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☀️✨Summer Solstice and Midsummer Folklore

For many cultures midsummer’s eve is a time when fairies and spirits cross more easily into the human world. One famous piece of writing which describes this transitional time is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream whose characters include both the king of the fairies, Oberon, and the fairy queen, Titania.

There are many old Anglo-Saxon names for the pagan festivals and months, including the name Litha for midsummer. Today, some pagans and witches use this name to refer to the summer solstice as part of the wheel of the year.

As far as traditional folklore is concerned, observing the time of midsummer and the solstice draws attention to the cyclical nature of life and time. The fairy lore and spiritual aspects allow people to see beyond these earthly bonds and into the realm of eternity and timelessness.
Of course, there was also a connected magical element to the fires lit on midsummer as they banished bad luck and evil spirits. The wearing of flowers in a persons hair and hanging garlands upon doorways was also a way to thwart bad luck.

In Celtic lore the cycle of life is often represented by turning, spinning and circular motion. There are many other variants of this custom of making wishes while walking in a circle. Sometimes people walked around a fire or a well but in other cases it might be a fairy tree or wooden pole. Another custom is ‘turning the pebble’ where a person would walk around the midsummer bonfire three times holding a stone in their hand and whispering a wish they wanted to come true to themselves. Then, after the last loop they threw the pebble into the flames.

In some Scandinavian countries a type of decorated Maypole is the central focus of the dancing and rituals. When you look at the mythology of spider-goddesses, spinning and webs you also notice these archetypal patterns.

Another circular motif used at this time of the year is a sunwheel. Depending on the place these may take the form of huge balls of straw or tangles of wood which are set on fire and rolled down a hill at sunset. The ashes of the sunwheel were then used to protect homes and animals from evil spirits. A similar fire custom which includes prophecy is jumping over the bonfire with your love. If you let go their hand during the jump the relationship was said to be doomed, though!

An interesting form of divination used in Northern Europe at midsummer is one where young girls float garlands containing wishes, either whispered to the flowers or written on paper, on the surface of a river or lake. Depending on how the garland moves or whether it sinks was said to predict the outcome of the request. Some versions of this custom say you are not meant to look at the garland or even go back to the offering as you are handing your wishes to the gods, goddesses and spirits to determine.

Fire, prophecy, fairies, ancestors and feasting are also motifs that run through all of the lore associated with this time of the year. There are also some similarities to the Bealtaine traditions here as both of these rituals are acknowledging the long, summer days, purification and the prospect of new life in all of its manifestations.

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Midsummer

During midsummer (a period of about 4 to 5 days around the solstice) we celebrate that the sun is at its highest point. A festival that was celebrated all over Europe. We honor the energy and power of the sun on nature and on all living things. Without light there is no harvest and no life. A great time to toast together to the magic of life!

Fijne midzomerfeesten!

Midsummer Eve, c. 1908
by Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1917)

Teaching Children about the Natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their Lives.

The Tribe of the Fox made more than 100 video's about ancestors, naturespirits and deities. Dirkje and Martijn read about our ancestral spirituality and practice it. Trancejourneying is a major part of our spiritual life. Later this week we will publish the first of 5 video's ( Nearly 2 hours of material in total🙂) about the heathen Underworlds. Saying that trancejourneying the Underworlds is interesting is an understatement😄. Yes, Underworlds because there are many. Stay tuned, folks🦊. (picture: Diego Sanchez for the Ginnrunbok)

"Occultism" in the West doesn't refer to any old spooky mysticism, it specifically refers to the Kabbalistic-Hermetic practices that became popular during the 1800s. These practices were distinct from the Hermeticism of Classical Antiquity due to the infusion of Kabbalah (i.e. Jewish mysticism) during the Renaissance. The invention of the printing press in the 1400s led to the spread of Lurianic Kabbalah among European intelligentsia.

Classical Hermeticism is Greco-Egyptian mysticism based on texts ascribed to a god-man named Hermes Trismegistus, a fusion of the Egyptian god Thoth, regarded as a messenger of the gods and the source of all esoteric knowledge, and the Greek god Hermes, who played a similar role. They claimed that Trismegistus was originally a human who attained enlightenment and ascended to the world of the divine.

Hermeticism can be crudely described as "whitepilled Gnosticism." It's based on similar Platonism-influenced concepts but differs in its approach to material reality. Gnostics believe that the material universe is produced by a malevolent lesser deity known as the Demiurge (identified as Yahweh of the Old Testament) and conclude that material reality is evil and should be transcended. They regard Christ as a messenger of the true (good) supreme deity, who was sent to enlighten humanity. Hermeticists believe that material reality is fundamentally good because it is an emanation of the supreme deity.

Gnosticism was also influential on 1800s Occultism, so probably worth mentioning that Gnostic morality works on illusion vs enlightenment, rather than sin and repentance, and that some Gnostic groups (e.g. the Carpocratians) believed that the human body should be defiled with sin, due to its material (i.e. evil) nature.

Modern (post-Renaissance) Hermetic principles include:
- The first "man" was androgynous and immortal.
- Human souls are minor deities trapped in the physical world as punishment from god.
- There is a single true theology that was originally handed down from god to man at the beginning of time that has declined and been diluted through the ages, but is still present in all religions.
- Alchemy / transmutation, which includes;
- - Dissolving and breaking down components and remolding them into something new, or purifying substances, or impossibly transforming them from one natural state into another (e.g. lead into gold);
- - Creating all healing elixir of life (that will lead to immortality);
- - The idea that the prima materia (basal matter of the universe) represents hermaphroditism or a hermaphroditic monster;
- - The ultimate aim of "purifying" humanity, transmuting man from an imperfect, ephemeral, and corruptible state into a perfect, eternal, and incorruptible state.

When you see people talking about "Occultism," Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Martinism, Theosophy, Thelema, and so on, what they're talking about is this Kabbalistic-Hermeticism.

Also, the Occult movement was intrinsically linked to the early Socialist 'Utopian' movements (that Marx described as the "patriarchs of Socialism") via people like Eliphas Levi. You could say that Occultism was to Socialism what the Frankfurt School is to "wokeness."

Continuing somewhat tangentially in the vein of honoring one's father, ancestor worship is an integral part of Heathenry. From the “About” section at our Facebook page:

“To our ancient, pre-Christian ancestors, being German or of the Germanic people meant that one was Heathen, and vice versa — that is, they were of the folk who descended from and worshipped their own Gods. Perhaps that is why there is no native, historical term for Heathenry: none was necessary. If one was Germanic, one was Heathen. While Germanic mythological lore records the tradition that Óðinn (Viðrir) and his brothers Hœnir (Vé) and Lóðurr (Víli) created Askr and Embla (the first man and woman) from two trees[5], it also records (along with pre-Christian Roman lore) a clear belief by the Germanic people that they literally descend from their own gods, whether those gods were named “Mannus”[6], “Heimdallr”[7], or something else. This tradition continued most notably in the Germanic royal families, many of whom recorded and to this day claim descent ultimately from Woden (Óðinn) either directly, or by way of Beldag (Bældæg, Baldr)[8], Ingvi-Freyr[9], Scēaf (Skjöldr)[10], Sigi[11], Vegdag (Wægdæg)[12], and Seaxnēat[13] among others.

“Thus, the Germanic Gods are the creators of, and may also be considered to be the actual, biological ancestors of, the Germanic people, reinforcing implicitly the essentially ethnic nature of Heathenry. In other words, regardless of whether or not they worshipped the Gods of their ancestors — that is to say, their own ancestors — the Germanic people were nonetheless Heathen. They could no more stop being fundamentally Heathen than someone of Jewish ancestry could stop being fundamentally Jewish despite not practicing Judaism, or someone of Indian ancestry could stop being fundamentally Indian despite not practicing Hinduism. In that sense, the terms “Germanic” and “Heathen” are synonymous. This is just as true today as it was in days of yore.”

In this video (https://youtu.be/4wWReEU-qd0), content creator Thor Elptirdalr of “Norse Magic and Beliefs” elaborates on the concept of Ancestor Worship and its apparent relation to divine beings such as Álfar (Elves, possibly honorable male ancestors) and Dísir (honorable female ancestors), as well as of course to one’s less exalted, biological ancestors.

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Happy summer solstice! Today is the longest day of the year and summer officially starts today. Have a wonderful day/longest summer night and don't forget to appreciate sol for life. We will do a midsommar show on Friday June 24, this is 'officially' when it's being celebrated in Sweden and a few other countries.