Nourishing the Spirit Within

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Today, planet Earth has entered the celestial sign of Cancer and the Sun, having swallowed night nibble by nibble since the first day of spring, stands still triumphant in glory the longest day of the year. Each year, when our Earth reaches the ecliptic at 00 Cancer those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the solar promiscuity of Summer Solstice splashing our naked flesh with incandescent rays slithering across our skin like golden honey unleashing the spirit of Dionysus within. Hedonism rising with the zenith of  our solar vitality we stand stilled by the Sun mesmerized by the prodigious powers of a miraculous living spirit mysteriously incarnate in matter bedazzled that it is ” I “.

Summer Solstice is the courier of three glorious months of unabashed celebration appreciating the “I” that dwells within beginning with the bright face of Cancer, the domicile of the Moon and substance of our soul. When we are under the influence of Cancer our poetic musing guides our perilous journey to the depths of our unconscious yearnings and speaking in the tongue of our soul we weave a protective web insuring our nourishment. Cancer is that aspect in each of us entwined amongst the deepest roots of our source  and succor providing form and substance for what we were, are, and will be. There is a deep sensitivity, astute caring, and sincere wanting to nourish all of life reflecting the bright light of Cancer; the darkness of Cancer can bind our fear of change, our fear of differences, so that we inadvertently horde our nurturing care birthing stinginess and greed into the world.

Cancer garners a new birth in season, a new birth in conscious awareness, and a new  birth in our creative self-expression bringing me to the crux of  what is being offered this Summer Solstice, which is nothing less than a regenerative purging of our fear of not having enough in life. Today, we dance in passionate rhythm with Venus and Mars fused as one in Taurus creating a magnetic attraction to the abundance of life, and enlivening our capacity to share in the wealth of our human family. If we cling to our past binding our fear of scarcity to the present we may forfeit celebrating the mystery of the home and substance of our spirit in our forgetting that celebrating the one is in reverent worship of the other.