Slowing down as the light expands

We’re now under 4 weeks away from the brightest days of the year.

And as the days elongate and seemingly speed up, I have to take extra care to slow down and tend to my body or anxiety can become my default state. The increase of light makes it more difficult for me to ground, and harder for me to sleep.

It’s no coincidence that Peony called to partner with me during the first class of Plant Spirit Allyship.

I could feel her calling to me from a corner of my backyard I don’t often visit. Putting out a beacon call to my heart. I was a little surprised to find she was the one calling, but as I settled in to sit with her it made complete sense.

Peony is a deeply loving, tender beauty that helps us bring our energy down. She helps us connect with the waters of feeling, often with grief, but not always. She holds us in the arms of the archetypal feminine and invites surrender.

She’s been rocking me in gentle waters, and soothing my nervous system.

And a couple days ago she said to me, “drink from the waters of your own womb.”

What I felt was the call for me to replenish myself in my own creative waters. To create for the sake of creating for myself, not just others. To let myself drink in the pleasure that’s generated from this center.

To linger here, not just pass through. To stay and take in the beauty and the generative wellspring that is offered inside my own womb.

To allow myself to receive my own medicine.

It feels difficult for my system to down-shift and be slow during the days that ramp up speed. And yet, she showed up to invite me to do just this, and to bask in gratitude for the moment.

She reminds me that this is the way of nature too. That even in these days of big light and outward expression there is a slow steadiness to that unfolding.

When we connect with plants we’re often brought into ceremonial space, as they invite us into a magical quality of time.

“Time out of time,” as a teacher of mine would say.

There’s more spaciousness for reorientation within our systems, and more serendipitous support flowing in from the spiritual planes. Our brain is often able to take a back seat and the wider soul can receive deep knowings.

The plants are a direct pathway of communication between us and our own medicine. They mirror back to us parts of who we are that are whole and healed and connected. And they help us slow down to receive ourselves.

So dear one, during these weeks of solar expansion, can you allow yourself to slow down enough to take it all in? To take in the magic of yourself?

Enter into that mystical, time-out-of-time, space in your favorite way, and let yourself linger a bit in the medicine of the moment.

UPCOMING:

Plant Magic: A Day of Sacred Plant Communion

JUNE 7th, 10-4pm Corbett, OR

Practice listening more intimately to the energetic and spiritual forces of the Plants, receive their guidance, and support the Earth with your ceremonial blessing.

I've felt a strong call to price this a lot lower than I normally would, given the economic moment, and the strong need for this type of offering right now.

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Save the date for Earth Temple: Listening to the Dream of Earth's Heart.

JULY 10-13th. Forest Retreat (location TBD, but we'll be camping).

A 3 night retreat, guided by the Capricorn full moon and the nature spirits, where we'll deeply listen to how the Earth's dream wants to be dreamed through us, and find our sacred role during these times of upheaval.

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In the waters of slowness and gratitude,

Amy Terepka