This day falls between the exact point of the Wheel of the Year first harvest August 7 (called Lughnasad or Lammas) and the Leo New Moon on August 9. This is an alignment of the sun and moon energies.

New moons are potent seed times for your creations and the 8 points in the Wheel of the Year all boost your creations in some way. Put them together and it is like adding rocket fuel to your ability to energize your dreams and desires.

The Leo new moon helps you in any area of life where you want to be more visible or a more powerful leader. It is a good time to activate your radiance. Fill yourself with self-love. Turn up your inner fire. Increase your self-confidence. Fire up your zest for life. Celebrate your accomplishments. Develop the courage to follow your heart. Fine tune your presentational style.

Lughnasad/Lammas, the first of three harvest points on the Wheel of the Year, brings you to a place of gratitude. It is important to ask yourself what you have to be thankful for in life in relation to your co-creations. And what needs to be added to your creations to continue to have a bountiful harvest. Are any of your creations ripe and ready for picking? (To understand more about the Wheel of the Year read the Dance of Creation from your FREE Natural Rhythms Starter Kit.)

Using both of these energies together can dynamically energize any of your creations.

In order to help you utilize this powerful timing and continue to learn to more effectively create I am holding a teleseminar ceremony on August 8 1pm EST and I have two additional creation teleseminars coming up.

On August 8 at 1pm EST we will discuss this potent window and then ceremonially you will do inner work to activate your creations. Energizing your creations rhythmically is like adding fertilizer to your garden for abundant growth to occur.

When people come together and collectively align with the energy of nature and creation it helps support the individuals and the collective. Any prayers of gratitude you have for the elements and Mother Earth help uplift the energy we experience. In the phone (teleseminar) ceremony we will have on Aug 8 we will collectively uplift your personal intentions and creations as well as honor and give thanks to Nature.

Then on August 10 7pm EST access a powerful creation tool as you ‘Activate the Power of Your Creation Game.’ The creation game is an extremely effective tool for gaining life guidance with the elements. It is easy for you to print and use. Learn to receive good life guidance for yourself from the energies of creation.

On August 17 7pm EST ‘Energize Your Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle’ and get let the elemental forces help you bring your desires into form. (If you do not have an oracle adding one to your order is easy and they are only $24.99 + shipping.)

All of these events will be recorded if you have to miss the live call for any reason.

Because so many people need creation support right now, the investment in all three teleseminars together is only $20.00. All you need is a telephone to participate and an internal desire to expand your ability to impact the creation of your life.

Add the Elemental Forces of Creation Oracle to your order by clicking here.

I hope you decide to join me to boost and strengthen your ability to consciously create. Plan to use this powerful window to energize your dreams and desires.

Many blessings on your creations, Lisa

If you ideas or comments for using this powerful timing window please leave them below, thanks.

Solstice Means “Sun Standstill”

Recording of the Summer Solstice Teleseminar Ceremony
June 20th – First day of the three day solstice window

Soul Tools for Transformative Times Handout

Solstice means “Sun Standstill,” and summer solstice, in the northern hemisphere, brings us the longest day of the year. Find time to bask in the bright abundant light summer brings and enjoy the harvest as things begin to ripen around you. This is a wonderful day to consciously witness the sunrise and appreciate the blessings the solar light and fuel bring into your life.

Also called midsummer, this point creates the fullest point of the summer season. It begins the subtle turn point when the light slowly begins to shift. During this time, honor the abundance of the Earth Mother and the gift of warmth the sun brings forth.

If you create a ceremony plan to celebrate fulfillment, passion, abundance, and manifestation. Honor the elemental forces and all they do to provide for you on this planet. Especially honor Water, sending loving healing energy to the ocean.

As I was preparing for the “Soul Tools for Transformative Times” talk I will be giving at EvolverFest, on Sunday, in Atlanta, I received an interesting message about how we can support Water. I got that we all need to say a forgiveness prayer for harming Water. If you have ever unconsciously washed your clothes or your dishes in a petroleum based soap, thrown out a plastic water bottle without emptying it, or harmed water in any way this prayer is helpful.

I received this message last week as I started crafting my talk, then today an email was going around which stated it was from Dr. Emoto, the Water vibration specialist, basically saying the same thing. Bringing additional confirmation that this is an important prayer.

Prayers said in ceremonial space on powerful days such as the solstice have addition impact. I urge you to say this prayer sometime between June 20-22.

Healing Planetary Water Forgiveness prayer. “Dear Waters of the planet please forgive any me for any unconscious actions I have taken that have harmed or polluted you. I honor, respect, and appreciate you.”

Sending you many solstice blessings, Lisa

Depending on where you live the flowers begin their yearly blooming cycle as the Goddess Flora wakes up and spreads her beauty.

This is the time to bask in the abundant beauty of this point of the seasonal cycle and celebrate the pure pleasure of being alive. Enjoy being outside, and give thanks to the union of Earth and the Solar Fire of the Sun, which bring us the growing cycle. Connect to the flowers and their power to uplift your life in this window.

The Wheel of the Year points make a great time to tune into your creations. Beltane marks the time when the energy begins to swell to ripeness so check on your intentions from Winter Solstice. How is their growth progressing? Is there anything they need in order to be more fertile?

The next few days create a great window to tune into ways you can bring more beauty, pleasure, and  abundance into your life.

We would love to hear your comments about celebrating this portion of the growing cycle in the northern hemisphere or about how you work with it in the southern hemisphere.

To learn more ways to ceremonially work with Beltane consider become a Natural Rhythms community member. For only $29.97 a year you receive information and tips to activate your creations with the new & full moons, the Wheel of the Year, and each time the sun moves into a new gate of awareness.   CLICK HERE TO BECOME A MEMBER NOW

Blooming in my garden.

Five Quick Reflection Questions for Using the Energy of the Equinox for Life Balance

Each element will bring you insightful guidance in this powerful window if you take just a few minutes and honor them with listening. Simply ask the question and then tune into the answers. You may want to write the answers down to work with them over the next few days.

Earth: Connecting to your physical body and ask where do I need more balance in my earthly physical world?

Water: Connecting to your emotions and feelings and ask in what ways do I need more balance in my relationships?

Air: Connecting to your breath and asking how do I balance my time in the fresh air of nature with my time with technology?

Fire: Connecting your life force energy and ask how do I bring more balance to my actions?

Spirit: Connecting to your essence and ask what do I need to balance my spiritual life with all I need to do in the physical world?

Take a moment to thank the elements for their assistance.

Additional ways to work with the elements if you want more connection:

Creation Journaling: Equinox is a great time to begin one or add to the one you have. Free video on how to create a creation journal.

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Use this powerful rhythmic timing to boost your life!

Many Equinox Blessings, Lisa

Sometimes expanding your capacity means doing deeper inner clearing of old energies that are ready to be released. Other times it may mean actively focusing and targeting your energy and actions in order to reach your destination.

As you tune into this, I would love to hear what kinds of things you feel you need to fully activate your capacity to create, in any or every area of your life. Please comment and I will connect to the messages as I craft ways for Natural Rhythms to assist you in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Many seed stirring blessings for you today, Lisa

Each element possesses a natural rhythm cycle. Every day, every night, every month, and every year dances to a rhythm. The Wheel of the Year connects the sun’s journey to the earth’s cycles. In many cultural views of the Wheel of the Year, the sun was seen as carrying the masculine principle, called “Son” and “God”, while the earth was viewed as the feminine principle, named “Mother Earth” or “Goddess.”

The Earth Goddess has many names, varying across cultures. In many myths, the relationship and connection of the Earth Goddess with the Solar God was honored with the changing cycles. The Earth Mother Goddess stays alive throughout the year, changing from mother, to partner, to sovereign Goddess. The solar, sun, (son) God energy is born from the Goddess, grows to full Godhood, becomes partners with the Goddess, and then dies each year. The Wheel teaches us the natural cycle of death and rebirth, as one year’s cycle gives way to the next.

The seasonal cycle reminds you of your need for balance through every turn of the Wheel of the Year’s quarters: the winter and summer solstice points and spring and autumnal equinoxes. As those four sections divide again, creating the cross-quarter days, each of these eight points of seasonal change are a “power day.” Each is honored and celebrated for the energy they bring to the year.

Winter Solstice marks the place on the Wheel where the sun, which went deep into the dark space of the womb during Samhain, is reborn. We begin here with the gradual day-by-day increase in light until it reaches its peak at Summer Solstice and begins, once again, its turn toward the darkness. Winter Solstice, also known as Yule, typically falls between December 20 and 23 and is the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

Winter Solstice is seen as the time when the Goddess gives birth to the “sun,” or “son,” the masculine principle. The light of the sun emerges reborn out of the darkness year after year. Thus, traditionally we honored this point on the wheel by bringing evergreen trees into our homes to represent the everlasting nature of the Earth Goddess. They were decorated with images representing what we wanted to bring into our lives for the coming year. Gold balls represented the life force of the sun, icicles symbolized rain, paper money or coins stood for abundance, pinecones and acorns implied fertility.

At this festival of light, during Winter Solstice, we give deep thanks for the bringer of light, the sun, and all it contributes to our lives.  We hang lights from our homes to illuminate the darkness and recall the rebirth of the light.  Most cultures have celebrations during this time of the year, a time of the holy days and holidays.

Through the seasonal Wheel of the Year, light and dark work as a harmonious whole. They constantly move together in a dance both sacred and essential to your well-being. Living in continual light would burn out your systems, because you would have no time of rest or quiet. Conversely, with too little light you would tend to get depressed. You need the balance of both light and dark to achieve a state of wholeness.

The same holds true in your inner world. The light time of your inner world is filled with doingness and activity, just as in the outer world. This busyness requires balance with beingness during the quiet rest in times of darkness. Your inner darkness serves as a void, a place where you are receptive to the inner voice of Spirit, and where seeds of your desires are planted, developed, and grown. In this place, you connect to All That Is and in the dark, rich, fertile soil new awareness grows to full expression.

This time of year notice what has developed within you during the darker days and feels ready to emerge and develop in the coming growing cycle.

Excerpt from Natural Rhythms™ by Lisa Michaels
Pgs 93- 95 Natural Rhythm Cycle: Wheel of the Year