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Have a very sacred and spiritual solstice – may it be filled with understanding and renewal. My warmest wishes of light and learning over the coming months.
Mark and I are still working on the upcoming books. There are always so many details and things to add at the end, but we want them to be the best they can practically be. I am pretty sure they will be ready before the next equinox!
Thank you for your patience, and for those of you who keep on supporting us to get this important work done.
Thanks Lara! This solstice, the morning light, colors, birds, and nature were so beautiful, like being in a dream. Prayers were sweet and sincere. I found myself asking “what if I could live like this?” It was a small but powerful thought, one that I know will grow inside until I know what it fully means. Could it really be possible to live like that, in day-to-day life? Given the state of things, it almost seems taboo just to think it. It would be like an alternate reality or a dimensional vortex. I hope it’s possible.
Thanks Lara and Mark, and all the community here – I hope everyone had a profound solstice period! I’m also looking forward to these books so much … 🙂
I was in the south-west of England, and between the celebrations in Glastonbury, where we were lucky enough to see an amazing sunrise, and the ones I knew were happening in Stonehenge, Avebury and other smaller sites around the country, I felt a real uplifting sense of how the sun is still being honoured today, by hundreds of thousands of people. The celebrations are, sadly, much tinged with hedonism, but still for many people it’s one of the main times in the year of togetherness with others and time spent immersed in nature. Hopefully each effort will lead people further towards a connection with the spiritual sun, or deepen it truly.
We went to a lesser-known stone circle for the sunset and unexpectedly witnessed a special dance performed by some local Morris dancers – a kind of traditional dance in England. They usually have bells on their legs as they dance but their final dance was very quiet and peaceful with just a drum accompanying them. They only performed this dance at certain rare events we were told – I think they said weddings and funerals, and also at the summer solstice sunset. Watching it in the dusk among the stones was deeply moving.
Thank you Lara for your wishes. I also wish that this solstice will become a catalyst for a serious inner change for everyone who longs for it. Awaiting the new books with anticipation 🙂
Darkness and negative states have seemed overpowering lately. The solstice indeed brought a sense of spiritual renewal, hope, determination, and a sense of sacredness. Especially of serenity – I felt it in nature, in the forest, in the fluffy, peaceful clouds of the evening before the sunrise. We watched the sun rise from the sea – at first I regretted the clouds covering the immediate horizon, but there was a magnificent effect where the golden light of the sun highlighted aspects of the cloud first a little here, then over there, dimming and lighting different parts. It may not sound like much but there was such a spiritual feeling about it, as if the immortals were welcoming the ascending sun.
We almost didn’t visit a familiar sacred site as it seemed overcrowded. When we did go the next day, even with some tourists around the giant megaliths were exuding their age-old presence, wisdom, mystery, and peace. I felt spiritually recharged and uplifted even from this short visit. The reason for not going at first was that a few years back, we were lucky enough to witness its spectacular summer solstice sunrise alignment but however, many people came, I guess mainly out of curiosity/tourism, and the discordance and dissonance between the site and event, and the loud crowd seemed magnified, unbearable. It would have been so different to share a common spiritual purpose and effort amongst us all.
Reading the Spiritual Meaning of the Summer Solstice felt very impactful. The mysterious words on Jesus’s Vesture in Pistis Sophia had pulled me and I tried them as a mantra. I was just surprised of the power and peace, even healing I felt from that. Almost like the melody and my voice came not from my personality but some deeper part.
That chapter of the book is so beautiful. One of the passages that stood out to me was this: “The summer solstice expresses the principle of ascension, in which things of life and light will naturally grow and rise whenever there are the right conditions, as it is of the nature of the spiritual to ascend, just as the flame of fire always rises toward heaven.” I could relate to this – I felt the stirring of spiritual light and life where before it had been parched and starved. Like watering a wilted plant, like giving oxygen to a dying flame. The plant and flame then take on their own life and growth.
Thank you for writing here everyone. It gives me strength.
Wishing you a time of deep peace and being strengthened by the solstice Mark and Lara. Thank you for your unceasing hard work and efforts of great love. The light, and knowledge of the Religion of the Sun you are putting out into the world. Like an infusion of vital nourishment. A ray of light in deep darkness. An opening where it is all shut. A hand reaching out to those who are trapped. A way out of being hopelessly lost.
Hi Laura,
Thank you very much for sharing your struggles and inspirations, much appreciated!
What you said about the mysterious words on Jesus’s vesture catching your attention was especially interesting for me to read, as for the past few months I have been reading The Pistis Sophia on and off, and these words caught my attention too. Later on, while reading The Ancient Path of the Sun (also on and off), I came across the description of the El Castillo temple from the Mayan city of Tulum in Mexico, where Mark says that the original name of the ancient city of Tulum was Zama, meaning “the city of dawn”, as it faces sunrise. So I thought how interesting that this mysterious ancient word got preserved in this Mayan place. Mark also writes that the city is also connected to the Mayan wisdom bringer Kukulcan who was associated with the planet Venus as the Morning star, just like Jesus was. Therefore, another connection to the “dawn”.
Then when I finally made it to reading the Spiritual Meaning of the Summer Solstice article before this solstice, I found the third reference to these mysterious words in the part you spoke about, where Mark further states that the word “zama” is also an ancient Mayan word meaning dawn.
In that quote from Pistis Sophia, Jesus also says that those are the words “of those from the height”, and another author who has commented on Pistis Sophia in the past said that those were “the words of the language of the Light”, which I thought was so beautiful…
Anyway, it is so cool how you felt inspired to try this phrase as a mantra! I would not have thought about it. 🙂 Now after some more online searching I realised that there are actually a few recordings of it online, where people have been using this as a song or a mantra, even though I haven’t find any that would really resonate with me. But its nice that people are trying, and now I am inspired to try too, so thank you for the tip!
Also regarding The Pistis Sophia text again, I have read it in the past, and at that time I felt like I have extracted as much as I could for the time being. But now while reading it again, I am finding completely new things there, things I haven’t remembered from before, amazing esoteric things, especially in the ending chapters where the disciples, and especially Mary question Jesus on different workings of the laws, principles, and the fate of different types of soul after death.
Wishing everyone a spiritual uplifting solstice! Thank you Mark and Lara and the whole team. Thanks for the updates and all the best with the final edits.
Thank you Lara, hope you and Mark have a really wonderful solstice time, and to be divinely supported and nourished to keep carrying this light.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and knowledge of the deeper aspect of sun celebrations in so much detail.
Thank you for all your continuous work to be a true source of light in this world, in this time, now.
Beautiful solstice to everyone, and a big Thank You to Lara and Mark for working so hard on these books, I am sure it will be well worth the wait! When thinking of them, I feel like a child waiting for a really fancy treat, can’t wait! 🙂
In the same time though, I have also been pondering on my own inner work lately, especially in connection to being dependent on external stimuli to keep going.
In the circumstances like this, when we are all on our own, separated by distances, and the situation in the world not really conducive to the meetings, I find myself especially “hungry” for any kind of spiritual communication or communion, often feeling really low states due to the lack of spiritual connection.
At the same time though, this “drought” period highlighted these low states in quite an obvious way, together with other ones latching onto the first, and I realised (again!), that while having a possibility of meeting or communicating with like-minded people is indeed very helpful and strengthening, ultimately, everything boils down to my own inner efforts and dedication to connecting with the Divine, and changing my behaviour in a much more dramatic way than I have been doing till now, in order to deserve their help and guidance.
Having received some glimpses of how my inner state during the day (and night) could be, I realised that its so much worth to renounce materialism in its different aspects to live like that! A quote from the Spiritual meaning of the Summer Solstice chapter stood out to me this year:
“The summer solstice signifies the regaining of the powers and pure state of consciousness – an inner state gained through the practice of energetic purification in alchemy and the death of the egos – and its ascent to the place it originally descended from, but with the knowledge gained from its experience in matter.”
And even though this quote describes the advanced states of the spiritual work where one merges with the Father, the “regaining of the powers and pure state of consciousness” in particular, really hit home somehow, as I feel it may be happening on different levels throughout the Path of the Spiritual Sun.
Wishing everyone a lot of the inner Light and spiritual guidance in these difficult times. <3
Thanks for your wishes Lara and for the update. It’s wise to make the books the best they can be, even if it takes a little longer. As they say “the best things come to those who wait” and I’m sure the new books will certainly be well worth the wait! 🙂
I also wish you, Mark and everyone here a happy and peaceful and spiritual solstice time, wherever you are in the world.
Came across this in the morning, Om so Hum, felt good, like waves of good hope.
Saw this yesterday ;- )
Along those lines wishing everyone the focus to put energy into new things through which the flow of life can manifest and you can grow anew.
Lara and Mark, thanks for always continuing your work like this. It’s amazing.
Thanks Lara for the update on the upcoming books, I’m certainly very much looking looking forward to their release. May you be you be successful by the next Equinox. Happy Solstice everyone.
Thank you Lara, I would also like to wish everyone a inspiring Solstice time with insights and in depth reflection
Thanks Dave very nice quote, helped to remind me that our inner states do not need to reflect what is happening around us ; ), we can still be at peace even in chaotic situations
Thanks Lara. Wish you and Mark a truly wonderful Solstice. I look forward to your new books – always inspiring and so needed in these times of darkness.
May the solstice bring a new sense of strength and purpose to all.
Wishing you and Mark a beautiful solstice too, and to everyone here as well. Also thank you so very much for all the amazing knowledge and wisdom that has awakened within us a memory and an experience of our connection to the Spiritual Sun, and that we are all really children in the eyes of the Father.
Happy Solstice and Shlamah min chil lorkun – peace be with you all.
Thanks, Lara. And a happy solstice to you and Mark! And happy solstice to all.
I’m sure the wait on the books will be worth it!
Thanks for your update, and happy solstice to you both and to everyone here.
Thanks so much Lara, found myself really looking forward to the Solstice. Hope you & everyone have a spiritually uplifting & meaningful one.
Also really looking forward to the new books.
Thank you for the kind comments Lara. I’m sure the new books will be well worth the wait.
Wishing everyone a special Solstice celebration and much guidance during this time.
I’d like to include a quote from Ancient Solstice that I found very beautiful:
“At the winter solstice-in the womb of the earth, in the midst of darkness and chaos-the Spiritual Son is born. “