* reflect and realize where you are at on your path and where you need to go next. The Summer Solstice's external (sun) and internal (consciousness) light provide an ideal environment for this.

* If you feel vulnerable, weak, or uneasy, take this opportunity to rid yourself of these feelings. Try burning a token of your hurt in a ritual fire after a cleansing chant. The sun's powers of light are at their height and can burn away that which shadows your soul.

* Have a feast where guests are asked to bring a food or drink from the previous summer. Have them each tell what they enjoyed most about last summer.

* Gather up your drums, rattles, rainsticks, and bells and parade noisily around the house or bonfire in a circle.

* Make a sacred circle by smudging the four directions (East - Fire, South - Earth, West - Water, and North - Air) and each other with a sweet grass braid (a Native American tradition).

Meditate on something you want to do this summer. When the idea or image comes, write it down to keep for yourself and note whether it is different than summers before.