Summer Soulstice 2018

★ ☆ ★ ☆ Summer Soulstice ☆ ★ ☆ ★ The Summer Solstice is upon us as we celebrate the peak of the sun with the fullness of light. This is our first harvest, seeing what we've been reaping, and able to switch out the seeds that haven't shown their fruits as of yet. Some needing to be discarded completely and others transplanted to different environments. You are invited to join in the festivities tomorrow anytime. There are plenty of greens and strawberries to pick around this luscious garden. There will be two floors of indoor space to create, dance, explore, heal, and relax in. Bring your sweetest selves and something yummy for the potluck. We also have the turntables hooked up if you have records you would like to spin. If you’re a fire spinner then bring your flow props. If you like to garden then come ready to get dirty. Showers are available too. Bring your games to play, classes to teach, and workshops to host all day. "Summer Solstice in Chicago (exact 5:10 am Thursday Chicago) features, for us Chicago area peeps and perps, a ‘what I feel is who I am is what I want’ theme. (Summer Solstice Sun conjunct Ascendant). Time to be free to lie on the beach with my buds, bros and seestahs’ (Sun sextile Uranus 11). How can I save the world while hanging out? But challenged by ‘uh, don’t we some serious healing work to do’? (Sun square Chiron). Our summer season also features Mars conjunct Aquarius South Node opposite Venus conjunct Leo North Node: masculine ideas and ideals of what should be need to serve feminine awareness of what is. Our brains need to serve the Earth, not figure out how to use it. Or, it’s gonna be Stormy weather for Kim-Trump play-polit-pals. In other words, change is always for the worst until we change it for the better. But don’t we need a break from the constant agitation over ‘what did they do this time’ and ‘can you believe what he just said’? As I write this, I think of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn), about a society in which books are declared illegal, so people fight back by each memorizing a book. Perhaps each one of us has to choose a cause to embody, and trust our comrades to make their choices while we celebrate each other’s presence. " - John Sacelli ____________.♥. ____________.♥♫♥.____________.♥. * ____________.♥♫♥♫.______-.♥♫♥. * ____________.♥♫♥♫♥._-.♥♫♥♫. * _____________.♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥. * ______-.♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥. * _.♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♥♫♥♫♥. * . ______-.♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥. * . * . * .. ___________.♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥♫♥. * . * . * .. ____________.♥♫♥♫♥._-.♫♥♫♥. * . *. * . * .. ____________.♫♥♫♥.______-.♥♫♥. * .* .. ____________.♥♫♥.____________.♥. * . *. _____________.♥ The Emerald Palace, Bridgeport 3303 South Emerald Ave, ChiKaGo Gate opens at 4pm until night sometime (or anytime you enter the garden gates) Intentional Circle will be around sunset Bring workshop ideas, flow toys, food, art, etc Love Offerings Appreciated for the Emerald Garden www.facebook.com/TheEmeraldPalaceChicago ☆*•.¸(*•.¸★¸.•*´)¸.•*☆ ~ :Upcoming Events: ~ Thurs, June 21: Summer Solstice & Emerald Palace www.facebook.com/events/401162070399991 Sat, June 23: Summer Soulstice Fest at Sat Nam www.facebook.com/events/773283922865984 Sat, June 23: Ecstatic Dance Chicago www.facebook.com/events/1635956469854240 Friday, June 29: Enchanted Garden Cinema (PRIDE) www.facebook.com/events/204895433486254 Sat, July 7: Annual Ninja-Plex Block Party www.facebook.com/events/195085694433036 Sat, July 14: Figment Chicago www.facebook.com/events/176761459640188 Sat, July 28: BwBbq Luau www.facebook.com/events/252032392033935 Thurs, August 16: Ignite www.facebook.com/events/720508561672434 Sat, August 25: Fest of Lanterns - Indianapolis www.facebook.com/events/342180389608988