Late Planting and Solstice Ceremony -- Sunday, June 21st at 6:15 AM at the Peace Village

On Sunday, June 21st at 6:15 AM, the late planting and solstice ceremony will be in the sacred Arbor at the Peace Village in Lincoln, VT. All are welcome!

Let us celebrated our community and connections with coming together at this time!

We will begin the day with stick dancing and the lighting of the sacred fire together. Together we will offer the Dance of the Four Directions, prayers, and corn meal offerings.

After basic meditation practice, sharing of a potluck breakfast at the community hall (please bring food for firekeepers as well), we will return to the sacred fire to make special offerings for an abundant harvest, to energize the seeds, plants and the Earth.

This is a time of great openings and good to be together to practice the medicine wheel mandala. Traditionally at this time, we offer plantings in the garden and caretaking the land with brush cleanup, weeding gardens, and beautifying the land! Even one hour of of care contributes greatly and is joyful to do together!

Please bring:
-- Potluck breakfast to share,
-- Extra seedlings/plants/seeds to plant in the community garden (Elder cooks are suggesting lots of basil, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans). Bringing one plant will help feed the people and Elders in July!
-- Drums, rattles, dance sticks,
-- Gloves for caretaking land

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The California community will be having their Solstice Fire on Saturday and with our connections to Fires in Boston, California and Europe, we celebrate together these precious Teachings.

This is from Robert Eichsteaedt in California about Solstice:

The Solstice Ceremony is a large community gathering that has relationship with the individual, family, clan, national and universal unity. This is a time to celebrate the fullness of Life and witness the growth of the seeds that we have planted, to celebrate going through the cycle of the seasons together. Let us strengthen our community bonds as we come together around the sacred fire and offer prayers for those we know, for all beings, and for ourselves. How wonderful it is to simply enjoy being together recognizing all that we have in common and remembering how wonderful it is that we have found one another. Let us offer our thanks for the beauty of the season and may we note the common factors that unite all people and remember that we are all one in the light.