Solstice Thoughts
Jun. 21st, 2009 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Happy Summer and Winter Solstice, y'all.
Of course, it's not really a happy day for me. I am tied to the Sun, and He's begun His journey to the Underworld in this hemisphere. His power will roast us for the next few months, but it wanes and draws away from the Earth, lover and consort to His glory. Even though He is turning His back on Her, He is being drawn within Her, to the dark sleep of a long Winter. By August I'll be feeling that underlying chill, smelling the grave dirt under the hot breezes. I try to remind myself that it's only six months, that like Persephone, the Sun will return.
It's always harder for me to hold back my inner darkness because just as fast as the days grow longer, the nights grow longer still. That ol' black dog will be sniffing me out soon. I always feel like I'm building my fortifications against it, but it seems to sneak in when I forget to close a gate behind me, or maybe it slips through a crack in the wall.
Ah well... The Sun is dying, long live the Sun!
Of course, it's not really a happy day for me. I am tied to the Sun, and He's begun His journey to the Underworld in this hemisphere. His power will roast us for the next few months, but it wanes and draws away from the Earth, lover and consort to His glory. Even though He is turning His back on Her, He is being drawn within Her, to the dark sleep of a long Winter. By August I'll be feeling that underlying chill, smelling the grave dirt under the hot breezes. I try to remind myself that it's only six months, that like Persephone, the Sun will return.
It's always harder for me to hold back my inner darkness because just as fast as the days grow longer, the nights grow longer still. That ol' black dog will be sniffing me out soon. I always feel like I'm building my fortifications against it, but it seems to sneak in when I forget to close a gate behind me, or maybe it slips through a crack in the wall.
Ah well... The Sun is dying, long live the Sun!
