It was my birthday last Saturday and I’ve been thinking a lot about cycles. It seems we’re always in one, no? One cycle is completing and a new one beginning. The Moon has her cycle every month. The Sun every year. The seasons cycle throughout the year. The upcoming solstice on 21st June marks the start of a new 6-month cycle, ending on the Winter solstice on 21st December.

Waxing and Waning

Yin and Yang

Completion and expansion

The cycles continue..

One’s birthday is significant as it is the beginning of a new cycle around the sun. I’ve always felt a sense of newness and renewal on my birthday itself and in the proceeding weeks. The month leading up to my birthday has often been tumultuous and sh*t usually comes up to be healed, completed and left behind. It's my soul saying "No, we can't carry this into your next journey around the sun! Leave it here. Drop it now."

Have you noticed this around your birthday or around the full or new Moon cycles? Or perhaps at other times of the year?

It reminds me that we are constantly ebbing and flowing and gives perspective to life and how it goes on, with cycles continuously ending and beginning.

3 steps to harness the Summer Solstice energies

Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are 4 days from the Summer Solstice, which is on June 21st. Right now, both the Moon is waxing(getting bigger) and the solar energies of the Sun are growing 3 steps to help you access these powerful, light-filled energies: 

1) Write out all the things that no longer serve you and you want to leave behind.

2) Burn, or rip up and throw out your list. Thanking the things on the list for all they have taught you. (And good riddance!)

3) Write a new list with all the things your heart desires (not what your mind thinks you need to be happy 😂🤣)

4) Place the list on an alter or sacred space to you. Keep feeding the alter until the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice. 

5)"Visit" your alter each day and feed it with love, care and positive attention. You can place flowers, a few drops of essential oils, crystals, fruit, offerings - whatever your heart guides you to.

6) Remember that higher forces are supporting you for your highest good ❤️ 

Let me know how you get on! And I love seeing pictures of your alters so feel free to share 🥰

Enjoy a wonderful longest day of the year -in light and radiance

With all my love, 
Chandrika ❣️

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