Allow your body to be supported by the Earth beneath you.
Let your breath soften. No effort. No striving.
This solstice marks a pause in the great turning –
a threshold where light and dark reach their ancient agreement.
If you are in summer, feel the fullness of light, growth, and outward expression.
If you are in winter, feel the inward spiral, the quiet, the fertile darkness.
Neither is better. Both are needed for wholeness.
Let your awareness widen.
Imagine yourself held within a vast field of consciousness –
one that cradles the Earth, sky, stars, and all living beings.
You are not separate from this field.
You are a unique expression of it.
Now bring your attention gently to the centre of your chest.
Not to analyse or understand, simply to sense.
There is an intelligence within you that already knows how to receive change.
It has done this before. It will do this again.
You do not need to direct it; you only need to allow it.
Silently offer these words to yourself:
I am open to what is ready to awaken.
I trust my own rhythm of remembering.
You may notice subtle movements within:
images forming, colours shifting, memories surfacing, or simply a profound stillness.
All are welcome. Nothing requires interpretation or fixing.
If thoughts arise, let them drift like clouds.
If sensations appear, meet them with kindness.
At this solstice threshold, imagine any patterns that no longer serve you –
old beliefs, identities worn thin, inherited fears – beginning to loosen their hold.
Like leaves that have fulfilled their purpose, they fall naturally, without force or drama.
In their place, allow space.
Not answers yet. Not solutions. Just room.
Room for clarity.
Room for compassion.
Room for your deeper self to speak in its wordless language.
Now sense the Earth beneath you once more – her ancient, steady presence.
Feel how she anchors all transformation into the body, into the sacred ordinary of daily life.
She is the witness. She is the ground. She remembers you completely.
Take three slow, conscious breaths.
With each exhale, let yourself settle more fully into this knowing.
I am part of a much greater intelligence.
Change moves through me with wisdom.
I meet this turning with trust.
When you are ready, gently open your eyes.
Welcome back.
Solstice blessings and unity at this time of transformation,
- Cedar Rivers