This is a reading done over the 12 days around the Summer Solstice. 1 card is drawn for each day.
We did this as a group reading circle at “Tarot Tea and Me”, a forum, where I am a member.
https://www.thetarotforum.com/
I like, that the daily promptings are multicultural and aid in making us aware of this special time of the year.
Here is the suggested layout:
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11————-5-
-10———–6—
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1. Birth of the Muses – June 14: This card shows how our inspiration and creativity is manifesting.
2. Vestalia – June 15: An ancient Roman festival dedicated to Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. This card shows us our hearth, the fire at the center of our life and home, and how to tend to it.
3. Night of the Teardrop – June 16: Remembrance of the tears of Isis causing the Nile River to overflow. This card shows what our emotions are telling us at this time.
4. Juno, Goddess of Fertility and Union – June 17: Celebrating the ancient Roman goddess for whom the month of June is named. This card shows us an area of fertile growth in our lives.
5. Festival of Strawberries – June 18: As the strawberries ripen, this card shows us the sweetness in our lives.
6. Oak King – June 19: A dedication to the Oak King, who is now near the height of his power in his battle with the Holly King. This card shows us our strength.
7. Scrying – June 20: In the tradition of scrying at the time of Midsummer, this card shows us a blessing to come.
8. Summer Solstice – June 21: We are at the height of the sun’s power, the longest day, in the Northern Hemisphere; OR, if you are joining from the Southern Hemisphere, this day is the turning point for the days to get longer. This card shows us how to shine our own light like the Sun.
9. Honey Moon – June 22: This card shows us how to release anxieties or worries, how to enjoy ourselves in this moment.
10. Saint John’s Eve – June 23: Like the herbs traditionally gathered on St. John’s Eve, this card shows what protects or heals us.
11. Guru Purnima – June 24: Indian festival of expressing gratitude to teachers. This card reminds us of a lesson we have learned, or an experience or person that has taught us something, that we should remember and have gratitude for as we move forward.
12. Parvati, Earth Mother – June 25: The card shows us how to ground ourselves and how to connect with the earth’s abundance.
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Here now is my reading with the Anieth Nature Tarot
1. Birth of the Muses – June 14: This card shows how our inspiration and creativity is manifesting.
1 The Magician
The card shows me a Peregrine Falcon soaring through a partially cloudy sky, high above the green valley that is rimmed by rather pointy breast- like snow-capped mountains. Instantaneously this image takes me back to a wonder- filled sunny early spring day in Grand Teaton National Park, just a scant month ago. The mountains just as – teat- like, pointy, snow capped and spring just barely arriving in the valleys with all the wild Animals , especially the Birds eagerly awaiting the snow melt and the night time temperatures to rise above freezing.
It is a time of high anticipation, high expectation, of fecundity and joy.
Life renews itself. Magic is still possible.
Now I am expected to join in, in the frenzy, in the re- creating and in the hustle and bustle of building a new nest for the summer to lay its eggs into.
Coming back home to rainy, Mosquito soaked Ontario, where going outside without the black veil of my Mosquito jacket is just not possible, is putting a heavy damper on this exuberance.
This time of year we are more house-bound than in Winter’s – 40 C.
We are supposed to be creative – in the downstairs workshop making lots and lots of new pieces of jewellery. And we do.
BUT: Nothing is “new” We have to restrain our creativity and first and foremost re- make all the hundreds of tried tested and $$$ true designs I am expected to have ready for sale by the time this reading concludes.
Only then we are free to experiment and go free and do / dabble with new ideas and new designs. Life experience and 35 years in the business has taught us, that only very few of these new ones will ever sell. Our loves and tastes are quite different from “what sells these days”
there are the few free soaring human Peregrine Falcons, that will appreciate them and also have a valid Visa card.
I do have quite a few nice ideas inspired by our latest trip – many of them I may make- and just keep – or give away to friends….
The Magician is the card of “making it happen,” using all the tools of the trade (the cobbler)
My Falcon on my card is looking at me with eyes, that tell me : “Go get cracking, the time is NOW, the sky is relatively clear. Iffff you dwaddle, you will end up in a wall of clouds…..”
We do not have Peregrine Falcons here, but we do have a Merlin nesting on our property. He is hunting small Birds – unfortunately right at our Bird feeders.
My Magician is a dangerous one….. Birds beware!
Things can happen FAST!
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2. Vestalia – June 15: An ancient Roman festival dedicated to Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. This card shows us our hearth, the fire at the center of our life and home, and how to tend to it.
2 of Wands
This card shows me 2 Wolves, on laying down one standing by its side, both howling.
The Wolves are shown on short brown vegetation, above them a clear blue sky shows a fire red cloud out of which the first snowflakes are falling. A late autumn sunset.
Wolves do sleep during the day and wake at just about this time of day, stretch, then howl to initiate it communal hunt.
To me these two look like a mated pair.
This image is very auspicious : Not only am I of the Wolf Clan – from my Siberian tribal father;s side (Ee’ren Börü is our Clan Guardian)I also do have a Wolf as one of my main personal Medicine Guardians and protectors. 
Keeping the Hearth Fire going:
Do not laugh, I am having out hearth = stove going in the living room, right NOW, on June 15. It is cold and rainy outside and damp in the house and having to do a reading about Hearth Fires – I started it up!
Yes, and here are 2 Wolves on this card!
How do they relate to the way I do tend my Hearth Fire, the centre of my home and life?
Being indigenous Siberian, following the shamanic world view of my people and working as a practising shaman in our community, communicating with Spirits, my personal Spirit Guardians and finding the ones of my clients and patients and communicating with them, asking for advice and how to help/ mentor a person in need, is essentially what I do.
It informs my path of service to others and also my artwork and the jewellery pieces my husband and me create in order to make a living. All are all inspired by this shamanic worldview….
Now, this being the 2 of Wands I am reminded of clarity, of purpose, of passionate intent, but also of reliable instincts in all situations and pre-planning actions, especially in business.
Yes, 2 Wolves = 2 people! 
We have to work together, hunt together = make a living and do it by communicating well with each other and with others. Yes, like the Wolves on my card, we are in the autumn of our lives, not as fast as we once were, but we can also howl for some help and a younger generation of feisty Wolves will lend us a hand.
How do I tend to this precious hearth Fire to keep it well lit?
Daily meditation, drumming, walks in nature, where once in a while I get to see a wild Wolf – We have them living on our property (and sometimes pooooping in front of the door of our log home….)
What I could do better, is eat a bit healthier and go to sleep earlier.
But tell a Wolf to sleep at night and be awake early in the morning and you will get snarrrrrled at.
I do snarl – vigorously! 
I have the predator with the growly voice and the sharp teeth living inside me and also sometimes coming out of his den.
I therefore have to keep him in check.
The older I get, the harder this gets.
So I have to try and avoid getting into situations, where that predator gets provoked.
Luckily, I manage just that – most of the time…..
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3. Night of the Teardrop – June 16: Remembrance of the tears of Isis causing the Nile River to overflow. This card shows what our emotions are telling us at this time.
Hero of Cups (Knight of Cubs)
The card shows me one of the lakes of the misty fen that once existed somewhere near the East cost of England.- – – Sadly it is now long been drained and in its place is now s shopping mall and a paved parking lot, carefully ditched, so that the last little bit of water can drain off into a metal culvert …….
– – -But In the realm of the Anieth Tarot the world is still beautiful and pristine and before me a Green Frog sits on a Lily Pad, right next to the brilliantly gleaming white Waterlily.
That is the thing with emotions. They depend on what you are thinking right now!
Thoughts create the mood that sets our emotions. But this also works the other way round:
What we feel and how we feel informs our thought patterns.
Just reading and therefore thinking/ concentrating on the sentence” Remembrance of the tears of Isis causing the Nile River to overflow. “ can set a sad, glooooomy tone, evoking all the many memories of tears, tough times and hardships we have experienced. It will remind me of all the loved ones, friends and patients I had over the years, that walked into the mists of the Otherworld, that is shown in the background of my card image.
What I always tell my patients is “Do not belief everything you think” and “Keep your dysfunctional thought patterns in check”
Think something different!
Like, I see Omakaki, the Frog, who is a Spirit of the South of the Medicine Wheel, here is Canada and with my people in Siberia. He is is charge of the weather and of green things to grow. So to me today Omakaki is in charge of my feelings and I have decided to concentrate on the fact, that it is NOT raining today, finally, that the sun is out, that in the pond I see outside my living room window the first Waterlilies are coming up and I am surrounded by green growing things.
All good stuff!
Go Kermit! You are my hero!
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4 Juno, Goddess of Fertility and Union – June 17: Celebrating the ancient Roman goddess for whom the month of June is named. This card shows us an area of fertile growth in our lives.
Hero of Stones
Oh! There are 2 of my heroes on this card!
Both show the Knight of Pentacle’s qualities of endurance and consistency as well as being seen quite a bit as a / hero/ anti- hero in larger modern society. It is The Mouse, sitting in front of a few Acorns, some are undoubtedly gnawed open, others she is in the process of burying them for later consumption in tougher (winter) times.
She is the hero , because some of them she will forget and they will grow into new Oak trees.
The other hero here is a blooming Dandelion plant in all its splendour right behind my rodent.
A hero, because, this is a powerful Healing Plant and main food item for many a herbivore the world over, also a providor of Vitamin C and delicious in a spring salad.
I do have NO idea, WHY people these days hate this plant soooo much and go after it with any plant poison they get their fingers on…..
there is yet another Plant on this picture – I can not identify it. It loooooks a bit like a Potato Plant, but this being neolithic Europe, there were none of them there yet.
So I will chalk this one up as one of the many unknown heroes that exist upon this Earth and without which we would NOT exist…..
To both of my Known heroes I have a powerful spiritual connection:
Mouse is a main food for Owl, and 2 of my personal Medicine Guardian are Owls. I am fascinated by Mice and could watch them for hours. But I am also known for catching the ones invading my log house in life traps, and – most of the year, transporting them at least 3 km away from home before letting them go – but also in the dark of Winter calling in one of the Barred Owls that live on our property and feeding them a life mouse. They know the call, they know the drill – come and sit in the Tree across from the upper deck and I toss out the mouse and you either be quick and catch it in mid- air or when it hits the snow…..
Dinner time for the physical representations of my Medicine Guardian…..
Dandelions: When I was 18 and in RN training and at the same time was learning about the shamanic Medicine ways of my Inde’ teacher Haoko SV, he told me, to draw myself as I see myself and – I drew a Dandelion popping up in the middle of cracking concrete between the high-rises of the 3 clinic buildings I had worked in so far……
Today of course I use Dandelion as a healing plant – and in salads….
But they are also the reason our Black Bear shows up at dawn, to graze on them this time of year.
So, since the card image reminds me of all these things, what is the message regarding fertile growth in my life right now?
The unknown hero speaks to me of continuing to learn, grow and explore. That there is sooooo much I have no idea about.
Both of my known heroes are very fertile, so, right now, if I am worrrrried about the economy and us being able to sell all the jewellery we are currently producing, =making any money this year, I can STOP that right now!
Come fall I will have enough nuts to dig away for Winter and all our Jewellery pieces will, like Dandelion seeds be blown away in all 4 directions, there to be admired and to seed us new customers.
There is also the fact, that over the years I have buried quite a few nuts in safe places and they now grew into nice Oak Trees…..
But there also is the fact, that I have in my many hidey holes put away quite a few “treasures”, over the years, received as gifts and Medicine Offerings form friends and clients and they now only have oooooold Energy and I have to dig them up and see, that they, like Dandelion seeds be dispersed into the 4 directions.


5. Festival of Strawberries – June 18: As the strawberries ripen, this card shows us the sweetness in our lives.
XXI Completeon: (The World)
My card shows me a serene picture: Snow capped mountains in the background, Trees and Shrubs, , the rocky edge of a silty glacial river, the big boulders so typical for this landscape, a tall Conifer and beneath huddled together in a peaceful snuggle 2 Otters, sound asleep. They know, their world is perfect and there is no immediate danger around.
How sweet indeed.
(Homo Greedfinger take it all over, smash it to bits and build luxury condos has not arrived on the scene- yet….)
I am also thinking of Nigig, the Otter being the Midewewin Medicine symbol of love, friendship and the medicine teachings of the South. I know, Otters were revered by the Celts and there are pages to read in the Celtic Animal Oracle books.
The mighty Pine Tree as well carries much significance in all cultures around the world, too much to list it all here.
Here in Central Ontario the wild Strawberries are still barely blooming and it will be another 5 weeks, until they bear fruit.
Strawberries are seen as the leaders of the Plants by the People of the Longhouse, as it is the first fruit of the year.
But supermarkets are full of hothouse Strawberries and the ones grown in warmer climates.
I shall be tempted to buy some later in town, to intensify my sense of the card theme of today and the feeling of sweetness and peace in my life.
This being the World card in my deck I see, that the 2 Otters in the image are cuddling while their bodies, interwoven, are forming the infinity symbol.
I wish, their infinity would last.
Sweetness in my life most of all,comes from Peter, my Otter, to snuggle with and all the little things he does for me, Like the thermos full of coffee I find when I stumble out of bed in the morning, the little notes he leaves, when he left the house to do errands, plow snow or go for an early morning canoe trip.
His sweetness will be re-given in time by me – in the form of bringing home some chocolate for him – and those Strawberries, when I head to town later.
Sweetness in any relationship has to be worked at, cultivated and so become “second nature” but still recognized and acknowledged.
It is the glue, it is a food source for love.
It counts double in tough times.



6 Oak King – June 19: A dedication to the Oak King, who is now near the height of his power in his battle with the Holly King. This card shows us our strength.
Oh! Isn’t that a coincidence!
I pulled “Strength” from the deck!
The card shows me a beautiful adult Lynx perched on the slanting limb of a large Tree.
The Lynx is looking down on something/ someone beyond the rim of the image. The closer I looooook at the tree, the more convinced I am, that this IS AN OAK TREE! (please correct me, if I am wrong)
Because I live a bit too far south to be in Lynx habitat, we do not have one in the area. But the Siberian Lynx was my father’s personal Medicine Guardian Animal and so is very special to me. A Lynx in our worldview sees everything, but says nothing, is a keeper of secrets. (My dad made his living as a spy, often deep under cover….)
This card is pulled for a Wednesday, our weekly Farmer’s Market day and it shows me, that today I can show my strength by staying aloof, staying out and above the usual squabbling, that goes on at the Market. “Observe, but do not engage” is the message. I will heed that, as I head off into a busy day.
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Coming home in late afternoon – with all my strength having ebbed into exhaustion,I am looking back at this card and have to grin: It has served me very well, to head and aether to its advice. There yet again was a huuuuge trara created by another vendor, who …. never mind….
My sharp claws were all out and I was in striking position, but decided to keep my inner cat out of this pointless hissssyfit, stay well away and let poor Peter, who is a marked board member handle this….
Strength is to know, when to enter the fight and when not to, when to retreat or simply not engage at all.
Oak Tree also showed me, that we are there for the long term and not just for the here and now. Oak Trees weather many storms.
Strange, looking back at the question/ prompting of this day I read the word “battle”
Well, this is, what that was. I stayed out of it and while it was going on, I made good hay!
7 Scrying – June 20: In the tradition of scrying at the time of Midsummer, this card shows us a blessing to come.
3 of Stones
A Doe stands in the meadow, beneath a shady Tree. There are 2 ?? Cowbirds pecking Fleas and Ticks from her head and neck. She patiently waits , holds still while being so cured of he ills.
When I drew this image, I almost started to cry.
I woke up with a splitting shitttt migraine and head and neck muscles all stiff and painful.
The weather – yet again – and the piece of chocolate I could not resist yesterday evening….
So now I will just sit somewhere quiet, close my eyes and delve deeply into the image of the card, become the Doe and let my Bird friends help me get rid of the pests…..
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Migraine and trance are kissing cousins.
During migraine attacks it is easier to go into deep theta trance, to “journey, not where I want to go , but where the Spirits take me………
8 Summer Solstice – June 21: We are at the height of the sun’s power, the longest day, in the Northern Hemisphere; OR, if you are joining from the Southern Hemisphere, this day is the turning point for the days to get longer. This card shows us how to shine our own light like the Sun.
3 of Cups
The card shows me a Snipe with 2 of her chicks at a somewhat rocky lake shore.
In the foreground I see a profusion of blue flowers, that remind me of Forgetmenots.
Snipes are rare these days. I am glad, this one is teaching her chicks how to forage and everything else they need to know.
It definitely is in teaching and mentoring, that I can shine my own light. I used to teach Native Studies in all kinds of schools in Central Ontario. I am retired from that now, and at times I miss it. I also used to teach about shamanism and shamanic pathways in my home, in health care settings in the community and at Pow Wows.
Then I ended up getting/ having tooooo many clients and patients, some of them ridiculously wealthy and VERY needy…… They managed to “eat up” all my time and energy and also all my “Medicine Energy” and I had to make a change……
Today I still do teach- on a more individual level.
This card today reminds me, to go back to the tings I really love doing and am very good at and share that light with my community.
9 Honey Moon – June 22:
This card shows us how to release anxieties or worries, how to enjoy ourselves in this moment.
5 of Blades:
In the card image a large Irish Wolfhound has just treed a Marten and is now rearing up on the Tree trunk, barking in dismay, that this fiend has escaped his jaws.
Or – the other way around:
A clever feisty Marten has just out-tricked the Wolfhound by escaping into the Trees, his rightful element.
That’s the ting with anxieties:
I depends, how you look at things.
Fears are really unpleasant scary things that one wishes not to happen.
BUT: by concentrating on the fear, one gives it energy and “mind space” and it is as if one is actually praying for something one does not want to happen and therefore giving it room to exist.
Everyone has fears and anxieties. Me too. But I also have a keen radar for when they creep in and nip them in the but.
My favourite saying: Do not belief everything you think banishes them or at least cuts them down to size.
Then I can go ahead and concentrate on the things that give me joy.
Right now, sitting in the sun, (in the Mosquito tent mind you! ) and read a good book about the Jeffers Petroglyphs, that we visited on our trip.
10. Saint John’s Eve – June 23: Like the herbs traditionally gathered on St. John’s Eve, this card shows what protects or heals us.
10 of Stones
“Looking Back Bear”
I was transfixed by what I immediately perceived, when I revealed this card and so I did a shamanic journey deep into this image this morning:
It somehow transported me back into a strange, yet familiar place, almost as if the Anieth Tarot came to life and i was now in the realm of way back when…….
There was – like a movie – set to”fast forward” a barrage of images flying past, telling me a story.
This Bear was taken from the wild and his mother by the early humans of the Bear clan, to be raised and tamed used as a “performing Bear” at trade fair gatherings to get ??? money or its equivalent coveted back then. The Bear’s owner was a young man, himself being trained by his father in how to raise and train up a dancing Bear. It involved cruelty and punishment, withholding food from the animal and lots of other terrrrrrible images I do not wish to elaborate on here. Suffice to say however, that the Bear tried to comply but also managed to soften the heart of the young man and arouse his compassion. They in spite of all became friends and the Bear willingly performed, not needing any harsh treatment.
But he also grew up and became dangerous – to other humans, protecting and defending his human keeper – ?? from some drunken rowdies??
So as it was custom back then, when a dancing Bear got to this age, and dangerous, he was to be sacrificed to the Spring Goddess in a kind of Bear festival/ ritual.
The young man was to do the honour of killing his friend.
He agonized over this, thinking better him than someone else… or – maybe not…..
The night before the festival – and it was the time the Rowan Trees have their Berries, red like the blood of the Bear, he crated up his friend and pulled the crate deep into the forest. He told his friend, what was supposed to happen and that he better run away deep into the forest and never show himself again. He hoped the Animal would understand any of what he was saying. He had no idea, that the Bear, like all Animals then and now can grasp “pre-verbal imagery = the pictures you have in your head before or while you speak.
The Bear understood, he would never see his human friend again.
The young man then opened the cage and the Bear stepped out. No shackles, no nose twist ring, no collar. Free! He stepped forward, took a few steps, he reared up, then, he looked back.
The sadness of Endings in his eyes, not yet grasping the concept of new beginnings and freedom – with all its thrills and its burdens.
The shamanic journey froze – right there right at the image on the card.
I was deeply moved!
So this is protection and healing in its highest form.
I could now go on here and tell you, that cuicum-polar = around the world in the northern hemisphere, from Finland to Siberia to Japan the British isles, Bear in Neanderthal times, paleolithic, archaic and also into neolithic times until today among the Native Americans and at home in Siberia Bear is the bringer of Healing Medicine, the teacher of which herbs to use for what illness and also what chants to use during curing ceremonies.
I myself put my patients onto a Bear fur,drum over them and sing such Bear healing chants….
But, when my migraines are bad or my back is “shut” yet again, I myself become the patient, curl up on my Bear fur and receive healing and visions – like the one today.
11. Guru Purnima – June 24: Indian festival of expressing gratitude to teachers. This card reminds us of a lesson we have learned, or an experience or person that has taught us something, that we should remember and have gratitude for as we move forward.
Oh, another Eagle, soaring high above the wild landscape, above rivers and valleys and snow capped mountains!
It is the Emperor!
This image immediately reminds me of my beloved teacher, Ed McGaa, who’s Oglala Lakota name was Eagle Man. And soar, fly high he did:
Ed, Eagle Man McGaa was born on the Pin Ridge Reservation in SD as a member of the Oglala Lakota. He served in the Marines in Korea and as a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War, flying 110 combat missions, receiving 8 Air medals and 2 Crosses of Gallantry and aDistinguished Flying Cross.
Ed held a bachelor’s degree and a law degree from the University of South Dakota. He participated in 6 Sun Dance ceremony with Frank Fools Crow. Later in life he wrote books and led workshops on ecology, the environment, sacred sites and Native and world spirituality.
Ed was very proud of being a veteran and a Sun Dancer.
I first met Ed in Pine Ridge, during a Sun Dance ceremony, when he received an Eagle feather from a Golden Eagle, that I had found next to the road, shot by white farmer…..
I had given it to Arvol Looking Horse and Leonard Crow Dog and they gave feathers to Frank Fools Crow to give to the dancers.
It is a looooong and convoluted story, not suitable for a reading here on this site…..
Ed and I became lifelong friends and he was one of my mentors.
Sadly he returned to his Spirit home almost 2 years ago. He was in his mid 80. and still teaching and sharp as an Eagle.♥
The things I learned from him are too many to mention here. Most of all he encouraged me to use my own tribal/ family heritage in my shamanic work with my clients.- – I was soooo young back then…..
Yes, I do miss ED! And my heart is full of gratitude towards him and towards all my teachers.
May wisdom and Ed’s no nonsense attitude always soar as high as the Eagle in this image!
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A picture of me and ED:
https://shamanicdrumm.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/ed-mcgaa-eagle-man-fly-well-♥/
12. Parvati, Earth Mother – June 25: The card shows us how to ground ourselves and how to connect with the earth’s abundance.
Queen of Stones
This card shows me the Queen of Stones in the form of a Brown Bear sow with 3 young cubs at her side. She is sitting besides a bush, half as tall as her, in the background are the tall deciduous Trees at the edge of the forest.
This card reminds me soooo much of the Mother Grizzly with her 3 small cubs, that we watched in Yellowstone National Park a little over a month ago.
She was serene and confident in her strength and supremacy and did not get nervous or distracted, but just kept on grazing on the very first grasses of the season, that had sprouted right beside the busy road. She did not even glance at the hoards of photographers, jostling for prime spots to set up their tripods a mere 10 feet away.
The She- Bear here on my card looks to be the very mother of abundance, with her 3 cubs and by being surrounded by so much green. As she sits there her attention is fixed on me!
Am I grounded? Right now, yes.
When I am getting hectic and flustered I have learned to first take a deep breath, maybe more than one, if need be, maybe even close my eyes for a moment. If I still feel the hectic swirling around and through me, I visualize my Owl Guardian flying down from a Tree, landing on the ground and “melting into becoming just a brownish lump of Earth and Moss on the ground.
That always does it.
Abundance for us is usually clad in hectic.: A booth full of eager customers, all short of time, each needing advice, having questions, wanting to have a chat with me, just needing me to wrap up their purchases quickly. Some being annoyed that things take a little longer ….
That is, when I need grounding most.
That Is, when I need the steadfast plotting away, even the stoicism of the Queen of Stones.
But then that abundance translates into us having time off later, to nurture ourselves!
Time to just sit – within Nature, right at home on our and – or go on another amazing trip to visit Grizzly moms in the wild.
Summer is the time of abundance, of green, of growth, of new things to grow up, in Nature – and within all of us!
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