June 20, 2024

A Prayer for the Summer Solstice

We honor the Summer Solstice with this prayer to the directions.

Aho Mother Earth, thank You for all the gifts of Your creation. You open Your body and give us the food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, the shelter of our homes. You give us teachings of how to walk upon You with harmony and balance. You give us medicine when we are out of balance. Thank You for Your mysterious, beautiful, growth, power, healing energy. I pray for Your health and that Your sacred waters, body, air and spirit be clean and fresh, pure and strong. Help me to open my heart to feel Your heartbeat so I can walk a healing path in harmony and balance with all of creation.

Aho Sky Father, You who are above, Father Sun and Grandmother Moon, star people, rainbow bridge spirits. Thank You for Your Light and Your Love, Your company through day and night. Cloud people, thunder spirits, thank You for the gifts of rain that come to quench our Mother's thirst. Help me to open myself to Your medicine teachings of balanced masculine and feminine energies. I give thanks to all You who are Above and thank You for Your gifts of vision.

Aho Great Mystery, Creator, Source of All. You have been always and You will be always. You birthed me and will receive me when my life path is over as You have done for all the ancestors who have come before. You are here now in my center and the center of All. Thank You for this day and the opportunity to know You and to serve You. Thank You for my family, friends, teachers, and loved ones. Thank you for the work You give me to do in this life. I pray for strength, Great Spirit, please help me to do the best I can do, to honor what I have seen to be true. Use me as a channel for Your healing ways to help the people. Thank you Great Spirit for You, thank You for this holy time right now and thank You for the gift of the greatest prosperity of all, knowing Your Presence always.

Aho. May it be so.
(Aho is a Yaqui word meaning "I speak my truth")

Aho Father Sun, power of the East, power of illumination. Thank You for shining today, for giving away Your Light and Your Love, bringing the life force to Mother Earth. Thank You for Your teaching reminder of my true nature, and for Your Power to cut through darkness. I get stuck in my darkness so easily and You help me to cut through it and remember Your Light and Love and to extend it to my family and all who cross my path today. Thank you Great Spirit.

Aho Father Sun, Power of the South, power of faith and trust. Power of innocence. Help me to surrender to Your Loving Presence as the newly born infant trusts it will be taken care of by its parents. Help me to shed the old, trusting that new growth is already on its way. I give thanks to You and pray for strengthening of my faith in Your always present, Presence.

Aho Father Sun, power of the West, gifts to be found at the center of my being. Thank You for the gifts of inner peace, light and love, courage and compassion, healing and forgiveness. Give me the strength to overcome my weakness and to honor the medicine powers I have been given to carry in this life bringing them out successfully in the world for healing by my own example of having received them completely myself. Thank You for the power of introspection, of going within to mine the riches that You Great Spirit have placed here for us all.

Aho Father Sun, Power of the North, power of Wisdom. Thank you wisdom elders of all faiths and traditions throughout time. You who know Great Spirit's presence working for the greatest good in everyone, everything, everywhere and all the time. Thank you for Your wisdom guidance whenever I turn to You with an open and humble heart. Help me to see Spirit working for good in all the challenges of my life. Help me to walk the Good Red Road, from the south surrendering with faith and trust, to the north, knowing Your Presence always--knowing You , loving You, and serving You.