With this being Summer Solstice ~ the morning is a morning of silence. i get up & make my way to the kitchen to get my water bottle filled. Sit around the bliss pit for a while & then on down to the main meadow, noticing that Brad & Cheri have packed up. Hugger checked in to make sure that I had it down to do the North in the ceremony. When Caterpillar piped in the Children's Parade & circled around the fire, then an Om. Then the Ceremony to bring in the spirits of the 4 directions to the circle of the family for their aspirations. After each direction was brought in to the circle, the circle started to walk around getting herbs in the East within which they were to put in their intentions, & blessings from each directions. When they reached the North ~ I had a crystal in each hand & said to them 'Blessings to you from the Spirits of the North & May your Dreams all be fulfilled', which got some interesting smiles back from many & especially the children ~who are still quite dream oriented. I then took the herbs the family had placed in the bowel of cornmeal (dirt) & called upon the spirits to hear my families wishes & returned them to the fire. Then there was a spiral dance to drumming ~ spiral dances are nice to be able to look into others eyes as you spiral around past each person in the dance. After the dance ~the food came out~ we eat quite well. I decided to go back to my tent for my drum & had borrowed john's flashlight since it had started to get dark. The trails had really started to dry out by now. As I am getting out my drum I hear thunder ~ so change of plans~ I put my drum back into the tent & got my poncho. I closed up John & Ivar's tents & started walking back down to main meadow. Ivars & John were on their way up when I ran into them. John went on up but Ivars & I went on back down. While talking to a guy named Steve (from Or. moved to Wv.) when it started raining. I took off with my poncho, Ivars stayed under a tarp. I got back & ducked into my tent ~ paths were really beginning to get slick. Got a bit wet in the tent as I was getting in but curled up & went to sleep ~ with the rain & lightning.
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