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Midsummer Threshold

13/6/2022

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I am standing on the beach
With waves washing my feet
This luminous threshold place
Where worlds mingle and meet
In a mystical magic of three
The earth the sky and the sea
 
Iona Jenkins, Midsummer, 2022
​Now the wheel of the year has turned towards summer, I am spending more time outside, visiting parkland and green spaces on my way to the beach. The Celtic Ancestors, Druids and Shamans believe the shores and lakes of oceans to be thresholds, magical liminal places, where it was possible to glimpse the Otherworld and to receive messages. I can certainly see why, because after moving into an apartment overlooking the sea, my enthusiasm and inspiration to create through writing, has increased considerably. And it is true to say, that in this environment, I can experience spontaneous meditative states where pictures and words flood my imagination like the incoming tide, to be turned into poetry, philosophical meanderings, stories, or even simple life enhancing ideas, and truths I need to understand in my everyday reality.
 
We are influenced by the landscapes we live in as well as the landscapes we visit, but to really become aware of this, we may need to slow down a little and take the time to connect. My landscape gives me words, images and colours, inspiration that enables me to create vivid images with words rather than paint. People are creative in different ways. I paint word pictures, descriptive prose, which I hope may speak to the reader's own imagination and in turn help to awaken their personal creativity.
​Then, standing on the actual seashore, which lies at the bottom of a steep hill, in my landscape, I became aware of a mingling and flowing together of earth sea and sky. It felt like I was standing at the centre of a Celtic triskele, where these three worlds meet and this is when I received my opening poem. This image could also be depicted as the Trinity symbol.
Celtic Triskele
Celtic Triskele
Trinity
Trinity
June 21st is the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, when the light is at its brightest, bringing both blessing and the possibility of joy, energy, illumination and some celebration to life on our Mother Earth. Whatever path or faith you may follow, the sun rises for all, and the Summer Solstice is a great time to greet the rising sun, to sing with Bards and Angels, holding a vision of peace, harmony, beauty, and positive change in the world for the benefit of all beings.  

​Summer Solstice Haiku
 
Sing in the sunrise
On Summer solstice Morning
The world glitters gold

​Blessings of Midsummer to all,
Iona
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