2024 SUMMER
JUN 20 - SEP 22
The astronomical SUMMER season in the Northern Hemisphere is initiated by the Summer Solstice on Thursday, June 20, when the sun travels its longest path through the sky, reaching its highest point, and creating the longest day and shortest night of the year.
6x9in Double-Sided
32pt Uncoated and naturally textured Extra-Thick
Mohawk Superfine paper, with Tiger Orange seam
Notes on Summer Illustration by Ventral is Golden
Sun spirit and Intelligence draw power and protection. Surya Mudra activates fire within the body.
The Tree of Life is revealed as a source of light and sustenance which emanates from the infinite. A fire is the release of trapped sunlight from within. As the crown is on the head, the sun also represents that which is above the mind’s comprehension, but also the first movement of thought from the infinite. It emanates a desire to move the ‘hidden light’ into the air. It contains no content and so relates only through compassion.
The sun bestows radiant minerals upon all planets and meteors, it is of the principle of Fire. In this world, it is the source of the phosphorescence of the sea, and even of the scintillation in the eyes of a lover. The sun awakens dormant energies in all things. It sweetens fruits and renews temples and talismans.
The Bird’s eye view of Stonehenge narrates a living record of the solar and lunar orbits in relation to the earth. On Summer Solstice the sun rises behind the heel stone and illuminates the centre of the monument.
The Central pyramid is the Meso-American Pyramid of Kukulkan (Quetzalcoatl - the feathered serpent). At solstice, the sun descends the staircase of the Feathered Serpent in a process that connects the spiritual plane of light to the earthly plane of matter.
The Arc behind the pyramid represents the Sevenfold process of cell division, analogous to the musical octave and the
spectrum of light.