Summer Solstice, Water Blessing, and World Peace Day ceremony
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For the 2024 Global Earth Exchange, we returned to a spot on the Ware River and had a combined Summer Solstice, Water Blessing, and World Peace Day ceremony. After creating a solstice altar—see photo—and singing a Solstice song, we thanked the Sun for its Light, warmth, energy that sustains life on our planet and acknowledged the Fires that burn away the past, bring new beginnings, illuminate past and present; the warmth of love and community, the sparks of creativity, the heat of passion, the flames of Justice. As we named each, we brought to mind examples in the world today.
For the 2024 Global Earth Exchange, we returned to a spot on the Ware River and had a combined Summer Solstice, Water Blessing, and World Peace Day ceremony. After creating a solstice altar—see photo—and singing a Solstice song, we thanked the Sun for its Light, warmth, energy that sustains life on our planet and acknowledged the Fires that burn away the past, bring new beginnings, illuminate past and present; the warmth of love and community, the sparks of creativity, the heat of passion, the flames of Justice. As we named each, we brought to mind examples in the world today.
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