Blessed Midsummer / Happy Summer Solstice
May you dance with the fairies
Feast on all the crops
Run with wild animals
And light fires that never stop
Can't help myself sometimes
Last night my husband and I decorated the most beautiful altar for Midsummer. But instead of taking pictures we just celebrated the season.
Can anyone else imagine what it was like when people create beautiful things just for the moment and didn't need to record them, capture them, or share them with strangers?
Enjoy a happy sand robot for the first day of summer!
Blessed Midsummer and happy solstice
Welcome fairies! Welcome home!
Laugh with us, be not alone.
Roof of beeswax, quartz the stone
Moat of flowers, acorn boat.
Welcome fairies! Welcome home!
Midsummer is always known.
The warmth
The light
The life,
To love
To feel
To die,
We're here
We're there
We're all,
The sun's
The moon's
The Gods'
We cannot always see them
But they play tricks on us
They flit about laughing
Dancing in shadow and light
But sometimes we can catch them
We find traces of their games
and they remind us of
Sensations that live unseen
Blessed Midsummer!
Can we be done with the “evil Pagan” cliché?
Okay, Hereditary was a good horror movie. (It was kinda slow and certain shots at the end were hilarious, but it was good). I’m used to the evil witch trope. It doesn’t bother me because true equality means there are good and bad people from every race, gender, sex, religion, etc. The bad ones make great villains.
I get it.
But why, why does that same director now have another “evil pagan” movie coming out. Really? Didn’t he just do that? You’d think he’d find something new and original.
I guess we can’t expect that since Hereditary is so popular.
He now has to take Midsummer, one of the brightest happiest holidays for white witches, and turn that into some evil sacrificial rite too? Because there aren’t enough “evil Pagan” stereotypes out there. Let’s just fuck with one of the best positive times for Pagans too.
But you know what I’d like to see?
Movies about the 2nd coming of Christ, only he’s actually evil but people worship him and do what he wants because he’s Jesus and they have to follow the son of God.
Or maybe a movie about the Christian all knowing male god torturing his subjects for fun. Just for the sheer pleasure of it.
Oooo ooo, how about Santa as a rapist? Or the Pope encouraging his clergy to kidnap and molest children... oh wait, that’s too realistic.
Yeah
Blessed Midsummer and happy summer to everybody!
Light the fires
Call the fairies
and bring on the wine