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Summer Solstice 2022–Becoming an Earth Being
Happy Summer Solstice! Summer Solstice falls on the 21st of June, 2022 at 2:13 am Pacific Time. By honoring the solstice, we are participating in earth time, marking the changing of the seasons not by imposed, human-made calendar time, but by following the...
Spring Equinox 2022–Life Again!
Spring Equinox, the cusp of even more light. No matter how dark it is—the war in Ukraine, the fight for democracy in the US, the pandemic that never ends, the climate catastrophe... the living earth reminds us that there is always this: And this: ...
Winter Solstice 2021–Grateful for the Darkness
As we move into the Winter Solstice on December 21st, 2021, I am feeling so grateful for the darkness. Darkness, cover me like a blanket of night, oh cover me lightly.* I feel the growing blanket of night that holds me, our home, the land, the forest in a cozy...
Autumn Equinox–Earth-Based Practice
Happy Autumn Equinox! Autumn Equinox 2021 falls on September 22nd at 12:20 pm PT. It is the balancing point between light and dark, the approximately equal day and night before we tip toward darkness. When I think of balance these days, I think of how out of...
Summer Solstice 2021
Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, on June 20th at 8:32 pm PT, we are at Summer Solstice again. Eairth* has awoken in flowers and flourishing plants and new leaves. She is bearing fruit and food and warmer days filled with light... Here we are with the longest...
Spring Equinox–Balancing
Spring Equinox, falling on March 20th at 2:37 am PT in 2021, is a great time to revisit what it means to balance. It marks a time when the days and nights are approximately equal, in the midst of the changing from dark to growing light. Equinox Round by...
Honoring the Dark–Winter Solstice 2020
We live in a culture of polarities that encourages us to construct polarities in our lives: good vs. bad, what I like vs. what I dislike, warm vs. cold, comfortable vs. uncomfortable, relaxation vs. work, etc. One polarity that arises this time of year is...
The Call of Autumn Equinox
Autumn Equinox occurs on Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:30 am Pacific Time this year. While Solstices give us an experience of full-on light or dark, Equinoxes invite us into a threshold of changing light. Because of this, there is an uncertainty, a not knowing...
Walk in Beauty
This blogpost was originally a sermon for a service I put together for Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on August 16, 2020. You can watch the whole service and find the readings that accompany it. When Heidi (the musician I was working with) and I were...
Summer Solstice 2020: Letting Go into Light
It's Summer! We are celebrating more light, more warmth, and more time outside (for those of us with Covid restrictions lifting). But really, the Summer Solstice (June 20, 2:43 pm PT) represents not only a time of peak light, but the beginning of the turn...
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