Jodi Roberts and Monica LeCrone signaling the coming of the light at the 2008 Winter SolstiCelebration
Each year, I do a long page of photographs of the latest solstice celebration. The last couple years, Amy "Moonlady" Martin has done most of the text. She doesn't organize the summer celebrations anymore, but I've done several in the past (and they're really my favorites, although the winter ones are more photogenic. But I usually do the winter celebration. It's the only time I go into a church, but this joyous pagan celebration renews me.
Winter 2008 Winter 2007 Winter 2006 Winter 2005 Summer 2005 Winter 2004 + rehearsal
Summer 2008 Summer 2004 Winter 2002 Summer 2001
Revelers dancing at the 2008 Summer Solstice Celebration at White Rock Lake
My photographs of this summer's solstice is completely unofficial and somewhat experimental.
... spiral it over our heads, like the glowing stars of the nighttime sky.
From the Summer 2005 solstice celebration story
JR's Cosmic Coping Kit of Metaphysical Knowledge — pretty much everything I ever learned, more or less
Meditation of the Five Elements — a short, cleansing meditation using the Five Elements of Ancient Knowledge: Air, Earth, Fire, Water and Aether
Color Magic — which does what
