How I spent my Summer Solstice
I took a drop spindle class two weeks ago, and this past weekend took the first of a two-part wheel spinning class. I'm in love. This is my first wheel-spun handspun:
What does spinning have to do with the summer solstice, you wonder? Well, many of the sun goddesses (especially those of northern European origin like my beloved Saule) are associated with spinning, and Midsummer is certainly Her time. From my as-yet-unpublished "Charge of the Sun Goddess":
I am a ball of yarn rolling across the sky. I am a spider who weaves a web from sunlight, and the sun is my body. I am the stone on which you sit. My daughter and I sit there to fill our spindles with light. I am the woman constantly at her spinning wheel. I spin rays on my spindle made of amber and pour my light out over the earth.
To me, learning to spin was a perfect way to spend the longest day of the year.
What does spinning have to do with the summer solstice, you wonder? Well, many of the sun goddesses (especially those of northern European origin like my beloved Saule) are associated with spinning, and Midsummer is certainly Her time. From my as-yet-unpublished "Charge of the Sun Goddess":
I am a ball of yarn rolling across the sky. I am a spider who weaves a web from sunlight, and the sun is my body. I am the stone on which you sit. My daughter and I sit there to fill our spindles with light. I am the woman constantly at her spinning wheel. I spin rays on my spindle made of amber and pour my light out over the earth.
To me, learning to spin was a perfect way to spend the longest day of the year.