Summer Solstice Celebration
Sunday, June 23, 2002, 7:00pm
Rock Church Life Enrichment Center

GATHERING
(purifying sage incense as we gather into Sacred Circle with taped music)

OPENING
(Welcome, Defining ‘Summer Solstice and Rituals, and Directional Prayers) Welcome & Defining Summer Solstice–Gary Tuttle Directional Invocation– Pirkko Miller–East, Jim Mulry–South, Meredith Mignery–West, Sarah Tuttle–North

LIGHTING OF FIRE
Pirkko Miller (Fire Keepers–Brenda Bender and Patrick Reed)

SONG
Oh,—-Great Spr-rit Earth, Sun Sky and Sea. You are in-side–and all a-round–me.

CHIEF SEATTLE’S LETTER / ‘TEACH YOUR CHILDREN’
Dee Mulry

TEACHING THE CHILDREN / GRANDFATHER WALK
Meredith Mignery

SONG
O-o-o-o Great Spirit, I’m calling to you. O-o-o-o Earth Mother, what else can I do?

1. O-pen me up that I might re-ceive, Open me up that I might be-lieve.
2. Give me the strength to be just and fair, Give me the strength of the mo-ther bear.
3. Show me the vision of the red-tailed hawk, Show me the way to walk my talk.

HONORING THE ANCESTERS & BLESSING FUTURE GENERATIONS
Honoring with words–Janice Mangus, Jim Mulry–Others Planting of Wild Flower Seeds–Pat Siri Planting a live tree–Gary Tuttle Sharing Bird Seed–Pirkko Miller

SONG–ONE TIN SOLDIER
Karen Leuhrs

RELEASING TO FIRE / PREPARING FOR PEACE
(we release to the fire what needs to be transmuted)

PRAYERS FOR WORLD PEACE
We all will tie prayers (using ribbons, yarn, feathers….to symbolize) on the prayer stick and while doing this we silently say our intentions.

PLANTING PEACE / PRAYER STICK
Jenni Siri

DRUMMING THE SUNSET

BLESSING SONG / CHANT-CHEROKEE MORNING SONG / WINADEYAHO
(a chant that asks the spirits of the earth and sky, thus weave for us a garment of brightness that we may walk fittingly where the birds sing.)

Sounds like–
Win day ya ho,
win day ya ho,
Win day ya,
win day ya,
Ho ho ho ho,
Heya ho,
heya ho
Ya ya ya.

(arranged by Rita Coolidge and Robbie Robertson-)
Wi-na-de-ya-ho,
wi-na-de-ya-ho
Wi-na-de-ya
wi-na-de-ya
Ho-ho-ho-ho
He-ya-ho, he-ya-ho
Ya-ya-ya