SUMMER ARRIVES as Sun enters Zero degrees of Tropic of Cancer creating SUMMER at last in Northern Hemisphere and WINTER in Southern Hemisphere!
THE LONGEST DAY OF LIGHT OF THE YEAR arrives Wednesday, June 20, 2021 at 11:32 pm EDT.
Cancer solstice or LITHA to wiccan pagans is the Crowning of the Sun King who embraces the Queen of Summer and begins his slow dance of death with Her. The longest night of Light in the North! Summer harvesting begins, Revel in the Light,
Ive been a practicing green witch since I was initiated in 1987 by Susun Weed.
Our organic garden is coming along nicely now with some heat. We;ve got purple beans, snow peas, lots of tomatoes many varieties, Brussel sprouts, cabbages, artichokes! my big experiment! cuces, potatoes, celery, 2 kinds of lettuce, chard of rainbow colours, green onion, rapini, dill, basil, rosemary, chives, tarragon has come up again very nicely and asparagus gets bigger ever year. I love my little garden.
CANCER is all about Nurturing, nourishment, watery, emotional, sensitive, MOTHERING, MOTHER EARTH, home, security, privacy, family.
ON SUMMER SOLSTICE we always do a ceremony to mark the next main quarters of the Year. Pagans, earth/nature worshippers mark 8 stations of the year.
SHORT CEREMONY RITUAL FOR SUMMER INVOCATION
Smudge, use incense, high quality, natural. Clear a space. Cast a circle. Begin in the EAST always. EAst is Fire spirit, the SuN.
call Spirit of the Sun to be present in your circle. Always move CLOCKWISE! NExt to SoUTH, call in WATER ELEMENT.
MOVE WEST, call in EARTH element,add earthy adjectives, move North call in AIR ELEMENT. – see Air ceremony below-join me Grail Springs Spa
Once centered call in the “As Above, So below, so within” YOU.
Give thanks to Grandfather Sun for being directly overhead, for shining the longest, for casting the longest shadows on this day,
Give thanks for all things you love about summer, rapid growth, greenery, fresh food, swimming, sunbathing, relaxing long days, the cottage,
fireflies, beers, cold drinks, whatever it is you like about summer, pop songs, whatever… “In the summertime when the weather is fine….”
Deeper symbolism of Cancerian Summer is emotional security, safety, coming home. Cancer is water and water is emotions, why we are here on this earth plane, to feel, everything.
Imagine feeling, as Cancer is the deep security need of unconditional mother love, totally loved by the Great Mother Goddess in all her aspects but especially emotionally.
See, sense and feel the earth’s waters, her oceans as nourishing and sustaining all life on this planet. You are 70% water, the earth is 70% water.
Know that you are emotionally safe, protected, nurtured and loved. Sense this, feel it, know it as the blood flows through your heart and veins and arteries. The great mother pours through you in your blood, your tears, as sweat, as sexual secretions, urine as all bodily fluids. Your essence is love.
We must give back to the mother goddess. As Japanese Dr. Emoto shows our minds can move change and heal matter, especially water.
How interesting that a Japanese Dr. brought out these findings years ago almost unconsciously knowing that we would need them now.
So send your intention to heal the Ocean, the fish, dolphins, whales, krill, seaweed, all life, as all life is dependent on the ocean which we came from.
Honour your inner sun, the light within, the light that you are, feel the Inner fire, your inner heat, Kundalini energy,
You are a micro- sun. It is YOur turn to shine brightly now. As above so below. Your turn to En- LIGHT- en yourself!
Turn on the light to everyone else. The light bring consciousness to what is in the dark. The light brings warmth, heart.
Be thankful, be grateful. Vow to be en LIGHT ened more and more. Light has triumphed. In the Tarot the SUN is the # 19.
Meditate on the Sun, the source of all life on this planet. Nothing could live on this planet if the Sun weren’t 83 million miles away, very close. A perfect distance.
Meditate on the perfection of the Universe, That all is Light, even the darkness is part of the Light, that the Universe is UNI =one.
Place your hands on your heart, meditate on one Light, One LOve. Yeah yeah it’s a Bob Marley song.
I will be more conscious, as consciousness is Light, Illumination. Vow to LIVE THE LIGHT. Live Lightly on this planet. Let your Light shine! Live your light!
BE still and meditate on Light. When finished thank the directions from East to North for being present in your ritual.
And dismiss them into their directions with love and light. Then dance, sing, Here comes the Sun, In the Summertime, Summer in the city, summertime, I like New York in June, who doesn’t like Gershwin? etc..
Tara Greene,Tarot Reader, Astrology Psychic 