Happy Summer Solstice! Today the Sun shines brightest and longest in the Northern sky, marking the official change of season.

The Sun is the fatherly star in our universe that lights up our world. Today I'm sharing a ritual to give thanks to our Sun, and use it's powerful light to cleanse and energize your body and spirit. It’s a wonderful ritual to do around the Summer Solstice, or anytime you’re out basking in the Sun’s rays.

Summer Solstice Cleansing Ritual

• Find a place outside where you can stand or sit comfortably in the Sun or in a shaded spot in view of the Sunlight.

• Look around you. Notice the way the Sun illuminates parts of the world and creates shadows on others.

• Close your eyes and feel the warmth of the Sun and air on your skin. Give thanks to the Sun for all the ways it sustains life on this planet, for the way it imparts knowledge into every cell in your body, to know what time it is and help them do their job.

• Feel yourself bathing in the sunlight.

• Now, take your hands in front of you as if gathering some sunlight into them. Bring the sunlight towards your forehead with your hands and imagine the sunlight warming, cleansing and energizing your head, this place of knowledge and insight.

• Then gather some more sunlight into your hands and bring it in towards your heart, warming, cleansing and energizing this place of deep inner wisdom and love.

• Gather the sunlight once more and bring it in towards your belly, warming, cleansing and energizing this place of intuition and trust.

• Feel the energy of the Sun within you. Give thanks to the Sun for all its gifts.