Solstice

Yeah, fair enough.

The association of witches with midnight is rooted in folk beliefs that supernatural phenomena are most prevalent at certain times of the day and year, much like seasonal events such as solstice or equinoxes.

Solstice? Thank you.

Solstices.

Yes.

Midnight.

Solstice die.

Solstice die.

But before we get into those, I know Shelby, you host the Moon in Carolina podcast and Amanda is your co-host for the next episode.

I don't know how long, a couple of months? Yeah, it's Equinox to Solstice, so yeah.

Okay, amazing.

I know you're both active on social media and Substack, 10th House Rising, so many different places.

It's not even truly an Advent.

They just go through the 21st to Solstice.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but I bought the ones from craft vent from Jimmy beans.

Okay, so you go to Monk's Mound every...

Is it Equinox and Solstice?

Every Equinox and every Solstice, I climb to the top of Monk's Mound.

I photographed the sunrise there.

I figured it's almost a thousand-year-old pyramid that's kind of built for those moments, along with a whole lot of other things.

it hit me like i was reliving it the walk holding on to nancy's hand her telling stories as we walked because we were both terrified the woods had felt like they were getting closer to us and the path never changed in width but it felt smaller like walking into something we weren't supposed to Unlike when I was younger, I had experience on my side to help me get through this time.

Solstice wasn't for another few nights, so I had to wait.

But I wasn't just sitting around and twiddling my thumbs.

I made sure to prepare myself.

Harlequin really fiery too yes

This one's called Solstice.

So I thought that was cool.

It's called Solstice.

He wasn't born on the Solstice.

I was hoping for that, but that wasn't it.

But still, the sun is, you know, this fire trine showing up.

But that's one of the noticeable effects of precession.

The other noticeable effect of precession is the stars that rise up to rising at key moments of the year, specifically the Erioxes and the Solstices, and most particularly for our ancestors, the spring equinox, 21st of March was regarded as the key moment of the year and defined the age in which we live.

We live today in the etymological age of Pisces.

The constellation Pisces, the fish, has been housing the sun on spring equinox, rising behind the sun at dawn on spring equinox for the last 2000 odd years.

To sit with Cypress and Forest.

And Solstice.

[laughs]

Yeah.