22/06/2026
Summer the season of the heart! (In Chinese medicine)
Energetically summer asks a lot of your Heart Qi!
It's a beautiful time of expansion and openness where introspection becomes extraversion.
For some people this is the dream because you're out, it's warmer, you're socialising but for others it can add emotional or mental pressure, too many expectations and less peace.
On a physical level this season is YANG! hot, fast, chatty, loud, dry and sometimes ungrounded. Maybe more heart symptoms like palpitations or anxiety, rashes or immune responses..
However, the beautiful earth around us always tries to provide what we need in each season and the summer medicine can be seen in it's plants as usual. Roses, lavender, hibiscus, soon hawthorn berries, as well as foxglove which we obviously can't eat but is used for heart medication.
This is the earth providing balance, healing and grace in a season that can push us to go too fast!
If you are someone who finds summer a time where you burnout, feel wired, racing thought or teary, your little heart needs some tlc and you deserve some time to sloooow down! You can be your own soft place to land by giving yourself permission not to do it all!
