Meditation: June 20th, 2025

"The earth holds all seasons within her embrace simultaneously—the seed's hope, the flower's glory, the fruit's fulfillment, the leaf's surrender. In her vast heart, endings and beginnings dance."

Physical Setting & Preparation

Find yourself in a space where the air shimmers with summer's peak intensity—beneath the broad canopy of a maple where shadows pool like cool water, beside a sun-warmed boulder that holds the day's heat like a gentle embrace, or at a window where late afternoon light slants golden through glass. Feel the earth's pulse through whatever surface supports you, sensing how the approaching solstice makes every grain of soil, every blade of grass vibrate with concentrated life force. The wheel of the year balances on its highest point, and in this moment of perfect light, all possibilities exist simultaneously.

Hope and Contentment

Opening Invocation | Fosgladh

Màthair na h-uile ùine, cuidich sinn (Mother of all time, help us)

On this threshold day before the great turning, we come bearing hearts that beat with anticipation—dùil rising like sap through our veins, sweet and urgent as the desire that drives roses to bloom beyond reason. Yet beneath this hopeful urgenc…