praise dea

Happy Rosa Mundi! Rosa Mundi is our Summer Solstice celebration, and a particularly important holiday as one of the high feasts. Rosa Mundi starts the Mother portion of the year in the filianic calendar and is a time to look within but also have fun. 🌹

"The ignorant eye shall not see this temple from without, for it is smaller than the seed of an apple; and the seventh part of the seed of an apple, and the seventh part of a seventh part divided again until what part remains can be nor seen nor touched nor tasted. The ignorant eye shall not see the temple from within, for it is as vast as all the manifest universe.

Beyond life, beyond death is the temple, for it is the temple of the Spirit.

About the temple and encompassing it round grows a garden rank with thorns, which are the thorns of kear. Know well your own heart, and the thorns that grow therein; for without that knowledge shall you rarely pass through into the temple, nor shall you cultivate the flowers of the Spirit which alone make life sweet with their fragrance."

She Who - Filianic Scriptures (4:1:45)

Finally, now that we're beginning to exit Spring, we're getting to some purely Aristasian holidays! Sai Rayanna Day honors none other than Sai Rayanna herself, the Empress who all other Aristasian Empresses are descended from, the Sun Daughter who reforged the broken sword of Princess Caran and defeated the Demons from the battle of the Noonday Night. This particular holiday is referred to, sometimes, as a festival. But what festivities (theoretically) take place, I'm unsure. You can read more about Sai Rayanna herself here: https://aristasia.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/sai-rayannas-day/

https://web.archive.org/web/20180830034142/http://www.mother-god.com/imperial-theme.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20180901104210/http://www.daughtersofshiningharmony.com/introductory/the-imperial-anthem/

https://silverscripture.blogspot.com/2021/05/sai-rayanna-day.html

The Eastminster Critical Edition has the following to say about this holiday:

Cancer.

Holy shit, this is cool!

So many cultures call the Pleiades some variation of the "seven sisters" despite only having six visible stars. There only appear to be six because two of the stars are so close together as to appear as one.

The myths also mention one sister leaving or hiding to explain why there's only six. And based off observations and measurements, those two that are so close together used to be visibly separate. One literally has moved to hide.

also from billingsfarm.org just to back this up