I don't really have time for this post. I am busy with other things. But this post has to do with Solstice so writing it now is timely. Sometimes, the time determines itself regardless of what you have planned for it.
Time has been on my mind lately. I took a walk on Solstice to let myself feel what Solstice is out there. What's happening around me on the day that both celebrates the strength of the sun, while seeing it into its decline?
Oddly (or not) I've been very aware of my own strength lately while seeing ahead to my own decline. I feel physically/mentally/emotionally better and stronger and more full of juice than ever before in my life. At the same time, I have never before been so aware of my age and of the passage of time, feeling a kind of frantic need to pack in as much as possible all at once. The heightened awareness has been kind of annoying to me actually and I suspect maybe to my friends and loved ones as well. (No need to chime in! Really!)
As I walked I realized suddenly that not only is the planet in Solstice, but I am in my own Solstice as well. That realization brought me quite a bit of peace. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, but oh, we enjoy it so much when it's at its height! There's no point in worrying about the fall because we know it will come but it's not here yet. Solstice is what it is, for me, for the sun, for the planet. We don't get a do over for the springtime, and the fall will come when it comes.
I found another happy note in my ponderings on the seasons: My name is Autumn for a reason. As much as I fear the end of summer, I have an inkling the best is yet to come. But for now, I will revel in the sunshine.
copyright 2009 J. Autumn Needles
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We seem so oddly and unnaturally removed from the solstice these days... So much of the time we don't even notice the environmental events around us. When the sun rises...we're often asleep, when it sets...it's dark, how many days were there stars, how many full moons did we see this year, we don't notice the day length until it's dark, and the night length bothers us until it's day...only destructive weather gets our attention and it's always a surprise! So much and everything that lives outdoors noticing it all, every day. Just imagine an American Loon worrying about the weather as it settles into the lakeside nest...and it rains and blows. Moving indoors did people a world of good in many ways but it made us so much more removed from the environment that sustains us and the consequences of what we are doing to it. If we could just notice solstices, equinoxes, full moons, new moons, hot summer days, the first smell of fall, a crisp cool morning, early winter dusting of snow...we'd all be meaningfully closer to living, really living....
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