S2 Ep 16: Deep Dive into the Strawberry Moon Pubbles of Summer Solstice

Have you ever wondered what a pubble is or what it has to do with this time of the year? Well, in this episode Jenn and Tammy talk about pubbles, the strawberry moon and the summer solstice! So, get your candlestick out and get ready for a little summer solstice fun! 

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Jenn: Hey, everybody. I'm Jenn. 

Tammy: And I'm Tammy. 

Jenn: And they call us Woo!

Jenn: Welcome back, everybody. Today, we have the pleasure of talking about something that is happening on this very day, not the day that you guys are listening, because we're recording on a different day than what you are listening on, mind you. But it is the summer solstice today and tomorrow is the strawberry moon. So we decided that we want to talk about that because it is happening today. So for those who are unfamiliar with what summer solstice is Tammy, do you want to talk a little bit about what you have researched, what you have read, and what is in your noggin about what summer solstice is? 

Tammy: Well, so it is the longest day of the year as far as sunlight goes.

Jenn: Yesssss. 

Tammy: So just like in the winter solstice that we talked about last winter, which is the shortest day with the least amount of sun, this is the the halfway mark. So our day is the longest that it will be today. 

Jenn: woo hoo. 

Tammy: Right? I love the sun, even though we don't have much of it today. I'm okay with having a super long day. I don't know. Summer solstice. I feel like it just it makes a lot of sense because most people I feel like, get so much more energy in the summer and it kind of goes along with the cycles anyway. I mean, we are part of the animal kingdom, and everyone in the animal kingdom tends to get more like, hibernate or get a little bit more calm in the winter and in the summer that's when you have all the energy and all the stuff is happening and all the things are growing and you have so much stuff that you want to do and the sun gives you so much energy. So Summer Solstice is really about celebrating the energy and the life of the sun and all of its vibrancy. And there's traditions going back a very long time. I was looking into some of the midsummer traditions, which we had this whole conversation about this maypole thing, right? So part of the traditions is like celebrating the rain and the fertility of the times or celebrating with wildflowers and people make crowns and headdresses with the flowers and celebrate and have fires and all this stuff. And we were trying to figure out this maypole thing ‘cause we’re like, well, maypole, that's like May Day, but really, I guess it is a part of the midsummer tradition. So if anyone has seen that before, which they might be more familiar with because there was like a horror movie that came out a while ago about midsummer. So I feel like everyone has seen some stuff, but I haven't watched the movie. 

Jenn: This is not a day of horror everybody. 

Tammy: No, but you know, they make horror movies about everything, so it's fine. 

Jenn: Yes

Tammy: But basically it's like the big pole that they put up and they decorate with different greenery. And then there's like strands of these flowers coming off of it, and they dance around the, the pole. So it's, it's celebrating the life and the vibrancy of the sun the half way through the growing season or, you know, for a lot of places. And that's kind of some of where some of those traditions come from, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, my brain was going to go a bunch of different places with that, but 

Jenn: if you knew what was in my head right now, you'd be like, What, is going on? 

Tammy: (Laughter) but I'd like to celebrate all of the things that make our seasons unique. I mean, everything. Everything is this big, beautiful circle of life, right? Like our whole 

Jenn: (Singing) circle of life. 

Tammy: Yeah, exactly. Our whole year, is this beautiful circle. Our lives are beautiful circles. It's like celebrating a part of this life cycle where a really important, energetic component to our lives is at its most vibrant today. So people like to, oh there is one thing I saw, too, where people would like, light bonfires and jump over them, which you mentioned was a good like energetic release, which 

Jenn: Yeah

Tammy: you can talk more about that.

Jenn: Of course. So fire is a clearing agent, so it helps to burn off anything that you're trying to get rid of. It's part of the reason why we burn herbs. It, it helps to clear. It helps to bring the smoke up to the gods, to the, the upper realms for things to be cleared and for things to be heard. So if you're jumping over the fire, everything that's being cleared from your system, the heat is like heating up everything and boiling it off of you essentially. And that smoke is carrying everything that you're releasing up to the heavens to be released. So it's kind of like smudging yourself, but jumping through a fire, which is slightly dangerous if you're clumsy like me. Make sure it's a little fire, everybody, if you're going to jump over it, like Jack jumped over the candlestick because a candle stick is little and it's easy to jump over and a giant bonfire will start you on fire if you're not careful. So, 

Tammy: yes, we are not recommending that people set themselves on fire. 

Jenn: Yes. Please don't do that. That would not be good. 

Tammy: No. 

Jenn: Jump over a little fire and don't jump in the fire like you don't need to touch the fire. Just. Just going over it. Yeah. Yeah. 

Tammy: Well, I like that because I. Well, I know you love ceremony involving fire, and it is such a good release. I have this group of women I like to get together with sometimes and do a lot of fun stuff. And I've just had this urge lately to have a bonfire on the beach, and I love doing, like, releasing burning ceremonies where you can write something down and throw it in the fire and allow it, allow the smoke to take it up. And I just had this really fun image in my head that we are, you know, weather permitting, we're going to do of all of that, where you get to just like have a lot of fun and dance around, maybe drum do all kinds of stuff. 

Jenn: People, they're going to howl at the moon. I heard, I heard the plan. They're going to howl at the moon. They're really werewolves. 

Tammy: Yes. And summer solstice brings it out of us. 

Jenn: Hooooowwwwlll! 

Tammy: but I think it's going to be a lot of fun. And that's like, that's just the vibrancy of the day in the summer. But it makes sense, right? Like, why fire be such a big piece of all of this? But also, I liked that some of the stuff I was looking at brought in the rain piece of it, too, right? Because that is what makes everything grow. And this time of year is that nice like juxtaposition of the heat and the fire of the sun with the rain to help nourish everything and keep it growing. 

Jenn: Yeah, yeah. 

Tammy: It's just a beautiful time of year. 

Jenn: I, I agree with that. And I'm in a different place than you and it is very warm. We're going to get into triple digits where I am. And so I don't know if having a fire is going to be a great thing tonight. 

Tammy: maybe not

Jenn: especially because we have a lot of wind here

Tammy: but you could do a rain dance and hope to get some rain.

Jenn: Yessss, yessss, that would be awesome. Depending on, last night, it was, it felt nice and cool in the upper eighties, low nineties at night at like 10:00. So if it gets down like that, maybe we can still do a fire at night. I don't know. We 

Tammy: maybe. 

Jenn: But one of the things tomorrow is also full moon and it is the strawberry moon, which is also called the honeymoon, which is kind of funny because we talk about honeymoons and like the beginning of marriages and the sweetness that comes with that. But the strawberry moon is also a harvest term. It's like the shortness of the strawberry growing season. So it's like the, the strawberry moon comes in for a very short period of time. And this year the strawberry moon is in an Earth sign. So it's a good time to manifest money. It's a good time to manifest abundance. And it's a good time to celebrate like the harvests in your life and celebrate the incoming abundance of food and nourishment and energy and strawberry moon, I get so excited about Strawberry moon. I love strawberry moons because you can take water and put it in Glass containers and you put it out in the moon and you get this beautiful, loving strawberry moon water. So the strawberry moon also brings love in. So it's like this loving kindness, gentleness when you're drinking your water. So I will use my strawberry moon water, somebody just reminded me to make my cacao with it because it is also opening your heart. But you can mix it into your bath water to help to clear any of the old belief patterns around receiving and also the old belief patterns around unworthiness of love. So you just take a couple tablespoons of it and mix it into your bath water when you're doing a bath soak and it helps you to clear those things.

So strawberry Moon, we will continue the strawberry moon energy for a little while. Usually it's like 5 to 7 days after the, the moon. So the day that this should be posting will be like the ending of that energy, but you'll still be in that energy. So everybody go outside and soak up some of that strawberry moon energy so that you can feel that shift happening. You'll, you'll be soaking up, even though you haven't heard us talk about this. But just so you know, 

Tammy: I love that. I love that. Well, I really enjoy when it's not raining because it's been raining buckets around us lately. But I like going out on my little, in my little outdoor space and doing like meditations and stuff in the evenings and morning sometimes. So I'm hoping that I'll get to actually make some moon water if the skies ever clear up. But if not, I can still go and enjoy the energy because it's still there. Regardless. 

Jenn: Collect the rain. 

Tammy: Yeah, that makes sense. 

Jenn: And then you can like water all of your plants with it and like give that loving strawberry moon energy to all your plants too. 

Tammy: That makes sense. I have solar lights hung up on this little like enclosure in my outdoor space that are relatively cheap. So all of the little globes always collect water for me. 

Jenn: nice! 

Tammy: So I will probably have a ton in there. 

Jenn: I was going to say, just don't let them hit whatever battery components are there, oh there all solar though. 

Tammy: The lights seem to be fine. It's just like little LED lights or whatever. So it's just the little light globe itself, the little plastic globe that collects the water. So I go out there and just dump them into the, the plant sometimes. Yeah. So maybe I will take them inside and dump them into my indoor plants this time. 

Jenn: Yeah, 

Tammy: but yeah, that's a good thought.

Jenn: The other thing that is a good way to clear energy and since we're talking about rain and like how how it nourishes the land, it also nourishes us. It also helps clear us. So it's just like fire, like you run water over you to help you clear and bring flow into your life. Go jump in puddles. If you have a lot of water right now, a lot of rain, go jump in the puddles. One, you are totally getting in touch with your inner child, but it is very much the energy of receiving an abundance and flow and washing yourself clean. I love jumping in puddles. It's one of my favorite things. I love it so much to I. I use to have to try to control myself. When I was walking with other people, if there was a puddle because I would walk past and be like, there’s a puddle, there's a puddle there, I really want to jump in it and everybody is going to get wet if I jump in it, but I really want to jump in it. And so I've spent a lot of my life time trying to control myself from jumping puddles, and luckily my fiance gets very playful with puddles too. So every once in a while he'll go jump in a puddle. I’m like yes. So 

Tammy: the perfect match

Jenn: then we both jump in a puddle and we're both wet then and then it's fine. It doesn't matter if either one of us gets wet.

Tammy: I love that. I always have great memories because my my dad would like to go outside in the rain sometimes, too. And it, I couldn't go out and jump in puddles if there was any lightning. So it was always like so it was always like if there's no lightning, you can go out and, you know, and just having like these warm summer rains where you run outside and you just play in all of the water running down the street, in the sidewalks, so much fun 

Jenn: and the abundance of worm smell.

Tammy: Yeah, there is that, there is that too. But then that brings out all of the birds who are just having a buffet after all of that. 

Jenn: I was going to say my chickens love the worm smell. 

Tammy: Yes. Yes. That's funny that you mention that, though, because I came home the other day from just like it was just a really beautiful, like experience. I was around some people that just really filled me up and stuff. And every time I have those kind of experiences, usually everything looks like really bright and like really vibrant. For a little while. Everything just feels really good, kind of like you're just floating around and it had been raining really hard. And then when I got home there was a little break and so I was going to pull my car into the garage, but instead I just walked around in the water and stuff for a while. ‘Cause I was like, this is so fun because we have had, like I said, buckets and buckets of rain. So it was like a fun to have like a little moment of being able to enjoy the water without also getting, like, dumped on. 

Jenn: Yeah

Tammy: but it's also just like all the I don't know, like when you're in that good mood, it just elevates your mood even more. That playful, that playful energy and warm summer rain is the best. 

Jenn: Yes. Yes. I love when you get to go and jump in the puddles and it feels warm and then you step in the puddle and you're like, oooohhh, it's chilly. It's like, I love the chilliness of the water on my toes and my feet like, I'm doing that thing For those who are not watching us, I close my eyes when I get visual images or when I'm feeling sensations in my body I close my eyes so that I don't get the visual of what's happening in front of me in like real time. And I go back into this place and I'm feeling it right now, like sticking my toes into that, that kind of chilly water when it's warm around you. I love that. I love it so much. And then when you jump in it and the puddle comes up and then you're covered with the kind of cold water, but then there's the heat. It feels so lovely. 

Tammy: There's a lot of there's a lot of fun, like playful, kind of like, I don't know, getting reconnected with my little fun inner child that I've been experiencing lately. So stuff like that always. It always brings back good memories and it I've always wanted to be one of those women who, as they age, they just don't care what anybody thinks. So they can just be playful their whole lives. Like I get people who, if you haven't seen us in person, I have colorful hair and I get people sometimes who like find so much joy in that and or have like their moments are like, Man, I wish I could do that. And like, well, why not? And I thought about that sometimes I'm like, Am I ever going to get sick of this? I'm like, No, I think I do want to be one of those older women who still jumps in puddles and has like ridiculously colored hair. Because it's fun. 

Jenn: Yes. 

Tammy: because it's fun. And I don't need to care what anybody thinks about it other than the fact that I'm having fun. And then when I have fun with it, everybody else seems to have fun with it too. 

Jenn: Well, yeah. 

Tammy: So maybe if we do get rained out on the night that we wanted to do the big bonfire, we will have to find some puddles to jump in instead. That is another good way to think about that. And then, you know, hopefully the neighbors don't call the cops on like a bunch of 20 to 70 year old women running around, jumping in puddles 

Jenn: and howling at the moon like it's 

Tammy: don't worry about it

Jenn: there’s werewolves in our neighborhood and we don’t know what to do

Tammy: mind your own business it’s fine. I did 

Jenn: I was kind of thinking that 

Tammy: sorry. Go ahead. 

Jenn: I was kind of thinking maybe I could go outside, since we don't have the rain, I could go outside and I could interact with all the plants and the gardens and give love to the abundance of gardens that we have and kind of collect some of the harvest, the early harvest and love on all those things. And just celebrate that way, a little bit more calm because I probably don't want to like dance through all of my tomato plants that may not end well, but I was kind of thinking about that like something if somebody is not a super, super I wouldn't say not playful, but if somebody doesn't want to do something that's super active, just going out and interacting with the abundance around them and the abundance in nature is actually a really good thing to do at this time of the year too.

Tammy: It is. And even if you hear this and you go, man, I didn't, you know, do anything for summer stolstice, Solstice, there's still that energy that's active and there's still, you know, if you are really into connecting with your chakras, it's like there's little things you can do, like connecting with your solar plexus with that beautiful yellow, vibrant. I mean, that is your sun energy right there. 

Jenn: Yep. 

Tammy: And then into your sacral shaker with the beautiful orange. It's just all about this, like, vibrant sense of self and confidence and creation. And it's just such like, it just makes sense with the sun, right? That's the energy of the sun. And one of the things when I was looking at different stuff that people do that I thought was kind of fun is making themselves either something that they can drink or like a simmer pot with like oranges and lemons and spices, you know, all of these like colors that kind of match with the energy and taking that in. And I love that idea of even just little like tiny little ceremonial things or rituals that you can do for yourself that just give you that pause, which is really what all of these celebrations are always about, right? It's just giving you the pause to be like, Wow, this is really cool to engage with this energy that's happening today, to just take a moment to enjoy it, because a lot of these celebrations involve like dancing and like making all kinds of noise and just being like your most vibrant form of yourself, which is a blast. Like we can do that sometimes. And that is it's just a good way to do it around this time of year because we have this lovely long day and all of the sun that we can celebrate. 

Jenn: Yeah, you got me thinking about like what I could be drinking. the colorful things I could drink today. And I'm like, I could make like, a carrot or lemon, turmeric, delicious orangey, yellowy, 

Tammy: Yeah, that sounds good. 

Jenn: Yumminess with a little bit of ice. And go sit out in the heat and drink that. 

Tammy: That sounds delicious. 

Jenn: I know. I'm like, I know the juicer is coming out soon. 

Tammy: I know beets are red, but one of my favorite juices that I ever used to make was orange grapefruit, lemon, carrot, beet, turmeric. And I think that was everything that was in it. Oh, and a little ginger. my God. So good. And it makes like. 

Jenn: That sounds like the sunshine drink I used to make 

Tammy: it does make this lovely color of, like, sunshine, this, like beautiful colored juice. But it's so delicious. 

Jenn: That is the first beet juice or that, that's the first juice that I ever made that I spilled all over the floor like it was horrible. I think. I don't think it had the beets in it. I think it had everything else. It was very orange. And I have this picture of my feet in this giant puddle of all of that juice on the floor. And I had this moment of, Oh my gosh, what did you just do? And my brain flipped the switch. And I was like, Well, it's already all over my feet. I might as well play in it. So I just stood there playing in it for I don't know how long. And then I was like, I should take a picture. So I took a picture of my feet in it and I posted it to social media. I was like, Well, this happened and I'm just going to play in it and 

Tammy: gonna make the best of it.

Jenn: Yeah, it felt really good on my feet. 

Tammy: Well, at least some some part of your body got to enjoy that juice that I ended up making more. I was in the middle of a juice cleanse like, I don't know, a really long juice cleanse. It felt like it was really long. And I was so sad because that was my very favorite of all the juices. So, and so like I said, I had this moment of 

Tammy: oh no 

Jenn: Oh no, my juice. And you know, when you're, when you're doing a juice cleanse like that, you buy just what you need. So it was like I had to drink a different juice that day because I didn't have any more like

Tammy: sad. 

Jenn: Yeah, but yeah, but it was super fun. I just played in it for a while and then my husband at the time I'm sure, was like, What are you doing? Like, 

Tammy: so we don't really have to tell you how to celebrate summer solstice. You already have that joyful, childlike energy just in you all the time, which is lovely

Jenn: I'm just going to spill juice all over the floor and play. 

Tammy: Well, I hope that people can share with us some of the things that they like to do around this time of year, too, because I think that there's so many different things you can do. Where like I said when we talked about the winter, one that felt like very much like going inward resting, which is kind of what the season is about in the winter, taking the time to just spend a little time with yourself, do something soothing. And this is like all about the vibrancy, like the, the other side of that coin, the vibrancy and the joy and the playfulness. And there's so many things we can do to experience that joy and that playfulness, no matter what part of the world you are in. Although to be fair, if you're on the other side of the world from us, you're doing opposite right now. But you know what I'm trying to say? 

Jenn: Yeah. Go back and listen to the other winter stuff. Do that. 

Tammy: Well, I will say, even with all of the rain and I probably won't get to see the sun today, I've really been enjoying how lush and green everything is right now, though. Like my plants are so flippin happy right now, just going crazy with all the storms so I get to at least go out and enjoy like I might not be able to see the sun, but I could see the really brightly colored plants which are 

Jenn: nice 

Tammy: is a good other way to to be able to do that for anyone who lives around me, who hasn't seen the sun in a little while, or perhaps those who just live in those climates all the time. 

Jenn: Yeah

Tammy: but there is a lot of celebration for my cat too, because this also brings a lot of bugs. So sometimes he likes celebrating by chasing bugs around. 

Jenn: nice. 

Tammy: He's not very good at catching or doing anything with them, but he loves chasing them, really. He doesn't. It's like he doesn't want to. He just wants to play, forever.

Jenn: Okay. 

Tammy: So he doesn't actually ever get to the point where he, like, catches them. He like, messes with them, but he doesn't. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Tammy: He'll just like, watch them for a long time, too. It's kind of funny. I'm like, You're going to do anything These like, let know. It's always going to be like, Well, you'll feed me later, so I'm just going to play it.

Jenn: my cats pounce them and then they sit and bat them around on the floor and then they just leave them there and I have to clean them up later. But now I just bring them out to the chickens. 

Tammy: there you go. 

Jenn: So the cats get them. I bring them up to the chickens. The chickens eat them.And it's good. 

Tammy: Perfect. 

Jenn: That's good. I have a song in my head because you keep saying sunshine and I have a song from my childhood in my head. That's “Oh Mr.Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun.” 

Tammy: Yes. When you said that popped into my head too. Please shine down on me. 

Jenn: Yeah. 

Tammy: Yes. 

Jenn: Now I'm going to have that in my head all day long. You'll be outside singing that. 

Tammy: I love that. Well, I'll try my best to send a little rain your way. And you can try your best to send a little sun my way and then can balance out somewhere in the middle. 

Jenn: Yes

Tammy: But I do hope that everybody enjoyed this little joyful experience we've had around the vibrancy of the yellowness of the sun and the chakras and the, the traditions that people have and all of the sunflowers that are behind. I saw those as you say something, the sunflowers behind Jenn. And if you have anything that you really enjoy doing for summer solstice, we would love to know 

Jenn: Yes, especially if it's dancing in pubbles…puddles, puddles, pubbles. If you're dancing in pubbles I would like to know what those are. 

Tammy: It’s like public puddles, They're public puddles. 

Jenn: Yes. 

Tammy: All right. Well, thanks, everybody, for joining us again today. And we will talk to you again next week. 

Jenn: Okay, Bye! 

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