Solstice Herbs to Celebrate Summer

Happy Solstice!

This morning after ritual with my tribe I pulled a Cat Herbal from the new oracle deck and Hyssop showed up!

Feeling so blessed, lucky and joyful to belong to a coven of witches and to be studying with such an amazing witch teacher: Francesca de Grandis.

Solstice is for singing and dancing and worshiping Papa Sun and the magick is especially powerful when we come together as a group.

I encourage you to make tribe, start a coven, or just find a friend or two to celebrate the solstices and equinoxes with because it’s so darn fun, and rich, and beautiful and healing. Blessed BEE!

Hyssop by Kathy Crabbe (Cat Herbal Oracle Deck)

Hyssop by Kathy Crabbe (Cat Herbal Oracle Deck)

Hyssop Wisdom for the Summer Solstice

Affirmation: “I have a choice.”

A traditional holy herb used to cleanse, protect and purify. Associated with dragons, kundalini and fire magic to help one gain focus and direction if feeling extreme emotions, fear and compulsion. Use for cleansing auras, hands on healing and to consecrate magickal tools and sacred spaces.

Astrology: Cancer, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Sagittarius
Deity: Tabiti-Vesta, Tiamat
Element: Fire
Healing: For the lungs and liver

Kathy Crabbe

About Kathy Crabbe

As a soul reader, astrologer and oracle deck maker the work I do touches many souls on a deep level. I offer sanctuary, solace and inspiration to soul seekers awakening and exploring hidden depths and other worlds. I provide a safe space and encouragement to assist my clients in shining light upon their gifts in tune with spirit and the divines.

Summer Solstice Fairy Blessings & Beverages

Kathy Crabbe, Solstice Blessings, 2013, watercolor and ink on paper, 8x10”.Happy Solstice to all! Summer is the season of fire; healing fire; a time to work on Fire Magick; to purify and burn away the old, so that like the phoenix we can return stronger than ever. Solstice means "standstill" and refers to the way that the sun appears to rise and set in the same place for a few days around June 20 and 21. People in Europe traditionally lit bonfires to celebrate the sun at its height of power and to beg that it not withdraw into winter's darkness. Fires ritually strengthened the sun to help ripen fruits and grain and it protected humans and livestock from insect-borne disease.

  The Lords of Shadow

Where the water whispers mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray.

Fiona MacLeod

Summer Solstice Ingredients to make a Tasty Tipple

  • Rose, marigolds, geranium, hyacinth, nasturtium, violets and other summer blossoms (for decoration)
  • Fire herbs: allspice, basil, bay, clove, dill, fennel, ginger, nutmeg, peppermint
  • Flavourings: cashew nut, lime, orange, pomegranate, pineapple, walnut
  • Any beverage which is bright red or golden yellow in colour
  • Prepare beverage at noon, when the sun is most powerful

Resource Guide A Witches Brew by Patricia Telesco Kindling the Celtic Spirit by Mara Freeman

Kathy Crabbe, Kattern is grace under pressure, 2003, mixed media on paper, 8x10”. Kathy Crabbe, Kattern is grace under pressure, 2003, mixed media on paper, 8x10”. 

Creative Soul Suggestion: You have a choice; to be truly alive in each and every second or to die a bit with each breath. You choose.

Kathy Crabbe: Guiding Your Creative Soul

Summer Solstice Creative Fire

Summer Solstice (June 21) marks the peak of the solar cycle. In the midst of the longest day of the year we begin our return to the dark half of the year. The Earth is fertile, and the womb of Mother Earth grows ripe with Life. Honor and celebrate the many ways you manifest creativity in your life. How will you feed your creative fire?

This year creative fires are fueling my paintings, inspired by my highly personal, explosive, joyous and sometimes painful journeys into the intimate emotions within my own heart and shadow side.

Journaling connects me with the Moon as I track her lunar cycles in tune with the Zodiac and in concert with my Divine Feminine Moon Musing students as we share our experiences online creating a community of wise woman healers.

My soon to be released Soul Guided Package is ripe with beauty, joy, integrity and honour as I figure out the most effective way to inspire and empower your  own creative soul's journey.

What sparks are flying within your own creative soul? What are you manifesting and how are you nurturing, sustaining and protecting lives through your life's work and your activism? Where is passionate energy focused in your life? How are you a "Mother/Maker/Creatirix"?