Summer Solstice Ceremony | Online

This is the time of the rose, blossom and thorn, fragrance and blood. Now on this longest day, light triumphs and yet begins the decline into dark…

Solstice is all about that bittersweet moment when things reach completion, and then begin to transform. Just as summer begins, the daylight diminishes. The flower must fade for the fruit to set.

Our Summer Solstice ritual is about this process of culminating, celebrating, and letting go. We’ll work with herbs and flowers, and will learn how to trance into a plant and make it an ally in our own process of transformation.

As We Prepare for Ceremony, We Ponder:

• What is coming into blossom in our lives? What are the achievements, the relationships, the efforts we can celebrate…and how do we then release them and let them transform?
• What are the flowers that have died on the vine, the disappointments, the mistakes, things that feel like failure?How do we also acknowledge them and let them go, to become compost that can fertilize the harvest to come?
• What are the larger processes around us that need to complete themselves so that the world can become more fair, more free, more balanced? What beliefs, patterns, and behaviors might we need to let go of to bring more justice into this world?

Seeds are planted in the dark earth, and as the sun dips below the horizon, we send our dreams and hopes for the harvest into the fertile dark.

For Your Altar, Please Prepare:

• A pen and paper for writing.
• A small fireproof container that you can burn in. If that’s not possible, you can shred and bury the paper later.
• Fresh flowers and/or herbs that you feel drawn to. Roses would be wonderful—but ideally, garden roses not the florist kind that are full of pesticides. But any beautiful flower that calls to you will work.

We turn the Wheel…for we have planted the seeds of our own changes and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun.

I look forward to creating some solstice magic with you!

With Love,

Starhawk

Details & FAQs:

There are a limited number of discounted scholarship tickets available. If you feel called to join us in circle, we want to make sure you can join us! Please send an email to info@starhawk.org with the subject line “Solstice Scholarship” and a brief introduction if you would like one of the scholarship slots.

Our online rituals are accessible! We will have live closed captioning courtesy of the generous contributions of Diane Perazzo of Wordsmith Writing.

If you would like to invite your coven or a group of friends/family to join you in the ritual on a single link, that is absolutely encouraged. If you would like to contribute an additional financial consideration for the additional participants, you are welcomed to make a donation to Earth Activist Training in lieu of purchasing additional tickets.

The entire ceremony will be recorded and delivered via a link to your inbox within 24 hours of the conclusion of the event. If you cannot attend live, you can purchase a ticket here and be the first to receive the recording once it is uploaded.