This morning I sat in tea ceremony with eight women. None of us planned where the conversation would go. It found its own way to summer. Not the summer of plans and pressure and the endless list of things we are supposed to do before the light changes again. The summer we actually want to live. The slow mornings. The long golden hour that seems to last forever. The quiet permission to make something of it.

I woke today already feeling a shift in the air. Then I looked at the sky, and the sky agreed.

What the sky is asking of us this week

Tonight, Venus moves into a soft conversation with Neptune. It is the most tender aspect of the entire week. Venus is beauty and desire, the part of us that knows what we long for. Neptune is dream and enchantment, the part that still believes in magic. When these two meet like this, the invitation is simple, and it is one I have been needing to hear.

Release the idea of how it was all supposed to look. Let yourself be moved by what is enchanting right now.

Later this week the sky keeps moving. On Thursday, Chiron enters Taurus and begins a seven-year cycle of returning to our own needs, of tuning back in to the body and what it has been quietly asking for. On Saturday, the Sun enters Cancer, and summer truly begins. The season of loving fiercely, of gathering people close, of letting ourselves feel sentimental about the ordinary days that turn out to be the ones we remember.

Why I make summer linen the way I do

There is a reason this brand returns to linen again and again, especially as the light grows long. Linen breathes the way skin wants to breathe. It softens with every wear instead of wearing out. It holds the warmth of a body and the cool of a morning at the same time. A good summer linen set is not a costume you put on for the season. It is something that moves with you through it.

Every piece we make is handcrafted in Bali by the artisan families who have built this brand alongside us, in their own homes, paid a living wage, working in small batches. The fabric is natural, never synthetic. Many of our colorways are touched with botanical dye, which is why no two are ever quite identical. This is the slow part of slow fashion. It is also the part that makes a garment feel like it was made for the woman who receives it, and not for everyone at once.

The Solana, and the colors of the season

When the first finished pieces of the Solana Suka Set arrived to me here in Bali, I carried them outside to see them in real light. I was not ready for what happened.

The Soleil Yellow caught the morning before the heat came in. Soft and gold, the color of the very first hour of the day, when the rice fields are still wet and the whole island feels like it is holding its breath. And the Dusty Pink held the dusk, the rose hour, the color of the sky finally letting go of everything it had carried since dawn.

The Solana is my ode to making the most of this season. To the woman who has stopped waiting for the right occasion, and decided that this morning, this light, this ordinary Tuesday, is the occasion. You do not need somewhere to be to deserve to feel beautiful getting there.

That, I think, is what Venus and Neptune are really asking of us tonight. Not to chase the summer we planned. To be enchanted by the one that is already here.

With love from Bali,
Myrah