So, this year I am not going to have a lot of time to do anything elaborate, not that I am one for great elaborate festival activities, but I am planning to keep it simple.

I am prepping by buying candles, incense, and a couple of offerings that I hope will be pleasing to the Gods. Because I am currently also working on my inner self with Apollo, I am also going to be paying special attention to the Apollonian, which includes health, music, art, civility, civic action, etc. I have a sword that I am using as a symbol of the masculine, and a basket that I am going to use as symbol for the feminine. An urn i which to burn incense that will represent the Chthonic, and the smoke if the incense to represent the Ouranic or Heavenly. My fireplace is the core of these meditations and worship, but because of the Heliocentric nature of this festival, I also intend to make offerings to the sun at sunrise at my large east facing window which also has a large number of plants sitting at it, enjoying the life giving light of the sun.

So, this year will not be consistent with last year, the festival can be fairly freeform, after all, but the general tone of sunset as a time of rememberance and commemoration and a celebration of the past, Night as a celebration or commemoration of the Chthonic, and Sunrise as a time of looking forward and hope should be mantained no matter what I end up doing.