I have since associated the season of summer with the work that the farmers there did. I have long seen Summer as a time or work, regaurdless of your age or occupation. It's a time of cultivating and tending, to yield a great harvest in the fall.
We work with the earth, it's unavoidable. If you eat food purchased in a supermarket, it's tough to appreciate the work that goes into growing a Tomato or an ear of corn. I urge anyone who can (and most can't) to plant a garden of your own. Even if you end up killing every plant you work with, it's still the working with the earth that makes your work sacred.
Enjoy the fruits of Summer(organically if you can possibly help it.) The heady Tomato,The succulent Watermelon, The Juicy Peach,The Robust Corn....these are all part of our world,part of our mother and father..we eat of thier flesh....creating a communion with nature..ripe with the summer suns vibrant power...share these things with your family and remember these treats when the cold of winter is at your door. In doing so we teach our young again the cycle of the world turning,spinning,round and round. The Wheel of the Year.
Blackthorne
Today the sun is high
Today the world is warm and bright
and we celibrate this with fire.
The Lord Sun blazes above
Our fire blazes below.
Llewellyn 1994
