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Happy Father's Day to all you daddies out there.

Yesterday was gonna be the Pagan Dedication, but there was another death in the family of one of the potential Dedicants and so we've postponed it again. She initially said to have it without her, but after making sure she wanted to Dedicate (if it were me, and I was feeling extra-superstitious, I might start wondering if the universe was trying to tell me something- but she's smarter than that) I said we'd just celebrate Litha and schedule Dedication in the next couple of weeks.

So I had less than 24 hours to come up with a Litha ritual. The nice thing about having a group that's been around for almost seven years is that you tend to have a lot of material you can plunder for ideas. So I Frankensteined together a decent little ritual and everyone seemed to have a good time. I talked about Gawain and the Green Knight, and had a reading that I got from Cathy about the power of the Sun. I'll have to ask her where she got that from so I can credit it; I've always liked it. Hey, here it is: ( Read more... )

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So I'm talking to Brö, and the subject of the summer solstice comes up. There's a notion in Wicca (and elsewhere in paganism) that the seasons start at the cross-quarter days as opposed to the weatherman's notion that they start at the solstices and equinoxes. It got me to thinking why, and how that works, and all that stuff, so it obviously deserves a journal entry. This is probably written up elsewhere, but screw it. I might incorporate this into a lesson at some point.( Read more... )