Summer Solstice 2025

The transformative power of the summer solstice, which arrived around 10:42 PM on Friday, June 20, in the Northern Hemisphere, marked the beginning of the longest day of the year. For the first time in a long while, I felt the profound shift, a sign of hope and renewal.

Feeling any energy had eluded me for months. If I had felt anything before, I would have to admit some truths I had run from. Before the sun began its trek to shorter days, I was frozen.  Numb is, I guess, a better way to describe it. Don’t get me wrong; I did what was necessary, a lot of perfunctory activities, but my feelings weren’t involved. Anything I performed, my performance, was out of necessity or some routine obligation, Unable to put my “whole self in” to do the hokey pokey.  

“The thaw came quietly—through tears.”

Then the shift came, and I began melting.  Tears brought on by the thaw. I woke up Friday morning feeling like I “Wanna be startin’ somethin’” because I’d missed an entire season. Usually, I’d feel the shift at the Vernal Equinox ready to bloom, but not this time.

See, there was too much loss in 2024. And even though celebrating the solstices and equinoxes is in my mtDNA, I couldn’t find my balance. Now, let the festivities begin with the longest day, which winds down with the celebration of my daughter, who is marrying a man she loves, like cooked food.   And party we will!  In 24, we said farewell to her twin, my third daughter, whose body succumbed to breast cancer. She was our light, and her departure from this dimension left us temporarily in darkness.

 If you ever want to know riches, look around and see who is there to light your internal wick; share their light of love when yours begins to flicker out, and you’ll learn money is a poor substitution for human connection.  I never felt worthy – of that pouring in. I’m always surprised when LOVE shows up through friendships and family; I don’t take it for granted.

“Love doesn’t meet expectations. It exceeds anything we can desire.”

I’d keep my distance because I didn’t think I could remain strong in their presence. I made up all these excuses for their behavior when it didn’t match my expectations, but LOVE doesn’t meet expectations. It exceeds anything we can desire. When LOVE shows up with the magnetic force of the sun, we can only tremble in ITS presence, so it is no wonder we set the bar so low with our meager expectations and desires.  

Presence is the proof of LOVE, not because they came to see and be with me but because they brought the magnetic force of their beating hearts to lift me when I could no longer stand.  LOVE lifted them in the process.

“Control isn’t holding on—it’s letting yourself be held.”

In my frozen state, I couldn’t run away, so I remained in place to learn the lesson – control is your ability to remain still and allow others to fill you up. How could we move so far from the truth? LOVE. Every head shall bow. 

 Welcome Summer!

Welcome Solstice!

Solstice means Sun Stands Still 

Be Still and Know I AM…

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