One month into summer. Time to shine!
The sun’s out. The fruits are juicy.
It’s peak season – in nature and within you.
Let’s take a moment to explore what summer stands for: in the world around us, in our bodies, and in our cycles.
What’s possible when we say yes to this season – and what to look out for when things get too hot 🔥
If you’d like a refresher on the basics of cyclical living, have a peek at my Spring blog: Reawakening with spring.
But before I light the whole summer bonfire for you, take a breath.
Feel into it yourself >
🌀 Reflection Prompt
What does summer mean to you?
What images, scents, colours, sounds or feelings arise in your body and mind?
☀️ Here’s what rises for me:
Long, light days. Early sunrises, real late sunsets.
Wearing light clothes and feeling warm.
buzzing & fluttering insects.
Fruits so sweet they almost flirt.
That vacation state of mind.
Sun kissing my skin (and yours).
Swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers, pools and any other water body.
Outdoor everything – from dinners to barefoot walks to festivals.
Nature going all-in on abundance.
People feeling more energised, more tolerant and more optimistic.
Time stretching and shimmering.
Fresh food.
Disclaimer: This description is brought to you by the Western European summer. If you’re reading this from India or anywhere the heat melts your sandals by 10AM, know that the hormonal metaphor still holds. The inner summer of your menstrual cycle – aka the ovulatory phase – carries many of the same energetic signatures. Keep reading to connect to your own cycle’s manifestation, even if your local summer feels more like a sauna than a sparkle.
🌼 What Summer Teaches Us
During summer, nature is fully expressed. In full bloom.
It’s peak life.
It’s the opposite of winter’s quiet dormancy.
Summer is associated with:
🌞 Shining
🌞 Manifesting
🌞 Expressing
🌞 Flowing
🌞 Magnetising
🌞 Giving
There’s a generosity in summer. A natural openness. A desire to be seen, felt, known.
Yet boundaries still matter.
Just because we feel limitless doesn’t mean we are.
Also, remember that limits are not limitations. The real limitation comes from not having any limits.
The sun is powerful, brings light, energizes, – ánd it also burns.
Summer shows us to shine bright without burning out.
To be in full expression whilst keeping your boundaries in mind.
🌀 Reflection Prompt:
Now, feel a bit more. How does this season affect you - physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually?
🍓 Living in Alignment with Summer
SHOWTIME baby!
This is thé time of being your full, vibrant, unapologetic self.
Letting yourself unfold and bringing your inner wildflowers into the world.
Summer is a natural time to:
🌞 Be seen & social
🌞 Act, assert, and manifest
🌞 Move
🌞 Be generous
🌞 Flirt, connect, share, shine – enjoy and take pleasure
🌞 Communicate
There’s charm, magnetism, diplomacy, and sensuality.
It’s a phase of outward focus – full of optimism and “yes” energy.
But be mindful. When you feel limitless, you easily lose sight of your edges.
Summer can become intoxicating.
Too much of a good thing, is not a good thing anymore.
Before you know it, you’re:
- Saying yes to everything (even things ‘Future You’ will regret)
- Out of touch with your own needs, and your bigger picture
- Caught up spinning on the Doing-Doing-Doing hamster wheel
- Offering compassion and care to everyone but yourself
When we override our inner signals in the name of productivity, fun, or being social, we disconnect from what’s true.
And eventually, the cost shows up – in insensitivity, overgiving, burnout, addiction, etc.
The more you do, the more there is to do.
⭕️ True power is recognising your limits, not bypassing them.
That’s how you stay in integrity – and flourish in flow.
🌺 Building on Summer’s Energy
This is Yes-time.
Not only yes to the world around you. Also to yourself.
Show the fullest expression of yourself – how scary that may seem.
Unleash your radiance – in whatever way this resonates with you.
This is your moment to build, create, express, magnetise.
With the season’s energy, light and optimism, you can get things done.
🌸 Suggestions for summer-aligned action:
- Celebrate yourself.
No shrinking, no hiding. Claim yourself, appreciate yourself, acknowledge yourself. Unashamedly.
This tap on your own back is essential to liberate yourself, and your authentic voice. - Unleash your expression.
Allow yourself to be yourself. Appreciate yourself. Be seen by others.
Take your foot off the brakes. Let yourself roll freely.
Use your voice. Wear the outfit. Make the move. - Move with your energy.
Dance. Walk. Swim. Jump. Let your body enjoy being a body. And stay connected to your body. - Tune into pleasure.
Touch, taste, smell – drop into your senses. Explore sensuality. - Connect.
This is prime time to be with others. Collaborate. Co-create. Exchange. Share joy. - Keep one foot grounded.
Remember your rest practice from winter, and pace practice from spring? Bring it along – you’ll need it. Also, stay connected with nature.
Some of my grounding pleasures.
🌀 Practice inspo: Self-Celebration
During the next 2 summer months, or 2 ovulatory phases, commit to celebrating yourself.
Each day, name one thing you appreciate about yourself - in writing, out loud, or in stillness.
‼️ Even when you’re currently not on this high-fly-summer wave (that’s okay. I see you. We have our inner cycles & processes too, and need to keep space for them), this is an important practice. Start building the muscle of self-recognition. There’s always something to celebrate. Seeing the best of yourself, is an antidote to doubt, shame and criticism. Ánd, you grow your buffer against your inner critic – which will grandly come forward in the next inner season – and tends to play too big of a role in our daily life anyways.
🌞 Your Menstrual Cycle’s Inner Summer
Each hormonal phase / inner season holds a unique lesson.
When you know the gifts and challenges of this phase, you unlock more of what’s possible for your wellbeing and self-expression.
Your inner summer (aka ovulation) teaches you about expression, connection, and magnetic power.
This is when your hormones oestrogen and testosterone peak – bringing energy, confidence, and diplomatic/magnetising communication.
You’re likely feeling generous, capable, open-hearted, and turned on – by people, and by life.
In the inner summer, you’re most embodied in the material world.
This is the season of doing, expressing, manifesting.
The time where your previous efforts bear fruit – and you feel ready to meet the world.
The powers of inner summer include:
🌸 High energy & effortless achievement
🌸 Charisma, magnetism, and diplomacy
🌸 Connection with others
🌸 Creativity & generosity
🌸 Flow, confidence, sensuality
🌸 Pleasure & joy in being alive
But beware: society glorifies this phase: productive, high-performing, social.
It’s easy to get seduced into staying here – or feel like we should always be in this high-performing state.
That’s not how nature works. And not how cycles flow.
🚨 Watch for:
– Saying yes too easily (then feeling the “ugh” later)
– Overcommitting to people or plans
– Losing yourself in others’ needs
– Disconnection from subtle inner cues
– Forgetting to ask: what do I need?
You might feel like everything is a yes: the idea, the event, the person, the future plan.
And while that flirtatious moment might feel divine now, Inner Autumn might be like: “…who even is this person?”
The key is to enjoy the glow without losing your grounding.
Let yourself be seen, loved, felt. Let yourself express and magnetise.
Just don’t abandon yourself in the process.
🍒 Summer’s superpower?
liberated authenticity.
The version of you who’s not shrinking, not pretending, and not performing.
Just being – radiantly – your unique self. And allowing others to witness that.
In SUMmary,
Summer gifts us:
🌞 Radiant energy
🌞 Expressive confidence
🌞 Creative momentum
🌞 Magnetic connection
🌞 A powerful reminder: even abundance has its edges
If you’re dreading the shift that comes after this peak… I feel you.
And I wrote something for you: Solstice Reflections & Feminine Realignment.
It’ll help you soften into the descent and prepare for what’s next.
Wishing you a vibrant, juicy, and celebratory summer – inner and outer.
May you see your beauty, honour your brilliance, and bask in the light of your own being.
With love,
Stéphanie 🌞🌙
Awareness. Embodiment. Alignment. Transformation.
