Solstice Saturday – 21 June 2025
- Shannyn Rhodes
- Jun 21
- 10 min read
Take a deep breath with me. Can you feel something shifting not just outside, but within? Today’s Solstice isn’t just a moment in the sky. It’s a whisper from the Universe that says: pause, darling... you’re standing at a sacred threshold.
Whether the Sun is rising high above you or you’re wrapped in winter’s hush, today is a still point in the dance of time. It’s the day the Sun stands still, and in that pause… we’re invited to remember who we are beneath the hustle and who we’re becoming beyond the noise.
Let’s Talk Solstice Energy
This is the moment when the wheel of the year turns either the longest day or the longest night, depending on where you are. But regardless of hemisphere, it’s a cosmic exhale. A soul sigh. A call to come home to yourself.
This Solstice is especially tender because it’s not alone it’s braided with the energy of the Sun stepping into Cancer. And oh love, Cancer season is a whole mood. It wraps us in soft blankets of feeling and asks us to tend to our inner roots. Our needs. Our knowing. Our emotional truth.
What This Means for All of Us
As a collective, we’re entering a time that’s a little slower, a little softer, and a whole lot deeper. Cancer rules over our inner world our home, our history, our heart. So you may find yourself craving quiet, yearning for connection, or finally feeling all the feelings you tucked away to deal with “later.”
This energy asks:
Where do you really feel safe?
Who gets to witness your softness?
What are you ready to nurture, protect, or release?
We’re not here to be perfect. We’re here to be present.
Who Will Feel This Most
Let’s weave the Solstice energies into a deeper soul-mirror for each of the most affected signs: Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Libra, Scorpio, and Pisces. Think of this as a soft celestial whisper a nudge from the Universe meant just for you.
Cancer – The Sacred Self Awakens
This is your rebirth, sweet Cancer. The Solstice ushers in your Solar Return your personal New Year and with it, an invitation to come home to your true self. The Sun is shining right on your heart space, illuminating where you’ve outgrown the roles you've been playing and asking: Who are you becoming?
You may feel:
A powerful urge to protect your peace and redefine boundaries
A need to reconnect with your roots or honour family in a new way
Deep intuitive downloads, dreams, or ancestral messages
Guidance:
Let yourself be seen not the curated version, but the raw, radiant soul you are. Begin a ritual of self-honouring. Plant the seeds of your next chapter with gentleness and intention. The light is yours stand in it.
Capricorn – The Heart Learns to Soften
As the Sun lights up your opposite sign, your relationship axis is activated. But this isn’t about doing more it’s about feeling more. This Solstice cracks open your emotional armour and invites tenderness where once there was just tenacity.
You may feel:
Vulnerable, nostalgic, or unexpectedly emotional
A shift in your closest partnerships, requiring more heart than head
The need to revisit your definition of success to include inner nourishment
Guidance:
Let this be the season where you embrace feeling as strength, not liability. Share more of your truth with someone you trust. Soften your inner dialogue. The part of you that’s tired of being the rock deserves rest, too.
Aries – Tenderness is the New Power
For you, Aries, the Solstice hits your home and foundation zone, asking you to slow down and tune inward something that may feel wildly unfamiliar. But this isn’t weakness; it’s recalibration. A deep energetic nesting is underway.
You may feel:
A desire to withdraw, rest, or emotionally reset
Old childhood wounds or family dynamics surfacing for healing
A call to create space that truly supports your growth
Guidance:
This is not the time to push it’s the time to pause and protect your spark. Let yourself cry, journal, rest. Build emotional resilience from the inside out. Re-root. Reclaim. Reground.
Libra – The Balance Point is Shifting
The Solstice activates your career and visibility zone, and it may bring both illumination and tension. You’re being asked to balance public purpose with private truth. Where are you showing up for everyone else but not for yourself?
You may feel:
Pressure around your role, identity, or responsibilities
A desire to change course or pivot towards something more soul-aligned
A reckoning with what “success” means when it doesn’t feed your heart
Guidance:
Let this moment show you that your heart is part of your calling. Lead from love, not image. Re-envision your life path not as a straight line but as a dance between impact and intimacy. Let soul and strategy meet.
Scorpio – The Soul Seeks Expansion
For you, this Solstice activates your ninth house of belief, wisdom, and higher vision. It’s less about where you are and more about what you know in your bones to be true. This is a time of soulful stretching a spiritual horizon moment.
You may feel:
A call to explore new teachings, philosophies, or inner truths
Emotional clarity about your next direction
A desire to shed limiting beliefs rooted in old emotional wounds
Guidance:
Say yes to the call to expand whether that means studying, teaching, travelling, or simply trusting your soul’s compass. Create a new belief system that honours your emotional truth. You are ready to outgrow your old maps.
Pisces – Deep Waters, Sacred Truths
The Solstice stirs your eighth house of intimacy, transformation, and soul contracts this is a deep dive, Pisces. It may bring catharsis, release, or revelations around where your energy has been entangled with others.
You may feel:
A powerful emotional purge or reckoning with loss
A desire to reclaim your energy from draining bonds or beliefs
A sacred moment of truth around shared power and healing
Guidance:
Let the waters carry away what no longer serves you. This is a time for alchemy, not avoidance. Sit with what arises. Transform it. Rebirth yourself. Your emotional wisdom is a lighthouse let it guide you back to your own shoreline.
And for all of us: if you’ve been moving through life on autopilot, this energy says… come back to yourself. You’ve always been the home you’ve been seeking.
Let’s accept this warm invitation to sink into presence, reclaim tenderness, and honour the sacred turning point the Solstice brings. This isn’t a season for striving or performing. The Solstice, especially when woven with the Sun’s entrance into Cancer, doesn’t ask you to do more it asks you to feel more. To stop chasing and start listening. To tend to your emotional garden with the same love and reverence you’d offer to a dear friend finally coming home.
This energy is a soft but powerful guide. Here’s how to work with it in intentional, heart-led ways:
Light a candle and whisper a blessing into the flame
Let this small act become a sacred ceremony. As you strike the match, speak a quiet intention into the space. Perhaps a prayer for clarity, a wish for healing, or simply gratitude for how far you’ve come. The flame becomes a living altar a reminder of your inner light.
Blessing suggestion: “I honour the light within me. May it guide, heal, and restore.”
Watch the sunrise or sunset and feel the Earth’s rhythm
Whether the sun is rising on your longest day or slipping beneath your longest night, this is a time to witness the sky’s poetry. Breathe deeply. Place your hand on your heart. Let yourself remember: you are part of something ancient, cyclical, and divine.
Tune in to what’s stirring in your soul as the sky changes. What are you ready to begin or to release?
Write a letter to your inner child or future self
Sit in stillness and let your heart speak. You might write to the version of you that once needed more love or protection… or to the future you who’s already healed and living with deep joy. Use this moment to bridge timelines with tenderness.
Prompt: “Dear inner child/future self, I see you. I honour what you carried and what you’re becoming…”
Take a long bath, clear your space, or cook a nourishing meal
Cancer season calls for soul-level nurturing. Submerge yourself in warm water with salts, oils, or herbs to release old emotional residue. Clean a space in your home like it’s a ritual of self-devotion. Cook something that feeds your body and your spirit. Let these acts be sacred, not routine.
Ask: “What would it feel like to care for myself as if I were sacred?” Then do that.
Wrap yourself in a blanket and let the stillness speak
Sometimes the most potent healing happens in the quiet moments where you let go of expectations and just be. This Solstice is not asking for perfection it’s offering permission. To soften. To rest. To listen to your body’s wisdom.
Let the silence reveal what your busy mind often silences.
And most of all? Let yourself feel. Let yourself be. That’s the work.
This isn’t about spiritual bypassing or rushing into transformation. It’s about honouring what is true for you right now. Whether that’s grief, gratitude, confusion, hope, or longing it belongs. You don’t need to tidy your emotions before they’re welcome. You just need to show up with softness.
Healing doesn’t come from force. It comes from presence. From compassion. From returning, again and again, to the sacred center of your own heart.
If you’ve been carrying a lot lately quiet thoughts, unspoken dreams, things you’re not quite ready to name out loud then this is your invitation to exhale.
Grab your favourite pen, light a little candle if you like, and let’s sit down together and write it out. Not for perfection. Not for performance. Just to be with whatever’s stirring inside you.
Here are a few gentle questions I’ve been holding close this Solstice. Maybe they’ll open something soft in you too:
What part of me is blooming?
You don’t have to be “there” yet to be growing. What’s quietly been unfurling inside you lately? It could be a truth, a dream, a boundary, a softness, a spark. Even the tiniest shift deserves to be witnessed.
Ask yourself: Where am I beginning to come alive in a new way?
What am I ready to release with love?
Not everything you’ve carried was meant to stay forever. Some things were teachers. Some were survival. Some just… don’t belong to you anymore. What are you ready to let go of not with shame, but with gratitude and grace?
Ask yourself: What can I bless and release, to make space for something softer?
Where do I need more tenderness, more truth, more trust?
There are parts of us that go quiet when life gets loud. Maybe you’ve been pushing through. Maybe you’ve forgotten how to be gentle with yourself. Where are you craving softness?Where do you need to be honest with yourself or someone else? Where are you ready to believe in your own becoming?
What does “home” feel like to my soul?
Not the kind with four walls. The kind that lives in your chest. What anchors you? Nourishes you? Wraps around you like “I’m safe here”? Where in your life do you feel rooted and where are you still searching?
Ask yourself: What practices, people, or places remind me who I truly am?
Take your time. There’s no rush. You don’t need perfect answers. Just honesty. Just presence.And when you’re done writing, place your hand on your heart and whisper: “I honour what I’ve found. I trust what’s unfolding. I return home to myself.”
A Solstice Meditation: Returning to the Light Within
Let’s take a few moments to be still just you, me, and the magic of this Solstice. You don’t have to do anything right now. You don’t have to be anything. You just get to be. Let’s find your center again… together.
Settle with Me
Close your eyes. Take a long, deep breath in… and sigh it out. And again breathe in peace, and exhale anything heavy. Let the world fade out a little. Let your shoulders drop. Let your jaw soften. You’re safe here. You’re allowed to rest.
Whisper this to yourself:“I am safe to be here now. I am safe to be still.”
Imagine This
Picture yourself standing in a wide open field or a quiet forest clearing. It’s either early morning or golden dusk whatever your soul needs most. The light is soft, like honey. The Sun is low on the horizon, not rushing just glowing. You feel it on your skin… warm, grounding, kind.That same light begins to rise in your heart. You’re not just standing in the Solstice. You are the Solstice.
Let this wash through you:“I honour the part of me that is blooming.”“I am allowed to grow in my own way, in my own time.”
Let It Go, Gently
Now feel into your body your belly, your hips, your roots. Where are you holding something that feels… old? Heavy? No longer yours? You don’t have to name it perfectly. Just know it’s ready to be released. Let it melt into the Earth beneath you like a leaf falling into soft soil. The Earth knows what to do with it. You don’t have to carry it anymore.
Breathe this in:“I release what no longer supports my becoming.”“I bless and let go with love.”
Remember Who You Are
Now, drop into your heart. There’s a soft glow there maybe it’s always been there. Maybe you just forgot.
Ask gently:What do I know that I’ve been pretending to forget?What truth is quietly waiting for me to hear it again?
Let the answer rise. A feeling. A word. A memory. Trust it.
Feel these words land inside you:“I remember who I am. I remember what is sacred.”
Reclaim Your Light
Imagine calling all of your energy back your joy, your softness, your voice, your sparkle.Anywhere it got lost in expectations, in old stories, in fear… you call it home. You gather yourself like stardust returning to the sky. Whole. Glowing. Ready.
Say this with me now:
“I reclaim my light. I return to my power. I rise with softness and strength.”
Come Back Slowly
Breathe in again. Feel the Earth under you, holding you. Feel your heart, steady and true. Place your hands over your heart and say gently: “I am here. I am whole. I am home.” When you’re ready, flutter your eyes open. Stretch. Sip water. Maybe grab your journal. But only if it feels good.
No rush. You are exactly where you’re meant to be. I’m so proud of you for showing up for your heart today. This moment it matters.
Your Solstice Affirmations
“I honour my becoming with gentleness and grace.”“I trust the rhythm of the seasons, inside and out.”“I am safe to feel, to soften, to bloom.”
Final Thoughts
So here we are, bestie on the edge of something sacred. Today is a love letter from the Sun and the Moon and every version of you that ever dreamed of becoming. It’s a reminder that you don’t have to rush, chase, or fix. You just have to listen.
Let this Solstice be your pause. Your prayer. Your permission slip to feel your way forward.The light remembers you. Let yourself remember, too.
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