My Solstice Weekend
My weekend was great. My friends and I ended up having a solstice ritual at Schoolhouse beach on the coast.
We picked up my friend Adrienne who lives in this huge and fantastic house in the middle of nowhere in the woods in Forestville. Her house looks like something you’d see on the Home and Garden network. Hardwood everywhere, blown glass chandeliers, this amazing artwork everywhere, gorgeous cobblestone fireplace, and the VIEW. She has a huge porch that extends over this canyon that is filled with these super TALL redwoods. It’s breathtaking.
So it was really really hot Saturday. Sweltering. I wore a sleeveless top and a long skirt. I brought a jacket, jeans and a long sleeved shirt, knowing that when the sun goes down at the coast it gets cold. That turned out to be smart, since we didn’t leave until 11pm.
We got there around 4pm and Ginger, Adrienne and I were the scouts trying to find a private spot on the beach. We found the perfect spot, a little cove very near the shoreline, concealed from the rest of the beach. We set up the alter and circle, built a campfire and it was a beautiful, sweet time. Definitely magical. Jo taught me a few songs she asked me to sing, to lead everyone in the songs because my voice carries more. (lol)
Solstice is a fire holiday, so I took the opportunity to cast my spell to ignite the fire of passion and motivation in myself to ignite the seed I planted in February, for my continued growth, for moving out of my comfort zone and taking chances, for burning away the fears that no longer serve me, and for galvanizing the change within me. I almost wish I could call it something besides Magic. Magic meakes people think of crazy, unrealistic hocus-pocus. It's not.
Magic is compeletely and utterly a state of mind. Our minds are such powerful forces, they can have power over our physical well being and over every single thing that happens to us. It's just like "The Secret". What you put out into the universe is what comes back to you.
Anyway by around 8pm the tide started moving in and we needed to wrap it up and move inland, so we finished our ritual and closed the circle. By the time we moved it was dark, so we built another fire and then began our “feast”. It’s important to eat after performing ritual and magic, to ground your spirit. It gets very energetic and charged and emotional and exciting in circle, dancing around and whooping and the sheer ecstatic JOY in circle is intoxicating, you literally feel giddy and high and drunk afterwards and can get a severe headache and feel ill the next day if you don’t take care to ground yourself.
It was so AWESOME to sit around the fire on the beach in the dark cold air, all bundled up! The stars out there, in the pitch dark, with no light pollution, were amazing. I walked to the shore away from our fire and stood there facing the ocean and looking at the stars, brilliant in the black sky, and it was one of those moments you never forget. The ocean a dark deep blue, tide rolling in, in the cold dark; it was just stunning.
We ate rosemary chicken, parmesan Orzo, carrots, grapes, ambrosia, drank wine, Damiana, and sang songs. We sang the songs I learned and harmonized. Mostly just Ginger, Jo, David and I sang, and it sounded SO GOOD!!! Ginger and Jo have low alto voices, David has a gorgeous soulful tenor and it was so much fun to sing with them. I was in heaven. It degenerated at one point into a medley of Steve Miller songs, sung at the tops of our lungs…Jet Airliner, and The Joker…it was hilarious and so fun.
My pet rabbit Luke is doing fantastic. He had dental surgery on Friday, to have his back teeth filed down. They were growing into his cheeks and making it painful for him to eat. Friday night, with his sweet little eyes at half-mast (still a little woosey from being put under), he was jumping and running around and when I put the greens out he was devouring them. Plowing through like he hadn’t eaten in ages. I even got nuzzled and sniffed, so I’m back in his good graces.
Clearly he feels much better, and it makes me feel so good. He’s like a new bunneh. Lucia is eating pretty good too, but she’ll feel better tomorrow night. Her procedure is tomorrow.
S'all for now.
We picked up my friend Adrienne who lives in this huge and fantastic house in the middle of nowhere in the woods in Forestville. Her house looks like something you’d see on the Home and Garden network. Hardwood everywhere, blown glass chandeliers, this amazing artwork everywhere, gorgeous cobblestone fireplace, and the VIEW. She has a huge porch that extends over this canyon that is filled with these super TALL redwoods. It’s breathtaking.
So it was really really hot Saturday. Sweltering. I wore a sleeveless top and a long skirt. I brought a jacket, jeans and a long sleeved shirt, knowing that when the sun goes down at the coast it gets cold. That turned out to be smart, since we didn’t leave until 11pm.
We got there around 4pm and Ginger, Adrienne and I were the scouts trying to find a private spot on the beach. We found the perfect spot, a little cove very near the shoreline, concealed from the rest of the beach. We set up the alter and circle, built a campfire and it was a beautiful, sweet time. Definitely magical. Jo taught me a few songs she asked me to sing, to lead everyone in the songs because my voice carries more. (lol)
Solstice is a fire holiday, so I took the opportunity to cast my spell to ignite the fire of passion and motivation in myself to ignite the seed I planted in February, for my continued growth, for moving out of my comfort zone and taking chances, for burning away the fears that no longer serve me, and for galvanizing the change within me. I almost wish I could call it something besides Magic. Magic meakes people think of crazy, unrealistic hocus-pocus. It's not.
Magic is compeletely and utterly a state of mind. Our minds are such powerful forces, they can have power over our physical well being and over every single thing that happens to us. It's just like "The Secret". What you put out into the universe is what comes back to you.
Anyway by around 8pm the tide started moving in and we needed to wrap it up and move inland, so we finished our ritual and closed the circle. By the time we moved it was dark, so we built another fire and then began our “feast”. It’s important to eat after performing ritual and magic, to ground your spirit. It gets very energetic and charged and emotional and exciting in circle, dancing around and whooping and the sheer ecstatic JOY in circle is intoxicating, you literally feel giddy and high and drunk afterwards and can get a severe headache and feel ill the next day if you don’t take care to ground yourself.
It was so AWESOME to sit around the fire on the beach in the dark cold air, all bundled up! The stars out there, in the pitch dark, with no light pollution, were amazing. I walked to the shore away from our fire and stood there facing the ocean and looking at the stars, brilliant in the black sky, and it was one of those moments you never forget. The ocean a dark deep blue, tide rolling in, in the cold dark; it was just stunning.
We ate rosemary chicken, parmesan Orzo, carrots, grapes, ambrosia, drank wine, Damiana, and sang songs. We sang the songs I learned and harmonized. Mostly just Ginger, Jo, David and I sang, and it sounded SO GOOD!!! Ginger and Jo have low alto voices, David has a gorgeous soulful tenor and it was so much fun to sing with them. I was in heaven. It degenerated at one point into a medley of Steve Miller songs, sung at the tops of our lungs…Jet Airliner, and The Joker…it was hilarious and so fun.
My pet rabbit Luke is doing fantastic. He had dental surgery on Friday, to have his back teeth filed down. They were growing into his cheeks and making it painful for him to eat. Friday night, with his sweet little eyes at half-mast (still a little woosey from being put under), he was jumping and running around and when I put the greens out he was devouring them. Plowing through like he hadn’t eaten in ages. I even got nuzzled and sniffed, so I’m back in his good graces.
Clearly he feels much better, and it makes me feel so good. He’s like a new bunneh. Lucia is eating pretty good too, but she’ll feel better tomorrow night. Her procedure is tomorrow.
S'all for now.