SOLSTICE RITUAL with FRUITS and FLOWERS

by Birgitta Belleme

SOLSTICE RITUAL - VISUVANT

The Sun stills as reaches his peak, and we are bathed high vibrational energy and potential.

Solstice/VISUVANT is an opening celebration between the Earth and the velvet constellations that balances light and shadow and creates harmony in between. It is a moment to reconcile felt intuition, the energetic flow of the Sun, and our physical bodies.

This is the Solar Plexus activation point and here you can find an easily accesible, guided adaptable SOLAR PLEXUS BREATHWORK.

The first six months of the year are a rewilding. The changing, the itching, the growing, the planting, all brings us to the exact moment and space ewe are in. 

We may find ourselves becoming or become.

Solstice is a reverence of cycles, and the beauty to be found in the process when we are fully present.

Wherever we are on our path we take a moment to show gratitude for our bounty, as we prepare for the season to come under a moonlit Sun.

One thing I always do at SOLSTICE is to infuse the SOLAR energy to be available to me when I need to connect and be energised.

Making preserves (to pre serve unto our future selves) is an easy way. Take fruit and flowers and squish them tightly, adding sunlight, joy and togetherness into a glass jar and suspending the moment with a lid.

Today we bottled solstice in all her beauty by making elderflower cordial with lemon and mint, strawberry and elderflower jam.

We foraged the elderflower (properly in the wild this time) and picked up strawberries (and mouldy figs - but that's another post) from the market and our old wardrobe base in the garden that is serving as a dog-and -pony-safe strawberry bed.

You don't have to have masses of fruit and flowers to make syrup or jam. Enough for one amazing pot is perfect. We don't need so many elderflowers to make syrup which is all the better because I much prefer them when they develop into berries for the winter.

I always add less sugar than I need because I know whatever I make isn't going to stay long in the cupboard. On a rainy day we will open our jars and taste the sweetness of solstice on our lips. Will you try?

For the Elderflower Cordial -
15 flowers stalks removed
2 lemons zested and juiced
a little bunch of mint
350grams ish of sugar
1 litre of boiling water

Mix all the ingredients lightly and add to a jar. Let steep for a day or two, strain and bottle. Will last 2-3 months in a cool place (or fridge) depending on how much sugar you add.

 

If you enjoy this and would like more, download my book SEASONS RITUALS for HOLISTIC WELLBEING

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