The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year This Summer Solstice I was in Glastonbury for the hottest, sunniest Solstice evening ever! and the shortest night, is seen as either the height of summer or the start of summer (take your pick) and is an obvious celebration day for pagans and hippy types the world over.
Here in the UK the sun rose at 4:48 am and set at 21:25 pm for almost 17 hours of gorgeous, hot sunshine. Num num num.
Now, on the solstice night, I was honoured to take part as a Priestess in the Glastonbury Goddess Temple’s solstice ceremony, holding space for the participants, guiding them through the ceremony and calling in the wheel. It was amazing to do, and as soon as I was finished, I hot-footed it up the Tor, but sadly not in time to watch the sun set from the top! No worries, the walk up the Tor is always beautiful and I took some photos to show you the lilac radiance of the sky.
Crazy beautiful huh?
What’s it like on top of the Tor at the Solstice?
Well, I missed the moment the sun set, but when I did get up there about 15 mins later the tor was crawling with people – peeps with their dogs, peeps with dreads and fairy ears, everyday peeps chatting in groups, some misc pagany people who split a log and set it on fire, drummers in St Michael’s Tower, drugged up peeps, kids that had been dragged up with their parents looking bored, and all the daily Glasto dog walkers doing their usual route.
In the tower was a group of drummers, and this dude who was seriously high as a kite singing with the drummers, then suddenly going into a yoga pose or smelling the floor or shouting about pixies or something. He was quite a good singer though, thank God.
I couldn’t tell you much about the energy vibes about being on top of the tor, as I’m not good at picking them up when surrounded by partygoers, but watching the sun set and being in the magical purple twilight of Avalon was utterly gorgeous – it speaks to my soul to be there surrounded by ancient trees, watching the mist over the levels turn the landscape into a hazy fairytale under a luminous pink sky.