It’s a special day today. Day 98 since I arrived in Florida, June 21, the Solstice and this year also an eclipse and the new moon. In honor of all that significant energy beaming down on the planet, I decided to do a fruit fast and take a long bike ride to explore new territory.
I crossed a short bridge from Lake Worth into a residential neighborhood in West Palm Beach, then east to a beautiful untraveled road running along the Intercoastal. After about 5 miles of pedaling, it was time to pause and reflect while I picnic on my grapes. I’m sitting under a palm tree in a vacant lot with a view of the water, pondering the significance of this day, this time and me in this place 13 weeks, 13 moons and half the year gone.
And what of the next half? What am I planting today, hoping to harvest in the months to come? I’ve saved some lemon seeds from my morning tea and plan to put them in my mouth, nurturing them with my saliva, while putting my hands through the potting soil sending love and light and good wishes for positive growth of my little seeds as I place them in the earth. I’ll also plant a carrot top and potato eye because they spoke to me when I noticed them.
I’m not sure I will be here to see any of the growth but the act of planting in such an intentional way, I trust will bear fruit of an energetic nature. I believe on some bigger comic level on this eventfully cosmic day of the sun and moon aligning with each other, I will signal my interest to the universe that I want to be a player in this magical moment of transformation and change. I want to grow with my seeds in love and light sent forth daily with a sprinkle of water and a gentle kiss.
I am open. I am receptive. I am calling in the new. I am exploring, I am expanding. I am activating the heart light of union. I am modeling ease and joy in relationships. I am builder. I am manifestor. I am magician. I am Fire Dragon. I am transformer.
Like the care I will give my little lemon seeds everyday, I say these affirmations as a daily practice, trusting they can be so, believing there is power in declaring intentions. I send those intentions to the Divine Creator knowing there are powers greater than my own to be used for the highest good.
Sometimes I wish there is more I could be doing. But today on this special day, it feels significant.
June 21, 2020