Meditation: June 6th, 2025
"In the space between the lightning's flash and the thunder's voice, the soul discovers its own weather—sometimes storm, sometimes calm, always moving toward the sacred balance that makes both rain and sunshine possible."
Physical Setting & Preparation
Find yourself where you can feel the pulse of mid-June's established rhythm—perhaps where a breeze moves through full-leafed trees, creating patterns of light and shadow that shift and dance, or where you can observe the interplay between the day's growing heat and the earth's cooling moisture. Sit with your spine naturally erect but not rigid, like a plant that grows toward light while remaining rooted in dark soil. Allow your hands to rest openly, ready to receive whatever this moment offers. Feel how the world around you holds both the vibrancy of peak growing season and the subtle promise of deeper summer to come.
Today we work with the heart of June's energy and the emotional currents of restless seeking and centered knowing that flow through us like complementary winds—one stirring motion, the other calling us home to stillness.
Opening Invocation | Fosgladh
Màthair na Talmhainn, cuidich mi
Mother of Earth, help me
Ann an gluasad agus ann an fois
In movement and in rest
Ann an sireadh agus ann an faighinn
In seeking and in finding
Ann an gaol a tha seasmhach
In love that is constant
Place one hand upon your heart, one upon your solar plexus, feeling the places where both movement and stillness live within you. Feel the pulse that has carried countless seekers on their journeys and brought countless wanderers home to themselves, the same life force that sends roots both deep and wide, that lifts branches both toward sky and toward each other. On this sixth day of June, as the world settles into the confident rhythm of established summer, we honor the restless energy that drives all growth and seeking, and the centered peace that provides the foundation from which all healthy movement springs.
Body of the Working | Corp
Ann an gluasad na gaoithe
In the movement of wind
Ann an seasmhachd na talmhainn
In the steadiness of earth
Breathe into this June morning that holds both the stirring energy of continued growth and the deep peace of things that have found their place. Notice how your breath itself embodies this duality—the active inspiration that draws life into your body and the releasing expiration that lets go what is no longer needed. This is the rhythm of restless centering, the dance of seeking that always returns you home to yourself.
Your restless feelings are not anxiety but aliveness, not inability to be still but the natural movement of a spirit that is meant to grow, explore, and expand. Like seeds on the wind seeking new soil, like rivers seeking the sea, like trees reaching always toward more light, your restlessness is life force expressing its fundamental creativity and curiosity.
Tha mi a' sireadh
I am seeking
Mar a tha an abhainn a' sireadh na mara
As the river seeks the sea
Yet this seeking springs from and returns to your centered knowing—the deep place within you that has always been home, that knows your essential worth, that remains unchanged by whatever storms or calms you experience. Your centered nature is not static but dynamic, not rigid but responsive, like the eye of a hurricane that remains still while allowing great movement around it.
Feel how these qualities support each other in the natural world around you. The restless wind that pollinates flowers and disperses seeds, enabling the very centeredness of rooted growth. The centered earth that provides foundation for all the restless reaching of plants toward sun and rain. Both are necessary; both serve life; both serve love.
The Deep Working | An Obair Dhomhain
Sìos gu mo mheadhan fìor
Down to my true center
Far am faigh mi fois ann an gluasad
Where I find peace in motion
Descend now with your awareness into the deep places where restless seeking and centered knowing meet like confluence of rivers creating something larger than either could be alone. Imagine yourself as both the mountain that provides unchanging reference point for countless travelers and the river that flows around the mountain, always moving yet always held by the landscape through which it flows.
Your restlessness is not escape from your center but exploration from your center. Like a tree whose roots grow deeper as its branches reach higher, your capacity for adventure, growth, and seeking expands from the foundation of knowing who you truly are. You can explore widely because you have a home to return to within yourself.
Tha a' Mhàthair a' sealltainn dhomh
The Mother is showing me
Mar a tha mi aig an taigh anns gach àite
How I am at home in every place
And your centered knowing is not stillness that excludes movement but stillness that includes and enables all healthy movement. Like the sun that appears to journey across the sky while remaining essentially itself, you can experience all varieties of emotion, relationship, and circumstance while remaining grounded in your essential nature.
Feel the Mother's presence in this teaching: she who is both the stable ground that supports all growth and the dynamic force that drives all change and evolution. From her you learn that centeredness and restlessness are not opposites but partners in the sacred dance of becoming.
Tha mi aig an taigh ann an sireadh
I am at home in seeking
Tha mi a' sireadh aig an taigh
I am seeking at home
Let her healing flow through this recognition: your restless periods are not evidence that you've lost your center but proof that you're growing from your center. Your centered periods are not stagnation but preparation for the next phase of healthy expansion. You are both seeker and home, journey and destination, question and answer.
Feel how this integration transforms your relationship with change and stability. You no longer need to choose between growth and groundedness, between adventure and security, between reaching and resting. Like the earth herself, you can be both the foundation and the force of movement, both the place where things grow and the energy that enables their growing.
Afterthought | Smuain Dheiridh
Càite am faigh thu fois
Where do you find peace
Ann an gluasad do bheatha?
In the movement of your life?
Take a moment to contemplate:
How might your relationship with restless feelings change if you understood them as expressions of your soul's natural creativity rather than as evidence of your inability to be satisfied? What would it mean to discover that your truest center is not a place you reach but a quality of presence you can maintain regardless of what is changing around you?
Closing Blessing | Beannachd Dheiridh
Beannachd an t-siubhail ort
The blessing of journeying upon you
Beannachd an taighe choibhneil
The blessing of the welcoming home
Gun robh thu mar an rùn
May you be like the mystery
A tha seasmhach ann an caochladh
That is constant in change
May you carry with you the understanding that your restless seeking and your centered knowing are not competing forces but complementary expressions of a soul that is both explorer and sanctuary. May you find home wherever you go and journey freshly wherever you are.
Go both rooted and reaching, beloved child of Earth. The Mother's love travels with you and awaits your return.
Slàn leat air do thuras
Farewell on your journey