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Developing the New Spirituality:
Solstice and Equinox Rituals
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The Sun is the
eternal sign of the Presence
of the One
Eternal Invisible God,
who wants to be
seen in the persons of Father Mother and Child.
Solstice and Equinox Rituals
The holy wheel
of the Sun
Date of coming
Sun Rituals:
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Western Europe |
New York, Montreal -6u |
Honolulu -12u |
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Summer Solstice 2012 June 21 01:07h |
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Fall Equinox September 22 16:49h |
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Feel the strong
energies of our planet the Mother.
We are planning
to bring the four rituals
as separate
webpages:
Spring or Vernal
Equinox
Autumn Equinox
Winter Solstice
Read our Basic Explanation page
On the explanation page we
clarify our basic ideas
about the new spirituality.
Robert and Susan have a lot of experience in celebrating the Sun
rituals.
This summer we were putting together all our results,
texts, emotions, feelings and spiritual feelings.
This table was one of the results of putting together our results.
Another result will be four new texts and liturgies for the celebrating
of the four Sun rituals.
We are thinking of publishing these texts in a handy booklet.
The Sun rituals of
the Northern Hemisphere
as Susan and Robert are experiencing these spiritual
celebrations:
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Month: |
June |
September |
December |
March |
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Season: |
Summer |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
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Sun phase: |
Solstice |
Equinox |
Solstice |
Equinox |
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Color of the sacred Place: |
golden |
orange |
silver |
green |
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Sound in ceremony: |
bell |
rattle |
bell |
rattle |
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Character: |
light and growth |
fruit |
eternal rebirth |
seed |
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Thought: |
turning point |
balance |
turning point |
balance |
The Invisible, Unnameable highest
Divinity
wants to reveal itself as Mother,
Father, Child.
In The Full Moon Ritual
this female aspect of God is honored in the Goddess.
In the Solstice Ritual and Equinox Ritual
this male aspect of the One and Invisible God
is honored in God the Father.
Finding new ways of celebrating the Sun Rituals
is a process of development and emotion and spiritual
feeling.
The Sun is
the symbol of the Creator, the Bringer of Life,
the everywhere visual presence
of the divinity.
Everybody is able to lift up
hands towards the Sun.
Nobody is hindered in anyway
to call up
towards the Sun and speak out
loud prayers,
wishes, needs and praise.
That is why the Sun is the
symbol of the One God.
So in the Solstice ritual we
lift our hands
and express our wishes,
longings, blessings.
Nobody can come between us and
the Sun.
The Christian
church has performed prayers to the Sun
at least until
the Renaissance,around the year 1500 AD.
On the Saint
Peter Square in Vatican City
on special
moments a prayer to the Sun was
as normal as the
Angelus and other prayers.
The ancient Egyptian religion
saw the Sun as
the symbol of the invisible
god Amen,
which name Amen is mentioned in every Christian prayer.
The symbol of
God the Father is the Sun itself.
God the Father is invisible
and infinite.
Omnipotent and he is Love
itself.
So light is the
main symbol, candles, a fire,
a nice sunny
statue, a sun symbol.
Also Love symbols are very
appropriate.
Incense is always an element.
A table cloth with Sun
symbols.
A happy song, do you know one?
"You are my
sunshine"
Text to be used?
The Psalms in the Old
Testament are all songs
to honor God the Father.
Many of the Psalms are also
Sun hymns,
which makes them very usable.
Examples:
parts of Psalm
19 or 97 or 139 or 121
Another starting point is
could be found in
parts of
The Sun prayer
by Saint Francis:
Most
high, omnipotent, good Lord,
Praise,
glory and honor and benediction all, are Yours.
To
You alone do they belong, most High,
And
there is no man fit to mention You.
Praise
be to You, my Lord, with all Your creatures,
Especially
to my worshipful brother Sun,
Who
lights up the day, and through Him You give brightness;
And
beautiful is He and radiant with great splendor;
Of
You, most High, He is the Symbol.
Praised
be my Lord, for sister moon and for the stars,
In
heaven You has formed them clear and precious and fair.
Praised
be my Lord for brother wind
And
for the air and clouds and fair and every kind of weather,
By
whom You givest to Your creatures nourishment.
Praised
be my Lord for sister water,
who
is greatly helpful and humble and precious and pure.
Praised
be my Lord for brother fire,
By
who You lightest up the dark.
And
fair is he and bright and mighty and strong.
Praised
be my Lord for our sister, mother earth,
who
sustains and keeps us
And
brings forth diverse fruits with grass and flowers bright.
Praised
be my Lord for those who for Thy love forgive
And
weakness bear tribulation.
Blessed
those who shall in peace endure,
For
by Thee, most High, shall they be crowned.
Praised
be my Lord for our sister, the bodily death,
From
whom no living man can flee.
Pity
to them who die in mortal sin;
Blessed
those who shall find themselves in Your most holy will,
For
the second death shall do them no ill.
Praise
you and bless you my Lord, and give Him thanks,
And
be subject unto Him with great humility.
Keep an eye on
this page,
because Susan
and Robert will develop
the Solstice Ritual
and the Equinox Ritual further.
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Updated April 20,
2012
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