| Midsmmxxdat | Date: Duminica, 21 Iul 2013, 05:59 | Message # 1 |
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| Taking hooked on consideration our rich past history, as Americans and various cultures about the world, we have to appreciate that it is in our blood to celebrate the seasons. Summer is no exemption. Even if you perform not deem yourself Pagan, otherwise if you were qualified that these beliefs were evil, consider it or not...it is in your nature and genes to know and celebrate the four seasons of the year. Modern daytime Pagans recognize this as the Wheel of the Year, and the Summer solstice is one of the most vital sabbats.
Think in relation to what Summer means to you...what imagery explode keen on your mind when you believe of the word Summer? My mind is flooded with thoughts of basking in the sun, plummeting in the pool, disappearing barefoot lying on the sand, collecting seashells, and picnicking in the shade of a enormous oak hierarchy. All of these memories and definitions of Summer are representative of what Summer predestined to the ancient Pagans. Fruitfulness...happiness...warmth...these are all provisos that speak of the complete essence of the season of Summer. The earth is overflowing with life and complete to subsist harvested.
Some ideas as to how to celebrate, whether elsewhere of the closet otherwise in the closet Pagan, you can celebrate lacking fear of judgement. Tomorrow I have devices to plant a row of sunflowers in my backyard...why? Because I have a bottomless association to the sunflower and they are a uncontaminated representation of Summer to me. I observe the Sun and the fertility gods and goddesses when I seem on the gorgeous fair-haired smirk of a sunflower. Not a fan of sunflowers? Plant some additional flower otherwise plant that reminds you of your past summers and first-class memories of the season.
If you be an altar, absolutely rest a number of just now chosen wildflowers on your altar as an offering to the chronic Holly King and Summer Goddesses. Also another thing to offer - fruit and vegetables. Preferably they will live fruits or veggies from your possess hand-grown garden, other than rider not...no full-size deal! The thought is what counts...and the father and mother idol recognize and will acknowledge that. Check out the sun steering wheel complete of flowers beautifully constructed by one of our fellow current daytime Pagans. This picture immediately brought a smile to my face...and factually to my soul!
If you are going to expend the weekend with family, and possibly they are not of the Pagan type, celebrate in your own means that is relative to your family's traditions. Put a bonfire up, otherwise perform a quantity of barbecue-ing! Serve some grilled meat and veggies and also a quantity of class of dessert that is undoubtedly thankful towards the fruits of the summer - watermelon, berries, mango, and so on. Go with what is dear to your heart.
Send a card otherwise note to your Pagan otherwise like-minded relations and friends in beam of the pending Summer season. Remind them of precisely what you remember of them and the summer occasion. Summer brings back a few awfully sweet memories and recollections for me...building pond forts, riding bikes until my hair was coated in dirt, jumping addicted to ponds by means of hanging vines, thanking god designed for his Sun, and so forth. Let these memories of the season plug your mind and heart with their warmth and remind others of this warmth. These are uncomplicated and added conservative customs of celebrating Midsummer...other habits can contain celebrating with a coven or group, while lots of of us do not have this privilege owing to family standards before time before additional not public reasons. I consider that if you know in your heart what you are appreciative intended for, particularly dirt and its gifts, you will stay put related and erect a omnipresent union with the earth in every one its glory.
On a side memorandum, have you always slash an apple horizontally? You would live astonished and most probable delighted to discover that the symbol of the 5 top star is obviously here, constructed by the position of the seeds enveloped by the apple's meat. To up-to-the-minute daylight hours Pagans, this is a understandable envoy of the pentagram...the five basics - earth, sky, bonfire, irrigate and akasha (spirit).
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