What exactly is the summer solstice? It’s a phenomenological event that happens each year, around midsummer, when the rotational axis of the Earth is most inclined to the Sun. Consequently, it is the longest day of the year. It is certainly an auspicious time, and cultures the world over since time immemorial have marked this day with festivals, feasts, ceremony or ritual. We don’t have to be aligned with any particular spiritual or religious path to recognize the importance of marking time throughout our lives, and the older I get, the more poignant that marking time throughout the year becomes to me. A large part of my personal healing path has been to learn to embody the marking of time through the year, both with my herbalism and also with my life and spirituality. That is a continually evolving process, but one that I would like to begin to share…
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