June 24, 2022
Hello there,
The solstice has just past, meaning it is officially summer. The days are as long as they will be and all I want to is to find a gentle breeze, sip some iced chai, and smell the jasmine wafting though the hot afternoon air. Summer mode is settling in.
As it settles in I'll be taking some time to enjoy my birthday week, so there will be no five things friday next week as I take a little break. I shall seek some gentle breezes, sip plenty of iced goodies, and take lots of time to not only smell but enjoy the jasmine, roses, and any other summer delights that present themselves.
Please enjoy this weeks things, and I will see you in a couple of weeks.
1.
Wanting to create some solstice magic, I went foraging for Saint John's Wort this past Sunday and then again on the solstice itself. Loving the heat and long hours of sunshine, Saint John's Wort blooms during the longest days of the year. It can be found in rough or ignored terrain, often growing along the sides roads and in fields. It is known to be mood lifting among other medicinal qualities.
I am utterly charmed by its many small, sunburst like yellow flowers and maybe even more so by its perforated looking leaves. I couldn't get a picture of them myself, but if you look really closely, I mean really closely, at a leaf you will see what appears to be tiny, tiny, pin pick like holes when held up to light. These holes are actually glandular tissue and it lets the sun radiate though
the leaf like itsy bitsy windows. I don't know why this enchants me so, but it does. Like the plant is saying, "Yes earth I am blocking a bit of sun from hitting you but I will let as much as possible filter though all of my leaves to reach you." Tiny, magical windows almost, but not quite, out of sight.
It is magic you don't know is there until you do. Magic that changes how your know a thing.
2.
I gathered enough wild blooming sunshine to infuse into a deep red oil
over the next month or few. I am looking forward to bringing some foraged solar magic into the grey days of winter.
Another kind of magic: giving your future self some self love from your present, her past. Kind of time tripping.
3.
If you are here in my realm and reading this, chances are you are sensitive soul. One who feels deeply and observes keenly the joys and griefs and everything in between of this world. It can be a lot, and is often judged. These words, shared as Words of Wisdom one morning this week during London Writer's Hour, validates the importance of the deep
emotion work done by our astute and deeply feeling hearts, and the art they create.
Often it takes the musicians, the poets, the selectors, to do the kind of … feeling that most people don’t have the time to do, because they are occupied with the business of trying to make a living or trying to get by, trying to support families, trying to just living in this world.
So if you are a poet soul, someone with this raw sensitivity, then it’s kind of your job to mine the experiences and make some sense of what’s going in your life, so that hopefully someone can hear it, feel it, connect with it and be just a bit closer to themselves.
- Kae Tempest, BBC6 Craig Charles Show (21 March 2022)
4.
Light, shadow, rainbow. A tiny, beautiful moment. I think we can all use one. Many actually. Be on a quest for them.
5.
A blessing for your week:
(from the I am a Queen oracle deck by Outi Harma)
May you find brilliant strength in your tenderness.
Sandi Davis
(c)2022 Sandi Davis
|
|
|
|
