Happy Solstice! Occurs today (June 20, 2008) at 7:59 PM EDT

[I Have A Dream]

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[rumpel]

1. Happy Solstice

Here are the cosmic energies for today from Mark Lerner

Daily Cosmic Calendar

As mentioned in yesterday's calendar entry, you may experience a cornucopia of blessings and opportunities for forward progress in a wide variety of activities since the Moon makes its monthly union with Jupiter in Capricorn (6:23AM PDT). You should get going with key professional ventures while the cosmos aids your efforts in the early hours. Before you know it, a void lunar cycle begins (12:03PM PDT) and this limbo time-period lasts until 2:35AM PDT on Saturday when the Moon arrives in service-oriented Aquarius.

more
http://horoscopes.astrology.com/astronet/cosmiccal.html

[stellanoir]

2. Happy Solstice to all !!!

Stargazers for my fellow stargazers.

Mine will be blooming very soon. :)

[LiberalEsto]

3. Happy Summer Solstice to you too!

Happy Midsummer
happy Litha (pagan)
happy St. John's Day (actually on the 24th)
happy Jaanipaev (Estonian)
happy Leedo (Estonian pagan)
happy Jaani or Liigo (Latvian)
and happy longest day of the year!

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[japple]

4. Hey Stella, does this mean we have to take a bath?? n/t

[stellanoir]

7. You don't ***have*** to do anything. LOL

Yet if you are so drawn (inadvertent bad pun) feel free.

I don't thing there is ever really an inopportune time to take a bath. Some cultures support taking them during eclipses (dunk in the Ganges perhaps?) or lunations.

Whenever one feels the need to purify will do though.

:hi:

[mother earth]

5. Happy Solstice, everyone. Love those lillies, Stella.

:bounce:

[stellanoir]

8. I've a very cool cousin who runs a commercial greenhouse.

He's really generous with me especially with new varieties of various plants for which he wants my feedback. I'm ostensibly sort of his horticultural guinea pig.

Here are the three varieties he's given me this year about which I'm most excited. . .



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http://www.designerdaylily.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=gallery.images&catID=29&image=723

They are at least new to me. He said he only ordered the Bela Lugosi Day Lily (the purple one) because he thought it had a funny name.

Glad you liked the other lilies and hope it's a great season for you mother earth.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Happy Solstice to all!

[rosesaylavee]

9. Happy Soltice!

:hug:

[Cleita]

10. It was a 110 degrees in my county today. It has never been this hot ever here

by the California coast.:spray: I'm grateful that earth starts moving away from the sun tomorrow, so Happy Solstice anyway.

[Callie McAllie]

11. I confess I had a quite uninspiring solstice evening

Each member of my family off doing their separate thing, including me. I need to figure out a way to get us all reconnected.

[shadowknows69]

12. Wiki had it right at midnight

[I Have A Dream]

13. That was Universal Time (UT)

http://www.chiff.com/a/summer-solstice.htm

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_is_summer_solstice_in_2008

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/print_localdata.php?loc=txtdat&data=seasons.txt

:hi:

[Eurobabe]

14. I went to a Solstice Fire last night, it was really cool!

Pix here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=280x43933

[I Have A Dream]

15. Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing them with us, 48percenter.

:)

[MorningGlow]

16. Hope everyone had a good one!

Unfortunately, ours was nonexistent, as MG Jr. had a relapse with this damned stomach bug that's been hanging on for weeks. He celebrated the solstice by throwing up all over mama and dada's bed. Whee. :(

Oh well. Nowhere to go but up! :hi:

[Metta]

17. Belated happy solstice, everyone.

May things be less awful than we fear and better than we expect. (So be it.)


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