Hello, Solstice blessings to you all and to any readers in the Southern Hemisphere, Yule blessings to you!
I am sat in the yarden here, watching the bees go absolutely bonkers for these purple flowers that have grown,
..these flowers are classed a green manure as they can be dug back into the soil to fertilise it, I think they take the nitrogen in the air and convert it into nitrates…plant food! Anyway now I am waffling!
I always love the feeling of the Summer Solstice, no matter what the weather is doing. Currently the sun is out, it’s very warm and humid and there are big fat raindrops hitting me as I type this…got to love UK weather!
I have made a lemon drizzle cake as a nod to the Solstice (as well as today’s loaf of bread – although why I decided to stand by the oven for a couple of hours on one of the warmest days of the year I don’t know!)
So while I am waiting for the bread to cook and the cake to cool, I am out here admiring the flowers and the bees and just pondering on the Solstice, the gentle run down towards Autumn and Winter will start, the flowers and fruits will continue to grow and bloom, the insects will carry on doing their buzzy thing and the wheel keeps turning.
Tonight, once the kids are in bed (after they have had some sunshiney lemon cake of course!) I think I will come sit outside, light some candles and just breathe, quietly contemplating. That is the kind of mood I am in for this Solstice so will just go with it.
What ever your plans are, I wish you a truly blessed Solstice and a thoroughly enjoyable one, x
walking my pagan path 