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Well, now... I'm here, at my father's farm down one hour south of Melbourne, Australia...
I'm waiting for my friends to arrive (Invited quite a few, numbers were whittled down to a magical number of 9), then the festives will begin. I know the real one was on Wednesday the 21st, but it was in a working week...!
I've been doing this for the past few years, since I "came out" as a witch - what fun it has been; with my uttermost serious expression, I've made the most sceptical of my friends participate by carrying a Magical Object (snicker snicker). A bonfire always happened, thanks to my father.
The first one, everybody went out to a dead tree and started dancing like crazy - warmed up under the freezing starry sky.
Last year, I got to dress up my best friend, tie him to a tree, and then with mad giggles, "ritually" killed him while curious cows surrounded us all. Everytime one moo'd, we'd dissolve into giggles. Especially I, when I was trying to be a High Priestess waving a sword around.
This year, I made a Wick Man with my friend on the sly; I will be erecting it up on the huge bonfire, and after all the fun and games (i.e. pin the hat on the witch, scavenge hunting, guess-the-alcohol etc) we will be dancing around the bonfire, and I look very forward to once more making my most hardened sceptic friend kowtow to and ask for blessings from the Burning Man.
Is there anyone else down under who celebrated Winter Solstice for 2006, or if there's no takers, what's the North Hemisphere's plans for December? |
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