Summer Solstice Ritual - Anchoring the Light

Ritual can be elaborate with crystals, candles, images of all kinds, chants, dances and so forth. It can also be simple and woven into the rhythms of your daily life.

This Solstice comes at a time of great intensity and I invite you to be easy and graceful with yourself as you choose how to mark this moment along the wheel of the year.

Make this whole day a ritual in itself and enjoy the radiance of the longest day as you anchor in the light. Begin your day by watching the sunrise and close your day by watching the sunset. As you move through the day, pause frequently, stand with your feet apart and your palms and heart turned towards the sun wherever it is in its journey across the sky. Intend to anchor the light and truly become the light.

From sunrise to high noon, place your attention on all things that are ripening, growing, living and healing. As you sense the Sun reach high noon, then slowly descend into the West, acknowledge in some prayerful way all that has reached its zenith and is dying or perhaps already dead. As you close your eyes to dream, reflect on the ways the waxing and waning of the light impact you. Ask for your dreams to illuminate the ways in which you can more fully anchor the light and be the light you seek.

In this way, walk in trust and peace with the continuing cycle of Life. Awaken to the Beauty, Love and Magic of this world, this time, this space. Bask in the golden glory of the sun, imagining your cells drinking in the light. Anchor light and honor Life - the life within you, the life that runs through every sentient being, the life that breaks through the cement encrusted earth - a life that endures.