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This week I had the pleasure of catching up with my friend Daniel Allison in a podcast episode that will appear both on my podcast, Fair Folk (check it out if you haven’t!) and Daniel’s, House of Legends. You can also listen right here.
The episode opens with Daniel telling the story of the god Lugh (after whom Lughnasadh is named) at the hall of the king Nuada, leading us into a discussion of how we might approach Lughnasadh folklore and mythology now.
Next, we share what each of us has been up to lately, especially emphasizing the role of pagan devotion in each of our work, and diving into the role of “permission” to embody sacred traditional culture. You can always find a gatekeeper somewhere out there, but you won’t find one in here. 💖
Daniel Allison and I will be offering a series of four monthly workshops together between September and December called Cave of Dreams. In these sessions we will share seasonal story, song, folklore and meditations, and hold space for participants to use these materials to generate creative work and reflection.
We are inspired by the gathering-in that occurs in the darkening months as a catalyst for deep and intuitive visioning, hence the title Cave of Dreams.
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Hello friend,
I'm here today to wish you a beautiful solstice time, whenever it is you celebrate that in this week or so of ultimate daylight and shortest night.
I'm about to present at a festival called Cascadian Midsummer that's held outside of Olympia, and as I was reading the booklet for the festival that was created by my friend's publishing house called Hyldr, I came across a goosebumps-inducing piece inside written by Ilana Hamilton, a storyteller who lives in Portland, Oregon. Ilana does a lot of work with mythic and traditional material, sometimes texts from Old Norse.
This piece, Summer Solstice, was written to be read aloud at a midsummer or solstice bonfire. It isn’t published anywhere else, but she gave me permission to share it with you here. And I want you to have it simply so that you can read it and hear it for pleasure, but also so that, if you feel inspired to, you could take this to your own Midsummer ritual or celebration and share it with others.
I have attached the text below.
May the radiance of the sun fortify our human hearts these days of its ultimate power. May it awaken the burning in us to repair and defend all that is beautiful and valuable and sacred in this world.
Sweet solstice to you and yours,
Love Danica
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