22.6.25 - Summer Solstice 2025 - Sun Stood Still

Grianstad - Sun Stop, in Irish, Samhradh Grianstad - Summer Sun Stop - Summer Solstice. So it should be Grainstad Samhradh - Sun Stop Summer. 

In the New Moon Journeys we contemplated death. So many wonderful images were brought - but two things really stood out for me. First, the image of the dragonfly - which was reiterated in the walk for Gail - the dragonfly which signifies rebirth. And then, the walk - I was walking along the path and I thought to myself, if I ever am able to have a good death, I will remember walking this path, in the height of summer, walking back to this roundhouse and there all my friends, family and tribe will be waiting for me. And not just the people who have gone, but those who exist in the future.

The drumming - so many images, but the most striking one was that we were sitting as light beings in this darkness, outside of space and time, as we drummed and when I opened my eyes I was shocked that we were still present in the here and now. That is so much learning - that we exist in eternity. That all of this nonsense which we try to define ourselves by - that is nonsense. In the end it is beyond race and language and colour - we exist outside of time - our spirits and egoin bodies are forever. Whether we choose to take on a new form or not is neither here nor there. We are beings of light - as Teilhard de Chardain said, we are spiritual beings having a human existence.

It has been quite the journey over the course of the year. Thresholds and dealing with the power of the vision, the journey. I feel so settled. So at peace.

Today I realised I hadn't eaten anything until dinner. Then I had some pork chops and ramen. I might make some slow cooked pork tonight actually. For dinner tomorrow.

I am currently watching Succession. I know that there are people who live like that - the overwhelming sense of these programme when I watch them is not the satire and the crazy, but the emptiness. The superficiality, the seeking and never finding. Trapped in their own sense of what is superior and good and right.

The solution to life is so so simple. You don't have to have a lot to be happy. I am also so glad that I left the crazy behind and have found my own path. I was looking at the coming year... it has been real you know.