Here on the coast of Maine, dawn arrives at about 3:30 AM. The dark of Night seems to be just a brief respite from the brilliant and frenetic days of Summer.
Light is everywhere. The Sun is high and hot and insistent. All of life seems to be teeming with growth and creative frenzy. This is the time we are closest to the creative life force—as if we have a direct connection to the source of all life, so abundant that it is hard to contain, so compelling that we must create.
Revel in it. Store up the power, create the seeds that will be next year’s growth.
Know too, that creation happens on many levels. Physically we create to keep the world going, renewing. We also create ideas, thoughts, beliefs. We create the metaphors with which we define our world, indeed, we create the world itself. We all carry the responsibility to create wisely, to learn and grow and understand and act, as if we were truly intelligent beings that can apply the Power of Creation with Wisdom, Compassion, and Love.
We must bring all the power of the Sun to bear on creating ways to live in this world, ways to heal the pain and suffering, ways to ensure many seasons of future growth and abundance.
Bask in the light. Let the brilliance of the Sun light up the truth.
Use it to see what is real,
To create what is beautiful,
Let it illuminate the stagnant shadows of the past
where breeds illusion and delusion...
The high noon Sun casts no shadows,
This is the moment of Enlightenment.
(Fear not, the shadows will return. Even now, the seeds of fertile darkness are there, waiting for their time to shine.)
Happy Solstice,
David & Nan
