Solstice Fire Ritual: Calling In Darkness and Newness, Endings and Beginnings to
be
shared
from
collectively
wherever
at
4:23pm —
December
21,
you
are
on 2020
What you will need: a
candle,
lighter
or
matches,
and
5-10
minutes
Opening the Circle We
gather
day
of
and
the
as
the
winter
slowly
in
the
longest
start
to
sun
burn
nurture
ourselves
intentions
We
invite
you
what
as
to
we
again.
needs
ignite
candles,
order
to
open
aloud
to
yourself,
us
of
and
this
in
a
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do
make
in
as
the
season
of
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need
for
your
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time
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in
first
day
to
honor
write
it
sunlight
days
take
ends
year
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we
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to
to and
to
ahead.
and
prepare
release
2021?
will
stock,
(!),
darkness,
the
and
in
‘official’
of
the
candle-lighting year.
growth
heart,
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light
new
new
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generative
ritual
for
--
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year
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short
you
the
Solstice
go
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room
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Beginning
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to
intention
hold
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hemisphere,
welcome
join
breaths
this
darkness.
through
collective our
of
lengthen
and
on
northern
night
release
set
sets
3 to
from can
2020 speak
in it
down...
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we
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remember
those
incarcerated,
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those
who
whom
holidays
those carry
care
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to
we
to
those
remind
are
those in us
for
the that
physically
Longest we
are
distant.
the
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of
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love
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you
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shapes
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world
to
rest.
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creatures
just
as
they
and
me,
are.
imagine
presence
believe
--
that
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me
whom
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flame
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of
in
the
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stirring
night.
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beside
me.
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and
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and
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violence....etc.
time.
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illuminates
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ground
ourselves
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loosen
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each
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with
chest
a
or
of
our
movement
through
together,
hand
virtual
jaws,
to
exhaling
breaths
place
in
people
and
shoulders, of
your
We
will
communal
in
feel
breath,
move
our
our
own
feet
inhaling
through
intention.
If
3
on
the
through
slow,
you
want
you
belly.
Collective Breaths with Intentions [adapted
from
Sofia
Campos
Ancestral
Resistance:
in
Offerings
and
Practices]
Breath One The
first
breath
honors
all
circle,
on
that this
is
for
you
are
Earth,
take
this
breath
give
and
purpose
you.
to
--
in
Your your
this
remind
being
spirit,
life.
your
your
You
ourselves
and
are that
resilience.
light,
your
loved. we
And
are
This
breath
presence
in
this
you
are
needed.
sacred,
full
of
We
gifts
to
practice. Together, we breathe: Everyone take a and long exhale together
to
deep inhale . . .
Breath Two This
second
survivors.
breath
This
connection gaining
is
breath
between
strength
For
the
hope
We
take
this
for
and
we
our
is
for
this
us,
the
energy
ability
sustain
breath
family
to
by
freedom
circle.
and
For
that
power.
being
honor
of
in
fighters,
each
passes For
collective
for
the
For
through
the
community
our
other.
warriors,
and
power,
in
the
each
darkness
one
and
the
struggle
beauty
lovers,
and
of
us,
light.
together. love.
Together, we breathe: Everyone take a deep inhale . . . and long exhale together
Breath Three This
third
elements endings and
and of
and
future
final
fire,
beginnings.
--
for
reminds
us
us.
breath
This
breath
ground,
that
our
we is
is
wind, This
and
breath
ancestors
are
also
part for
of
and a
criminalized.
Because
people
fight
with.
can take
we
feel this
for
because breath
and
they
to
give
honor
us
all
is
The
who
this
For the
that is
holds the
spirits
to
to
us.
we
for
can’t
rise
abundance
and
of
from
come.
neither
is
For
season
our
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stand
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present
breath
nor
ends
with
detained,
people.
always
around
the winter.
past,
beings
incarcerated,
breath
people
this
that
generations
strength
of
for
legacy
everyone
surveilled,
Earth water.
see here
and
The but
who
today.
within
us,
we
We
Together, we breathe: Everyone take a deep inhale . . . long exhale together lifting
us
up,
today
and
always.
Closing In
these
May
long
this
nights
season
of
winter
A
time
to
burn
A
time
to
transform.
May
you
And
the
know hope
away
the of
ahead,
what
beauty
new
may
be is
a no
of
you
time
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let
and
go
nurtured.
and
release.
needed.
luminous
darkness.
awakening.
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