Blooming Wand
Welcome to Blooming Wand! Your sanctuary for grounded spiritual growth and authentic connection. I'm Emily O'Neal, an evidential psychic medium, intuitive healer, and coach helping you rediscover your inherent spiritual wisdom.
Each of us is born with a powerful intuitive connection to the unseen realms of energy and spirit. Yet life's challenges and societal expectations can dim this inner light. Through evidential mediumship, tarot insights, intuitive guidance, and transformative coaching, I offer a practical, evidence-based approach to spirituality that helps you reconnect with your intuitive self and ancestral wisdom.
I currently reside on Cowlitz lands in what is also known as Vancouver, Washington. My practice honors both place and lineage as I support others in their spiritual journeys.
Join me for conversations about developing intuition, communicating with Spirit, ancestral healing, and accessible spiritual tools for everyday life.
Blooming Wand
On This Longest Day: Summer Solstice Reflections
The summer solstice arrives with a whisper of ancient wisdom, calling us to pause in our busy lives and honor the moment when the sun reaches its peak power. There's a profound magic in recognizing that humans have marked this day for thousands of years—at Stonehenge where the sunrise aligns perfectly with massive stones, along the Nile where floods brought life-giving water, and in countless indigenous communities celebrating the sun's generosity.
My own connection to this special day deepened last year when a poem arrived fully formed at sunrise, flowing through me like a message from ancestors: "On this longest day, I pause to honor the sun. I feel its warmth on my skin and a doubtless joy rises." This experience reminded me that we don't need elaborate rituals to connect with solstice energy—simple acts can ground us in this ancient celebration. Greeting the sunrise, noticing abundant nature, and opening ourselves like flowers turning toward light are all meaningful ways to participate in humanity's oldest conversation with the natural world.
The solstice teaches us about balance too. As Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, "Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy." This isn't about ignoring pain but recognizing that joy persists alongside it. When we light a candle at sunset, share small tokens of love with others, or simply feel the sun's warmth on our skin, we join an unbroken chain of humans who have found meaning in marking the sun's journey. However you choose to celebrate, know that your personal practice connects you to something much larger—a recognition that light is sacred, abundance surrounds us, and joy shared multiplies infinitely. What small act will you perform to honor this longest day? The ancestors are waiting to welcome you into their circle.
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