Blessed Summer Solstice, everyone!

[vulgarweed]

The dawn here is beautiful right now. Let me abuse R.E.M.: "It's a Maxfield Parrish sky / Let me show you what I can do with it..."

I'm a nocturnal person with an evening job: I only ever see sunrises when I'm awake already and I always take them as a sign it's time to go to sleep. (Like now.) The night is short; it will soon be long. The day is long; it will soon be short.

I don't read positive/negative into either of those things, and I don't like day = good, night = bad imagery AT ALL.

Solstices are extremes. Equinoxes are balance. We need both - and we also need temporal diversity.

Comments

[lady-of-clunn.livejournal.com]

Blessed Solstice!

I love the change of the seasons, I think I would be useless living near the equator.

Strangely, Beltane was a much bigger deal here than Solstice, with days and days of celebrations and events. Maybe next year I'll get a babysitter and go up on Calton Hill for the fires.

[orpheus-samhain.livejournal.com]

I am/was a nocturnal person but for a few years I've noticed that lack of sunlight makes me depressed, or more precisely makes my depression worse. But I still like the night, only I need long days :)