22/08/2026
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“Let us go out to the garden to understand. . . Summer is a season that seems but a moment. . . The sun is high and hot, the days long and ripe. . .
So, too, for women, the summer of life. She is in her prime, full of energy. . . Every sunrise is an opportunity, every noon a driving force, every sunset a dawn into night’s possibilities. . . she produces children and art; she creates a self and a home. She is exhilarated by her power, exhausted by possibility. She says yes to everything, everything grows and burgeons from her energy. She is a forcefield of affirmation. . .
Sometimes she feels a vast hunger, an enormous yearning, as though her soul can never be sated. Sometimes she feels as though beauty is a thin membrane stretched over pain. In the midst of excess, she feels wrenching want, for there is never enough: enough time, enough years, enough love.
Summer comes to women more than once. It opens, a wave of green energy, driving us to productiveness and passion. Summer can explode upon a woman at any time, whenever the force of life rages through her, whenever life’s ache opens her eyes to the magic and beauty in each moment.
The magic of the season rests in transformation: seed into fruit, embryo into child, idea into reality.
Daily the magic occurs, so fast we fail to see it. But within this flux of transformation, there are moments of perfect stillness . . . Inside those moments, power lives. Power that is beyond the normal magic of growth and death. . . This is the secret of witches and initiates: to recognize these moments and, falling into the vast space behind them, become timeless and free.
Go into the garden for understanding. Let power flow through you. . . Transformation rests within you and among you. You are always transforming yourself. Just watch.
~ Patricia Monaghan, Seasons of the Witch
Art: Mary Azarian
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