#summer solstice

[pagan-stitches]

My summer time embroideries.

[artofmaquenda]

Happy Summer Solstice Again haven’t had the chance to draw something new for the Summer Solstice :(

[robsheridan]

Sisters of the Solstice. Sweden, 1975. Rumors swirled for centuries about a secretive community of women who harnessed the power of the Solstice for dark magic that granted them eternal life. Hushed whispers called them a coven of witches and warned of ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, walking dead, communications with the devil, and a bloodlust towards any man who would dare enter their territory… but was any of it true? By the 20th century, the Sisters had long been relegated to a dusty old myth, until photographer Sera Clairmont published these photos in her Spectagoria magazine.

Clairmont gave sparse details about her time with the Sisters of the Solstice, saying she was only given access to their rituals under a vow of secrecy. “These women have only ever asked for privacy,” she wrote, “and because they protect that fiercely, they are called evil. Are they practitioners of magick? Certainly. They give themselves to the earth, and the earth returns them to life. One cannot make such exchanges without sacrifice, but that is their way. Many generations ago, these women turned to the dark arts for protection when the world of men would offer them none. Men hurt them, so they adapted to survive. That the Sisters found the devil a safer bedfellow says more about men than it does about the Sisters. And as the soil grows their bodies anew, Midsommar after Midsommar, don’t be surprised if Mother Earth is taking notes. After all, who has a world of men hurt more than she?”

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[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x13 King Memses’ Curse

[solivagants]

Edward Robert Hughes, Midsummer Eve (1908)

[julianplum]

🌻 🦋🐝🌿 ✨ // sunflowers & honeybees, gouache on hot press paper a late offering for Litha this year. happy summer solstice everyone, belatedly!

this print will be up in the shop soon along with a bunch of other new stuff including STICKERS; keep your eyes peeled!!

[slavicafire]

my dearest and strangest friends: may this longest day bring you something good and unexpected, and the shortest breathless night bring you wild thrills and unmatched excitement. raise a toast in my name and in yours - or kiss someone sweet, and have joy and mischief in your heart.

may your fires reach the skies - and may your songs reach the gods!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[cat-cosplay]

Happy Summer Solstice

[henreyettah]

Happy Simon day and happy summer solstice/early midsommar!

[fire-rose-95]

🍂🎃🍂

[huariqueje]

Summer Solstice -   Inka Essenhigh, 2008.

American, b.1969 -

Oil on canvas , 60 x 78 in. 152.4 x 198.1 cm.

[raepritewrites]

Its the summer solstice today, you know what that means! Somewhere out there, Percy Jackson is getting dragged into some bullshit