Welcome to Moonbeaming, a podcast about creativity, magic, tarot, lunar living, and more. I'm your host, Sarah Faith Godestiner, and I am so great to be here with you this week. Thank you for being here, thank you for your reviews, thank you for buying my book,

thanks to you, I've been in the top new releases on Amazon. No, we don't love Amazon here. Yes, this is the only way I can

tell what's going on with my book because I have released it through a

publisher so I don't know what's going on so I just

want to say thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you I'm sending you virtual

hugs so much love so so much gratitude. So I just wanted to start off by saying that.

It's this book was such a beast of a project. I'm so relieved. It's out in the world and I'm so relieved it's out in the world and I'm so relieved that some of you are really loving it.

So it just warms my heart. So again, wow, thank you. This is a big week, friends. We have the solstice here in the northern hemisphere.

In the southern hemisphere, of course, we have a summer solstice, so it's a little bit different energy here in the northern

hemisphere the solstice is really in my practice a time to dream in the dark a

time to rest a time to reset in my own life I always try to honor solstices by

cleaning organizing and if I can't quite get it together all the way, I at least take some

time to figure out what I need to do to get it together at a later time in the coming weeks in the coming

winter weeks. In so many Slavic and Eastern European cultures which is where my

ancestry stems from there's this throughline of practices

of folklore, of demons or sort of like weird, scary creatures, visiting houses to make sure that they have cleaned and organized enough.

And if they haven't, there's some kind of like punishment right so I can see this correlation

between cleaning storing up resources for the winter the solstice is this marker that reminds us yes the light is in fact returning and

also what is going to get us through this in-between time would be food, comfort, space to dream, time to rest,

and of course the solstice is usually about rebirth this time of light returning to the northern hemisphere.

So thinking about what we need to do during this time before we really see the tangible light

returning in late February early March how do we have the space to welcome in the new?

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