{"id":2807,"date":"2012-06-28T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2012-06-28T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T14:54:53","slug":"summer-solstice-at-stanstead-stone-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice at Stanstead Stone Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

We celebrated the Summer Solstice at Stanstead Stone Circle<\/a> on Saturday, June 23
\nIt was fabulous!\u00a0 The circle was decorated with colorful things, a sun\/moon, a sun, a banner of the chakras, a dragon, a hobby horse\/unicorn, and colorful banners.\u00a0 They also had strings of colorful plastic \u201cprayer flags\u201d with cut out designs.<\/p>\n

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The ceremony began with Julia calling the directions.\u00a0 Anne Catherine repeated her words in French.\u00a0 The first half (2 hours) was dances with recorded music.\u00a0 I taught the Stivell An Dro (and wound them into a spiral around the center).\u00a0 We danced An Dro Retourn\u00e9, Maize, and Standing Stones among others.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t do all the dances, it was energy intensive to dance on grass.<\/p>\n

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At 5:30 we had supper.\u00a0 In little groups on blankets, we ate and shared what we had brought.\u00a0 After supper, the fire basket was brought into the center and a fire lighted.\u00a0 Then we danced to live music which was just wonderful!!\u00a0\u00a0 We danced Dark Spiral, Winds on the Tor, La Bastringue, Shepherds’ Dance, and By a Quiet Stream among others.<\/p>\n

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The sky was AMAZING.\u00a0 Puffs of cumulus at first white, with lower wispy grey clouds passing across.\u00a0 Then the white turned to cream, to gold, to peach, and finally red.\u00a0 In the west there was some cumulus with white edges, it really looked like another world beyond the edge.\u00a0 One pile of grey clouds had a sort of red-grey mist under it.\u00a0 I realized it was probably rain and worried until we could see that it was clearly passing us by.
\nThe spirits of the directions were bid a fond farewell \u2014 in both English and French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We celebrated the Summer Solstice at Stanstead Stone Circle on Saturday, June 23 It was fabulous!\u00a0 The circle was decorated with colorful things, a sun\/moon, a sun, a banner of the chakras, a dragon, a hobby horse\/unicorn, and colorful banners.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circle-dance","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}