#Midtsommer

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Midtsommer time! (Actually finished one of these on time for once)

Tried my best to make it traditional, plus finally figured out how to use heavy body paints.

[chameleonsynthesis]

No you don't. See photo #4 for why that is a really bad idea.

Every year in June, a brave group of daredevils in the city of Alesund, Norway stack up hundreds of wood pallets to a height of over 130 feet, which they then light on fire in celebration of Midsummer and John the Baptist’s birthday.

[beebooks]

fristet til å gjøre alle profilbildene mine om til denne søtnosen

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"Helmer og Sigurdson: Mareritt ved midtsommer" (1980) - Knut Andersen

Films I've watched in 2024 (9/?)

[enig-og-tro]

Been invited to Stockholm to celebrate midtsommer 🙏 as a show of appreciation I will stop making fun of swedes for one whole month 🇸🇪🤝🇧🇻

[pedershverdag]

Midtsommer

[rune-folk]

I have this tradition of picking flowers every midsummer, and to dry them and to display them in my home. This year is no difference.

I also had a nice drink, and made a small fire offering.

The pink sky was above my head at 11pm. It is now half past, and still not dark. The longest day means no night.

God Midtsommer, my friends. Have a wonderful evening! Greetings from Norway!

[morway]

Jonsokbål // Midsummer Bonfire (Leiranger, Norway)

[arctic-selkie]

God midtsommer and happy Midsummer! I found these beautiful dragonfly wings on my evening trash walk in the forest 🍃 #midtsommer #sankthansaften #midsummer #summersolstice #dragonfly #dragonflywings #øyenstikker https://www.instagram.com/p/CfFokLdLTxZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lady-storms-world]

#jonsok #sthans #midtsommer #homemadecooking #godmatheltenkelt https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeIvz6MDpWLF8vesyK1a9ccKXlmCd_Rqa8S9g0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[livhildesd]

🌿Sjasmin/Jasmine 2🌿 #sjasmin #jasmine #midtsommer #midsummer #hvitblomst #whiteflower (ved Oslo, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWNHC_IfIk/?igshid=rgygxmwoit3k

[sholomons]

nice

[beebooks]

vet ikke om misa og misabel er samme person eller to personer av samme type (du kan aldri vite helt sikkert når det gjelder sånne ting i mummiserien) men uansett elsker jeg henne dypt. min lille elskverdig deppa og paranoide dame du er så innmari søt!

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Films I've watched in 2024.

(This list will be continously updated. For a masterpost of the previous two years, see this post.)

Click on the titles below to see the post.

1 -

January:

🎬 Barbie (2023) - Greta Gerwig

🎬 "Adjø solidaritet" (1985) - Wam & Vennerød

🎬 "Fröken April" (1958) - Göran Gentele

🎬 "Ansiktet" (1958) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Kvinnors väntan" (1952) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Det sjunde inseglet" (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Höstsonaten" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Riten" (1969) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Mareritt ved midtsommer" (1980) - Knut Andersen

🎬 "Ronja Rövardotter" (1984) - Tage Danielsson

🎬 "Efter repetitionen" (1984) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Vargtimmen" (1968) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Ocean's 8" (2018) - Gary Ross.

🎬 "Searching for Ingmar Bergman" (2018) - Margarethe von Trotta

🎬 "Skönheten och Odjuret" (1991) - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise"

🎬 "Seks personer søker en forfatter" (1992) - Pål Løkkeberg

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Septembermordet" (1980) - Nandor Hamza

🎬 "The Magic Flute" (1995) - Valeriy Ugarov

🎬 "Galgemannen" (1983) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Making of Autumn Sonata" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman and Arne Carlsson

🎬 "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

🎬 "Lån meg din kone" (1958) - Edith Carlmar

February:

🎬 "Drive" (2010) - Nicolas Winding Refn

🎬 "Blue Valentine" (2010) - Derek Cianfrance

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Spøkelsesbussen" (1980) - Pål Bang-Hansen

🎬 "The Breakfast Club" (1985) - John Hughes

🎬 "Carnal Knowledge" (1971) - Mike Nichols

March:

🎬 "The Making of the Producers Album" (2001)

🎬 "Harold and Maude" (1970) - Hal Ashby

🎬 "The Princess Bride" (1988) - Rob Reiner

🎬 "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992) - David Lynch (The Extended Blue Rose fancut)

🎬 "Mødrekupé" (1969) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) - Mike Newell

🎬 "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (2022) - Anthony Fabian

🎬 "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971) - Robert Stephenson

🎬 "Leve sitt liv" (1982) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Line" (1961) - Nils Reinhardt Christensen

🎬 "Venner" (1960) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Stimulantia" (1967)

April:

🎬 "ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew" (2005) - David Richards

🎬 "Flash Gordon" (1980) - Mike Hodges

May:

🎬 "Soldat Bom" (1948) - Lars-Eric Kjellgren

🎬 "Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen" (1941) - Ivar Johansson

🎬 "Cruel Intentions" (1999) - Roger Kumble

🎬 "9 to 5" (1980) - Colin Higgins

🎬 "Larmar och gör sig till" (1997) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Presumed Innocent" (1990) - Alan J. Pakula

🎬 "Bergman Island" (2004) - Marie Nyreröd

🎬 "I Bergmans regi" (2003) - Torbjörn Ehrnvall

🎬 "Saraband" (2003) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten!" (1975) - Katinka Faragó & Måns Reuterswärd

🎬 "Castaway" (1986) - Nicolas Roeg

🎬 "Lisztomania" (1975) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Alice in Wonderland" (1999) - Nick Willing

🎬 "America's Sweethearts" (2001) - Joe Roth

June:

🎬 "Valentino" (1977) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Georgy Girl" (1966) - Silvio Narizzano

🎬 "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) - George Roy Hill

🎬 "Prêt‐à‐porter" (1994) - Robert Altman

July:

🎬 "La Piscine" (1969) - Jacques Deray

🎬 "Anna Lans" (1943) - Rune Carlsten

🎬 "The Turning Point" (1977) - Herbert Ross

🎬 "Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort" (1988) - José Pinheiro

🎬 "Le Battant" (1980) - Alain Delon

🎬 "Wit" (2001) - Mike Nichols

🎬 "Plein Soleil" (1960) - René Clément

🎬 "The Girl on a Motorcycle" (1968) - Jack Cardiff

August:

🎬 "Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995) - John McTiernan

🎬 "L'inconnue de Hong-Kong" (1963) - Jacques Poitrenaud

🎬 "Vingar kring fyren" (1938) - Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius

🎬 "Women in Love" (1969) - Ken Russell

🎬 "John Gabriel Borkman" (1978) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell" (1999) - Tom Kinnimont and Peter O'Toole

🎬 "Mrs. Dalloway" (1997) - Marleen Gorris

🎬 "Fant" (1937) - Tancred Ibsen

September:

🎬 "Gjest Baardsen" (1939) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Kong Lear" (1985) - Per Bronken

October:

🎬 "Voldtekt" (1971) - Anja Breien

🎬 "Bryllupsfesten" (1989) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Columbus ankomst" (1986) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Toralv Maurstad: En lek med livet på scenen" (1993)

🎬 "Hvem har bestemt..!?" (1978) - Petter Vennerød

🎬 "Fleabag" (2019, NT Live) - Tony Grech-Smith & Vicky Jones

🎬 "Hønsesuppe med byggryn" (1969) - Magne Bleness

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A glimpse of the midsummer photoshoot, featured in the brand new edition of Enchanted Living @faeriemagazine 💜🍃😄 You can find it and my article about how I make my home look magical at www.enchantedlivingmag.com in the 'Magical Spaces" summer issue 👍😊♡ Wings: @fancyfairyangela Dress: @gekko.bohotique.london Necklace: @gems_of_irwelin #fairymother #fairiesofinstagram #fairywings #elvesofinstagram  #faerytalefashion #fairymom #elfling #fairychild #forestchild  #wildchild #fairybaby #naturechild #childofnature #forestfolk #keepthemclose #elvesofinstagram #fairyfolk #waldorfinspired #faeshion #alternativestyle #flowersinmyhair #fantasystyle #fairycore #naturbarn #midsummer #summersolstice #midtsommer #litha https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWQoxapNMJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Mediosamonios also says Alban Eifin, midtsommer

Photo : Aurelie Scouarnec (all rights reserved).

Mediosamonios also says summer solstice or Saint-Jean, Litha, Alban Eifin (Alban Hefin variant), Mediosamonios and Midsummer. In Scandinavia, we speak of Sankthans, Jonsok, Johannesvake, or Midtsommer.

We know this festival well, which has current resonances in the "fires of St Jean". At the summer solstice, the Sun makes its longest course from northeast to northwest.

The days are at their maximum amplitude and the solar energy is at its maximum activity. It is also a particularly favorable period for picking magic and medicinal plants that are traditionally collected at the dawn of the solstice.

Among the sacred plants lunar mugwort, solar St. John's wort and verbena officinalis which creates the link between the two.

Mugwort

Verbana officinalis

St John's wort

There are others, the list is long, fern, ground ivy, stonecrop, loosestrife, piloselle hawkweed, warbler mint, figwort, yarrow... So many plants which were not only endowed with powers over illness but also over luck and bad luck. It is enough to hang a bouquet of these plants on the threshold of the house or the barn to ward off bad luck.

The Sun has become a handsome, vigorous male, he 's at the peak of his strength. And paradox, in doing so, already presents the germ of its fall. Solstitial rituals are complex and are often held in several parts. The observance of the vigil, the dawn ceremony and the noon ceremony.

The vigil is held near the mounds or places of memory, they are an inner quest, a quest for vision at the same time as the occasion for exchanges, discussion, music or poetry The dawn ceremony is a homage to the Sun and an appeal to the life force of the Sun.

The following ceremony welcomes the coronation of the King and honors the ancestors and Tradition.

One of the most famous ceremonies is held on the site of Stonehenge and sees hundreds of people flocking to celebrate the sunrise in this place. Celebrations take place every year in this place. They are often marked by joy and a certain eccentricity that has always been characteristic of pagan celebrations.

The solstice is a moment of extroversion, we dance, we jump, we sing, we make music.

Photos : Aurelie Scouarnec (all rights reserved).

Sometimes sun wheels or firebrands (bures) are turned to celebrate the triumph of the Sun. Moments of jubilation that are accompanied by moments of reflection because we know that the Sun at its highest is already beginning to decline.

Fire, its implementation, its maintenance and the offerings made to it, are important elements in the art of the Druids. It is beneficial by the protection, the health, the illumination that it offers. It is said that the strength of a Fire is related to the art of its construction: "Mog Ruith said to Cennmhar: 'Light and prepare the fire. Cennmhar got up and arranged the pyre thus: he formed it like a churn with three sides and three angles, but seven gates, whereas there were only three gates in the northern fire.

Midsummer fire

Making the “bed of fire” is still part of the druidic arts.

Druidic Fire Rite

The Fear lasraichean will come forward to build the bonfire, with the 7 sacred woods that will have been chosen before the ritual, think about having beautiful logs and twigs to light, paper and everything else too.

The 7 sacred woods for this rite are: Fir, Birch, Beech, Elm, Chestnut, Apple and Oak.

When the stake is ready, the officiant comes forward and says:

“O power of Nature and the ascents of Awen I honor you. By this feast of Tantad here in the height of the season of Light. I light a Druidic fire to pay homage to the Gods. »

And say the following Druidic prayer:

“Give us, O Gods, your support.

And with your support, strength.

And with strength, understanding.

And with understanding, science.

And with science, the science of what is right, the power to love.

And by loving, the love of all living beings.

And in every living being, the love of the Gods.

Elder Gods and just good! »

Mediosamonios is therefore a celebration of Fire, Fire of life, fire of Men. A fire kept up all night, during the vigil, while waiting to be able to greet the fire of Heaven, the Sun of Dawn which is “the eye of Belen”, or even the eye of the Day.

It is even said that fairies sometimes join in the feast of the living as Mediosamonios is also a night of the spirits like Samonios and Belotennia.

Druides OTHA