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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have a friend who's a massive pagan. A few years back she wanted to do a rebirth ritual. A bunch of us took her up to an iron age hill fort and we helped her do the ritual overnight. It ended with her being symbollically reborn just as the sun rose above the horizon. Fucking awesome. Then we all sat together on the hillside, eating sandwiches and drinking whisky and mead while she recovered from what had been a pretty deep, trippy, and emotional experience.

10/10 - would help a friend be reborn in the dawn again.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

This sounds amazing. How does one go about being reborn in the dawn?

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

It's not my faith and I don't feel that it's my place to share all the details but, broadly speaking, it involved a symbollic death, a journey through the underworld (and a real journey through some dark woods), and then the rebirth on the hill at dawn. I played the role of the final guide who helped her escape the underworld to her new life.

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

For me it's more a combination of stories, but for me it was when I was younger, when we would spend the night together with friends in summer. Summer nights are quite short over here, the sun can rise up as early as 5:30, so if we were busy the all night, we were always a bit surprised to see the sun rise. It's definitely a strange feeling, in a nice way.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 5 months ago

Watching the sunset on the California coastal highway north of Malibu with a bourbon and Coke and my then pregnant partner was great

[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

When I was taking a photography class, we got up before dawn and went down the beach. I got to see colors appear over the Atlantic that I'd never seen in the sky. I watched them swirl in the low tide surf. The sun came up in inches, and the light was pure magic.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It's cool being there on nature's time. It seems like it's so slow moment by moment but like 5 minutes later the lighting is so different

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Took a flight with a stop in the arctic circle. It was winter so it was in 24 hours of darkness. Made it to the states and landed for customs in the early morning. When we took off we broke through the cloud cover just in time to see my first sunrise in 36 hours

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