Letting go into fullness
A Solstice offering
It’s been a strange June here in New England: chilly and rainy. The vegetable garden seems to be frozen in time— not much growth since I got the seedlings in the ground about 5 weeks ago. The question comes up in the house daily: how exactly is the growing season shifting here? Should we build a greenhouse? Is the season moving back a few weeks, or is it shortening on either end? We feel a deep commitment to food sovereignty so nevertheless, we persist.
On this particular longest-day-of-the-year, I’m noting another point of shifting within myself. Summer used to be the end all be all for me. I would drape #teamlovesummerhateeverythingelse onto every Instagram post June through August. I would wait the entire year for a few months of bliss, then be depressed until June came again. A bit of a holdover from the academic calendar, compounded by living in a place with long and cold winters. Over the last handful of years, between the pandemic lifestyle shift, marching deeper and deeper into my 30s, and anchoring firmly into my Self with steady and devotional spiritual practice, this has changed. I love summer, and every other season. I love the shifts out my window. I love separate wardrobes. I love how the cadence of my days shift with the sun. I love that sometimes the mornings call for hot coffee, and sometimes the mornings call for iced coffee.
At this unrestrained high point, I’ve come to contemplate the question, offered by a teacher on a summer solstice a couple of years ago:
What am I being invited to release to allow for what I am becoming?
Release is a powerful act on a day of such fullness.
I’m releasing that there is a “best”, or even preferred, season of the year.
The days will become darker a bit by bit, starting tomorrow. A spacious opportunity for a reset. If you’d like, why not treat today as the first day of a cycle of time. Sure, the first day of summer. The first day of the rest of your life. At the very least: the first day of this next season of your life.
Each one of us, in all our complexity, has this same opportunity: to offer part of what once was to the altar of what is becoming. What can you set down and walk away from? As simple and straightforward as that is, in my experience, this offering practice is often messy, confusing, and brutally devastating. It’s not like cleaning out your closet and donating what no longer sparks joy. It’s like saying goodbye to everyone who has ever said they love you, because one day you realize there was deep confusion about what that meant. It’s like walking around with no skin: trying to keep track of all of your organs and bones and blood as it all sloshes around, feeling raw and vulnerable and sensitive. It’s like walking around going “what’s that smell?” only to realize it’s parts of you that are composting. It’s like packing up and moving out of one home before you have your next home secured.
And yet, we can.
And yet, we must.
We cannot stop becoming, we can only embrace it.
It’s always worth the risk to be a brave, loving, and compassionate person.
How is it coming along? The wish/prayer/dream that was yours to carry out?
I can share that mine is complete! I was accepted into Ancestral Medicine’s advanced teacher training. I’ve been a practitioner in the network since 2022, and will now spend a year+ deeping ritual skills in preparation to host and facilitate the work in 3 and 5-day group retreat formats. (Currently I work 1:1 and it tends to be on Zoom.) I’m very excited. My ancestors are very excited. The program will begin in September, and the around fall 2026 should be the first retreat. Lots more on this to come.
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I’m so happy for you and all you’ve been building and expanding into. It’s been beautiful to witness your blooming. The “education and love of learning” that I pulled from the 12 wishes at the turn of winter has landed me at the opposite pole, as I’m now considered as part of the ones dead to Daniel and Ancestral Medicine. A profound and tender loss, yet amazingly educational and transformational experience. I wish you well with your teacher training and continue to hope for the best for all at AM. ✨🌸✨