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Happy Litha everyone! I will be performing a rite today at noon central time for this purpose. If you would like me to light a candle and send energy on your behalf, please let me know within the next few hours so I can make preparations.
Id like to propose a Working for this Summer Solstice, the point in our hemisphere of the greatest Light and the greatest Solar Energy, a mass Working directing our energies at our nation’s politics, practices, and policies in hopes of spreading Light and Wisdom…. enough to stop these senseless policies of child abuse, highway immigration stops, the senseless rising tide of racism and hatred towards People of Color (whether our own citizens or not), the general turn towards Fascist Collapse our nation has been falling down in the recent past. We stand dangerously close to becoming, as a nation, the very thing we’ve been taught to fight against and the very thing we historically have fought against.
If we can come together and put aside the petty divisions used to keep us separate, I believe we can fight this turn towards Fascism.
I dont propose a scripted Working; I know that the community I am connected to shares many different working Traditions, and in turn each of the people I am connected to is themselves connected to a rainbow of diversity in their world, and so on through each of our connections… each and every one of us has a different skill set and different things to bring to the communal Table, and each and every one of our remarkable and beautiful Traditions is an expression of the Melting Pot our nation is SUPPOSED TO BE. This is an opportunity to revel in our diversities while sharing Enlightenment and the Light of Wisdom; it shouldnt come from one script or imply there is only one way to be a real American.
Solitaries, Covens, Iles, Houses, Circles, Munansos, Churches, Fellowships, Kingdom Halls, Lodges, Clans, Kindreds… we can all come together in common purpose and need. The Solstice is this Thursday, the 21st. We could easily keep this going with those who may only have time to Work this weekend; we can easily put aside the barriers that stand between us and come together.
Will you join me?
Rather than scripting rites or dictating the things I feel people should pray for, I ask one thing; a common fixation point as a receptacle of our prayers and raised energies, a common symbol we all instantly know and who’s meaning is being degraded with every passing moment.
Lady Liberty’s Torch.
Share this post if you would; tag people, temples, and shops. Pass it around if you can, and together we can see how many Workers we can bring together across this country (and we’ll GLADLY accept help from around the world, too!) Come together with us to rekindle real Liberty in this country, as that proverbial Light is threatened with being extinguished. Bring our diverse lights together in our shared humanity, beautiful differences and all.
I would like to offer services at my altar for any who would like a candle lit for their prayers; I ask and encourage ALL of us with stores, temples, or public altars to open them as well to our communities and to those who wish to participate but who do not have the spaces to do so. Small donations to cover costs of candles and supplies are welcomed through paypal to hounganmatt@darklady.net if you’d like to join in the altars here, and I encourage other shopkeepers, lodges, temples, and churches to offer the same.
May we Shine.