Summer is the season of abundance.
Summer Solstice marks the earth’s relationship with the sun, it is when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the north or south pole – the moment of solstice. Solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still) – longest day and shortest night of the year. It occurs around the 20th of December each year in Australia.
This is the time to celebrate the light of our consciousness and that of others shining more brightly than at any other time of the year. The sun symbolises the process of attaining enlightenment and this is a time of intensity and an opportunity to harness your potential.
The warming sun fires our passion and heats up our heart to the potential that life offers us. The life-giving rays of the sun gives us an abundance of plenty and after the summer solstice, the light begins to recede leaving each day a little darker than the last.
The fire element is symbolic of the summer solstice due to its connection to the warmth of the sun. Fire is symbolic of passion, expansion, growth, creativity, whole hearted action, abundance, clarity and is a masculine element or force.
Summer gives us the sun’s vitality which is inherent in every heart. A very healthy and spiritual thing to do is to get up early in the morning to watch a sunrise, which enables you to be a part of it!
Moving with the cycles of nature and actually feeling them is deeply symbolic; it adjusts our perspective and allows our awareness to foster new connections between our daily life and the rhythms and cycles that exist in the cosmos.
Now is the time to expand into the fullness of what life offers you; take the time to regenerate your energy and manifest your dreams. You may need to revive something from the past or tap into something new.
We need to honor the sun, the spiritual fire within us, celebrate and be grateful, feel fulfilled in the fruition of our achievements. The energies of nature have reached their highest point, bursting forth abundance; the same is occurring in our inner world and we can create from this ripe flourishing and offer this back to life.
In nature in summer we see an explosion into full bloom, lush trees, flowers and fruits blossoming and unfurling to their full potential. Summer offers us expansion and growth as we continue on our way through life.
Allow the natural world to reverberate more consciously in your life, prompting dynamic shifts and watch the wonderful reflection in your life by tuning in to nature’s rhythms.