The flip side of the coin

Well I have to say that this has been the oddest summer solstice I have experienced ever. There has been none of the usual crazy potent energy, just this weird heaviness and feeling of being stuck.

It’s fairly much rained non stop here today and asked from teaching two yoga classes and enjoying a SHEN session with the lovely Jo Henton, I’ve mainly made my first ever batch of jam all on my own courtesy of excess logan and boys berries from my parents’ greenhouse. I also made a gluten, dairy and refined sugar free chocolate cake for the boys to counter all the sugar, dairy and gluten they ate on holiday in Alderney!

I feel like we are being constantly reminded of the two sides to the same coin, the yin and the yang and recognition of the need for balance and open minds, changing perspectives, going with the flow of things, not to get fixed, to let go of expectation and live in the present - which we are, if only we could let go of our cultural conditioning around linear time which keeps us trapped in patriarchy and never having enough time and this need to achieve all the time.

It’s becoming clearer to me that it is all about choice and about how we want to live our life - as in which reality we want to live in, the limited linear one that we’ve outgrown, hence the stuckness, or another more expansive one where we are not so limited or bound down by this current notion of time. It’s a big perspective shift because we don’t tend to question it - this is the life we have been sold, and we just get on with living it.

But imagine if there are other realms of reality that we couldn’t see but that we could access if we opened ourselves up to it. That our beyond the rational mind and its way of seeing the world? Well there are peter realms and other ways of being and I have a sneaky feeling that increasing numbers of people are going to be opening to these, that we will begin living beyond the realms of what we feel is possible, not technologically by the way, but from a deeper connection to nature and the earth, as if a portal opens up to us…(and it does btw, if we just get out there and into it and believe).

There’s a certain craziness that comes when people talk of things beyond our realm of comprehension, I have a good friend who lives in different dimensions and sometimes I think that he might be mad, but I know that this is simply because my limited mind has restricted my access to it and because of that the only thing I can do, to explain things rationally, is label him mad. He’s not mad by the way, he’s saner than most other people I know in this world, but again it comes back around to perspective.

Are we sane for vaccinating or mad, or does it not matter either way? We’re always changing our minds, always being asked to look at things differently. I really feel that the solstice has been asking us to pay attention to how we see the world and what we expect of it - nothing is necessarily what it appears, and always there is another way of looking at things.

For some this cake looks awful, for others it looks great, for me it tastes lovely and that’s all I really care about!

Happy solstice dreaming!

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