The Moon Maven

I’m so eager for this upcoming full moon and the opportunity to ritual with it. I’m so grateful for it heightening my awareness, reminding prioritization, and maximizing the impact of release and replenishment. That truly is the beautiful thing about embracing this work, there’s such great opportunity when moving with the energy of our environment.

This time is intense. Full moon energy is intense. During intense times we often drop our best tools, swirling in an overwhelm of disrupted life routines. What we need is the opposite: slow down, breathe, pick up the tools and use them. The corn moon reminds us it is time of harvest, of abundance, of community strength. Very rooting and helpful energy. The eclipse is an amplifier. Powerful time, use it.

You can keep things simple and use your tools, you can take the easiest path of doing the work and still be doing effective work. Make it accessible for you in this life moment, but do it.

Always, the full moon is good for release– let go of what isn’t serving you. Commit to releasing behaviors, relationships, habits, feelings that aren’t helping. Name them, write them down, tell the moon and your guides/ancestors that you are done with them and appreciate help in letting them go. Give yourself tools to remember the commitment of release, whatever works best for your personality and lifestyle- write it down where you’ll see a reminder regularly, use your technology for help and make change.

It’s a great time to cleanse – do a skin scrub, hydrate plentifully, go off sugar, eat extra greens, sweat. This can happen in so many ways- pause NOW and ask yourself what type of cleanse will serve you. Use the power window, commit to three days of that commitment, or use the moonth and go from this full moon to the next. Do what you can, make it achievable, make it a clear commitment.

The unique amplifier focus of this full moon is in replenishment. We cannot get water from a dry well. This is a time of taking some energy in and letting it fill you. It is time for not just self love but radical self affirmations.

Listen, if you can schedule a spa day, a massage, a friend date, a day of uninterrupted soul feeding activities – do it. Feel like there isn’t time for you to have a day of pampered luxury? I GET IT. Same.

I have been having awesome lovely progress by inserting moments of helpful practices through my entire day. Awhile ago I started doing squats at random moments throughout my day and my butt and thighs are looking and feeling way more fierce for it and I’m loving how I feel about that. Microwave going? Squats. Waiting for shower water? Squats. About to get dressed? Squats.

You can do this style of self help in a million ways- find your ways! Radical self love can be this accessible. Mental rewiring is like an internal tennis match, when you notice thought spiraling or negative self talk, use that as a propeller– a reminder to do the exact opposite with your internal language. Pick some phrases now- it can help you throw them at yourself down the road. examples: “I am a badass super powerful person. I am inspired and inspiring.” Bathe yourself in compliments. Insert it into everyday moments. Do it often, like all the time. Watch how it changes you.

RITUALS: I’m a mama and it is important to me to bring these rituals and this learning into my house… for some reason it was always harder for me to feel comfortable doing this when it was just me and a partner, but once I started doing it aloud I found that it is good for everyone in the environment! I encourage you to say things aloud and incorporate rituals into the space even when others are present.

• Lighting a gratitude candle with my family today and we will speak aloud about things that make us happy and thankful. This is a life harvest- taking in the goodness of all the seeds you plant, how they’ve grown into beautiful things that feed you in many ways.
• We will purify our space with cleaning and with smudge ceremony and with gridding. Gridding is a practice I’ve done for a long time using reiki style light energy I connect to the earth core magma constant energy source and pull that fire up into my vessel through my feet, then connect to Divine love everpresent and pull it in through my crown, then mix them with the love of my heart and unique spirit, send it out in gold light through my hand, walk our house and draw gold light lines of plaid on each wall as I recite positive statements of empowerment and intention for the home. “This home is filled with love. In this home we are productive. We have the best cuddles. We create phenomenal art.”Etc. Whatever suits you. My kids shout things out too and love to walk the rooms with me.
• Deep breathing and stretch time. Showing body love. Tending nervous system.
• Look for the helpers. Is the help people? Is the help activities? Nourishment. Replenishment. Find the help and plug it into your day, your calendar… AS FREQUENTLY AS POSSIBLE.
• Rub lotion on skin. Do a face mask. Tell body parts how good they are as you treat them with care. Water molecules change shape based on what is said to them- we are mostly water. Change yourself chemically by being good to you.
• Time under the moon to say aloud releases, to feel the light wash over. To remember that as the full moon diminishes in the sky so too will what you give over. Bonus exercise? Write down what you are done with and burn it after telling the moon and guides what you release.
• Circle breathing – 3x. Breathe in the new good energy and out the yuck, feel free to make sound breathing out.
• Schedule activities in this next month that rejuvenate. Calendar it. Stay true to the plan, even if it is a commitment you make to yourself alone.
• Replenishing body light fill- connect to energy of magma fire core and pull in that light, connect to Divine love and pull in that light, feel them commingle and fill your vessel with gold love and light, of energy that cannot be destroyed, ever powerful and present. Keep that light in you.
• Joy jumping- love this before bed but good anytime. Take over the swirling and imagine moments that make you smile, moments of all varieties of types. Jump from one moment to the next rapidly, when we stay the critical brain begins to get involved, when we jump it is purely joyful connection.
• Think of those who love you and receive that. Let it make you smile.
• You are loved. You are held. You are safe. You matter. You are here and as long as you are here so is magic. Magic is not just in the amazing power of universe opportunity but in your unique personal power- you are magic and your light spark ignites goodness all around.

Blessed be.