It's soltice weekend, the darkest days of the year. I went to a fire drumming ritual last night, which was a blaaaaaast. I love to dance and never do it anymore, the kinda dancing you do alone in a crowd and go nuts and work up a big sweat, and then go to Wendy's for a wee-hour munchfest off the dollar menu.

At the end of the ritual, everyone joins hands and spirals inward toward infirm or sick people who are in the center for healing. All night there's a lot of circling, Greek-wedding ft. conga, circle-dancing being the traditional choice for raising energy. Circling and twirling and letting fly, repeat repeat repeat. After all that booty-shaking, there's so much energy in the room and in your body, it's like we're all literally humming in our guts for the final circle, spiraling into a knot of vibration until the few suffering in the center are wrapped tight. That kind of thing is pretty powerful.

bootyshaking music (if it doesn't move your ass, then eat a cheeseburger cz obviously you need more ass then):
traditional african - tafadzwa (I could shake to this for days)
bonus track, florence + the machine - drumming song

anybody got any good voodoo?