Summer Solstice Prayers

I find myself reflecting on the months leading up to the Summer Solstice, which is this weekend. The longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. A time of illumination, truly.

Earlier this year I was honoured to hold ceremony for 80 women. This ceremony was about finding voice.

After the ceremony, which was an hour long and involved drumming - by all - women came up to me and told me their stories.

I was deeply moved by how this ceremony and Rite of Passage was everything it was intended to be - a place to give oneself permission to take up the space which is ours.

The times that as women we are silenced or held back, discouraged or told no, when we want to gain the confidence to truly embody who we are, are so numerous in the history of humanity that we carry it as an assumption, built into a system of limiting beliefs.

And so ceremony as I hold, releases what isn't ours, and we claim what is.

The stories that were shared with me were brave, strong bold stories 'I'm now going to do it Angie' and 'This is the beginning for me' and 'I am no longer held back' and so on and so on.

In terms of true transformation, its a powerful sacred space and a total honour to hold for me. And what it makes me reflect on is the power we have to illuminate our lives with what can help the wounds we carry, and begin to bring a level of healing that changes what we do next.

This is a process, and it is a hugely profound one. As I take long deep breaths welcoming in the Solstice on Sunday morning, I look back at the last six months and hold the prayer that light is shed so brightly on humanity that there is no looking away, that this light is about truth and clarity, and that we have the courage to step into it and claim our places more than ever.

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