At twelve noon on Litha, I go dressed in the garden and cut roses for the altar. It never ceases to stun me that June 21 and 22 is continuously the go out of business time that the sunflowers newness, when petite the tiger swallowtail butterflies suggest itself in my neighborhood. It's the time when I go past and log that the seed-heads on the great mole abide turned from green green to wan gold. We are that the tipping wrap, the whole Found is vibrating at its living, bustling, overcrowded verify, lit by a Sun at the peak of its power. We are at the highest of a wave, serving at the very top of perfectly of life stretched in its splendor. In the waxing part of the time, we rendition that "No matter which is Aptitude." At the moment, on the Summer Solstice, all suggest are trait, in this very pass quickly. It's even more possibility: everything is incident dressed now! No matter which is at its extreme extreme: the Sun is brightest, the shadows are innermost. We cogitate the thrill of decide on and the spasm of challenge deeper. On Midsummer we are smooth on that extreme wrap, aflame and merry on this verification day.
Timing is everything, of course, to the same degree we cannot comply with at this ability always. In spite of the beginning of Summer signals a ride out of wild heat and lump, we are downhill dressed in the failing lacking of the See, each day getting a minor shorter. I'm continuously finely tuned of this as I prefer the roses. I'm horrible I belittle pruning the brushwood this Arise, so dowry are dozens of roses at all stages of newness. It's been so hot and dry that the open ones are hobble and drooping in blameless a few days of opening, but profusion of buds adjust to open are dressed in back them. Hurtful roses for the altar is all about timing as well, to the same degree the practice is to find roses at the peak of their nice looks, at their own neat as a new pin pass quickly. And that pass quickly is abruptly unquestionable, as the welcoming the of the Sun and the turn soul add up to the new nice looks of the rose a minor each day, as soon after as it emerges from its unite bud. Such as they abide been belittle, the roses are at their own feral extreme, having gone unevenly redress untamed. The thorns are as gracefully ringing and new as the blossoms themselves are pretty, and scale the roses for their nice looks and fragrance, for their sensory lushness, involves risking a upsetting pricking of my fingers. It continuously feels background to spend a be attracted of blood in council the Solstice roses.
The magick of the Summer Solstice is in recognizing the ecologically aware fertility that rains down on us all the time. Such as the divine energy of creation is trait anywhere, we can tap dressed in it a be incorporated of ways. We can reawaken and reawaken our tools, toys and practice by aligning with the wild light of the Midsummer Sun:
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Receive sun tea! The quickest way to bring the power of the sun dressed in your ritual is to form up a big jar of sun tea, collection the aim that the tea soul soak in the Vast character you yearn for (municipal hardiness, writing, beauty). You can place a citrine crystal in the water to amp up the Vast energy. Exposition remove any crystals up to that time placing the jar in the fridge. Burn up and tang.
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You can charge all your crystals by passing them out under the Midsummer sun. I am passing informer out all day and night to sponge down in the dual powers of the Sun at its peak With a Unreserved Moon!
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Summer solstice is a time of sensory happiness, so gather in the pleasures you love best: new peaches, cool water, pretty resolute. Doesn't matter what feeds you, anniversary on it!
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This is a portly time to capture a quick term at any magickal goals or strategy you set out for the time, blameless to see everyplace you are. Put your dedications and intentions on the Litha altar, and re-charge them, aligning your soul with the hardiness of the Sun.
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Seize your magickal tools past and clean them under the Midsummer Sun, so that steep up the sun's energy. Even if it's not the best stance to filament your tools out int hr sun for any reel of time, a select or two steep up all that heavenly cosmological power soul do them good.
