Happy Summer Solstice to all my brothers and sisters

[shadowknows69]

Apparently happens right at midnight tonight 23:59 according to wiki anyway. Powerful juju no?

Bright Blessings to you all.

Have a feast, have sex, be merry.

Love,
Shadow

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[H2O Man]

1. And to you.

Enjoy.

[comtec]

2. done, done annnnnnd...

done ;)
same to you Shadow :)

[texastoast]

3. Happy solstice and blessed be to you!

There was a party at Stonehenge last night. 25,000 attended. We just might have a balefire tonight and celebrate. Have a great season!

[shadowknows69]

5. I can't even imagine the energies floating around that gathering

[lovuian]

16. woohoo

:woohoo:

[gademocrat7]

4. And to you also.

It's my 33rd wedding anniversary also!

[shadowknows69]

6. Sweet, congradts!!!!

[H2O Man]

12. Happy anniversary!

And many happy returns to you and your's!

[Breeze54]

7. Thanks, shadowknows69 and a Happy First Day of Summer to you too!

:hug:

[iamahaingttta]

8. Thanks, you too!

"Have a feast, have sex, be merry."

Why should tonight be any different from every other Saturday night?

[hermetic]

9. Thanks

for the good wishes shadow. The same for you. Hoping better energies for the highest good follow this event.

Meanwhile, party on!

:party: :toast: :party:

[MikeE]

10. Thanks, you too

Lots of Love! Have a wonderful summer.

[applegrove]

11. Yes Happy Solstice

[Cleita]

13. Not happy for me.

Going on to a third day of temperatures between 100 and 110. No one has air conditioning because it's usually fairly cool here even in the summer time. We are all wilting. We need rain and lower temperatures. It's too hot to cook for a feast, have sex or be merry.

[cbayer]

17. Come over to Catalina.

Perfect for cooking a feast, having sex and being merry!

[Cleita]

21. I wish n/t

[underseasurveyor]

31. I go to Catalina as often as I can

You live in Avalon? Usually when I go over it's with my friends and they moor their yacht up at the Isthmus. There's some great diving at Catalina.. do you dive?



Happy Summer Solstice :hi:

Peace, Joy, Sex, Being Grateful for what you have and for what you don't have, Appreciate, Laugh, Remember to Always Have Fun no matter what you're doing, and most of all.... Blessings Everyone

[cbayer]

36. I live on my boat.

During the winter, we spend a lot of time mooring in Avalon (it's buy 3 days, get 4 free and there are not many tourists). For the summer, we will divide our time between the isthmus, cat harbor, little harbor and traveling to some of the other channel islands. I don't dive, but I love to snorkel.

Happy Summer Solstice to you :hi:

[Eurobabe]

37. tell me more about diving at Catalina

that way I can get my crazy diving obsessed husband to visit. :rofl:

[underseasurveyor]

41. If your husband is crazy obsessed about diving

and you live in So Cal... then why hasn't he been to Catalina? heh heh

We usually moor at the Isthmus then take the whaler around to different areas around the island. My boyfriend, a marine biologist, just did some dives (some work related and some fun dives) last week on the back side of the island and he said the kelp forests are thick and fabulous and the water temp has come up considerably.

I've dived mostly from Avalon on up and even though I haven't had the experience (yet) to dive around the world I know many people that have and they say Catalina is as good if not better as anywhere they've been. Except Fiji, that seems to be the ultimate for most divers.

But diving Catalina is awesome. He, and you, should really go.

[Bluerthanblue]

14. to you and yours too Shad-

may it be good.

:hug:

peace~

blu

[ColbertWatcher]

15. A kick, sadly the first rec and a thank you for...

...a kind word.

[cbayer]

18. Felt like it was special, but didn't know it was solstice until I saw your post.

Happy night to you and yours.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Here it's winter solstice

Which in Rio de Janeiro means "you are able to stay out and not want to kill yourself."

[Bill McBlueState]

22. yep, it's our sun now

You can have it back when we're done with it in September.

[orleans]

20. 2nd rec. thank you. same to you. n/t

[MorningGlow]

23. Love and light and bright blessings to you as well

Happy Solstice to all! Blessed be, Shadow!

[Cerridwen]

24. Brightest Blessings, shadowknows69.

Thank you for the sentiment.

Be merry. I may have to work on that one. Solstice is the best reason to do so.

Thank you for the reminder.

:toast:

[bvar22]

25. Doing our Solstice Fertility Dance and howling at the moon.

Don't get too close unless you want something to grow.

[Hekate]

26. I went to the annual Summer Solstice Parade in downtown Santa Barbara. Best parade in the country.

Just google for it and you'll get a lot of photos (I don't have a clue how to post them, sorry).

It's been going on since 1974 and is an artistic and creative blowout. The Sun blazes down on the drummers, dancers, sparkly non-motorized floats, and the onlookers.

There are some who say (darkly, of course) that it Ought Not To Be Allowed because of all those Pagan Elements. :spray:

Bright Blessings!

Hekate

[Arugula Latte]

40. Yeah, and that atrocity called Christmas (the rip-off of Winter Solstice)

is just fine and dandy with these anti-Pagans.

Ugh.

[texanwitch]

27. We had a bonfire at the beach tonight.

We had beautiful sunset.

Blessings to all.

[PerfectSage]

28. Hapy 6 months till commander shit for brains in chief leaves office

[proud patriot]

29. I'll toast to that

:toast:

[trusty elf]

30. Same to you!

Thanks Shadow.

[GreenTea]

32. Yes, summertime, where the weather & wine is fine...it certainly blows on by quickly, doesn't it?

It's fine on the beautiful, cool (and lately) sunny, liberal, redwood coast of Humboldt County, CA!

[shadowknows69]

34. I hate you.

Need a roomate? B-)

[Karl_Bonner_1982]

33. Happy "Mid" summer

My favorite paradox...the solstices are refereed to in tradition as Midsummer and Midwinter, even though the hot and cold peaks come about 4 to 6 weeks later in most temperate climates.

Here in Oregon, the winter solstice really is getting close to the deepest part of our winter...but at summer solstice our summer is just beginning! We have long springs and short autumns.

[CanonRay]

35. Happy Solstice to you all

[windoe]

38. Happy Summer Solstice!

Just had my birthday, and enjoyed that powerful Moon last week.

[Arugula Latte]

39. Now THIS is a real holiday. Happy Solstice!

:toast:

P.S. Screw "Christmas." Summer and Winter Solstices are the true and original Reason for the Seasons.