Libra Pink Gaia Moon

The Pink Moon comes from Native American Tribes that named this moon after the pink wildflowers which bloom in early spring, representing new beginnings. It is also called Gaia's Moon, referring to all of Nature coming to life after winter. This is a time of celebrating all that has been released from last season and all that is now coming into bloom.

This Full Moon in Libra taking place at 11:08pm PST on Monday night is a powerful gateway for creating healing and transformation in regards to relationship and partnerships, how we relate & connect to our selves, each other and life, and how we can choose to create beauty, balance, justice and harmony in our inner and outer worlds.

Full moons amplify our emotions and thus in this Full Moon, the emotions related to our partnerships and relationships is heightened. Remember to practice Self-love, have compassion for other, honour your boundaries and breathe deep.

As Venus, the ruler of Libra, is still retrograde and goes direct on April 15th, it is valuable to practice patience and doing your inner work to support what may feel like challenging or uncomfortable interactions in your relationships. This is a powerful time to amplify the love you feel within and with your Beloveds, remembering there is potent alchemy alive for the Sacred Union of the Masculine and the Feminine.

Feel into the connection you have with yourself, with your heart, your dreams, partnerships, with your global family and with the Earth. What are you grateful for in these relationships? What lessons and insights do you bring with you from last season into this next cycle? What wishes to be amplified and what needs still needs to be composted, shifted, transformed?  How can you bring beauty to all situations and relationships? How can you accept and integrate both the light and the dark? 

 

GAIA MOON ATTRIBUTES:

• Tarot: The Magician
• Herbs: Basil, Chives, Dragon’s blood, Geranium
• Colors: Crimson Red, Fushia & Gold
• Stones: Ruby, Garnet, Rose quartz
• Animals: Bear, Wolf, Hawk
• Goddesses: Hathor, Ceres, Ishtar, Venus, Bast
• Medicine: energy into creating and producing; change; self-reliance; tempering emotional flare-ups; receptivity

 

RITUAL SUGGESTIONS:

• Authentic Inquiry Journaling: Bring your pen in hand to paper and let your heart answer these potent questions: What relationship dynamics am I holding on to that may feel safe, but is truly not serving? What do I consciously choose to release and create with love? What am I changing? What I am celebrating? What is the deep unwavering truth of who I am? What do I truly desire? What is shaking loose within me?  What does my soul/heart need right now?
• Pink Everything: Create an altar space with pink flowers and crystals. Wear pink clothes & jewels. Eat pink fruits & veggies.
• Rose Meditation: Visualize a rose glow around your body and opening rose petals at your womb space. Extend this pink glow to all your loved ones and the world for Beauty and Healing.
• Make Love: To life, to your garden, to yourself, to your creative arts, to your Beloved, including but not limited to sex, infused with sensitivity, open heartedness and passion.
• Remember: Put out your gem stones and jewels outside under the moonlight or in a window (in water if you can) for cleansing, renewal and activation.
• Commune: Gather is an intentional way with loved ones and do any of the above together and create your own. Now is a time to be with the energy of the collective.

Howling in the full moon with you in the Rose Glow of LOVE!

And... I am so excited to introduce you to my Beloved Shems Heartwell, and share with you our upcoming WEEKEND RETREAT FOR COUPLES!

We warmly invite you to an exquisite retreat experience at Sierra Hot Springs in Northern California of igniting your conscious, sacred and erotic union.  Nourish your relationship with intimacy practices in a gorgeous wilderness setting and explore the essential skills to expand your capacity to love and deepen in your connection. 

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RETREAT OVERVIEW

 4 EPIC DAYS & NIGHTS OF

• Conscious Relational Skills

• Connection Rituals & Intimacy Practices

• Qi Gong, Breathwork & Kundalini Yoga for Sexual Vitality

• Luscious Organic Meals

• Star Gazing, Pool & Hot Spring Soaking

• Nature Exploration, Relaxation & Meditation

• Men’s Work Afternoon Journey

• Women’s Sensual Body Temple & Nature Soak

• Gender Alchemy Reconciliation & Empowerment

We look forward to sharing a deeply transformational journey with you!  

Love Achintya & Shems

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DJ Conway Attributes from above.

Virgo Seed Full Moon

We are just entering into the transition phase on the Wheel of the Year from one season towards another. If you are in the northern hemisphere, what do you take with you from winter's wisdom into spring? What do you leave behind? If you are in the southern hemisphere, what do you take with you from summer's joy into autumn? What do you leave behind? 

The Seed Full Moon in Virgo assists in releasing what no serves you and can align you with the High Priestess/Medicine Woman within, as Virgo is the Divine Feminine and the 'Virgin'. In this Full Moon, we are called again to illuminate Self Sovereignty. 

The word 'virgin' originally meant "whole unto oneself". What does it mean to be sovereign unto oneself? What does it feel like to be in our full power? At this full moon, we are asked to explore with a mystical lens (Pisces Sun) all the ways in which we give our power away and how we can reclaim it.  The moon reflects to us the importance of activating our inner discernment, wisdom and intuition to ground our visions and dreams to earth. This is to embody our Wise Woman/Sage/Priestess.

The portal is open for us to reclaim our power by taking responsibility for our actions, thoughts, and spoken words. At this time, we are summoned to the mindset/paradigm of choosing, creating and being accountable.

Step forth, dear one, to ask for what you need, express your heart with authenticity and celebrate the power of your emotions, wisdom, value and intuition. Now is the time to create and design your human experience from a grounded place of focused intention, service and beauty woven with mystery, the non-linear and the magical. There is great insight and healing when we pay attention to both our dreams and the signs right in front of us! 

This is our Moon Medicine. 

SEED MOON ATTRIBUTES 

Tarot: The Fool
Herbs: Broom, Yellow dock, Irish moss
Colors: Pale/Light Green, Red-violet
Stones: Aquamarine, Bloodstone, Fluorite
Animals: Cougar, Hedgehog, Boar
Goddesses: Astarte, Ostara, Minerva, Luna, Artemis
Medicine: Burst of new energy, Growing, Exploring, Learning, Inner child work, New beginnings, Balance of light and dark, Ostara, Vernal Equinox

MOON RITUAL SUGGESTIONS

• Embrace The Heart: This can be a very intense part of the lunar cycle. Be patient with all the emotions you are feeling at this time. Breathe into them. Give them a safe resting place and a healthy funnel of expression. Be gentle with yourself.
• Seva: Practice selfless service by doing something for someone else (maybe even a stranger) that would brighten their day.
• Express Yourself: Whether through voice or movement, sing, speak and move from a place of your authentic heart to engage with the current expression of your own body & soul.
• Gratitude: Now is a beautiful time to reach out and share with others what you are most grateful for about them. Gratitude can also be expressed to oneself and to the Great Mystery with reverence for all our blessings at this time.
• Intentional Design: Take the reins of your schedule and create some order. Design or arrange your home space to represent your essence.
• Moon Prayers: With the full moon light, write down or speak your prayers for yourself, loved ones and the planet. The full radiant moon amplifies your word.
• Moon Priestess: Make time for quiet and stillness as the moon rises. Meditate in the full moon light and open yourself receive intuitive guidance and support.
• Reclaim Self Sovereignty:  In your journal, write down out all the ways that you are currently blaming outside circumstances or people for your own discomfort or unhappiness. Take personal accountability by writing down all the choices, attitudes and actions (including non-action) that are keeping you from living your full potential. Write down all that you are ready to release and all that you are calling forth for your present life to move forward aligned to your heart desires and to get your own needs met. Commit to two action steps to make this real for yourself. Now then, get to it. Welcome to Self Sovereignty.
• Speak In First Person: Practice speaking from your own personal experience, beginning with 'I', instead of saying 'you'. Example: Instead of saying, "When you went into the ocean, you could hear the whales," you would say, "When I went into the ocean, I could hear the whales." This draws energy back into yourself, creates more power in your speech and opens clarity in your body intelligence.
• Organize & Release To Beautify: Let go of physical objects that are not supporting your joy. Declutter. Clean. Organize your home space (in and out). This moving of energy supports clearing and cleansing on all levels and welcomes the full moon Light to activate you and your loved ones.
• Remember: Put out your gem stones and jewels in a window or in water for cleansing, renewal and activation.
• Commune: Gather is an intentional way with loved ones and do any of the above together and create your own. Now is a time to be with the energy of the collective.

Leo Full Sage Moon Lunar Eclipse

Art by Sister Isabel Mariposa Galactica 

This Leo Full Moon blesses us with her fiery energy on Feb. 10th at 4:33pm PST | 7:33pm EST. With this also being a lunar eclipse, it is a powerful transitional gateway of shift to release that which no longer uplifts you and illuminate your heartfelt and passionate self to roar as the wise leader of your own life (Leo). Now is the time to manifest your heart's sacred desires and offer your gifts to serve in the world with a sense of responsibility (Tarot of the High Priestess).

This is a pivotal window for us as a collective where our feelings, emotions, and intuition come to light to catalyze renewal and regeneration at the level of the heart and soul. It is a time of purification to breakthrough and resurrect your self-love, truth and power. And it is a time to liberate and celebrate the wild soul that you are! 

 

SAGE MOON ATTRIBUTES:

• Tarot: High Priestess
• Herbs: Hyssop, Balm of Gilead, Myrrh, Sage
• Colours: Light blue, Violet
• Stones: Amethyst, Jasper
• Animals: Otter, Eagle, Unicorn
• Goddesses: Brigid, Quan Yin, Diana
• Medicine: rising energy, purification, new growth, honoring and forgiving yourself, self-love, accepting responsibility, future planning and design

 

Leo Full Moon Eclipse Ritual

This potent ritual is offered in love to your Bright Soul! The intention of this ritual is to empower you in releasing anything that may be preventing you from living in the fullest expression of your Wild Sacred Feminine Essence and rise in the wisdom, beauty, and truth that you are. Blessings to you!

• Build a fire and bask in the radiant flames. Let the heat penetrate your body. Let the colours into your eyes, empty yourself of thoughts and allow for the flames to guide you deep within. If you can't build a fire, then light some candles and bask in the full moon's light if possible.
• Write down all the things in your life that you were told you couldn't do, or weren't allowed to do and all the beliefs that arose from that. Take your time with this...
• Then Reflect on how this makes you feel, speak your feelings, write them down and allow your body to express these feelings.
• Now investigate how this has affected your life and may still be affecting you. Again, take your time.
• Then offer to the fire all the parts the beliefs that are not true, that you may have been living with. Honour them for their time with you and now they are no longer needed. Sacred. Deep. Release.
• Dance Dance Dance! If with a fire, let the heat of the fire soften your body and move in ways that make you feel free and empowered. Dance your truth. Dance your heart and soul. 
• Speak aloud what you are capable of, and the truth of who you are!  Speak your wisdom and what your passions are. You can start each sentence with I Am.... and claim your truth. Run wild with this! When you feel complete (and maybe after many tears...) Repeat, "And so it is!" as many times as you like. This will anchor in and affirm your sacred truths.
• Finally, write down these truths, so that you can refer back to it when you need reminded of your power. 
• Close with gratitude and long deep breathing. Or, continue in what ever way feels most resonant for you.

• Remember: Put out your gem stones and jewels in a window or in water for cleansing, renewal and activation. Preferable in salted water (sensitive stones and jewels leave out the salt part).

• Commune: Gather is an intentional way with loved ones and do the above ritual together if possible for extra potency and support. Now is a such a powerful time to be with the energy of the collective.

Full Moon rituals can be done the day before, of and after the actual full moon. This is the 3 day potency period. Blessings to you in this powerful and wild and powerful time.

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Priestesses Rising

Leo Full Moon Eclipse Virtual Temple

Friday Feb 10th: 12pm PST ~ 3pm EST

Step into the temple dear one and take your seat in this sacred Global Sisterhood Circle.

The Moon in the fiery sign of Leo invites us to celebrate our Passion, Feminine Power & Priestess within and illuminate all the places within us that are ready to be released through the power of listening to and expressing our body's emotional intelligence, feeling our womb wisdom & intuition, purifying our body temples, recognizing our blessings and honouring ourselves completely.

In this Sacred Moon Ritual, you will:

• Be in the presence of hundreds of women from around the world at the same time to create a powerful experience
• Explore the current astrological weather & how the Leo Full Moon can guide you in the next level of Illumination in your life
• Be guided in by Goddess Isis in and experiential journey to connect with the emotional wisdom within your womb, illuminating both truths and challenges, empowering you to rise in your feminine gifts
• Release into the Fire that which no longer uplifts you
• Potentially experience deep healing, revelation & transformation
• Express your heart in celebration with interactive sharing (optional)
• Offer collective prayers and affirmations in dedication to our global family and all sentient Beings

This is also an Open House for our upcoming Priestesses of the Moon Online Initiation and Goddess Rising Moon Priestess Temple Facilitator Training.  There will be time to ask questions at the end of the ritual for this Initiation and Facilitation of Womanly Ritual Arts, Womb Wisdom and Moon Mysteries.

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Priestesses Of The Moon 8 Week Initiation Training

Feb 28 - April 18, 2017, ONLINE

&

Goddess Rising Moon Temple Facilitator Training

 June 19-27, Ojai, CA

Calling all wild and sacred women who wish to deepen their connection with the living wisdom of the lunar rhythms that guide our lives! This Spring, we gather VIRTUALLY and IN PERSON to blossom open our embodied self-love, beauty, sensuality, leadership, sacred sexuality and the powers of womanifestation as we journey in rhythm with the Moon. 

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Wolf Cancer Full Moon

Welcome to the first Full Moon of 2017!

We begin the year off with some potent power!

The name 'Wolf Moon' comes from Indigenous Tribes of North America, who gave names to each of the moons, in relation to their qualities connected to nature and the seasons. This particular moon was when the wolves would appear in the middle of winter, howling with hunger in villages.

Wolf Medicine, representing ‘Teacher’, great wisdom, wildness and inner freedom is beckoning our attention. Maybe you are already feeling it in your bones and are ready to dance and howl! This Wolf Moon reminds us of the importance to express our heart's truth and our wildness, to live feeling free. 

Connected with Cancer, this moon mirrors the importance of 'Home'. The home that is our own body temple, our physical dwelling place and being at home on this planet. Caner moon reflects to us the importance of honouring the waters of our physical and emotional bodies and amplifies our deepest soul feelings. 

It can illuminate the shadows that need clearing / healing / transforming and with all planets being direct (slowly but surely gaining more momentum) there is much Grace and assistance present for shining into our fullest potential and making way for quantum leaps of awakening within.

Remember, that when we allow our surfacing emotions to be embraced, we open up for deep messages of wisdom to come through us. May we be gentle with ourselves and create some space to be in the supportive energy of this fascinating combo of 'wild hibernation'.

WOLF MOON ATTRIBUTES

• Tarot: The Star
• Herbs: Holly thistle, Nuts and cones
• Colors: White, Lavender,  Blue-violet/indigo, Black
• Stones: Garnet, Onyx, Jet, Chrysoprase, Rose quartz
• Animals: Bear, Fox, Coyote, Wolf
• Goddesses: Freya, Brigid, Persephone, Inanna, Sarasvati, Hera
• Medicine: Awakening, Envisioning, Beginning/conceiving, Rest, Protection
• Holy Day: Imbolc

RITUAL SUGGESTIONS:

• Mini Hibernation: Be quiet & still for 20 mins. Listen. Feel your heart beat. Breath deep. Be present with yourself. Journal any insights that may arise.
• River Flow: Let yourself cry. For reals. Emotional Cancer is asking us to release held emotions in the body. This is a healthy way to cleanse the emotional body and opens us up for the next level of deep wisdom to move through us.
• Envision: Turn off distractions. Put your legs up the wall for 20 mins, practice long deep breathing and feel into your body all the qualities you would like to highlight in your life.
• Magic: Place (or newly create) your 2017 intentions under the moonlight to activate your New Years reSOULutions. Place an apple beside it and eat it the next day.
• Moon Speak: Create an altar representing all you are calling forth for 2017 at a location that will receive the blessings of the moonlight for activation.
• Movement: Put on music representing your present mood and let yourself flow for 30 mins.
• Water: Drink more of it. Get your body into it. Move like it.
• Remember: Put out your gem stones and jewels in a window or in water for cleansing, renewal and activation.
• Commune: Gather is an intentional way with loved ones and do any of the above together and create your own. Now is a time to be with the energy of the collective.

Full Moon rituals can be done the day before, of and after the actual full moon. This is the 3 day potency period. Blessings to you in this wondrous and magical time.

Wild Moon Love, Achintya

Included References For Attributes: Moon Magick by DJ Conway

Gemini Cold Moon ~ Super Moon

We have come to the final full moon of the year! On Tuesday, December 13 at 4:05 pm PST | 7:05 pm EST, the moon will be full and in the sign of Gemini. With October, November and December of this year, we've had 3 consecutive Super Moons and this Cold Moon is the culmination of these energies before we enter a powerful 2017.

This last super moon of 2016 in Gemini asks us to illuminate our shadows and take responsibility for any communication that still needs to take place for making amends/ for forgiveness/ for clearings. This may be with yourself or other (including your ancestors). What may need to be shared to feel complete before the year closes?

What else needs to be cleared, cut away, or cleaned up all that is no longer necessary in your life? Just as the leaves fall to allow for the silence and spaciousness of winter, we too must let go to make room for new life...

This Full Moon is also the time for us to gather and rise in the power of our sovereignty to communicate with Spirit and Earth for what we truly wish to amplify. For our lives, for the future, for our families and communities, for the Earth, for the World. This communication can include song, dance, words, actions, and feelings. When we direct the power of our affirmations in this way, we catalyze healing and transformation within and all around us. With our prayers and activated visions, we assist in bringing into being the world we want to live in.

Cold Moon Attributes

• Tarot: The Sun

• Herbs: Holly, Fir, Mistletoe

• Colors: Blood red, White, Silver, Forest green

• Stones: Turquoise, Blue Topaz, Black Tourmaline; Hematite

• Animals: Bear, Deer, Wolf, Robin, Snowy owl

• Goddesses: Ixchel, Kali, Hathor, Hecate, Frigga

• Medicine: Hibernation; Rebirth of the light; Darkness; Connecting with loved ones; Yule: Winter Solstice; Darkness; Turning within; Shadow work

The 'Cold Moon' traditionally refers to the December Moon, as was tracked by Native American cultures. Some tribes called it Long Nights Moon, referring to the longer nights before Solstice.

Gemini Ritual Suggestions

• Share: Write a letter or make a phone call to a person that you need to communicate with in to feel complete. Express your truth with heart and sincerity.

• Burn it: Write a list of the communication/thoughts that are happening inside your head that you are ready to shift. Beliefs, stories, habits, all that you wish to leave behind in 2016. What are you letting go of? Free it up. Give it voice. Let it out. Let it go and burn it (safely) with a candle or campfire or fireplace. Then proceed to ritual below.

• Stand in your Illuminated Vision: Let your visions come to life! Go deeper from the above ritual. With the space created from what you released, it's now time to get creative with making a 'vision board' of your medium (whether visually with a painting or drawings or dance or write in your journal) and express your truth, dreams and visions, and all that you wish to bring more attention and energy to for yourself and for the planet. Place this out into the moonlight/speak it/sing it during the full moon window.

• Gem Stone Reminder: Put out your gem stones and jewels in a window or in water for cleansing, renewal, and activation. Place an apple and glass of water in the moonlight and have it for a 'Moon Wisdom' breakfast the next morning.

• Commune: Gather in an intentional way with loved ones and do any of the above together and create your own. Now can be a powerful time to be with the energy of the collective.

Full Moon rituals can be done the day before, of and after the actual full moon. This is the 3 day potency period. Blessings to you in this wondrous and magical time. 

With Wild Lunar Love, Achintya