Sunday Sabbat Sale & Summer Solstice News

Start celebrating the Summer Solstice with us on Sunday June 14th! Excellent time for picking up Sabbat supplies, as well as Father's Day gifts!

Sunday June 14th all day
(12noon - 5pm)
Sunday Sabbat Sale
Everything in store is 10% off !!

Summer Solstice Public Ritual will be hosted by the MPRC on Saturday June 20th, 1-5pm, at Angrignon Park in Ville LaSalle. Bring feast food to share, your own feast gear (plate, cup, utensils), drums and rattles, picnic blanket and /or chairs and other fun park stuff!

The Summer Solstice proper lands on Sunday June 21st, which is also Father's Day, and the eve of the Dark Moon.

Summer Solstice
Coined Litha by Tolkien, this is the European Midsummer celebration of the Longest Day of the year. Farmers drove cattle between two bonfires to purify them and bless them, making this a day to celebrate and bless all pets and animals in our families. Weddings happen around this time of year in honor of the bond forged at May Day. The goddess and the land begin to grow pregnant with possibility and the promice of a good harvest. Milk and honey are poured into the gardens for the faeries and to add nourishment and sweetness to the land and crops.
For more information about the Summer Solstice: http://www.twpt.com/midsummer.htm

Father's Day
"The idea for an official Father’s Day celebration came to a married daughter, seated in a church in Spokane, Washington, attentive to a Sunday sermon on Mother’s Day in 1910-two years after the first Mother’s Day observance in West Virginia.

The daughter was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd. During the sermon, which extolled maternal sacrifices made for children, Mrs. Dodd realized that in her own family it had been her father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran, who had sacrificed-raising herself and five sons alone, following the early death of his wife in childbirth. For Mrs. Dodd, the hardships her father had endured on their eastern Washington farm called to mind the unsung feats of fathers everywhere." --- for the rest of the article : http://www.ideafinder.com/guest/calendar/fathersday.htm

Dark Moon
"The dark moon is that three day period from the last sliver of moon light to the first maidenly sliver of moon light, the moon hides her face from us during this part of the cycle. I use this period of the month specifically for examining my dark self, my shadow side. Some witches consider this a time of rest from spells and I usually do no spell work at this time, but as you probably know, introspection is not a restful experience. Let the crone lead you in studying your dark side and in understanding that this side of you is necessary in order to have a balance in your life. "
Taken from (and thus for more moon Lore): http://www.empathys.co.uk/43.html