{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.0,"endTime":8.4,"body":"Music."},{"startTime":9.119,"endTime":15.348,"body":"This is Belonging, a podcast that explores being alive in the age of loneliness."},{"startTime":16.204,"endTime":23.108,"body":"I'm your host, Becca Piestrelli, a writer, mother, and community tender currently living"},{"startTime":23.108,"endTime":29.158,"body":"on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people in present-day Marin County, California."},{"startTime":30.828,"endTime":36.351,"body":"In this show, we explore topics like rites of passage, cultivating meaningful community,"},{"startTime":37.108,"endTime":41.959,"body":"seasonal and cyclical living, and what it means to be a good ancestor in these times."},{"startTime":43.148,"endTime":49.068,"body":"I have thought-provoking conversations with friends, teachers, elders, and ancestral medicine"},{"startTime":49.359,"endTime":53.626,"body":"keepers to help support you in bringing more meaning and connection to your life."},{"startTime":54.708,"endTime":59.268,"body":"I also pop in here and there to share updates and learnings from my own story, because we"},{"startTime":59.268,"endTime":64.168,"body":"were meant to do this together, cosmically holding hands as we walk the spiral of life."},{"startTime":65.428,"endTime":71.793,"body":"You can expect to be challenged by new or old ideas. Face your beliefs and what systems informed them."},{"startTime":72.405,"endTime":77.748,"body":"Get curious and brave to tell the truth about the deeper, harder things and feel comforted"},{"startTime":77.748,"endTime":79.111,"body":"in the knowing that you don't have to navigate it all alone."},{"startTime":79.12,"endTime":86.8,"body":"Music."},{"startTime":87.668,"endTime":99.508,"body":"Hello dear ones and welcome back to Belonging, the podcast. It's Becca Piestrelli here with you on a beautiful June morning."},{"startTime":99.508,"endTime":103.94,"body":"I'm recording this on the 1st of June, and really noticing."},{"startTime":104.813,"endTime":110.743,"body":"The seasonal shift from spring to summer here where I live in the Northern Hemisphere,"},{"startTime":110.743,"endTime":117.703,"body":"in the bio region where I live in Northern California, and wanted to make an episode"},{"startTime":117.703,"endTime":123.543,"body":"for you about summer. And you can listen to it when it's summer arrives where you are."},{"startTime":123.543,"endTime":128.183,"body":"So for the folks listening in the Southern Hemisphere, if you're listening to this"},{"startTime":128.273,"endTime":136.103,"body":"around the time I drop it. It's winter, winter is coming. But I realized I have made episodes about"},{"startTime":136.103,"endTime":143.143,"body":"ancestral practices and rituals for connecting with all the seasons, except summer. So we will"},{"startTime":143.143,"endTime":149.063,"body":"link in the show notes to slow emergence from winter into ancestral rituals for spring, which"},{"startTime":149.063,"endTime":154.343,"body":"is the spring one. Winter rituals and practices, which is the winter one. And then autumn is the"},{"startTime":154.343,"endTime":157.287,"body":"the season of the ancestors, which is the autumn one."},{"startTime":157.463,"endTime":162.625,"body":"And I wanted to share about summer. But before I dive into this episode,"},{"startTime":162.763,"endTime":168.477,"body":"I wanted to share an offering of mine that I feel pretty jazzed about"},{"startTime":168.603,"endTime":175.343,"body":"that I'm offering this summer and maybe beyond, but I'll share more about what's happening for me"},{"startTime":175.343,"endTime":178.721,"body":"and timing of a bunch of things in my life in a moment."},{"startTime":178.863,"endTime":183.673,"body":"But what I've really felt after many years, this is my 10th year of doing this work."},{"startTime":184.103,"endTime":188.606,"body":"Or a variation of this work, is a real desire to get back into the craft."},{"startTime":188.703,"endTime":195.263,"body":"There was something about writing a book and that sort of took me away from serving"},{"startTime":195.263,"endTime":199.049,"body":"in a more deeply intimate way with my clients and my groups."},{"startTime":199.943,"endTime":203.823,"body":"And I had to, I had to go into writing and promoting and I had this podcast."},{"startTime":205.179,"endTime":210.543,"body":"And I sort of picked up steam in my visibility and it was exciting and beautiful."},{"startTime":210.543,"endTime":212.219,"body":"And now I'm in this place of."},{"startTime":212.885,"endTime":219.178,"body":"Returning to the craft. And the craft is supporting people one-on-one and in groups. So I've just"},{"startTime":219.375,"endTime":227.055,"body":"completed Circle Craft, which was a beautiful group program for folks who identify as aspiring"},{"startTime":227.055,"endTime":234.975,"body":"or current tenders of circle, community leaders, folks who want to create a deeper sense of the"},{"startTime":234.975,"endTime":241.535,"body":"village again in these modern times. And we had an incredible, incredible cohort. And I learned so"},{"startTime":241.535,"endTime":244.231,"body":"so much from doing it and I will do it again,"},{"startTime":244.537,"endTime":252.387,"body":"probably this fall, if you aren't on my email list, beckapaustralia.com slash subscribe, I highly recommend"},{"startTime":252.495,"endTime":256.276,"body":"you get on that, I don't email too much, if you're interested in CircleCraft."},{"startTime":256.375,"endTime":263.829,"body":"And then the other offering I've just started doing is getting back into one-on-one mentorship and support."},{"startTime":264.255,"endTime":267.115,"body":"And this is with my threshold sessions."},{"startTime":267.615,"endTime":275.55,"body":"So this is specifically for folks who are in the deep experience of a transition in their lives,"},{"startTime":275.735,"endTime":277.71,"body":"a rite of passage, if you will."},{"startTime":277.881,"endTime":283.238,"body":"It's really for helping people who are in the experience of the liminal."},{"startTime":283.382,"endTime":288.655,"body":"So if you're familiar with rites of passage, also I will link to an episode I did a while ago"},{"startTime":288.655,"endTime":291.595,"body":"on rites of passage if you're curious about learning more."},{"startTime":292.942,"endTime":297.686,"body":"There are three phases to a rite of passage. The first phase is the separation."},{"startTime":297.74,"endTime":299.975,"body":"And this is when a catalyst,"},{"startTime":299.975,"endTime":305.975,"body":"something happens in your life that sets off a series of things that make you realize,"},{"startTime":305.975,"endTime":308.813,"body":"oh, I'm changing, something is changing."},{"startTime":309.175,"endTime":314.773,"body":"And that thrusts you into the messy middle, which is the liminal phase."},{"startTime":314.845,"endTime":323.037,"body":"That is where you aren't who you were before, but you have not yet entered into who you're becoming."},{"startTime":323.175,"endTime":332.309,"body":"And the third phase is the return where you feel fully stepping into and seen as changed in some way."},{"startTime":332.495,"endTime":340.775,"body":"And we live in a society where the liminal is just like kind of unacknowledged, unsupported,"},{"startTime":340.775,"endTime":344.295,"body":"and often feels really hard."},{"startTime":344.295,"endTime":348.055,"body":"If you're on my email list, I emailed about a month ago about how I have been"},{"startTime":348.055,"endTime":356.055,"body":"in realizing the familiarity of feeling sort of unmoored and confused and wishing I could just rip the Band-Aid off"},{"startTime":356.055,"endTime":357.055,"body":"and get to the other side."},{"startTime":357.055,"endTime":363.889,"body":"And this has been with the very slow process of migrating my family from California to upstate New York,"},{"startTime":363.952,"endTime":365.575,"body":"to the farm we purchased,"},{"startTime":365.575,"endTime":373.603,"body":"and to literally completely transforming our lives from suburban tech San Francisco people to farm people."},{"startTime":374.775,"endTime":378.77,"body":"I don't know if we're gonna be farm people, but we're gonna be different people."},{"startTime":378.855,"endTime":384.895,"body":"And I realized pretty, it took a while, But then I realized, oh, I'm in the liminal."},{"startTime":384.895,"endTime":389.438,"body":"I'm feeling really uncomfortable. I'm feeling really disoriented."},{"startTime":389.535,"endTime":390.284,"body":"And so."},{"startTime":390.995,"endTime":396.125,"body":"I've been getting support in that way. And so now that I feel really supported,"},{"startTime":396.252,"endTime":403.4,"body":"I'm remembering my gift and my training in supporting other folks. So I am offering"},{"startTime":403.553,"endTime":409.485,"body":"the threshold sessions. It's three sessions, more if you need it, supporting folks who."},{"startTime":410.89,"endTime":416.285,"body":"Desire witnessing, soul-tending, logistical support, and assistance in ritual creation"},{"startTime":416.285,"endTime":420.252,"body":"and to help them navigate the life transitions they're going through."},{"startTime":420.365,"endTime":430.749,"body":"So if you are curious about that, you can go to BeccaPiastrelli.com slash threshold, one word,"},{"startTime":431.165,"endTime":433.954,"body":"and you can learn more about that."},{"startTime":434.045,"endTime":439.045,"body":"I'm booking, I have just four spots because I'm trying to keep it in integrity"},{"startTime":439.045,"endTime":440.885,"body":"as far as my time and energy."},{"startTime":441.003,"endTime":446.818,"body":"And I have three spots left for this summer. So if you're finding yourself navigating"},{"startTime":447.005,"endTime":451.285,"body":"big transformational experiences that you're actually finding like able to name,"},{"startTime":451.285,"endTime":454.485,"body":"like, oh, I am crossing over the threshold of becoming a parent."},{"startTime":455.365,"endTime":459.445,"body":"Maybe you've recently experienced grief. Maybe you're having a shift in identity"},{"startTime":459.445,"endTime":463.067,"body":"that feels like earth-shaking, soul-quaking."},{"startTime":463.165,"endTime":470.085,"body":"Maybe it's a career shift or a shift in your body, maybe navigating menopause or perimenopause."},{"startTime":470.085,"endTime":471.898,"body":"I would love to support you in that way."},{"startTime":472.145,"endTime":477.417,"body":"So again, you can go to beccapiestrelli.com slash threshold."},{"startTime":482.125,"endTime":489.444,"body":"Okay, now let's talk about summer. Summer is when I usually dip out, as they say."},{"startTime":489.885,"endTime":500.325,"body":"Summer has a similar vibe as winter, but just like opposite in that there is a slowing down,"},{"startTime":501.039,"endTime":505.144,"body":"energy with the solstice."},{"startTime":505.225,"endTime":509.805,"body":"So I love to talk about winter. I think that's because we live in a society"},{"startTime":509.805,"endTime":513.525,"body":"that tries to have us all move too quickly through winter."},{"startTime":513.525,"endTime":517.845,"body":"And as someone who has really identified with experiences of inner winter,"},{"startTime":517.845,"endTime":521.744,"body":"experiences of needing to go within, experiences of needing to slow down,"},{"startTime":521.825,"endTime":523.085,"body":"winter has really resonated."},{"startTime":523.085,"endTime":535.885,"body":"And I've also seen how summer gives that similar sense of wanting to not be on a computer, of wanting to be away and be with myself and be with"},{"startTime":535.885,"endTime":538.335,"body":"the earth, and it just looks a little different."},{"startTime":538.47,"endTime":543.16,"body":"I don't feel like hibernating in the summer, but I certainly feel like."},{"startTime":543.754,"endTime":551.524,"body":"Playing and it's like a doing energy that honors the literal life-giving force in the sky that is."},{"startTime":552.388,"endTime":558.404,"body":"The sun. So if you work with earth medicine or anything that connects the energies of,"},{"startTime":559.124,"endTime":566.004,"body":"all that is with the seasons, you probably know that the summer really holds the energy of the"},{"startTime":566.004,"endTime":575.844,"body":"south on the medicine wheel, the element of fire in the archetypes of the feminine, that of the"},{"startTime":575.844,"endTime":583.844,"body":"mother, the full moon when it comes to the phases of the moon, the ripened fruit on the vine."},{"startTime":585.124,"endTime":592.644,"body":"Summer always feels like a tomato that's about to burst on the vine. In the winter,"},{"startTime":592.644,"endTime":596.804,"body":"It was just a seed being held in the darkness."},{"startTime":596.877,"endTime":599.695,"body":"In the spring, it was planted and sprouted."},{"startTime":599.83,"endTime":607.004,"body":"And then towards the end of spring and into summer, the flower blooms and then the fruit emerges and ripens."},{"startTime":607.076,"endTime":610.484,"body":"And then in the fall, it is harvested and nourished."},{"startTime":610.484,"endTime":616.204,"body":"So there's this real sense of the fullness, the full ripened fruit of our bodies,"},{"startTime":616.204,"endTime":618.581,"body":"whether that's with a baby"},{"startTime":618.671,"endTime":626.08,"body":"or with the nourishment of the land, or with the fullness of heart."},{"startTime":626.364,"endTime":634.983,"body":"There's a real element of celebrating with summer that feels like the ancestral relief of life thriving."},{"startTime":635.364,"endTime":640.064,"body":"So there's like the prayers of getting through winter. Oh my gosh, like, will we have enough food?"},{"startTime":640.064,"endTime":646.924,"body":"It's really quite intense. And then the deep, deep work that comes with planting in spring,"},{"startTime":646.924,"endTime":652.124,"body":"the prayers and the blessings and the work and the attention that comes with spring,"},{"startTime":652.124,"endTime":660.037,"body":"which is why I often do most of my work in the spring and then in the harvest time of fall."},{"startTime":660.784,"endTime":665.754,"body":"And in the summer, it's like you still have to work. I always think about it from an agrarian"},{"startTime":665.754,"endTime":670.794,"body":"perspective of our ancestors that tended to the land, all of which have that in our."},{"startTime":672.074,"endTime":678.617,"body":"Many millions of ancestor lineage. Relying on the land to feed our bodies and continue life."},{"startTime":679.734,"endTime":686.611,"body":"This real sense this summer of seeing the plants growing, of seeing the fruits ripen,"},{"startTime":687.143,"endTime":690.527,"body":"and being like, woo, what a miracle."},{"startTime":690.879,"endTime":699.514,"body":"At the same time, mid-summer is a real time when the sun is at its highest point in the sky"},{"startTime":699.514,"endTime":701.699,"body":"and its fullest expression of light."},{"startTime":702.653,"endTime":707.551,"body":"What do we know summer solstice to be but the longest day of the year"},{"startTime":707.857,"endTime":711.557,"body":"or the shortest night of the year in your hemisphere."},{"startTime":712.439,"endTime":721.214,"body":"And so there's a real exhale of the earth, but also a real revealing of oneself, right?"},{"startTime":721.369,"endTime":726.329,"body":"Like the light is shining down on us all and giving us life."},{"startTime":727.221,"endTime":731.326,"body":"And so I'll talk a bit in a moment about energy management during the summer."},{"startTime":731.416,"endTime":735.017,"body":"But there's this real balance in the summer of hard work and rest."},{"startTime":735.314,"endTime":741.948,"body":"I think about the slumbering lion in the heat of the day. Like summer is a real nap heavy."},{"startTime":742.874,"endTime":747.26,"body":"I think about all my ancestors who probably woke up early with the sun up early"},{"startTime":747.354,"endTime":751.514,"body":"and tended to the fields and their plants and their animals."},{"startTime":751.514,"endTime":757.558,"body":"And then when the sun is too hot, taking rest, taking refuge under the shade of a tree,"},{"startTime":758.154,"endTime":767.047,"body":"drinking nourishing cold tonics to restore their energy from all the sweat and salt leaving their bodies."},{"startTime":768.055,"endTime":772.914,"body":"So that they could work a bit more and then celebrate with their community into the evening"},{"startTime":772.914,"endTime":778.299,"body":"as the sun showed them and lighted the path in that way."},{"startTime":778.954,"endTime":786.514,"body":"So how can we take this ancestral energy of hard work and rest—oh, I have a note here"},{"startTime":786.514,"endTime":789.054,"body":"about hard work and rest being the time of the mother."},{"startTime":789.054,"endTime":793.558,"body":"Actually when I was preparing, I just have notes and notes and notes from courses and"},{"startTime":793.837,"endTime":798.474,"body":"books I've taken and just like my own meditative channeling,"},{"startTime":798.519,"endTime":800.292,"body":"I had this realization about Summer."},{"startTime":801.154,"endTime":811.554,"body":"I, as you know, am a mother of a young child. And I know that Summer has the archetype of the mother,"},{"startTime":811.554,"endTime":816.064,"body":"whether you have a child or not, that energy of the mother."},{"startTime":816.199,"endTime":820.196,"body":"And I equated that with the other energy of just like,"},{"startTime":821.339,"endTime":830.889,"body":"working hard and resting and seeing how, oh, the time of the mother is what I've realized,"},{"startTime":831.449,"endTime":839.849,"body":"in my own experience of mothering in this time, the year 2023, is in order to really thrive in motherhood."},{"startTime":842.711,"endTime":850.48,"body":"A mother must learn to balance hard work and rest or we burn out or we get sick."},{"startTime":850.93,"endTime":856.809,"body":"I've been deep in my own sort of postpartum depletion recovery these past few months since"},{"startTime":856.809,"endTime":863.209,"body":"I weaned from breastfeeding, and I've realized how much the giving of my body, the giving of"},{"startTime":863.353,"endTime":870.329,"body":"my energy with sleeplessness, the giving of my attention with love, oh my gosh, with just such"},{"startTime":870.329,"endTime":878.969,"body":"love, that sacrifice, devotion, energy to a child. And this can be equated to a project, to a community."},{"startTime":880.07,"endTime":888.209,"body":"How if I don't pause and rest, if I don't take the moments of support to nap, to rest,"},{"startTime":888.209,"endTime":894.949,"body":"to sit, to stretch, to move, to eat well and nourish my body, how I will not thrive."},{"startTime":894.949,"endTime":898.057,"body":"My tomato would wither on the vine."},{"startTime":898.329,"endTime":905.349,"body":"And so that has been such a beautiful way for me to look at how Summer is a teacher"},{"startTime":905.349,"endTime":912.784,"body":"the mother in us all, no matter how we identify and no matter if we have children or not."},{"startTime":913.676,"endTime":919.023,"body":"There is a lesson for all of us who are recovering from or trying to navigate in"},{"startTime":919.302,"endTime":926.629,"body":"a system that is about constant production, hustling hard, basically asking us to ignore"},{"startTime":926.629,"endTime":933.749,"body":"our body signs for needing rest and nourishment. And it's always, I remember, you know, as a child,"},{"startTime":933.749,"endTime":937.622,"body":"I would always have summer off from school. And I remember in my 20s feeling very bitter."},{"startTime":938.684,"endTime":942.229,"body":"That we were still expected to work at our jobs. I mean, depending on your job,"},{"startTime":942.229,"endTime":947.269,"body":"I worked in corporate technology marketing, San Francisco. I'd still have to work during"},{"startTime":947.269,"endTime":955.589,"body":"the summer. It felt unfair. It felt wrong to my body to have to go into an office under,"},{"startTime":955.589,"endTime":961.109,"body":"I mean, it was like an air conditioned office under fluorescent lighting and not honor"},{"startTime":961.109,"endTime":968.309,"body":"or my, you know, inner wild creature that maybe what if I could have woken up with the sun and"},{"startTime":968.309,"endTime":974.149,"body":"done some work ideally outside and then taken siesta? Oh yeah, and then I remember I traveled"},{"startTime":974.149,"endTime":980.149,"body":"to Europe in my 20s and I was like, siesta, that is a thing. That's so aligned with what our bodies"},{"startTime":980.149,"endTime":988.309,"body":"need. So I know not all of us have so much choice in the ways we can navigate summer, but what can"},{"startTime":988.309,"endTime":993.749,"body":"we incorporate into it, at least in the spaces that we have choice or we have wiggle room."},{"startTime":994.201,"endTime":998.149,"body":"And that is garden time."},{"startTime":999.44,"endTime":1004.69,"body":"Can you get out and work your own land? Even though the majority of us, if not all of us,"},{"startTime":1004.69,"endTime":1007.983,"body":"are not subsistence farmers, right?"},{"startTime":1008.29,"endTime":1015.33,"body":"Like I get most of my food from a local grocery store, but there is that joyful element in the summer,"},{"startTime":1015.536,"endTime":1021.29,"body":"whether it's a container garden or a community garden, or you go to the farmer's market or you have a garden,"},{"startTime":1021.487,"endTime":1030.21,"body":"of growing food or plants that nourish you in some way in some way and then taking that in to your body."},{"startTime":1030.21,"endTime":1036.854,"body":"I feel as though in the spring and summer and fall, the garden metaphors are just like"},{"startTime":1036.989,"endTime":1043.25,"body":"coming out of a fire hose, like weeding, pruning, like, oh, weeding the things in my life, pruning"},{"startTime":1043.25,"endTime":1048.89,"body":"the things in my life, fertilizing the soil, spacing plants apart."},{"startTime":1048.89,"endTime":1053.364,"body":"All of these things are like, oh, where can I space things apart in my schedule?"},{"startTime":1053.51,"endTime":1055.677,"body":"Where can I fertilize my own soil?"},{"startTime":1055.93,"endTime":1061.772,"body":"Am I not watering the plants of my life enough? Where am I over-watering the plants of my life?"},{"startTime":1062.123,"endTime":1068.33,"body":"A pest takes down like, God, I got some major aphid action last summer and just couldn't help"},{"startTime":1068.33,"endTime":1075.13,"body":"but feel like, oh, where is my ecosystem not diversified enough so that one pest could take"},{"startTime":1075.13,"endTime":1082.09,"body":"down a whole block of plants in my life? So there's something about the slowing down nature"},{"startTime":1082.09,"endTime":1088.49,"body":"of summer rather than the sort of fierce planting of spring and the wild harvesting of autumn"},{"startTime":1088.671,"endTime":1095.21,"body":"where we can be receptive to those messages and that wisdom. Other ancestral practices we can work"},{"startTime":1095.21,"endTime":1104.89,"body":"into our experience of summer is sharing the bounty at our tables and with our community."},{"startTime":1106.441,"endTime":1115.065,"body":"Do any of you have like lemon trees that just go nuts, you know, or an overabundance of a certain plant"},{"startTime":1115.137,"endTime":1118.504,"body":"and there is that inner desire to share."},{"startTime":1118.65,"endTime":1122.456,"body":"Can you give it to a neighbor? Can you have people over? This is like the dream, right?"},{"startTime":1123.392,"endTime":1128.47,"body":"To have a dinner where everyone brings food from their garden that they have extra of"},{"startTime":1128.578,"endTime":1129.892,"body":"and there is an exchange."},{"startTime":1130.945,"endTime":1136.09,"body":"Or what is, if you don't have a garden that's producing a lot of lemon balm"},{"startTime":1136.09,"endTime":1141.874,"body":"or many roses to be picked and shared or a lot of lemons, like what is that?"},{"startTime":1142.81,"endTime":1149.85,"body":"How else can you express the sharing of your bounty at the community table in your life?"},{"startTime":1150.498,"endTime":1154.846,"body":"I'm so curious about what could come up for each of us and how we could do that."},{"startTime":1155.098,"endTime":1159.87,"body":"Going to the farmer's market and getting a flat of cherries and sharing them with the neighbor kids,"},{"startTime":1160.194,"endTime":1165.892,"body":"Like, how is it we can be in that expression of abundance that Summer shares with us?"},{"startTime":1166.594,"endTime":1173.895,"body":"It's also a great time for making medicine, whether you have, you know, an herbal thumb or not."},{"startTime":1174.498,"endTime":1178.95,"body":"I find there's just so many resources online and books for ways to."},{"startTime":1179.765,"endTime":1185.615,"body":"Be with what is in abundance, what is growing, whether it's wild or foraged in some way."},{"startTime":1186.246,"endTime":1191.295,"body":"I have calendula everywhere. This is, ah, calendula is such an abundance plant,"},{"startTime":1191.45,"endTime":1199.642,"body":"beautiful yellow flower. And it so easily reseeds when the flowers dry, the seeds just like,"},{"startTime":1199.903,"endTime":1204.655,"body":"I love it. They're like little curly cues, but they almost look like tiny little caterpillars"},{"startTime":1204.655,"endTime":1207.555,"body":"and they fall and re-seed so easily."},{"startTime":1207.555,"endTime":1213.135,"body":"And the more you cut the flowers on a calendula plant, the more it blooms."},{"startTime":1213.135,"endTime":1221.355,"body":"And I think about just the ease of thriving and the beauty and bursting of the yellow sunshiny petals,"},{"startTime":1221.935,"endTime":1224.215,"body":"how just life-giving it is."},{"startTime":1224.215,"endTime":1227.935,"body":"So I do a lot of calendula work. I put those, they're edible petals,"},{"startTime":1227.935,"endTime":1233.04,"body":"so I put that in my salads. I put it in my water. I put it in my bathtub."},{"startTime":1233.135,"endTime":1239.702,"body":"And I also, I have seen so many herbalists have winter remedies that capture"},{"startTime":1239.935,"endTime":1243.335,"body":"the blooming flowers of calendula, like bottle sunshine."},{"startTime":1243.335,"endTime":1251.255,"body":"So maybe look into making a calendula essence, a calendula tincture, something that you can preserve"},{"startTime":1251.255,"endTime":1256.255,"body":"or even a glycerin for the winter when there is less sun."},{"startTime":1257.215,"endTime":1265.889,"body":"And that you do feel that impact of less sun on your skin and your eyeballs and how you can take in"},{"startTime":1266.015,"endTime":1271.975,"body":"that abundant sunshine energy of calendula from the summer before, summers before."},{"startTime":1271.975,"endTime":1274.316,"body":"I have one right behind me. I'm gonna take it right now."},{"startTime":1275.235,"endTime":1280.295,"body":"This is from North Sea Medicine Collective. I think that's Mila Prince, woman who married the bear."},{"startTime":1280.295,"endTime":1282.796,"body":"Sunshine in a bottle, calendula tincture."},{"startTime":1284.215,"endTime":1290.495,"body":"Gentle immune support, digestive aid, empathic listening and openness to others' experience."},{"startTime":1290.495,"endTime":1291.935,"body":"All right, I'm gonna take it."},{"startTime":1294.967,"endTime":1299.817,"body":"Mm, so light, so mm, like effervescent."},{"startTime":1301.997,"endTime":1311.537,"body":"Makes me feel, yeah, lightness and ease in my body. So let's talk about some ritual aspects"},{"startTime":1311.537,"endTime":1314.597,"body":"that have to do with this midsummer,"},{"startTime":1314.597,"endTime":1317.796,"body":"whether you want to celebrate the solstice,"},{"startTime":1317.897,"endTime":1320.533,"body":"which when I release this episode is coming up,"},{"startTime":1320.757,"endTime":1325.583,"body":"Or all summer long, because just because you don't do."},{"startTime":1326.637,"endTime":1329.157,"body":"Like let's say a bonfire and a ritual on the summer solstice,"},{"startTime":1329.157,"endTime":1331.534,"body":"you can do it a week, a month later."},{"startTime":1331.637,"endTime":1334.0,"body":"Summer is a whole season."},{"startTime":1334.997,"endTime":1338.917,"body":"I find some of us with our Western minds can feel like, oh, dang it, I missed out on the ritual."},{"startTime":1338.917,"endTime":1340.725,"body":"Oh, well, and it's like, no, no."},{"startTime":1340.837,"endTime":1343.723,"body":"These seasons and their medicine are here for all of us."},{"startTime":1344.277,"endTime":1355.117,"body":"So fire is a, right, fire is a big element. heat, the south, that is a big element that comes into play in the summer for a lot of"},{"startTime":1355.117,"endTime":1363.117,"body":"traditions and lineages, and not all, I will say, not all. 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So these are Eastern-based phrases,"},{"startTime":1406.637,"endTime":1409.872,"body":"Asian-based phrases to talk about energies in the body."},{"startTime":1410.357,"endTime":1416.197,"body":"I don't know if you know about yin energy being sort of maybe applied to,"},{"startTime":1416.197,"endTime":1418.451,"body":"this is a binary, but this is where"},{"startTime":1418.617,"endTime":1426.137,"body":"we've learned and come from, I'm sure the language will change over time, but this yin energy of really being receptive energy,"},{"startTime":1426.292,"endTime":1433.497,"body":"maybe feminine energy, moon-like energy, slower pace, rest, and restorative. And then yang energy"},{"startTime":1433.497,"endTime":1439.657,"body":"is much more of like a fire, traditionally masculine, sort of like pointing the arrow"},{"startTime":1439.657,"endTime":1445.897,"body":"and releasing it, high energy movement. 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Mugwort with its silvery under the leaves."},{"startTime":1563.999,"endTime":1568.636,"body":"Artemisia vulgaris, Artemis, the goddess of the hunt,"},{"startTime":1569.06,"endTime":1574.757,"body":"very summer sort of young energy, and mugwort is also a dreaming plant."},{"startTime":1574.9,"endTime":1583.174,"body":"So I find that there's space for dreaminess in summer, a lot like there is in winter, winter the dream time."},{"startTime":1583.26,"endTime":1589.34,"body":"You can burn mugwort, you can harvest mugwort, and then wrap it up into bundles"},{"startTime":1589.34,"endTime":1595.96,"body":"and dry it to burn throughout the year, put it in your bonfires, lay it around your altars."},{"startTime":1595.96,"endTime":1598.595,"body":"And I'm wondering what plants feel like summer to you."},{"startTime":1599.08,"endTime":1601.071,"body":"What is thriving in your bio region?"},{"startTime":1602.12,"endTime":1608.3,"body":"Is it the citrus? Is it the fruit? Is it the beautiful dahlias that you've planted?"},{"startTime":1609.04,"endTime":1613.971,"body":"Is it the rhododendron? Like what is speaking to you right now?"},{"startTime":1614.12,"endTime":1617.095,"body":"Because I share those plants. Also mint, I will say mint."},{"startTime":1618.08,"endTime":1621.839,"body":"Mint feels like an easy go-to for herbal waters."},{"startTime":1622.811,"endTime":1627.033,"body":"And my daughter just loves the mint, just chews on the mint all summer long."},{"startTime":1627.952,"endTime":1629.68,"body":"But what matters is what you feel connected to."},{"startTime":1629.941,"endTime":1634.661,"body":"So these, I really feel strongly that I don't wanna be seen as the person"},{"startTime":1634.661,"endTime":1637.701,"body":"who tells you how to do seasonal rituals,"},{"startTime":1637.701,"endTime":1642.931,"body":"particularly because we all come from different lineages. 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And I just want"},{"startTime":1685.141,"endTime":1691.621,"body":"to remind us all that we are also living in a sacred time. And what will our descendants,"},{"startTime":1691.621,"endTime":1699.461,"body":"whether by blood or by legacy or by story, what will they say about us and what we did and how"},{"startTime":1699.461,"endTime":1705.301,"body":"we gathered, and what we struggled with, and what we suffered through, and what we triumphed through."},{"startTime":1705.506,"endTime":1710.901,"body":"What stories will they tell around their fires, however the earth looks at that time?"},{"startTime":1712.303,"endTime":1717.541,"body":"You are the ritualist. You are the myth maker. You are the storyteller of your time."},{"startTime":1718.397,"endTime":1724.341,"body":"And so what is your experience in your body of summer? What are the plants that speak to you,"},{"startTime":1724.341,"endTime":1732.486,"body":"even if they are suburban, planted from the local garden center. 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It all matters."},{"startTime":1732.891,"endTime":1739.061,"body":"And it tunes us into a different way of reconnecting, embodying, embodiment, embodying,"},{"startTime":1739.742,"endTime":1745.941,"body":"the whole experience of being alive on this, I'm gonna say it again, freaking miracle planet"},{"startTime":1745.941,"endTime":1752.606,"body":"in this time and space and universe that is just baffling and humbling and,"},{"startTime":1753.11,"endTime":1759.781,"body":"incredible that we have this life and these all these circumstances that have"},{"startTime":1759.781,"endTime":1763.67,"body":"happened over millions of years have led to this one life."},{"startTime":1764.777,"endTime":1770.587,"body":"And so, may you bring that into your experience of summer, and may you celebrate in all the ways that you can."},{"startTime":1770.587,"endTime":1777.623,"body":"And if your inner seasons feel different from summer, take care with that first."},{"startTime":1778.433,"endTime":1784.547,"body":"As someone who, two summers ago, was in an inner winter and felt like I was just missing out on all the fun"},{"startTime":1784.547,"endTime":1789.427,"body":"because I had so much to tend to inside, that is okay."},{"startTime":1789.542,"endTime":1795.267,"body":"The wheel turns again and again and again, and the medicine of summer is always here for you."},{"startTime":1796.762,"endTime":1801.587,"body":"So I leave that there with you, and then I have one final announcement,"},{"startTime":1802.992,"endTime":1809.833,"body":"which is this is the last episode of the Belonging Podcast for a while dot dot dot. I,"},{"startTime":1810.787,"endTime":1813.707,"body":"I am moving."},{"startTime":1814.867,"endTime":1822.373,"body":"Been telling you about it for a while. I need the summer to keep focusing on nourishing the roots of my body."},{"startTime":1822.507,"endTime":1828.243,"body":"That's a tree metaphor, but really tending to my health. I've been really working to strengthen it"},{"startTime":1828.427,"endTime":1834.968,"body":"after having some pretty devastating immune system stuff happen to me over the past two seasons."},{"startTime":1835.107,"endTime":1840.107,"body":"And also I need to take some things off my plate."},{"startTime":1840.648,"endTime":1847.927,"body":"So that I can prepare to move this fall. 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