I Have a Secret...
Shifting Seasons and My Solstice Ritual
Blessed Solstice to you!
This year the celestial observance of summer jumped out and took me by surprise. I haven’t been watching the calendar as I usually do. Instead I’ve been sequestered behind a screen doing summer school or I’ve been letting my senses explore the feel of time. The balance of the two is a far swing.
The summer sun has been hotter than normal for this time of year. Following my senses I declared it summer weeks ago. The sun however, wasn’t quite right. I’m a celestial tracker. I like to know the patterns of the stars and the movement of the moon and sun across the sky. I knew the sun wasn’t high enough to make my body declaration of summer to be true. One look at the calendar proved it.
“If we are satisfied with all that we are, we are living in the past, and very soon we will no longer fit the demands of life.” -Torkom Saraydarian
To thrive I have to adapt
In welcoming the solstice I did what I’ve done for decades: I found a way to connect with the earth, created something, allowed for listening both physical and intuitional.
Yesterday’s glorious summer day had winds topping out at 20 mph gusts. The green leaves of the sweet gum tree rustled and waved while the bees flew dancing patterns that swung wide with each gust upon their journey. The clouds skittered quickly above and when the wind hit just right my breath was taken in the fashion I have felt on a roller coaster when we hit the downward side after a big climb.
The waves of the ocean were stirred into a frenzy by the moon, the tide and the wind. The beach was gone, removed to some distant depth that will quietly hold it’s substance until it pushes itself back on shore. The pounding of the waves reminded me that change is ever present. One heart beat, then the next.
Create or destroy, the end is the beginning
In my quiet moments I cast out intuitive glances in all directions. I let the still point of the climbing sun assist in the remembrance of soul wisdom. In those moments yesterday I found a secret I must share.
Each time we act with our intuitive nature, we expose a vein of soul wisdom.
Each time we embrace the knowing of our body’s true nature, we welcome in a purity of desire to be more.
Each time we welcome the wisdom of a slow down for clarity, we allow the reality and the possibility to merge into blissful intentional action.
We can be more. We are more. We simply have to allow.
Exposing Grace
The raw edges of the last two years are fraying into a soft down that fits my curves and squishy bits beautifully. Just like entering into motherhood, the elder stage is another shift I’ve had to grow into. Have I finally given up the incessant need to understand how it will all turn out before I start? No, not completely. But I have come to understand that by trusting the shifting seasons around me I can welcome the parts of me that need more light and less acknowledged shadow. I can welcome love and heal the shame. I can become in this body what is needed on earth at this time.
Vulnerability is an action of power. To create with the intention of being known so others can find their truth and heal their own wounds is what I’m offering to you. After decades of spiritual practice and many years more spent healing my emotional wounds it’s time to share inspiration and truth with copious doses of boundary breaking ideas to prompt an inner revolution.
I’m still discovering. I’m still exploring. I’m still a wild-haired, barefoot, rock jumping girl that desires to play in the sunlight of the Spirit of Love.
Welcome to the next stage of Creative Mystic.
I hope you like stories.
xo,
Lenaleah 💕
This is Beautiful💕 All of it.
“Each time we act with our intuitive nature, we expose a vein of soul wisdom…..
Each time we welcome the wisdom of a slow down for clarity, we allow the reality and the possibility to merge into blissful intentional action.
We can be more. We are more. We simply have