h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, as you might expect, its going to be a busy weekend. So I will say to you all now Happy Solstice, and may the new year of the Sun bless you all and bring you much joy.

Let my joy, from the sky resound!
For I am alive, for I am alive.
Love I have lost, and love I have found.
Yet I am alive, and onwards I strive.

Amongst the giants of our age,
I walk as a child, I walk as a child,
I sit and listen to every sage,
I listen as a child, with a heart that’s wild.

In my life’s autumn, I shall reflect,
On my life’s path, on my life’s path.
And see naught that, I shall regret,
In my life’s path, in my life’s path.

But when I am done, and to earth returned,
My spirit will fly, my spirit will fly.
Freed of all cares, and from love spurned,
My spirit will fly, yet I shall not die.

My children will carry, on my life’s flame,
I’ll go on in them, I’ll go on in them.
And the songs I learnt, afore they came,
Will go on with them, will go on with them.

So as for the journey, that awaits me ahead,
I shall know no fear, I shall know fear.
The road holds nothing, that I need dread,
I know not fear, I know not fear.

Hope, love and purpose.
Matholwch, Resident Druid of this Parish /|\.

Have a wonderful time! (hey, we need a sun smiley!)

az

Amen to that, Math
Agreed indeed, Az.
As a grandfather-to-be, I am suddenly very aware of the lineage running through me, and being a grandparent is a very different psych from fathering, but deeply thrilling. Maybe because one isn't so directly responsible.

I hope you had a good Corpus Christi walk this morning Az. I was thinking about why Corpus Christi is celebrated now, and the answer probably is to steal some summer solstice thunder from the pagans with whom early Christianity was in competition.

Math. I'm surprised you refer to this as the "new year of the sun." In Ireland that is usually reckoned to start, I thought, from the sun-return of mid-winter, as so wonderfully enshrined in the sun-temple that is Newgrange "burial mound."

And I loved your song.

Blessings.

Om Shree Shree Bhagavatay Suryahah, namahah.

Hi Chai,

There is considerable disagreement in the pagan community as to when a new year begins. Some think it is Summer Solstice, some Winter and a few the day after Samhain. My practice therefore is to wish everyone a happy new year at both solstices .

I don't think it really matters, but this way I get four new years eve parties a year (Solstice, New Year, Chinese and Solstice).

Hic,
Matholwch /|\.

Math,

You party animal!

az