Lovely vision! And we always have cake or a treat on the solstices, equinoxes and fire festival days. Laura F., this gluten free orange cake is terrific: https://elanaspantry.com/orange-cake/
I absolutely love your suggestions. It feels like such a great process to mark the solstice and welcome in the new year coming up. Thank you!!
Absolutely right on. Bless you for laying it out with such kind and articulate energies.
We'll have a far better experience by preparing all levels of our physical beings and allowing ourselves carefree joy and freedom without expectation of results just belief that it already is. Print posts off and reread if need be.
Many of us I suspect realize how seductive the light is to the dark and vice versa so every single one of your suggestions is awesome and wonderful. Take them to heart one and all with deep love and gratitude and appreciation.
This is a really expansive opportunity for really and truly creating the living light and sacred heart of love for our world and even all worlds, mutiverses or parallels states of being and not any select group.
And yes let us all eat cake and dance afterwards this is SO how it works!
Dance in the moonlight! It is a phenomenal joy!
Love all of you from the seat of my soul and yours, now and forever!
Unite in the Light on Solstice Night! Hahahahaha!
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Thanks, everybody! And @herondreams, I'll be making that orange cake tomorrow night—it looks divine.
@michele-b-here-in-the-forum, I hereby crown you our Mother of Merriment. Your joy and radiance are exquisitely infectious—and so very needed in these times. Thank you for your love and care. You have my love and gratitude in return. ❤️
"@michele-b-here-in-the-forum, I hereby crown you our Mother of Merriment. Your joy and radiance are exquisitely infectious—and so very needed in these times. Thank you for your love and care. You have my love and gratitude in return. 
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Oh yes, yes, yes. "Mother of Merriment" indeed!
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These are such good ideas, Vestralux! I'm already thinking of the songs I'll include on my solstice celebration playlist. While I still will have a candle lit at 11:19, I'm thinking I will perform the main chunk of my solstice ritual - deep meditation then feasting - in the early evening (I have a lot I need to get done tomorrow, and I'm going to be too tired to do all of that near midnight).
This is probably going to be my last post on the forum for the next few weeks. I'll be off the grid celebrating the holidays with my family and reading some good books, and then I have a lot of intention-setting to tackle in the first week of 2020. Have a happy new decade, everyone, and may you all start soaking in the returning sunlight!
Have a beautiful, restful holiday break, @coyote. And everyone else here.
I'll be holding all of you close in mind and heart tomorrow evening, as we dream a shining vision of our new world into being together. Much love and light all around.??
@coyote and all of you,
I will be participating from Northern Virginia at 11:19 pm on Saturday. Because I live so close to the seat of political power, I am often aware of the swirling, psychic energy emanating from DC. For the past 3 years that energy has felt increasingly dark and chaotic. Sitting in front of my beautifully-lit tree, in quiet, grounded, prayerful contemplation and meditation, feels right to me. I will light a candle in unity with all of you.
It's time to tame the Tazmanian devil swirling around us. Our collective light can accomplish that.
I used to live in Loudoun Co. (aka LoCo !) - we used to bump into Oliver North in local stores... We escaped in 2014... Thanks for "holding down the fort". I will send a little extra light your way, to offset the swirl emanating from The Swamp.
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