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- From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Solstice morning musings
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.213909.22209@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:39:09 GMT
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- Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
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- Gypsy settles into her chair with barely a flicker of
- whirlwind teasing her draping of scarves. <I've
- finally caught up with Callahans after my site's
- recent computer problems. So hopefully I can keep
- up in real time now.>
-
- Before I head out to the meadow to help with Didi's
- ritual if its still happening, I thought I would share
- my Solstice morning with you all.
-
- We didn't vigil all night this year, perhaps we're getting
- old. But we got up long before the sun and went out
- to a bird sanctuary in the Baylands along San Francisco
- Bay. We go there every May morning and every Yule
- to watch the sunrise. In May there are birds nesting and
- the feeling that life is all around. Several bands of
- Morris dancers dance up the sun and carols are sung by
- the dancers and many revelers.
-
- At Yule this year there were very few people. The birds
- were silent and few. Unlike some years there was no
- frost and it was nice to just sit and join in spirit with the
- sleeping marsh. A long wooden walkway allows one
- to go far out into the marsh to a bench on a platform
- at Bayside. We sat and watched as the clouds became
- yellow and then gold and then firey orange and the
- sky above us got bluer and bluer.
-
- <chant> Shining undying swift-horsed Sun,
- Shining undying swift-horsed Sun,
- We see you rising, we see you rising,
- Shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine.
-
- The sun itself hid behind the clouds but the few birds
- began to wake and fly and our bodies and spirits told us
- that the Sun had risen yet again. Now the days will
- lengthen and all that depend on it for life will feel
- the increase.
-
- I realized how many blessings I have had this year.
- I have loving family, good friends, work I value, a
- warm home with cats and comfort. Yes, the cycle of
- life and death and rebirth has touched me. But most
- days have brought growth and goodness.
-
- May the blessings of the season be with you all.
-
- Gypsy smile again with a far look in her eye, still
- envisioning the quiet momeny by the Bay.
-
- Swirling to her feet, she dances to the chalkline.
-
- <To Magic and Love and the Reborn Sun>
-
- ######Crrrrraaaaassssh########
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-
- Rowan Fairgrove
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- Current Book: Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers
- Current Music: Youtu Yinde
- Current Movie: Daddy & the Muscle Academy
- Current Holiday: Yule
- Current Drink: Cocoa with Tuaca & Cognac
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