all hail the holly king

well, the summer solstice has come and gone.

i will admit that i didn't take as much notice of it as i usually do, for a variety of reasons. firstly, we had just returned from traveling, and you know how traveling changes linear time- it's very hard to hang on to what day or time it really is. at least for me, it always is. so, the solstice snuck up on me.
also, on the night of, when we had been planning to go to caya's celebration, it had been beastly hot all day, and the thought of gathering in an upper room with no fans or a/c with a whole bunch of people was just a bit off-putting. so, oh well.

seems the universe wanted me to notice it though- on midsommer day, i went to my local elephant pharmacy to buy some allergy tea (no word on whether it works yet or not- i keep forgetting to drink it). the gentleman who helped me greeted me with "happy solstice", which i was happy to respond to in kind, and proceeded to tell me about how for an hour that afternoon about lunchtime, there had been a rainbow all the way around the sun. he wanted to know if i had seen it, which i hadn't, and so he described it as a sort of pale sundog, but one that formed a ring around the sun. fascinating!
we then agreed that we had no idea what that might mean, but that combined with the full moon the previous night, it could only mean strong energy.
"yes", he said, " and heaven knows we need that kind of energy in our world right now".
too right, my friend.