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Summer Solstice Ritual 2004

Being so busy with the mundane things in my life, I haven't quite mastered celebrating  the Summer Solstice with the workings of acircle. I didn't let that stop me. I went to my favorite sacred spot whichis on a huge rock that extends into a running pond with a huge oaktree that towers over it.

Over to my right side was a family of geese. Each year there is one lovely couple that  raises new young ones every year. This year they had three fine young ones. At the dam, there were couple of ducks.They are all accustomed to my presence.

As I gazed upon the pond, the mundane world seemed to vanished. Ifelt like I had slipped into another world filled with abundance, peaceand beauty. I imagined this experience as a glimpse of heaven...........heaven right on earth. My heart was filled with joy and Ilifted my ocarina out of my purse and played songs of joy from my heart to the divine. I was accompanied by a choir of all the animals around me, birds, frogs and insects. The fish were jumping in front of
me. I felt so in touch with the universal energies. For a brief moment, my fears were set aside. I began to think anything was possible.

Later, I took a book out that I had brought with me to guide me to perform a circle for this special occasion. I didn't do a formal circle since I didn't feel comfortable due to passing traffic. My sacred spot is also on private club property. I became a member just to have the privilege on being on the grounds. Members of the club are very uncomfortable around me. I think to the point where they may even cause me harm. So very discreetly I said:

I celebrate the noon of the summer with mystic rites

O great Goddess and God,
all nature vibrates with your energies
and the Earth is bathed with warmth and life.
Now is the time for purification,
Oh fiery Sun,
burn away the unuseful,
the hurtful,
the bane,
in your Omnipotent power.
Purify me!

I picked up a little stone and tried to vision all my negativity going into the stone and said:

I banish you by the powers of the Goddess and God,
I banish you by the powers of the Sun, Moon and Stars!
I banish you  by the powers of Earth, Air, Earth and Water!

Then I tossed the stone into the water. Later, I gave thanks. The
words I used were creatively written by Scott Cunningham, from
"Wicca A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner.

Once again, I played a few tunes on my ocarina out of gratitude and then left.

The next day I went by my sacred spot and decided to stop in for a moment of meditation. I saw something on the rock. At first, I thought it was one of them brown bug balls that perhaps had fallen from the tree. As I got closer to it I could hardly believe my eyes. It was an egg. Instinctively, I knew it was a gift that had been left behind for me. I
was in absolute awe, by the egg and it's symbolism. I had my camera with me and took a photo. I didn't quite know what to do with it, so I left it behind, knowing full well that nature would know what to do with it.

 

Sources and Credits:
Author Nancy J. Wentworth