Happy soulstice
I went into meditative ritual mode at 12:34pm today and stayed there until after dark. A Mary candle in my room had been burning all night and continued to burn all day. I did some domestic chores and put up a new string of fairy lights. Now I think it wasn’t a coincidence that I had left the lights sitting for a couple of weeks after buying them: they wanted to be put up today. I listened to Solstice by Björk on repeat, in my room and on my headphones, for a total of 64 times. I went for a walk to Holly Park because I hadn’t been there in years, and it had been calling me. I wore a black and white skirt, a black T-shirt with white polka dots, a black coat and a white hood, a black bra and white panties. Black and white, dark and light, good and bad, right and wrong, happy and sad. Accepting the cycles and rhythms. Or trying to.
I came home and lit my new amber-scented candle and meditated. I lit another Mary candle outside to be burnt down as it wants to. Then I did Christine Arylo’s winter solstice meditation and loved it. I painted my nails. Then I opened three packages that had come in the mail, all Christmas presents from my mom. Books and candy. Today is the real festival of light.
My New Year’s resolution for 2012: To let myself be. That is all. 2012 is my year. The year of the dragon.
By Ariel, December 21, 2011 @ 8:51 pm
WOOT! Happy Solstice! Here’s my favorite solstice song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARA-wOaVW0s
By Starrie, December 24, 2011 @ 2:13 pm
Happy Solstice!! This year is the year we have all been waiting for!
By amyleblanc, January 11, 2012 @ 11:30 pm
yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
dragons.
i can feel it.
By lizzy, January 19, 2012 @ 4:33 pm
love this. all of it.