Solstice Rituals
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badstarSo, the solstice ritual that I mentioned yesterday...this is the post that I made elsewhere about it:
On my way to work this morning, I had an idea for a solstice ritual (two actually, to be performed sort of in tandem), and then it occurred to me that the reverse would make for an excellent winter solstice.
On the summer solstice, a ritual to Hyperion at sunrise, with Eos as the gatekeeper to celebrate the dawning of the longest day, and a ritual to Nyx at sunset, Asteria as the gatekeeper in honor of the coming darkness.
On the winter solstice at sunset, a ritual to Nyx again, to celebrate the falling of the longest night, and the next morning at dawn, a ritual to Hyperion to celebrate the returning light.
I've always felt much more in tune with the changing of the sun than with the changing of the earth. The Solstices and Equinoxes have had much more impact on me than the cross-quarter days (and the fact that I am not of Celtic leaning, coupled with the fact that I believe that festivals such as Beltane or Lughnassagh should be celebrated in honor of the gods for which they are named, otherwise a different name should be devised definitely makes for some extra distance between me and those particular festivals.)
I think that I will try to write up these rituals and perform them for myself this year and see how they go, and if it works well, possibly attempting to adapt for a group next year and see if anyone else wants to join me.
On my way to work this morning, I had an idea for a solstice ritual (two actually, to be performed sort of in tandem), and then it occurred to me that the reverse would make for an excellent winter solstice.
On the summer solstice, a ritual to Hyperion at sunrise, with Eos as the gatekeeper to celebrate the dawning of the longest day, and a ritual to Nyx at sunset, Asteria as the gatekeeper in honor of the coming darkness.
On the winter solstice at sunset, a ritual to Nyx again, to celebrate the falling of the longest night, and the next morning at dawn, a ritual to Hyperion to celebrate the returning light.
I've always felt much more in tune with the changing of the sun than with the changing of the earth. The Solstices and Equinoxes have had much more impact on me than the cross-quarter days (and the fact that I am not of Celtic leaning, coupled with the fact that I believe that festivals such as Beltane or Lughnassagh should be celebrated in honor of the gods for which they are named, otherwise a different name should be devised definitely makes for some extra distance between me and those particular festivals.)
I think that I will try to write up these rituals and perform them for myself this year and see how they go, and if it works well, possibly attempting to adapt for a group next year and see if anyone else wants to join me.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:10 am (UTC)We´d concluded that Imbolc and Lughnasad are two sides of the same thing -- Brighid´s Fire (hearth) and Water (well) meeting with Lugh´s Water (rain) and Fire (lightning), both Deities working on people´s minds as strongly as within Nature.
For Beltane/Samhain, we see the Door opened between Life and Death, Descendents and Ancestors, and so we invite the Dagda, Life-Giver, and the Morrighan, Death-Bringer, to mate, Her Sword plunged deep into His Cauldron, and we on the inbetween...
Solstices and Equinoxes, IMO, do not give themselves so easily into this sort of experiment, so we kept them as they are ;-)))
(I´ve tried to post it at
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:46 pm (UTC)Tailtiu is the patron goddess of Cedarlight Center, our grove's home. (According to one of our founders, she is the one who came to him in a dream or meditation or somesuch and told him to "build a home for her people"....and so, my grove is one of those few pagan groups with a permanent place.