With an open heart I welcome you to the summer solstice,
Feeling the generosity of meeting this wonderful celebration where we honour the highest point of the light and we also welcome with open arms the darkness which is coming to feed us into the end of our cycle.
This is a festival of celebration of being together or alone in commune and communion.
We can do this by connecting into ourselves,
By spending time outside with the earth and really feeling the earth's energy at this point.
It is also possible that as we enter this portal which is a strong energetic time that you may be feeling out of sorts or rushed or may not be making the space to meet yourself in this presence.
Summer solstice represents the festival of attainment where we celebrate everything that we have manifested over the first half of the cycle and if you are feeling rushed or incomplete in those manifestations it is easy to to rush through or not want to drop into the attainment feeling sensation of this celebration.
If this resonates with you I would like to invite you to really focus this session on being enough and feeling complete,
Accessing that space of acceptance where we can really belong to our year and feel that what we have done is good enough,
Letting the belly relax and dropping into that space of good enough.
We'll start with some words by Glenny Kindred on the summer solstice and then move into a short meditation and we will close with some ideas of how you can honour yourself and the earth at this time.
Blessings to you dear soul.
Longest day and shortest night.
Festival of attainment.
Return of the dark.
In the northern hemisphere the longest day and the shortest night the sun reaches her height of its power but now at this other great turning point of the year the energy changes.
The darkness of the night is gone.
The days will begin to shorten and the sun's power will begin to wane.
On midsummer's eve fires were lit on the hilltops.
People stayed up all night to watch the sunrise.
A night for carnival and candlelit processions.
This is a dual celebration,
Honouring the light and all that is manifest and welcoming the return of the dark side of the year,
Connecting us once again to the inner world.
Underlying energy of the summer solstice.
The rampant growth period has reached its peak.
Everywhere there is a sense of abundance,
Fresh growth.
This is the peak of our expression and our excessive selves.
Celebrate all of your achievements and who you are.
But a great transition is beginning which will bring a completion of our whole selves.
The power of the inner realms will begin to expand and our achievements will ripen within.
So breathe into that body of yours now.
Welcome yourself wholly into this space.
Welcome the whole of your being as sacred and breathe into the softness of your creation,
Of yourself.
I'd like you to call in the manifestations and achievements of this first half of your wheel.
What is it you feel proud of?
What have you brought to life within or outside of yourself?
Take stock of the creations,
The attainment and the fruits of your labour.
The inner realms are often the place where we find the deepest growth and it's from these inner spaces that our outer actions can manifest.
So take note of your inner space,
Places you have grown,
States that you have tuned into and nurtured within yourself.
Positive energy shifts like releasing resentment or reaching for a more positive outlook.
Cast your eye over those times where you have been softer on yourself,
Kinder,
More generous.
See where you have extended your love out to others.
Has there been anything from this half of the year that you have completed,
That you have closed,
That you have released?
If you have a menstrual cycle,
Think about the blood offerings which you have given back to this earth,
Vitality that you have nurtured within your body.
Allow yourself to become present with all that you've accomplished,
All that you've attained at this highest point.
Let yourself meet the fullness of the light and welcome with open arms the darkness that will be the fertile earth for your future ripenings of abundance.
Connecting to that abundance now as we plug into the energies of the earth around us.
The greenness of the leaves,
Of the grass,
The fullness of the rivers,
The water,
The spirit animals that come to us at this time,
The blossoming and the release of the multicoloured flowers which tantalise our senses with sense,
Touch,
Smell,
Sight,
And give thanks to all that has been born over this sacred half of the wheel.
We give thanks to the light that encourages us to grow.
Breathing into the fullness of your being,
Breathing into that fullness,
That completion,
That honouring of the light that you have cultivated,
Chaperoned,
And embodied within your being.
That you have cultivated,
Chaperoned,
And embodied inside yourself this first wheel of the year.
Anchoring into the knowing that you are already enough and just by being through these seasons you are complete,
Worthy,
Wholeness,
Satisfied,
Acceptance,
Surrender,
Awareness,
Honour,
Love,
Heart,
Generosity,
Kindness.
May these words,
May these words give you fuel for the darker months ahead.
As we slowly turn the corner towards the darker months ahead,
We welcome,
We acknowledge,
And we witness these two polarities that we need in our life,
The darkness and the light,
For full flourishing.
So seeing that darkness,
Waving at it from the distance that we're in in this summer,
Knowing that it will come steadily and surely to greet us,
And smiling at all the gifts the darkness and the dark goddess will bring,
And turning your attention over towards the light,
Wave at her,
See what she has brought you,
See the ways she has guided and illuminated your path these last months,
And knowing that this gentle turn away and turn around towards the darker year is not really a farewell,
It's a taser,
A see you later,
Until the circle comes back around.
So feeling yourself balanced between these two polarities at this potent time of the year,
So much fullness,
So much grace,
So much light,
So much depth,
Wisdom.
I wish you a beautiful summer solstice.
I look forward to celebrating with you again.
Much,
Much love.
