Hello Faolchú
Shazbeith
It has been a little quiet of late, but hoping to generate some
discussion about what others are doing for their respective
solstices... Winter or Summer, depending on where you are.
So, what is everyone doing?
Brightest Blessings,
Shazbeith
Grove Organiser
Silver Birch Protogrove - ADF
Melbourne, Australia
Sangrail
and we're hiring a bus to go up to Stonehenge Aotearoa -
http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/stonehenge/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=41
Where we're hosting a Winter Solstice ceremony (I'm holding East),
followed by dinner at an RSA hall, and then piling back on the bus for
the trip back down.
Should be fun!
Also, there's a few of us interested in doing Winter Solstice
carolling in town on the Friday night, followed by a potluck dinner.
;D
I'm just looking for good Winter Solstice carols...
(Starting off with Reclaiming's "The Ocean is the beginning of the Earth...
We were supposed to be having a singing & chanting workshop/practice
at my house this weekend, but, there's been a double booking with
treeplanting at the grove. Hmmm, might see if everyone wants to do the
singing workshop *while* tree-planting?
Cheers,
Pearl.
Rose
to my post... turns out i didn't actually post it. :s Just wrote it up
and forgot to hit enter *chuckles*
the tree planting sounds lovely pearl, let me know if they descide to
sing while you're planting, i'd love to know how that goes :)
as to winter solstice, not sure at this point... just had a car
accident and have a sore spine *sniffs* so making plans at this point
will most likely not work
*hugs all*
Rose
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Sangrail
We had a great treeplanting day!
We skimped on the carolling a bit, but we were quite busy what with:
planting out 100-150 trees, lunch, a small ceremony to mark our
intention that we would like part of the property we were at to be a
natural burial ground one day, and another wee ceremony to bury the
afterbirth of a grove member who had baby boy twins recently under a
new tree (the Maori words for 'earth' and 'placenta' are the same -
whenua. So we were returning the whenua to the whenua...).
Oh, and it was the first time we'd seen the babies too. Quite a few
clucky grove members, boys included. ;)
Fitting coincidence of ceremonies there - birth/death.
Ah, and also a follow-up sewing bee where I completed the hood for the
cloak I'm making for Winter Solstice.
Turns out I can sew. Huh, just requires spatial awareness of pattern
to material, cutting things with scissors, and operating a machine!
Hey, I can do that! ;D
Although, whoops, better finish it this weekend...
Although ouch, car accident? Hope nothing major, and that it all comes
right over the next couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Goiriath.