Summer Solstice: Maximum Potential & Maximum Growth Opportunity

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Yesterday was the summer solstice.  This is the one day in June when the Sun is at its highest path through the sky, marking the longest day of the year.  Because the day is so long the Sun does not rise exactly in the east, but rises to the north of east and sets to the north of west allowing it to be in the sky for a longer period of time.

It is said that this is the time when the most potential and maximum growth are simultaneously occurring together.  I checked the sunset and sunrise tables and it looks like we have a couple more lengthy days of light ahead of us before we start moving in the other direction.  The spring has given way to the full force of summer while harvest time remains merely a few months away.  

Did you plant some seeds of possibility?  It is not too late to take advantage of this annual cosmic occurrence and bring the natural powers of Nature into your own personal experience.  I love being backed up by the Universe, it’s a mighty power and force to align with.  So what are you waiting for?  What do you want to see manifest in your Life at harvest time on September 22nd, the fall equinox, and shortest day of the year?  

Set your intention, plant seeds of possibility and be ready at harvest time, remembering that the creation of a thousand forests exists in one acorn!  

Speaking of potential, did you know that “A standard 7 1/4-inch pencil can draw a line 35 miles long, write 45,000 words and absorb 17 sharpenings before becoming an unusable two-inch nub?” [Beth Leibson, in Reader's Digest]

Or that if your senses are working normally that you can “smell one drop of perfume diffused through a three-room apartment?”  [John D. McGervey and Bill Sones, in Buffalo (N.Y.) News Magazine]

Happy Solstice My Friends!

Cosmic Forgiveness: Venus to Transit the Sun Today

I was invited to a party this evening to safely view the Venus transit which is said to occur between 6 PM and 9 PM.  I am excited about this event and will definitely attend the party.  The Venus transit occurs when the planet passes between the sun & the earth creating a dark spot on the sun limiting the light from getting thru in that particular spot to us earthlings.

I looked at some images on the web of a previous Venus transit and they

reminded of a quote I once heard by Marianne Williamson that “un-forgiveness is like a dark spot on the heart that the light cannot get to.”

I have decided that I'm going to forgive Venus this evening and allow it to have safe passage between my planet and the sun.  Smile.

If you get the chance, you may want to view this once every 125 year, predictable phenomenon between 6 PM-9 PM this evening.

Perhaps you might join me in using this opportunity to forgive in planetary proportion by choosing one person, place, organization, situation or experience in which you have been secretly harboring resentment toward, creating a dark spot on your heart where the light cannot get to.  

Then project that out onto the planet Venus and watch (safely) as it transitions between the earth and the sun until only light remains.  In the silence of our own minds, raising and praising it all in the name of Love!  

Maybe we can even go a step further and project every ounce of un-forgiveness in our hearts onto it, rather than one, and then when the spot is no longer viewable, grin from ear to ear and feel the freedom!

If you are unable to safely view this phenomenon, perhaps simply knowing in your heart that the transition is occurring, forgiveness is occurring, you can bless it and call it good, for it didn't come to stay.

I call this epic forgiveness!  It's cosmic!

Namaste!