Over 12 years of offering Walking the Ways, Carolyn Cushing has created a container for soul tending around the Summer Solstice that:

• Supports for pausing within our daily lives for reflection and gathering inspiration from oracles like the Tarot.
• Cultivates a connection to the Greater Than ourselves to receive guidance for going beyond our current limitations 
• Guides us to connect with elemental power of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire 
• Connects us to a community of fellow seekers through virtual gatherings. 

Participate through Soul Path Sanctuary’s Substack.

The sun rules the summer season and, like the plants, we humans can respond to its exuberant invitations: reach for the light; grow to new heights; express ourselves and our delight; sing, dance, travel, paint (or whatever form your creativity takes); let our bodies love another and the earth upon which we walk. The explosive sun also invites us to release our anger, rise up against injustice, shake off our constraints. 

If we take up the summer sun’s invitations, we can transcend the boundaries of body, mind, and spirit to seek integration and wholeness within ourselves and in connection to others. While winter is the season for change through inner work, the summer gets us out and walking the ways for growth.

One day isn’t enough to celebrate the season of the sun so for the past 12 years at Soul Path Sanctuary we have Walked the Ways of the Summer Light beginning the 4 weeks before the Solstice moment. Each week leading up to the Solstice, we wisdom wander in the place where we live inspired by a different element and gathering questions to support our soul tending. Then gather virtually to share our experiences. 

When we arrive at the Solstice on Sunday, June 21st, we select one of our questions to seek an answer to. After the Solstice, we embark on a pilgrimage—which might be a big trip or finding a spot in our neighborhood to sit and observe—to seek an answer to our question.  

 Walking the Ways will be offered as a container to support your soul tending in these ways: 

• Weekly posts on Soul Path Sanctuary for any subscriber (free and paid) to prompt working with the elements, deepen connection to the natural world, and grow deep knowing of Tarot.  
• Guide filled with prompts for weekly/daily practice + virtual sessions at the beginning, middle, and end of the season for paid subscribers of Soul Path Sanctuary on Sundays May 31, June 21 (the Solstice!), and July 12th at 12:30 pm  (time zone converter). In our opening session, we’ll go over the practices and elemental weekly flow of Walking the Ways.

Don’t hesitate to ask me questions. I’d love to help you put a plan together for cultivating the wisdom of the summer season.