Summer Solstice Magic: Why Rest Beats Hustle at Litha

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Hello magical people. It is practically magic

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with your host Courtney Pearl. That's me. I am

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jumping on today just to give you a midsummer

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hello and a little help in navigating your summer

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solstice magic. Let's start our episode with

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pulling a card and I am going to use the Seasons

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of the Witch Oracle deck for Litha. A lot of

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witches and Divination Cardamansi practitioners

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use these series of decks because it's really

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fun to change them out as the wheel turns, the

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wheel of the year. They have these beautiful

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gold and purple and blue depending on the holiday

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or festival. They have this really cool foil

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on the side. So we're going to pull a card for

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Litha which is coming up very very soon. At the

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end of June we have a turning of the wheel and

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the longest day of the year which we're going

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to talk about in today's episode, why that is

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important, why that matters. Is this calling

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me out? You guys, how many of you need to be

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reminded of hydration? In a drought in Utah.

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Yeah, we're in a drought. It's a whole thing.

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It's all over the news. But let me read to you

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what it says. There is more to the story that

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meets the eye. Be mindful of what hides beneath

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the surface. Is that not the truth? Especially

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when it comes to hydration. I mean you don't

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even know you're dehydrated until you're having

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heat stroke and multiple health issues and you

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start wondering why you're so fatigued and why

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you feel nauseous and why you feel crappy, you

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know different things that can happen in the

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heat. For me personally, hydration is a really,

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really personal thing that I need to work on.

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Constantly, constantly tracking my water and

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trying to figure out if I'm getting enough and

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it never really is, actually never really is

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enough. Well friends, it is summer. Not officially,

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I mean obviously the summer solstice begins the

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summer but in the Celtic calendar they consider

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Beltane to be the start of summer because it

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is coming into the light half of the year and...

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Excuse me. And it is when, you know, the last

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of the planting is done. So I work a lot with

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the healing cycles of the year and Litha or summer

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solstice is a really important one because people

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often ignore it. Quite honestly, and it is hard.

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I'm gonna be honest I've got three boys as most

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of you know who listened last season that we

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did a rising moon minerals Shout out to my co

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-host Jamie if you were watching last season.

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We had the best time recording every week in

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rising moon minerals cute little crystal shop

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talking about crystals every episode and Don't

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worry if you're wondering. Where's Jamie what's

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going on? She's still around. We are definitely

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going to be involved in this season. And you

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are going to see her again. Don't you worry.

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We love them over there at Rising Moon Minerals.

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And I've got a lot of things cooking on the back

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end of what's going to come out in Practically

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Magic for this season. But back to summer. You

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guys know I got three boys. They're all school

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-age kids. And even as I sit here recording this,

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I'm just hoping that they're not tearing the

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house apart while I said, mommy's gotta go record

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for a couple minutes. You guys, you know, you'll

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be good, you'll be fine. Hopefully, you know,

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you're all right. And it's tough because you

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think that as kids get older, they're going to

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need, um... less vigilance, less supervision.

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They're gonna be a little bit more independent

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and you can kind of handle your business, handle

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things you need to do. And that's not always

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the case, at least with my kids. They require

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quite a bit of constant vigilance and get into

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trouble quite a lot. In fact, just today, I took

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my eyes off of them for a minute to get some...

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work done on prism healing working on rebranding

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and relaunching a lot of cool stuff for my business

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prism healing and while my back was turned they

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got into the honey another sticky honey all over

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my kitchen could be worse could be worse yeah

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put me back into reality it could be worse so

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for all of you who are trying to remain magical

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Remain calm, work on yourself, work on what you

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need to do and it is summer and you've got kids

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and you are their primary caregiver as well and

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all of the things that you're juggling. Just

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that. And that there is nothing better to invite

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self -reflection and healing than a hard, hard

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time. So if you're going through a hard time

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or adjustments, that is another invitation to

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your own self -awareness and your own healing.

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I am going to be going back through the archives

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and revisiting some of the old episodes and we're

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going to go back and touch on or reintroduce

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the topics that started Prism Healing and practically

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magic the podcast. So you might remember when

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the first seasons came out, if you've been watching

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and listening, you know, there's a lot of really

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great topics, but maybe they were a little bit,

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you know, less interesting and engaging to listen

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through them. And so we're gonna revisit some

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of those and have a really good time and have

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some more discussions. So let's talk about Litha.

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So if you're... little bit new to the pagan wheel

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of the year calendar and how to how to celebrate

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those things for a lot of people who are deconstructing

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religion or deconstructing what they had when

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they could grasp the community the certainty

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the instruction that came with being part of

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a religion and maybe wanting to Grasp something

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I think the Wheel of the Year is a great place

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to start. I mean it's very open -ended. It's

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still very fluid. There's a lot of history behind

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it, so it really helps you if you are from a

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Celtic or Nordic region of have that ancestry.

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It really does help to feel connected in a way

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that can be those things that can connect you

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to your ancestral practices, indigenous practices.

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You know a lot of times we say that like people

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don't have a culture so they borrow it from other

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people, they appropriate and the truth is if

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you are from a northern European ancestry there

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is a lot of culture that was lost to you as well

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and your ancestors when colonization took over

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that part of the world and so reconnecting with

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it, reawakening it, rediscovering it, and remembering

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it can be such a powerful experience. So I do

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that through the Wheel of the Year and when the

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wheel turns at the solstices, the equinoxes,

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and the Celtic fire festivals, that puts you

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at a celebration every six weeks. Something new

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to learn about, something new to celebrate. Well,

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my family do. Sometimes we have done. Is we'll

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make those Sun wheels. We tried last year to

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make them with branches and yarn and Didn't really

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what we were doing. I'm artistic and I teach

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art classes, but crafting is not really my thing

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So trying to figure out how to navigate the weaving

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was It was an experiment and that's okay I never

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ever claim that you have to do it correctly or

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that there is or that you're gonna make something

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That is so beautiful. You could sell it on Etsy

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You know may not be, but the participation in

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it is really fun. So there's a lot of celebration

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happening around a summer solstice that has to

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do with the sun, the wheel, the circles, and

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so we would get branches and we could weave them

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together and made them into a circle, tied them

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at the end, so you start with a circle. You could

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also start with just one branch or you would

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do with a dream catcher, you know, something

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that starts you out with a circle. And then I

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think we just wrapped it around so that there

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were crisscrosses, Xs, Ts, you know, as many

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times as we could so there was lots of yarn all

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connecting from the outsides of the circle into

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the center. and then we just took colors and

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we tied them to the center and we started weaving

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in and out and then the opposite all the way

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around so that each time we went around the circle

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if we went over the first time on one of those

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strings then we went under on the next one and

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so that they kind of uh weaved into a pattern

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and you know then we had this cool little sun

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wheel, this thing that we created that was all

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these colors and they spiraled out into the edges.

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Didn't look particularly great, my first one,

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you know, but maybe this year I'll be posting

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on my Instagram and my TikTok some better looking

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ones from what we made last year. The point is

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to participate in the activity, to... weave your

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intentions into it and make it in a magical experience

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or a spell in how you're making the thing. And

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by the way, if you don't want to work with yarn

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and you just want to work with pens, crayons,

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paper, whatever it is that you need to work with,

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and just think, how can I incorporate circles

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and circle shapes into my art or my Doodling

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or my creativity making spirals making Sun shapes

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just to honor the Sun and the length of a full

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day now It is the longest day of the year a lot

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of a lot of pagans a lot of people Magical energetic

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people associate the Sun and the symbols of the

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Sun to the masculine And I particularly do, although

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there's a lot of folklore from Native Indigenous

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people here in Northern America or Turtle Island

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that would have stories about the son being a

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grandmother or a mother or being a woman or feminine.

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And I think that's particularly wonderful too.

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I think that, you know, it's all about our own

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associations with it. But a lot of times it's

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associated with a masculine because the masculine

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energy coming from the solar plexus chakra, that

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is the yellow bright flame, it has to do with

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self -confidence, self -esteem, productivity,

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efficiency, you know, getting things done. So

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we do associate the sun with action and the time

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of day when you get the most done. at least until

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electricity was invented and you could have the

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lights on all night and work all night, which

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I don't recommend. But our natural rhythms and

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cycles are rest during the darkness, winter time,

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night time, and be productive and doing things

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during the day. However, in the middle of summer

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when the Sun is out the longest. It's very easy

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to get overworked, to be burning out. And the

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thing is, from Imbulk on February 1st, when you

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start the planting seasons, and you have Imbulk

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and Ostara, the spring equinox, and then you

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have Beltane, those are the three major planting

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seasons or cycles. in the year, at least for

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the northern hemisphere of the earth. So planting

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and working, we're planting seeds, we're tilling

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up the garden, we are tending to the animals,

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we are helping them give birth. Now, this is

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our ancestors, right? Not all of us are in the

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farming community, but if you do have a farm,

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you know what I'm talking about. You still live

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and work in these cycles, right? Come here, Mookie.

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I have my... aunt's dog visiting us and He's

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in the room with me right now. So we'll see if

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he lets himself be seen on camera sitting next

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to me Okay, if you want to come sit by me Nah,

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he might not. Oh, well So we've been working

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hard is what I'm saying. We've been working working

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working hard we're planting seeds and we're hoping

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that all those seeds become abundant and fertile

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and You know produce what we need to survive

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because our ancestors really needed that to survive.

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They really, you know, they didn't have grocery

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stores to just pop over to and grab food. They

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depended on their crops doing well and their

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livestock doing well and surviving. So our natural

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rhythms are still very cohesive with that. It's

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very much about getting a lot built up. of our

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business or our work or our money, putting it

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all into from thought into action. But then we

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get to the winter, the summer solstice, we get

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to summer solstice and we're pretty burned out

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and we and we've run out of things to do. I mean,

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if you were likening it to actual planting and

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crops by this time, they should be growing and

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they should be just needing to be watered. intended

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to and we did and you know just kind of kept

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going but really there's not a lot to do and

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we are meant to have a little period of rest

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not quite the rest we have in winter but very

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much so a period of playfulness of joy of gathering

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with our friends and so it should be time to

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kind of lay back and relax this is when people

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plan their family vacations, which by the way,

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if you're planning vacations with little kids,

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that's not necessarily a rest and I get you.

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But you do your best, right? You do what you

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can to spend quality time with your family and

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really make it a lot of fun for everybody. This

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is the time when you kind of plan your things

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in the morning when it's cool, you wake up early,

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you get a little bit done, and then maybe by

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mid -afternoon you're... hoping for a little

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nap. Now if you're listening to this and going,

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what are you talking about Courtney? There is

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no way I get a nap. I am way too busy. But here's

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the problem. Your body is gonna feel like it

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needs to keep working as long as the sun is up.

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And so it's going to work work work from sun

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up to sun down. It's going to find more and more

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things thinking that that's what it needs to

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do. At least that's the way our programs, our

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brains are programmed, right? All right, so we've

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been kind of going over the Wheel of the Year

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about how there's a lot of work to be done and

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our brains are kind of programmed to work extremely

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hard. When the sun is up, when it's daylight,

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we... I mean this is part of like the conditioning

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that capitalism has given us is productivity,

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efficiency, more, more, more, more. You can be

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getting things done, you should be, right? But

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our bodies are actually connected to a ancestral

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pull to be nurtured at this time. That this is

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a time to rest, to take breaks, to take those

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mid -day naps. Some cultures around the world

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still hold that very high on the priority list

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on long dog days of summer. They have a siesta

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time or a time that is actually like, stop working,

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go have a couple of hours break. Maybe you go

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meet a friend for coffee. I've actually heard

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about this somewhere in Europe, that this is

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a very normal, very cultural practice to do this

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and I am extremely jealous because in America

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we just have adopted something more that looks

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a lot more like the push towards a masculine

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energy of work work work work and get it done.

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Now masculine energy is not a bad energy that's

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why we get stuff done but to balance it with

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a feminine energy is really important. So I'm

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going to challenge you as like your Litha homework

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at this time. I want you to figure out a way

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to pull back from working so hard at least during

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certain times of the day. Perhaps you can work

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it into your schedule. Perhaps you can give yourself

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a little bit more of a I'm going to push some

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goals and deadlines back a few months so that

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my summer July time Maybe July and August if

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you'd like is just a little bit more relaxed

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a little bit less Pull some things off your plate.

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Maybe tell some people. Nope. I'm sorry. I can't

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do that project right now Because this is when

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I'm honoring the cycles that my body needs to

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be in rest and I know that we have conditioned

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our Society to believe that we will not be as

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productive if we are not getting these done at

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all times The truth is we are actually and studies

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have proven this all the time studies are proving

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this people are more productive and get more

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done when they have these breaks and rests and

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they're able to have some stillness and peace

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during times of the day. I was actually at my

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twin boys first soccer game last night and we

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have never done sports e -sports in our family

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very much so this is all very new to us a lot

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about soccer people and how that works but this

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is just a fun community soccer thing where they

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have no practices they just practice a few minutes

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before their game every week couple times a week

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We brought our camp chairs and we sat them out

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on the lawn in the shade of a nice big tree and

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just got ready to kind of chill out and watch

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the boys play soccer, watch them do their little

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thing. I don't really know what they're doing

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yet, but they're so cute just running around

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kicking the ball and doing their little thing.

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But as we sat there, my husband and I, side by

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side in silence. and peace, and just the sound

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of the distant soccer game going on where we

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could see it. It wasn't very loud. And my older

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son was sitting next to us in a camp chair as

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well, and he is not used to this kind of thing.

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He is usually going, going, going. He's usually

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got an activity of some kind. He's usually got

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friends to play with. He's always got something

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entertaining him almost constantly. Not my choice,

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but... It's his reality. So he was sitting next

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to us and he says, how can you guys just sit

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here? This is so boring. I looked at him and

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I said, you're right. It is. Man, do I feel lucky

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to be here right now. Just getting to be bored

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for once. My mind can just sit and think thoughts

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and Figure things out and be infinitely entertained

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by all the ideas that are possible in my own

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brain And I never get that normally on a daily

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basis I always have something either a phone

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in my face or a to -do list to get to or a list

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of chores or three human beings that depend on

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me and I have to Take care of and in this moment

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right now just right now I get to sit here and

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be bored. So awesome. And I just loved it. I

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just loved that moment. So that is what Litha

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represents to me and I'm gonna pull out another

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card from the deck that I pulled out purposely

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from the Litha deck which is the Cancer card.

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My twins are cancer so I have that Tattooed on

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my arm from the tattoo episode. You guys might

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remember I have the cancer symbol there the crab

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and Cancers are ruled by the moon Right, so we're

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going into cancer season. We're going into the

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cancer time of the year ruled by the moon and

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very much motherly nurturing caring for others

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and I'm gonna challenge you to care for yourself

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in the way a mother figure would notice that

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instead of the sun and the bright yellow summer

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feeling that you get typically this card is a

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night sky darkness stars this woman is resting

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on the moon with her white hair held up by stars

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there's like a moon moth butterfly Sitting there.

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Very much a call to nurturing right now. So if

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you have felt overworked, burned out, too much

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being asked of you, this is a good time to revisit

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that. And the next wheel of the year turn is

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going to be August 1st. So we get to celebrate

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La Mas or Lunessa depending on how you pronounce

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that. Each person kind of has their own way of

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pronouncing it, but another Celtic fire festival

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that is in between the solstices and the equinoxes.

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So it's not fall yet, but it is kind of the late

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summer vibes that we have. the first of August.

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So for this next six week turn of the wheel of

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the year, we get to be a little self -aware about

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how overworked and overtired and overstressed

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we are and how much we need to clear some things

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off of our schedule and our plate to make room

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for what feels like a good time to break and

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rest. Maybe you have a vacation planned. Maybe

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not. I am going to devote some time to sleeping.

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Something that I haven't been getting a lot of

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lately. And if I can choose to do with what I

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want to celebrate Litha with, it's going to be

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some sleeping time. Sleeping in or taking naps.

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Whatever my body seems to need to do. Maybe laying

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out on the lawn chair on the beach or next to

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the pool. Or you can take a little nap there.

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If it's safe to do so. Alright? Make sure you're

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watching those kiddos. Sorry. That's my mom brain.

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I just have to say it so Thank you so much for

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go to witchy camp on Monday nights and I am going

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to be doing their psychic fair in July as well,

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doing card readings, cardimancy dream interpretation

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sessions during that later in July and I'm also

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All right magical people. I want you to remember

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that you are light. So never forget your spark