The Sacrificial Solstice Bonfire

[Keroin]

Happy solstice to everyone!

For northern hemisphereans, this will be our shortest day of the year. I don't know about the rest of you but darkness will fall here at about 4pm. Spooky and fun!

For our antipodal Litsters, this will be your maximum-daylight day, so enjoy!

I thought I'd share a little local tradition and welcome you all to my Winter Solstice Sacrificial Bonfire. All you have to do is offer up a sacrifice - something that has meaning to you, usually something you want to be done with - to the flames. As a reward for your sacrifice, you can make one wish for the year ahead.

Oh and since this is an e-bonfire, you don't have to worry about the explosive/environmental consequences of your sacrifice.

I'll go first...


I'll be tossing the 1/2 finished, rough draft of my novel ms on the flames. Since my writing on that project stalled out about a year ago, the guilt of not finishing has been eating at my insides. Farewell crappy rough draft!

My wish is to be able to start fresh, guilt free, and have a killer first draft of my novel on paper by next winter solstice.

Next?

 

[YourCaptor]

Happy solstice to everyone!

For northern hemisphereans, this will be our shortest day of the year. I don't know about the rest of you but darkness will fall here at about 4pm. Spooky and fun!

For our antipodal Litsters, this will be your maximum-daylight day, so enjoy!

I thought I'd share a little local tradition and welcome you all to my Winter Solstice Sacrificial Bonfire. All you have to do is offer up a sacrifice - something that has meaning to you, usually something you want to be done with - to the flames. As a reward for your sacrifice, you can make one wish for the year ahead.

Oh and since this is an e-bonfire, you don't have to worry about the explosive/environmental consequences of your sacrifice.

I'll go first...


I'll be tossing the 1/2 finished, rough draft of my novel ms on the flames. Since my writing on that project stalled out about a year ago, the guilt of not finishing has been eating at my insides. Farewell crappy rough draft!

My wish is to be able to start fresh, guilt free, and have a killer first draft of my novel on paper by next winter solstice.

Next?

I'll sacrifice my furniture, symbols of permanence. I've been in one location far too long, been wanting to get out, travel. Yet for one reason or another I've been grounded.

I wish that at this time next year, I'll be acting out plans of travel, that nothing else will be in my way keeping me here.

 

[WriterDom]

You aren't a witch are you K?

I might burn some fat clothes. I've lost 41 pounds this year.

 

[MisterSir]

I don't particularly want to burn anything, but if it's indeed an e-bonfire, I will offer up all the damn whiskey I have in the house. I seem to be aiming to be cram three years of drinking into one and it's a bloody bad idea. If that's not enough, there's a net downstairs I can burn and pretend it's a safety net to symbolise some kind of wankery about how I'm giving up the need to have somebody or something to catch me or...fuck it, interpret it however you want.

I'm going to go with my typical Christmas wish at this point - the love of a good woman (with the caveat that if I can't get that, I'll take mediocre. Or slutty)

 

[Keroin]

You aren't a witch are you K?

Did the wart and green skin give it away?

I might burn some fat clothes. I've lost 41 pounds this year.[/QUOTE]

Good for you, WD!

You didn't make a wish, though.

 

[WriterDom]

Did the wart and green skin give it away?

I might burn some fat clothes. I've lost 41 pounds this year.

Good for you, WD!

You didn't make a wish, though.[/QUOTE]

We used have a mod here who was a witch. I have to make a public wish?

 

[Oak_Tree]

I love this. We did it for Samhain, and it felt great.

I'm throwing into the bonfire my memories of a really shitty thing a close friend did to me in November. I want to get over it, stop thinking about it and move on.

 

[Oak_Tree]

I forgot my wish.

I wish for my SO to have good health for the next year. She's struggled through some adversity of late, and I hope that is all behind her now.

 

[Keroin]

We used have a mod here who was a witch. I have to make a public wish?

No disrespect to any witches on here but I am so definitely not a witch or anything of that nature. (I have no belief system). I just like the bonfire because it makes me think of the things I need to let go of and the things I need to reach for. That’s all.

Oh, and no, you don’t have to make your wish public if you don’t want to. But it can be fun.

 

[WriterDom]

No disrespect to any witches on here but I am so definitely not a witch or anything of that nature. (I have no belief system). I just like the bonfire because it makes me think of the things I need to let go of and the things I need to reach for. That’s all.

Oh, and no, you don’t have to make your wish public if you don’t want to. But it can be fun.

Well, it's kind of a secret.

 

[WriterDom]

I met a witch online who claimed to be so powerful that she would get sent in to help other witches if something got out of control. Her picture was fucking scary. RisiaSkye is still a mod here and I like her a lot. Haven't had much contact with her in years.

 

[AbiNormyl]

As a pagan leaning toward buddhist tendencies, first I release the need to have an identity to the bonfire and accept that I am every changing and always becoming something new. I also release my need for food other than to fuel my body. This year I want to become a healthier person physically, spiritually, and mentally.

Thank you Kerion for the bonfire.

 

[lennythelion]

I wish to cast into the flames my fear of uncertainty so that I may move forward with confidence rather than lurching from one safe handhold to another. I wish that this time next year I will have found balance in my life.

Bravo WriterDom on this year's achievements!
Thanks, Keroin, for making me take the stock I really needed to.

 

[Keroin]

As a pagan leaning toward buddhist tendencies, first I release the need to have an identity to the bonfire and accept that I am every changing and always becoming something new. I also release my need for food other than to fuel my body. This year I want to become a healthier person physically, spiritually, and mentally.

Thank you Kerion for the bonfire.

I wish to cast into the flames my fear of uncertainty so that I may move forward with confidence rather than lurching from one safe handhold to another. I wish that this time next year I will have found balance in my life.

Bravo WriterDom on this year's achievements!
Thanks, Keroin, for making me take the stock I really needed to.

Welcome and thank you! I loved all the sacrifices and wishes. I just returned from the real deal. An evening of friends and good cheer that ended with a little slip of a girl breaking into song around the fire. It was one of life’s unforgettable moments, hearing that beautiful voice singing out Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, surrounded by a crowd as silent as the trees, while the snow fell like forgiveness.

I have goosebumps still.

Happy solstice to all.

“I did my best, it wasn't much.
I couldn't feel, so I learned to touch.
I've told the truth, I didn't come all this way to fool you.

Yeah even though it all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my lips but Hallelujah.”

 

[ImOnIt]

I burn my comfort. I want to have a kickboxing match this year.

(really, thats a wish too. I wish to breathe clearly enough to keep my intensity up long enough. Theres a whole fucking bunch of things that become difficult with a twice cursed throat and sinus).

Note to my foolish past self BLOW OUT THE FUCKING ABSINTHE YOU DICKHEAD, YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

*Optimistic face*

 

[YourCaptor]

I burn my comfort. I want to have a kickboxing match this year.

(really, thats a wish too. I wish to breathe clearly enough to keep my intensity up long enough. Theres a whole fucking bunch of things that become difficult with a twice cursed throat and sinus).

Note to my foolish past self BLOW OUT THE FUCKING ABSINTHE YOU DICKHEAD, YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

*Optimistic face*

Kickboxing hurts, definitely. I tried a sampler, both of my shines had an inch of swollen material on them top to bottom. That's no exaggeration either. I thought I had fractured both legs for a while.

It's one of those things where 3 minutes equals 3 weeks of chronic pain.

 

[PatchIsMe]

I want to burn feelings, the paranoia, the scared, the guilt and the worry.

I am wishing for a healthier all around year ahead. I am wishing for peace.

Awesome job btw WD !

 

[WriterDom]

The days are going to get longer now. I hate short days. Love the summer when it is light until almost 9.

 

[naxalite0906]

For me I guess it would be certain memories that my house holds. I got rid of a lot of my demons and trust issues last year, and the memories would be the last thing as I have someone now who is helping me create much happier (and naughtier ) Memories than ever before and I couldn't be luckier to have her in my life.

as for a wish, it would be for my special one to be even happier than she makes me

 

[ZRT]

I think I need to toss some of my enlarged sense of responsibility on the fire. Good things to excess, etc.

As for my wish, money for nothing and the chicks for free. I want my MTV.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

I'll offer up my ex's phone number (the fact that it's seared into my memory is a moot point) because it's time to let go. Of lots of things. I'm close, but there's a final bit I need to jump.

In return, I simply wish to clear my credit card debt by years end.

Funny, those things are interrelated.

 

[Cattypuss]

The days are going to get longer now. I hate short days. Love the summer when it is light until almost 9.

Here it stays light til after 10pm in the summer . But at this time of year it's dark before 4pm. Major bummer.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm gonna chuck 60 pounds of body fat on the embers and hope they're melted away by next winter solstice.

 

[Homburg]

I've been looking at this thread for a while and can't for the life of me think of something meaningful to toss. For the first time in a long time I'm cool.

And I don't really have a wish either. I'd rather see other people get what they need. The karmic aid is better spent on others.

 

[ZRT]

I've been looking at this thread for a while and can't for the life of me think of something meaningful to toss. For the first time in a long time I'm cool.

And I don't really have a wish either. I'd rather see other people get what they need. The karmic aid is better spent on others.

Yeah, well I'll throw part of my wish in as continued prosperity for you and yours. Y'all deserve it.

 

[Homburg]

Well, I appreciate it. Wouldn't say that we've been exactly prosperous, but it has been better than in previous years recently. Probably why we've been doing charity a bit more aggressively. People out there need more than we do.