Summer Healing Moon
The longest day. The summer solstice. Is here.
Black Mountain Drive is a Great Wheel home. We closed on Samain, moved in on the Winter Solstice and celebrate our half year anniversary as Coloradans on the Summer Solstice.
While Beltane, the season just passed which began on May 1, begins the growing season, the Summer Solstice, with its abundant sun and gathering heat, is its zenith. Now the vegetables have taken root and begun to flourish, the corn and the wheat and the soybeans fill farmer’s fields, flowers brighten fields and gardens. Food is abundant for all living creatures.
Mother earth shows off her power to nourish and sustain. The shades of green become infinite, vibrant grasses shading to chartreuse aspens, light green iris blades shoot up next to gray green sage. The true transubstantiation on display everywhere, chlorophyll dominant in the landscape.
Spring fawns, calves, piglets, squirrels, fox kits, wolf pups all play and roll on the green. It is a season for life, for new life and old. This is the time when the Great Wheel reminds us that life, this one wild amazing life as Mary Oliver says, is a gift freely given and freely supported. Life is not always in its summer season, but when it is, rejoice!
It is in this season of life, of growth, of nourishment, of color that I will have my prostate surgery. Fitting, I think. Its purpose is to remove a multiplying threat to my life and what better season to excise it than the season of life at its most vibrant. My healing will gain from the sunshine, the flowers, the fresh foods available in this, the season of midsummer.
