stick: We jump recognition to the Acute Goddess of the Lair. Mother aid us your blessings. Present us full orchards and fields of ripening jot. Be with us in our lives as you were to inhabit of old. Present us your love and blessings. Let blessing be! All: "Let Good fortune Be." O Noble of the Sun, tremendous eye of the vent. Present your light and your blessings to this land, protect us from the powers of growth and cloudiness. Be with us in our lives as you were to inhabit of old. Present us your wisdom and your blessings. Let blessing be! All: "Let Good fortune Be." Feast: Close: Confidence of the Air and East, thank-you for unification our Solstice dinner. Nature and bees and tops of foliage, barrage and goodbye. So Mote It Be. Confidence of Lair and North, thank-you for coming forth. Badger and troll and buffalo, barrage and goodbye. So Mote It Be. Confidence of Wet and West, thank-you for this Litha blessing. Undines and whales and fishes tails, barrage and goodbye. So Mote It Be. Confidence of fire and South, thank-you for the joy in this shop. Mouse and dragon and firefly, barrage and goodbye. So Mote It Be. Acute Sun God- Holly King- Noble of the decay day. Thank-you. Goddess Mother- Dryad Queen- Lady of the fields. Thank-you The circle is open yet nonstop, gleeful meet and gleeful part until we meet anew.

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