Find a peaceful place where you can enjoy the warmth and brightness of the season.

If the weather allows, consider taking your ritual outdoors, into your garden, onto a balcony, or simply somewhere you can feel the sun and fresh air.

Light your Summer Solstice tealights and take a moment to watch the flame. Please use a heatproof vessel on a stable surface away from flammable items.

Notice the light around you

Notice the sounds

Notice the temperature of the air against your skin

Take three slow breaths

With each breath, allow yourself to become more present.

You don’t need to be anywhere else.

You don’t need to accomplish anything else

For these few moments, simply be here.

Take your Happy Balm and gently warm a little between your fingers, massage lightly onto your pulse points, and breathe in the uplifting scent.

Add 2 drops of your beach therapy essential oil blend to your aromastone diffuser.

Pause and breathe in the scents.

What memories or feelings does it bring to you?

Summer is a season of the senses

Warmth

Light

Fragrance

Birdsone

Fresh air

The taste of something sweet

The feeling of bare feet on grass or sand

Let yourself notice the small things

Ask yourself

What brings me joy when I slow down enough to notice it?

Make yourself comfortable and begin your Summer Solstice Meditation.

Allow the light, scents, warmth and sounds around you to become part of the experience.

As you settle think about the journey you’ve taken since the Winter Solstice.

You have moved through stillness

You have welcomed new beginnings

And now you have arrived at the height of the light.

Let yourself acknowledge where you are.

There is nothing to fix

Nothing to achieve

Just a moment to experience

Play your Summer Solstice Guided Meditation

When your meditation ends, take your citrine crystal and hold it gently in your hand. Citrine embraces summer with its golden colour, love, joy, and manifestation.

Think back over the months since winter.

What has changed?

What have you started?

What have you learned?

What has grown, perhaps in ways you didn’t expect?

Consider the things you are proud of, even if they seem small.

Maybe you rested when you needed to

Maybe you began something new

Maybe you let something go

Maybe you simply made it through a difficult season

Give yourself permission to acknowledge it

What in your life deserves to be celebrated right now?

Summer is an invitation to experience pleasure without needing to justify it

Take a few moments to think about what genuinely makes you feel alive

Not what you should enjoy

Not what looks good from the outside

what actually brings you joy?

Complete this sentence “This summer, I want to make more space for

It could be laughter

Adventure

Creativity

Connection

Rest

Nature

Friendship

Spontaneity

Or simply more moments where you allow yourself to enjoy being alive.

Write your answer somewhere you can return to.

Take out your Summer mindfulness colouring page from your Solquinox box.

As you spend time with it, let go of the need for perfection.

Instead, focus on abundance.

Think about all the things already present in your life that you might sometimes overlook

People

Places

Experiences

Small comforts

Opportunities

Memories

Nature

Your own strengths

You might like to write down five things you feel grateful for today

They don’t need to be profound

A cup of tea

A sunny morning

Someone who made you laugh

Fresh flowers

A favourite song

Sometimes abundance is simply noticing what is already here

Return to your candle

Take one final breath and look at the flame

This is the height of the light, but the turning of the season reminds us that nothing stays the same forever.

And perhaps that’s part of the beauty

We don’t need to experience it while it is here.

Take three slow breaths

With the first, welcome joy

With the second, welcome gratitude

With the third, welcome the present moment.

Let yourself smile, let yourself feel proud and let yourself enjoy this season of your life.

When you are ready, extinguish your candle safely.

Carry your intention with you.

And then, if you can go and enjoy something that makes you happy

If you can, step outside. Take a slow walk or sit beneath a tree.

Stand barefoot on the grass, watch the clouds and listen to the birds

Feel the warmth of the sun and let yourself be part of the season rather than simply observing it.

As you do, remember your spring intention. Ask yourself

• what has grown since I planted that seed?

• What would I like to continue nurturing?

You don’t need to have the answer. Just notice

Take your Nasturtium seeds and place in the soil in a sunny spot