Conreligion
So I finally got around to doing my little winter solstice observance. In the middle of it, I had a random idea for a secular-humanist solstice ritual. It would center around lighting several candles sequentially while reciting lines from a lesson. That lesson would be Everything Goes Because The Sun Is Shining; the light of the candles is sunlight that can be stored and invoked at will. Or maybe the ritual could use multiple types of illumination to illustrate the principle of energy changing forms but ultimately tracing back to the sun.
There could also be a lesson ("calca") on the analemma and why we have solstices and seasons at all, but it's slightly more general and could be given at both solstices and both equinoxes... or at any time, really, if there was a part that went "and at this moment we are here in the analemma, in this hemisphere the sun's power is waxing/waning, etc etc".
I have an awful urge to flesh this out completely. It would basically be "science stuff except rewritten to sound poetic". Thoughts?
There could also be a lesson ("calca") on the analemma and why we have solstices and seasons at all, but it's slightly more general and could be given at both solstices and both equinoxes... or at any time, really, if there was a part that went "and at this moment we are here in the analemma, in this hemisphere the sun's power is waxing/waning, etc etc".
I have an awful urge to flesh this out completely. It would basically be "science stuff except rewritten to sound poetic". Thoughts?