Sometimes, like this morning, I couldn’t sleep past 5:00 a.m. I was buzzing. Energy flowing through me, passion swirling, ideas bouncing around my head like a jumping bean. I’m lit up, exited to start the day. I know I need my sleep, but sleep doesn’t come.
This is Summer Energy, that directed, passionate, dedicated energy, like an arrow flying toward its target. I know it’s time to get out of bed and do what’s mine to do.
In the Celtic calendar of the year, Summer is associated with the element of Fire, not a raging wildfire burning out of control and harming those in its path. No, this fire is contained, directed from within, guiding us toward, into, and through our power.
We’re all born with an intrinsic power that is ours alone to share. Different than the Power Over that pervades our culture, our intrinsic power holds the polarities of life: gentle yet mighty, subtle yet brazen, focused yet far-reaching, quiet yet unmistakable. The energy of Summer helps us walk around our unworthiness, doubts, and fears in order to embrace this power within.
This is no small task, is it? Unworthiness, doubt and fear are the troubling trifecta that causes us to feel stuck, immobilized, and live an unfulfilled life. Yet the passionate, directed energy of Summer has another element in it that guides us toward our power—like the imaginal cells in the chrysalis of a worm turning into a butterfly. Imaginal cells instinctively know what to in order to transform into that butterfly. Without question. Without fear. Without doubt.
I believe we have this same yearning and primal need to become who we alone came here to be. We all have that fiery, passionate need to connect with our inner power and light up our world – not as a wildfire (read fame, fortune, 10,000 IG followers), but a contained beautiful, nourishing bonfire that can be a healing balm for those who are near our flame.
So, what does it feel like for you to connect with your intrinsic power? If it doesn’t call to you at 5:00 am like it does me, when do you hear it? What does your power sound like? If it’s just a whisper right now, I invite you to sit in silence so you can hear what it has to say.