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Happy Pride Month, day 20, solstice!
Jun. 20th, 2024 04:42 pm20. I'm proud of my spirituality. This is a very quiet solid feeling inside, kind of like my spirituality itself. I'm proud of turning inward and trusting what I sense directly, rather than reaching outward the way I've been taught my whole life.
This is separate from being proud of being Jewish. That's more of an identity, and this is how I relate to my sense of the world as a whole, to its energy and meaning. Which might be informed by Judaism too. I did some explorations of Kabbalah a while back, tagged kabbalah.
I track solstices and equinoxes, even though I don't do Wiccan rituals for them anymore. Long sunlit evenings are nourishing for me. I pop out the door into the sunshine as soon as I'm done with work, and often eat my dinner on the front porch.
In Portland, both the winter darkness and summer light felt out of sync to me. The day is 45 minutes longer there at summer solstice, and 45 minutes shorter at winter solstice than in the Bay Area. I will admit that on this third solstice back here, I do miss the last dregs of daylight lasting until 10pm. But not the heat that goes with that, and not waking up at 5am because it gets light so early. Still happy to be here!
I might do a Tarot reading with the Spacious Tarot to observe the Solstice. I'm very cautiously feeling my way back into using it, not for divination, but for reflection.
Happy Solstice!
This is separate from being proud of being Jewish. That's more of an identity, and this is how I relate to my sense of the world as a whole, to its energy and meaning. Which might be informed by Judaism too. I did some explorations of Kabbalah a while back, tagged kabbalah.
I track solstices and equinoxes, even though I don't do Wiccan rituals for them anymore. Long sunlit evenings are nourishing for me. I pop out the door into the sunshine as soon as I'm done with work, and often eat my dinner on the front porch.
In Portland, both the winter darkness and summer light felt out of sync to me. The day is 45 minutes longer there at summer solstice, and 45 minutes shorter at winter solstice than in the Bay Area. I will admit that on this third solstice back here, I do miss the last dregs of daylight lasting until 10pm. But not the heat that goes with that, and not waking up at 5am because it gets light so early. Still happy to be here!
I might do a Tarot reading with the Spacious Tarot to observe the Solstice. I'm very cautiously feeling my way back into using it, not for divination, but for reflection.
Happy Solstice!
