Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice has passed and this year as I open myself to the energy of the season I am filled with an aching awareness of the return of the dark. It is almost counterintuitive on the longest day of the year to focus our energy on darkness and yet at this time we benefit the most from the bounty of the great, deep, dark, fecund Mother the Earth and the promise of deeper mysteries as the darkness makes itself felt as the days shorten.

So the Season of Unmaking begins and we nourish ourselves from the three harvests (August 1st, Equinox and October 31^st) and prepare for the long nights. The time between now and First Harvest is filled with the One Breath made manifest and it is a good time for us to use our breath and our choice to be the reality we want to see.

This solstice calls more than any other for us to step up as individual souls to our place in the Web of Life and to ask ourselves if we are opening to ourselves as multidimensional beings and practicing the continual expansion of our awareness. I wonder how you are answering these questions and finding ways to practice.

Do you feel there is a purpose for your life but find it hard to understand?

Do you have a spiritual path/ practice and find it difficult to bring it to your daily life and work?

Does busy-ness take priority over nurturing relationships with people and nature?