Living by the Moon

I've been paying attention to the moon more.  

Noting carefully the nights of the new and full. Researching, studying and meditating with each so I may begin to feel the cycles within my body. This simple awareness has enlivened in me ancient feelings, stirrings and connections I have long craved but have gone unnamed.

I've become protective of my time in ritual, scheduling social activities around it and guarding fiercely my need to be with the Mother Moon.

On full moons, I prepare a jug of water which I will imbibe throughout the month. I clear my crystals, pray over the water and give thanks for the blessings as I am called.

On the new moon, I cry and bathe myself. Releasing any distress from the cycle and create what it is I desire to manifest in the coming month.

Simple, quiet and deeply personal, I am so in love with our dances together.  Finding this rhythm has put me in communion with the Feminine Divine, feeling her express and breathe through me.  I am home again.  

We have opened our healing circle so that we many be in service to others, as we have been asked by Spirit. Monthly we invite beloveds into our sacred space and bring through the healing we are lead. Each cycle is different and preparation distinct. Crystals, music, singing bowls and the circle are all prepped overnight and blessed by the grace of each full moon.

We never quite know what we are walking into, what has been created, and what will transpire. I find myself in trance most of the session and can scarcely remember what it was that occurred.

I do know lives are blessed and changed. This time in ceremony is so ancient, so honored, it is far beyond my capacity to understand how.

Dance with us again, dear heart, whether in private consecration or amongst the beauty of those who can see you, we all are sharing the moon times together wherever we may be.  

The Deaths we Live, the eve of the Blood Moon

We all seem to collectively hold our breath when we speak about death... as if not to offend or attract it.  I find this taboo bizarre and have spoken much about shifting our perception.

What we don't always acknowledge are the little deaths, the deaths we live everyday.  Not just in the loss of a family member, but the loss of a job, a relationship, a phase of life, outgrowing of friends and so on.  

If we could remember these too are deaths, change of energy from one form to another, we might embrace more ways to normalize the Big One.

Every transition is a death of something.  Every sickness is our body killing off something.  These are not morbid thoughts, simply other ways we can embrace this weird energy transference that we put so much fear and so little actual energy in.  

As the Blood Moon is upon us, it a time to release big old energies that may be clogging our energetic channels.  This specific Moon also brings a total Eclipse in Aries & Libra.... holding both Sacred Masculine & Feminine Divine energies of transformation.  Astrologer Divine Harmony suggests this Moon is

"bringing a huge focus to the endings, changes, transformations, death and rebirth experiences playing out in the collective masculine/feminine dynamic and in relationships of all kinds."

Being in Mercury Retrograde, this is not a time to react, nor to move, but instead to step back and go within to see what we can do (and who can be) differently.  Much will be stirred up within you and rather than resisting or even stuffing what fires are lit inside you, choose how to direct these flames to burn up what isn't working.  

I always welcome some intensity in my healing and this Blood Moon feels just the potent mix for some focused and powerful healing.

We offer our Sacred Circle on full moon Sundays for both local and long distance participation.  If we can support you in harnessing these masterful teaching forces, raising your vibration or shucking off the next layer, please join us!