1-As we enter Autumn, here's a look back to fresh, green mid-summer. I've just finished pulling together videos + photos for a Summer Solstice blog post. Here's the link https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/07/blog-post.html
it has all the video links, Youtube + Spectra/Peertube plus more photos. I'll link all the videos here, too, in a thread (all short, some actual 'shorts').
#pagan #animist #Latvian #Alberta #SummerSolstice #BloomScrolling #SeasonalRhythms #garden
Mid-summer Suite: Photos and Videos, a Poem! Slow Walk, Garden, Altar and Rain

  Somehow I never finished this post celebrating the height of Saule/sun in the northern summer! At the Summer Solstice it is not yet the ho...

2-The day: views of the morning gardens +bees, an afternoon walk through woodland clearings on the farm, laying the Solstice Altar, welcome evening rain.
First video #bees #flowers +a #poem #garden #pollinators https://youtube.com/shorts/xP3h45G0jok?feature=share
https://spectra.video/w/a7JXcVF6H7fj9umygoG2Jt
fecund luscious verdancy,
reared by the sun,
imbued with snow and rain
fed on the decay of rock and life,
it races to complete the cycle:
to grow and flower and seed,
to feast and be feasted upon
#animist #pagan #seasons
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3- "A beautiful summer day, 21C/70F with a mix of sun and cloud. Everything is green and there are flowers everywhere. Bees, flower flies, pollinating wasps, beetles and butterflies flit and buzz and zoom, and birds sing from the trees."
Next, a short #SlowWalk in the bush on the #farm
https://youtu.be/llEIps56dSk
https://spectra.video/w/x6tZj5PPuGEpBhHzRXQkqE
#nature #CountryLiving #animist #pagan #Alberta #June #florespondence
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4- "In honour of the Summer Solstice, the big day for Saule/Sun, we celebrate her collaboration with Great Mother/Mara whose body/Earth and living Waters bring forth Life in such abundance, imbued with Saule's energy.

I wash the wooden outdoor altar bench in preparation and lay an altar with plants, flowers, leaves, pieces of wood and stones, blessing it again once finished, with Water."
#pagan #animist #GoddessCulture #GreatMother #Saule
https://youtu.be/jlbxuxbE_8Q
https://spectra.video/w/feNcNi29SGiDktShex98YA

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

5- another short of the altar.
When the clouds come over for a while, the mosquitoes came out- generally they haven't been bad this year...
Then the sun came out again, and the flowers and leaves bask in the light and moisture.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BwI06j6erLg?feature=share
https://spectra.video/w/vr4FEHJKa2StMKopvF4Fsz
#flowers #reverence #pagan #animist #SummerSolstice #celebrations #SeasonalObservances #BloomScrolling
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6-Finally a short rain shower refreshes plants and soil: "The perfect complement to the joining of Sun and Earth, Rain Mother delivered her blessing."
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q0uUpEW77UI?feature=share
https://spectra.video/w/dryxW9zagNLHGuPqssm9sT
#RainMother #Goddess #Latvian #pagan #LittleMothers #LietusMate #solstice #seasons #rain #nature
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