Sacred Days of Midsummer ~ Discussion Thread 2018

[BlueDragonfly]

I'm late joining in this summer, but I can't wait to listen to this playlist.  Thanks for it, RavenofSummer <3

 

The Winter Queen is here!

*waves*  It feels so good to be here and reconnecting!  ^-^

[RavenOfSummer]

I'm late joining in this summer, but I can't wait to listen to this playlist.  Thanks for it, RavenofSummer <3

 

The Winter Queen is here!

*waves*  It feels so good to be here and reconnecting!  ^-^

 

So happy to have you, BlueDragonfly[/member]!  <3

[RavenOfSummer]

I can hardly believe we're midway through our reading once we draw our card for today! Here's another playlist- this one is just a general summer playlist, mostly classics that remind me of summer. I love playlists to get in seasonal moods and I hope some of you enjoy this one too  ^-^ Here's the Spotify link:

 

 

And here's the 8tracks link:

 

https://8tracks.com/margaritanoir/summer

 

I hope those work! Here is the full track list:

 

The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)- Grateful Dead

These Are Days- 10,000 Maniacs

Long Hot Summer Night- Jimi Hendrix

Summerfling- k.d. lang

Summertime Blues- Rush

Dancing Days- Led Zeppelin

Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding

Hot Fun in the Summertime- Sly and the Family Stone

Sugar Magnolia- Grateful Dead

Summer Breeze- Seals & Croft

[OutoftheAshes]

Thank you RavenOfSummer!  :)

I love so many of these tracks and how appropriate.  <3

[RavenOfSummer]

Thank you RavenOfSummer!  :)

I love so many of these tracks and how appropriate.  <3

 

<3 <3 <3

[RavenOfSummer]

I hope everyone had a very happy and blessed Solstice day <3 I found a couple of timely poems, and I thought to share them here too:

 

Summer Solstice

 

This was when the whole world measured time

This is when the light would turn around

This is where the past would come undone

and the spinning earth will mark a new beginning

 

Let's go back in time, to when it all began

To the breaking of new dawns

Where moments bright with fire, would light the chanting song

 

Where pagans worshipped sun, and danced among the trees

Wore strange masks of covered straw, and blessed cold ash with awe

 

Wreaths hung upon the door against all spirit's, dire

and when the winter's grasp let go, the sun reversed the pyre

 

This was when the whole world measured time

This is when the light would turn around

So that spring arrives, and seeds will sprout and grow

 

Oh, radiant sun, stretch the day, shorten night

Return earth's darkness into light

This is where the light will turn around

And this was where the past would come undone

 

- Carrie Richards

 

The Summer Day

 

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean —

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

 

- Mary Oliver

 

[EmpyreanKnight]

I have to catch up, will post my readings later. :)

[DanielJUK]

thank you for hosting this Raven, it went really well and thanks for posting the playlists for Midsummer  <3 <3

[Whisper]

Love the poems, Raven!!!  <3

 

So behind on this. Still hope to post my draws, though.