Embrace The Light of Summer Solstice With These Healing Practices
As we step through the golden portal of the Summer Solstice, we welcome the longest day of the year. The sun reaches its highest point in the sky.
This day marks the peak of Yang energy (daylight) and the shortest night (Yin).
The life-giving Sun is celebrated worldwide during this time, offering us the most light. Bask in its warm, radiant energy to rejuvenate your cells and spirit.
As beings intertwined with nature, we can tap into this powerful Yang energy. In Chinese medicine, this is a time to balance health imbalances experienced during Winter. Cold-related pathogens can be expelled, making it an ideal time to strengthen the body and treat Winter issues while Yang energy is at its peak.
This is a season of planting—both in the Earth and within our souls. It’s a time for renewal, love, connection, and expansion. The Solstice marks the peak of the Earth’s strength, fertility, and abundance.
Celebrated since ancient times, our ancestors understood the power of aligning with nature and harnessing its energy for healing and renewal. The Sun, our Yang, is a vital power source that sustains life. This time symbolizes growth, new beginnings, and overall expansion, both personally and globally.
Honouring the changing seasons bring us back to our ancient inner knowing. Connects us back to our ancestors & the wisdom they held in connection to Mother Earth. Indigenous cultures recognised earth-based wisdom & understood that the focal points of the year, illuminated stages of an inner spiritual journey
Harness the peak of your Yang energy, as it reaches its zenith now. Embrace growth, activity, and vitality, for as summer transitions into fall, this energy will wane.
Celebrate this magical time by gathering plants and healing herbs, believed to be most potent on the Summer Solstice. Five sacred Celtic plants associated with Midsummer include:
St. John’s Wort
Vervain
Yarrow
Fern
Mugwort
Ways to Celebrate and Connect with Solstice Energy
Bask in the Early Sun: Start the second half of your year infused with vital solar energy by greeting the sunrise. Many begin celebrations the evening before, with bonfires, dancing, and singing through the night, witnessing the transition from night to day. Find local all-night solstice celebrations or simply rise early to enjoy the morning’s energetic delight in nature.
Honour the Sun with Salutations: Pay homage to the sun with 108 sun salutations, a popular solstice ritual. This devotional practice honors the sun’s life-giving energy, connecting you to spiritual wholeness as described in the Vedas.
Create a Brew of Summer Herbs: Welcome the solstice warmth by making a hot brew of summer herbs. Choose yellow and orange herbs, spices, and fruits that symbolize the sun’s energy. Try soothing chamomile with invigorating lemon juice and orange peel, sweetened with honey.
Visit a Holy Well or River: Embrace tradition by making a pilgrimage to a local holy well or river, offering coins and flowers to the resident deity. This ancient practice symbolizes a connection to the womb of the goddess, a place of both life and death. Leave something you wish to sacrifice to receive blessings.
Make a Flower Crown: Celebrate Midsummer by weaving a crown of Midsummer herbs like lavender, mugwort, rose, chamomile, St. John’s wort, mullein, yarrow, and sunflowers. According to Celtic legend, flowers are brighter and more magical on Midsummer’s Eve, so take the time to bask in their enchantment.
Venus Rites: Engage in Venusian rites, as June is a favored month for weddings, named after the Roman goddess Juno. Celebrate love by confessing your feelings, planting flowers, and dancing around them in a circle. In Sicily, lovers become “sweethearts of St. John,” cutting their hair, tying it with ribbon, and gifting it to their lover.
Beauty Spell: Midsummer is a celebration of beauty and love. Perform a beauty spell by anointing a candle by a mirror, asking for love and allure to guide your path. Like the solstice sun, seek strength and radiance to rise renewed from life's challenges.
Create a Litha Craft: Dive into the spirit of Litha by creating a sun catcher. Use vibrant materials to craft a piece that captures and reflects the sunlight, bringing solstice magic into your home.
Make a Talisman: Gather items symbolizing strength and positivity to create a talisman. Charge it under the sun to store its energy for the darker months ahead.
Create a Faerie Garden: Design a small garden with miniature plants and decorations to welcome faeries into your space, inviting enchantment into your life.
Greet the Sun at Dawn or Thank It at Dusk: Start your day by greeting the rising sun with gratitude, or end it by thanking the setting sun for its warmth and light. These acts help you stay connected to the Earth's rhythms.
Create a Candle and Light It: Craft a special candle and light it during your solstice celebrations. This flame symbolizes the sunlight, storing its spark for times when you need a reminder of the solstice’s warmth.
Make Solar Water: Leave a bowl of spring water in the sun to absorb its energy. Use this solar-infused water in rituals or to refresh yourself, capturing the essence of the solstice sun.
Make a Sun Dial: Create a functional and symbolic sun dial to track the passage of time and stay attuned to the sun's cycles throughout the year.
Create a Labyrinth or Spiral with Luminarias: Design a labyrinth or spiral pathway using luminarias. Walk this path as a form of meditation or ritual, reflecting on your journey and the light guiding you.
Meditate and Reflect: Use this powerful energy to recharge yourself. Meditate, sit quietly, and write out your desires. Engage in activities that nourish your mind, body, and soul. Stretch, walk, or hike and marvel at the life the sun gives our planet. Embrace the harmony with nature and remember the power it holds.
Let the expansive Yang energy of the sun ignite your inner flame and burn away any heaviness. Embrace new beginnings, embody abundance, receive light codes, activate your kundalini, follow your heart's calling, and fulfill your true destiny.
Summer Solstice blessings to you all! ✨