I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it: I love summer.

The longer light days, the warmer temperatures, the magick of being outside in a blue sky and blooming things (achoo): this excites me.

My energy naturally moves into a more balanced version of movement and rest at this time. I feel energized enough to do the things I want to do, while also being measured in how I do them so as to avoid too much heat or too much doing.

And I tend to be like this through the fall, so I feel an opening up in summer that just doesn’t arrive in the wintry months. (Yes, even in California.)

I’m thinking about how to celebrate a bit more on the Summer Solstice, celebrate this time and this movement because the second the day seems so very long, it will change. Just as everything does.

Widen the Day’s Magick

One of the things I want to do on the Summer Solstice (or sometime during the season) is shine a light on how far I have come since last year or last month, or whenever.  I have done this in a few different ways:

Write a list – It can be a light of the shiny things, the memorable things, the things you’re proud of, and the things you want to bask in. I know I’ve been so cultured to not talk about good things too much, lest I look overly pride-y (Thanks Catholicism!), so I’m trying to stretch this for myself.

Tell the sun about your year – Interacting with the world around me is the best magick for my heart right now. So, I talk to the sun, to the trees, to the ocean, to the tall grass. I am nature too, so let’s have a conversation. I look between the buds and the blossoms. I linger as the sun rises and I laugh as my retinas burn a little when I get aught up in the moment.

Offering in the sunlight – Something I’ve started to do is leave my hiking shoes out in the sun. This doesn’t sound magickal, I know, but it serves two purposes. One, it helps them dry out after I walk in the dew of the trails near me. Two, it is an offering in the sunlight of gratitude for being able to move my body and be in the places that are a little wild. You might offer something else in the sunshine – a prayer, an altar, a cool bowl of water.

No matter how you celebrate summer, I invite this year to be a celebration of yourself too.

You are a bright star too.

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