Solstice and Pride!

Happy Magnetic, Magickal, Miraculous, Marvellous, Manifesting Monday!

How are you?  How was the delicious Strawberry SuperMoon for you?  Many of you have shared that it felt very challenging but deep (that’s not a bad thing), as there are so many shifts and changes happening in you and around you.  

But guess what?

Summer Solstice is coming, Summer Solstice is coming!  Whoot!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 21st, is the Summer Solstice and I am so looking forward to celebrating it.  Every year has been filled with different ways of celebrating, different rituals and different intentions/offerings and the harvest that I have reaped from these has been mind blowing!  (As in, you seriously can’t make this shit up!)

In fact at the end of this month I close the circle on a 4 year Solstice setting ritual that was amazing, challenging, but oh so worth it! I will tell you about it next week.

Thank you for all the amazing feedback on SASS – The Stupendously Abundant Summer Solstice Guide.  I’ve been tickled pink to hear how it is resonating for you and which rituals you have picked!  And yes, she is available until the 24th.  

Oh and for those that have asked, there are only 2 spots left for the Summer Solstice Reading Special.  

Summer Solstice (also known as Litha)  is all about abundance, growth, expansion.  It’s the celebration of the Sun!  

Think about it, the farmer plants the seeds in the cool of the Spring in the wet ground and as the Summer Solstice approaches things have sprouted and are reaching up as if they are doing a glorious sun salutation.  

It’s a time to watch the ripening and fruiting of the plants around us and our ideas.  This is a delicious inner fire/power celebration that acknowledges the abundance that grows from tiny seeds.  This is a time of really reclaiming your inner power and brightness and mapping out the harvest you desire for the next while.

It’s also a time of magic – Midsummer’s eve was believed to be a time when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest – a time of powerful forces and magical happenings, when fairies were thought to be about and at their most powerful. This otherworldly sense underpins Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where the fairies use their magic and cause mayhem in the forest. 

This is a day of inner power, brightness, Magick, Manifestation and celebrating your Divine Masculine.  

Each Summer Solstice I celebrate in different ways with different rituals, however, one thing I always do is create/craft something to honour the gifts that I receive. 

Last year was a massive driftwood portal!  She is gorgeous.  All the pieces of driftwood are woven together. I wove ivy around her (keeping the roots in the ground) and then put tiny fairy lights onto her, and built an incredible rock stairway for her approach.  And it’s so fun to see how the ivy is growing around her a year later.  

This year, I needed a chair!  

Every morning as the sun is rising I make a cuppa and go sit outside.  I have a particular chair that is tucked in a corner and protected from the elements where I watch the world wake up, listen to the birds, and I set my intentions for the day.  Sad to say, my old chair died – split straight up the middle which made sitting on it tenuous.  

So I went to the Habitat for Humanity store, found a glorious wooden chair in the style that I wanted.  One where the seat is big enough that I can sit cross legged and brought her home.  Then the fun happened.

She was sanded and painted a super gorgeous fiery red, and then beautifully adorned with swirls, flowers and energy flow symbols, and then sealed.  I am so looking forward to sitting on her for morning tea!  I was so enchanted with the design that I made that I’m now creating a  glorious Solstice Faery house!  

So however you choose to mark the Solstice, take pride in who you are, the changes you have moved through in the last 6 months and celebrate your gorgeous inner fire!  You are so worth it!

And speaking of Pride…………

Where I live June is Pride month, a time to celebrate the diversity of the human package that we come in.  I have to say, I love it!  As an ally I honour each person’s right to choose who they are, how they identify and who they choose to love.  

When I was a teen in Oxford, most of my closest friends were people who were a good 15 years older than me, and gay men.  Gosh!  I had so much fun, I learned a lot and I always felt safe, loved and appreciated.  There was a lovely chap called Gaz who was an incredible illustrator and would create the most magickal, whimsical imagery for children’s books and he would share the most amazing stories with me.  He was a very special person.  

Thus, I always try to help out in some way for Pride, however with Covid we haven’t had a parade in 3 years, but this year we do!  This Sunday there is a massive Pride parade with floats, displays, music and all sorts.  I have volunteered to take care of a booth/tent at the festival.  But what to wear?  Lol

Thankfully I have an amazing niece who went through her tickle trunk of costumes and odds and bits and I am going to look sparkly, colourful and sassy as heck!  I have bubble wands galore to play with and I am thoroughly looking forward to playing, supporting and helping out at Pride.  

Okay, enough chuntering, let’s crack on with the reading.  When I went to the guides and cards to ask who was willing to support and guide this week – there was no choice whatsoever.  Isis Oracle were adamant and if you think about it – the perfect energy for this time.  

Now if you don’t know these amazing guides, please let me introduce you.  Have you ever asked who Isis is? Goddess of the Skies, Magick and Wisdom are just a few of the titles she is given.  Let me take a moment to introduce you to this lovely deck – “You are a powerful Soul and you are awakening.  Your thoughts, feelings and inner world is changing, and so too is your outer world.  When a Soul is growing in power and strength, it can benefit from guidance to help make the path into a new way of being in the world that much easier.  Isis offers Her wisdom and guidance to you to assist you at this time of spiritual growth and transition.  She loves you, and wants you to shine and be your radiant self, filled with power and wisdom.”

Yes!!!!!!!  “Shine and be your radiant self,  filled with power and wisdom.”

Okay delicious lovely, let’s just settle for a moment shall we?  Just breathe yourself back into your body, calling back any pieces that you have left lying around during the day or the week.  Breathe long and deep and allow in your mind’s eye the energy of the sun to fill you, to pour liquid gold energy through you – soothing, nourishing and cleansing.  

When you feel relaxed and ready, pick the card or cards that whisper to your wise self, your radiant self, your powerful self.  

Did you remember to pick?

Come take a look.  

DIVINE GUARDIAN

Protection of the Winged Mother

You are venturing through a time of significant spiritual growth and healing.  There are many changes occurring internally and they will be reflected in your external world soon also.  You are protected during these times by the love and strength of the Winged Mother, Lady Isis.  You can relax and allow your transformation to happen.  Let your Divine Guardian protect you now, as you learn to let go and trust in your own unfoldent for the greatest good.

Big spiritual growth can bring difficult challenges.  Through such challenges, an Initiate can gain wisdom, power and awareness, and leave behind fears that once held them captive, free from past restrictions, free to live a life that is truly extraordinary and inspirational.  Yet the challenges can feel deeply confronting.  The Initiate may be tested to stay true to their own beliefs even if their loved ones do not understand or support them.  Or they may be required to let go of what they have known to embrace something completely unfamiliar and this may be uncomfortable for them, and they may fear losing support, safety or friendship as they venture into a new life.  

You have been receiving impressions and inner nudges that are from your higher guidance, which has been helping you with situations that are currently unfolding in your life and will continue to do so.  You are, spiritually speaking, on the right track.  Life does not have to be fixed or even clear at all times in order for you to be safe.  Isis is with you.  All is well.  

DIVINE SISTERHOOD

Community of the Spiritual Sisters and Brothers of the Light

In a community that is based in equality, respect, healthy boundaries and personal freedom, with a mutual desire for spiritual growth and honouring of innate wisdom, great miracles occur.  You are part of this community of light.  At one time it existed only in the spiritual worlds, yet now it is being born on the Earth.  It is part of your destiny to help create and nurture a conscious community that empowers all of its members and is based in truth.

Letting the Divine Feminine nourish you now into new relationships, collaborations, community and friendships is very wise.  There are many souls with whom you have spiritual contracts decided upon before you were born who wish to help you, and whom you can help too, as you grow together in peace and light and wisdom.  Your light has value on its own of course but it is also of deep service when it is visible to others, lighting the way.

Mother Isis says that there is so much light awakening within our planet, and so much spiritual light gifted to Earth from celestial beings at this time, that it makes sense to build a large enough container to receive it.  If you had enough electricity to power a city, you wouldn’t try to fit it in one house.  Likewise, with all this spiritual electricity becoming available on the EArth, groups are needed to help it to circulate and flow.  

If you accept all of this but still cannot find your spiritual home here, and have been wondering where your community is, you are not alone!  They are looking for you too!  Say ‘yes’ to opportunities to meet like-minded people and let Isis guide you through circumstances, opportunities and spontaneous moments as you and your beloved sisters and brothers find each other together for group benefit.  If you have found that you have guidance to build community yourself, and are feeling a little overwhelmed at the thought, stay calm and stay in your heart.  

SPIRIT OF ISIS

Triumph of the Goddess

Beloved Initiate, there are times to surrender and let go, but there are never times to give up!  Persist with your bold faith and inspired action until the impossible happens.  Isis has the spirit of triumph and will never fail in Her quest no matter how bold or impossible it seems.  Believe.

It is helpful on the inner path to let go and detach over and over again and yet we need to stay true to our heart and not give up on what we feel we are here to do.  Whether it is reaching for enlightenment, for inner peace, for a creative breakthrough or personal healing, the triumph of the Goddess is with you now urging you not to give up, no matter how far away or impossible success may seem to be.  Don’t quit!  Persist until the impossible happens!

You are being reminded that you can surrender, let go of attachment as to how everything will happen or what it will look like, even if it is frustrating to surrender the vision into the Divine Fires yet again, waiting until you feel it naturally coming together according to Divine Timing.

The Spirit of Isis is willing to wait until Divine Forces collide and the miracle occurs.  Remember, beloved Initiate, that the forces of growth, love and divinity are in your corner.  There is nothing more powerful than these.  Allow them to have their way and you will have yours.  Your win is assured.  

Those are some deliciously powerful messages!  How did the card you picked resonate for you? Have a stupendous week, delicious lovely.  Allow the energy of the sun to ignite your inner fire, use the energy of the Super Full Moon to open you up and celebrate your diverse unique self! And most of all have fun!  (Life is so much better when we remember to play!)   Big hugs and squeezes and flowers galore!