Lunar Lughnasadh Aquarius Full Moon

The Full Moon is exact in Aquarius at 7:37 pm PDT on July 23rd.

This Full Moon is Lunar Lughasadh (pronounced Loog-NAS-ah) in the northern hemisphere. This High Holy Day on the Wheel of the Year, honoured in our Rose and Moon Priestess Lineage, is halfway between Summer Solstice and Autumnal Equinox and is a sacred Harvest Festival of Gratitude and Abundance (in the Gregorian calendar it is honoured on August 2nd and Solar Lughnasadh will be on August 6th when the Sun is at 15 degrees Leo). It is at this time that the codes of the Great Mother-Father, Lioness, King-Queen, Activist and Water Bearer are wishing to reveal themselves through you.

With the Sun in Leo (attributed to the “me”) and the Moon in Aquarius (attributed to the “we”), this is a powerful time to align your personal will with Divine Will. To offer your gifts, services and talents to the legacy that we are all here to create together. May we celebrate this auspicious moment in the glory of the full moon’s light!

Guru Purnima

Also, in Vedic and Hindu Tradition, it is Guru Purnima! The special Full Moon is a time of honouring those that have been, and are, our teachers. This Full Moon is dedicated to those who have illuminated us in some way, who have taught us and guided us, and who have shown us more of who we truly are and why we are here. 

At this time of fruition, integration and reflection, take time to honour the seeds you've planted and celebrate this time of the first Harvest and our collective creative powers. This Full Moon is also known as the Blessing Moon or King's Moon.

Blessing Moon Attributes

• Tarot: The Emperor

• Herbs: honeysuckle, lemon balm, jasmine

• Colors: green, ocean blues, coral

• Stones: Ocean Jasper, Lepidolite, Aquarmarine

• Animals: crab, turtle, dolphin, whale

• Goddesses: Juno, Hera, Sulis, Nephthys

• Medicine: Peak of Summer; relaxed energy; preparing; dream-work; Lughnasadh

 

Lunar Lughnasadh Ritual Suggestions

• Water Bearer Gratitude: List all the things you are grateful for in your life from this year in how you serve and share your gifts (truly acknowledge yourself), place this in the moonlight (outside or window) to attract more experiences to be grateful for. Then, write down all the things you are ready to release and either burn them or offer them to a body of water.

• Honour Your Teachers: Express Loving Gratitude to your sacred teachers in your own unique way for the ways in which they have supported your Path.

• Empress Dance: Put on music you love and offer your heart through dance in devotion to how you wish to serve and express your gifts in the world.

• Dream Speak: Pay close attention to your dreams and visions in the full moon. Record them in a journal and speak them out loud. Only by writing them down or speaking them will the sometimes subtle (or not so subtle) meaning and message be revealed to you.

• Water Bearer Moon Bathe: Get into the magic of the moonlight and absorb her luminous, activating, soul stirring and healing balm. Look to the moon and speak the visions that you see for yourself and for the planet.

• Gem Stone Activation Meditation: Place any of the above gemstones (after they have been charged in the moonlight) or ones you are currently working with, on your brow point/third eye either during the full moon or in the sun light to activate your visionary center of intuition and receive the messages that you are ready for. Breathe fully and deeply as you lie down and relax.

• Journal Questions: What is a Queen? How does she serve? How can I embody the Archetype of Empress or Queen in my own life? What is a Water Bearer? How am I that? What am I ready to release so that I can serve, express and live more fully? What gifts am I ready to shine?

• Remember: Place an apple and glass of water in the moonlight and have it for a 'Visionary Water Bearer' 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, day of and day after the actual full moon. This is the 3 day potency period. Blessings to you in this wondrous and magical time.

Love, Achintya

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Capricorn Strawberry Honey Moon

The Capricorn Full Moon was exact on June 24 at 11:40am PDT.

This marks the end of Solstice Portal and first half of the year. It is thus a time of great release… as from here we enter the waning half of the year (northern hemisphere). It is potent Full Moon to release outdated beliefs, patterns and structures held within your DNA, blood and bones as Venus resides at the Root Chakra.

This powerful Full Moon glow also amplifies your capacity to experience joy, pleasure and love in your body as sacred medicine. You are being invited now to do what makes you feel good without shame or guilt. The moon's energy supports you to shed self-imposed limitations and unleash your inner wild self! It's time to celebrate! The earthy power of Capricorn magnetizes your creative passion and welcomes you to delight in the pleasures of all your senses!

This Capricorn Moon portal reflects to us the need to make important choices in our lives in order to bring deep dreams and desires forward (for the benefit of our own lives, and for the planet). If you have been on the fence about something, this moon can bring clarity. Your body holds the wisdom and guidance for all your answers. Listen within and move in the direction that feels good in your heart, wombspace and intuition. Remember, the universe always rewards you for trusting your gut!

(This Moon is also known as the Honey Moon, Mead Moon, Mermaid Moon and the Full Rose Moon)

Strawberry / Honey Moon Attributes

• Tarot: The Moon

• Herbs: Meadowsweet, Vervain, Parsley, Skullcap

• Colors: Orange, Pink, Golden-green

• Stones: Topaz, Agate, Fluorite, Pearl

• Animals: Honey Bee, Butterfly, Frog, Peacock

• Goddesses: Butterfly Maiden, Cerridwen, Ishtar

• Medicine: Contentment, Celebration, Litha/Summer Solstice, Portal of light, Decision making, Strengthen and reward positive qualities of oneself

Ritual Suggestions

• Sacred Desires & Sacred Release Journaling: & Embodiment: What sacred desires of yours are being illuminated? What opens up pleasure, passion and joy in your life? What is standing between you and and that (patterns, thought forms, behaviors, limiting beliefs beliefs)? Burn this paper now for sacred release in a fire or with candles outside in the full moon light. You can Dance / speak / move ! After this and you feel more space within you, write down and speak aloud to the moon how you now choose to commit and devote yourself to your dreams. How can you take action to receive support? And can you and trust in the divine timing of your dreams?

• Honey Medicine: Eat a spoonful of honey in the moonlight, taste the sweetness of all of your life's blessings and recent accomplishments while feeling into trust, that all be provided for, for your life's dreams.

• Passionate Heart: How does your heart want to be expressed/nurtured at this time? What would feel inspiring and delicious right now? Dance, yoga, cooking, sex? What can bring you out of your mind and into your body? Do that! And try it in the moonlight! When done with the intention, this celebration supports the magnification of your dreams.

• Elemental Nourishment: Capricorn Moon is an ideal time for you to get in the Natural World and the Elements of Earth. Visit your favorite tree, park, river, ocean or lake etc... Let the wild and sacred medicine of nature seep into your body and your breath. Let the mind go and rest into Earth and practice the art of spaciousness by simply Being.

• Remember: 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.

Wild Moon Love, Achintya

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*Included references for Moon Attributes: Moon Magick by DJ Conway

SOLSTICE BLESSINGS

Photo of Achintya Devi by Sophia Billikopft

Blessed Solstice! The Sun moves into Cancer at 8:32 pm PDT on June 20th to open this powerful Solar Gate.

We are also honouring Juneteenth, a national holiday in the US, commemorating the end of slavery! Blessed Emanicipation Day!!

Solstice comes from the Latin term solstitium, “meaning sun stands still”, as it appears to do just that for a few days. In the northern hemisphere, we celebrate Summer Solstice with the longest hours of daylight and the sun at its highest point, while those of us in the southern hemisphere celebrate Winter Solstice with the longest hours of darkness and the sun at its lowest point. United, we hold the both the light and the dark and the full spectrum in between. 

The Solstice portal is open 3 days before and after this Holy Sabbat of purification, exaltation and celebration.

Honour the potent Solstice energy with joy as we embrace the Wild Sacred Light of the Sun itself, the Light within all Beings and the Love that shines within us, that is who we truly are. This is also a time for you to celebrate for all that is ripe in your life, whether this is related to an attitude of gratitude, completing a job well done or for embodying empowering qualities.

In this 26,000 cycle turning of the Ages, the Solstice Cancer Sun has been rising at the intersection of where the Ecliptic (plane of the solar system) crosses the Milky Way (plane of the galaxy) in the middle of what is called the Sacred Hoop of Stars (Rigel, Capella, the Pleiades, Sirius, Pollux, Castor,and Procyon) since 1962 and will continue to until 2030. This is also known as the Silver or Cancer Gate where souls pass through to incarnate, signifying a great shift in our human consciousness.

Just hours before the exact time of Solstice (Sun entering Cancer) Jupiter stations retrograde for four months in a trine with the sun and the moon that brings forth great abundance and good fortune.

During this Solstice portal, welcome the Sun’s rays to penetrate your every cell, for indeed you are being asked to hold the Mantle of Truth, Wisdom and Love as a multi-dimensional being. One is who is made of Star Dust and Sun Light.

At this time of Illumination, may you remember that your inner fires are here to support you in moving through any fears that keep you from your truth. You are being ushered into the next activation of your incarnation as both spirit and matter, which is the power and Blessing of Light itself. Orientate yourself towards the Sun to make clear and honest choices about your greatest dreams, to shed limited beliefs and unworthiness, and bask in the magnificence of these powerful Light Codes.

Blessed Be for all that is being illuminated and amplified at this Holy time of Embodied Awakening!

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NEW PLAYLIST

Welcome in the Power of the Light and enjoy my new
Spotify Playlist throughout the Solstice Portal!

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Do you live in the Southern Hemisphere and are celebrating Winter Solstice?

I offer you this REKINDLE Winter Solstice Ritual that was recorded live on location along the Nile River in Egypt.

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Summer Solstice Ritual Suggestions

• Rise to Greet the Sun: Greet the Sun for Sunrise on the longest day of the year as an act of exalted devotion to the Full Light of your Awareness. If in the southern hemisphere, greet the Sunset to honour the shortest day or Light and Rebirth of another cycle.

• Gratitude Speak: Speak aloud or write in your journal 20 things you are grateful for. If writing, place in the sunlight for amplification. This practice brings to light more experiences for you to be great-full for.

• Honey Medicine: Eat a spoonful of golden honey in the sunlight, taste the sweetness of all of your life's blessings and recent accomplishments while feeling into trust, that all be provided for, for your life's dreams.

• Elemental Fire Divination: Sunbathe, create a bonfire or light candles in you home to activate the wild and sacred medicine of Fire / the Sun and let the warmth of the rays and flames seep into your cells. Let the mind go and gaze into light to receive guidance and messaged available only at this time.

• Solar Water: Place water in the Solstice Sun and let the solar codes infuse it for 20 minutes to 2 hours. Then drink in with celebration and honour. You may wish to keep in the fridge for a few days to come to keep ingesting this powerful solar elixir of nourishment.

• 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.

Blessed Be! Love, Achintya

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Sagittarius Super Blood Moon Eclipse

Photo by Sophia Billikopft

This Full Moon in Sagittarius takes place on May 26th at 4:14 am PDT and the total lunar eclipse is at 4:18 am PDT. The duration is 14 minutes. It will be visible from Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas.

This Sagittarius Super Blood Moon eclipse is a significant transition for the collective. Dreams, aspirations, intentions and goals that have been built on a foundation of falsity or distortion are dissolving. This may feel intense. And, it is. This is a purification portal. This great eclipse of the moon, caused by the Earth’s shadow, is here to catalyze an illumination and then a release of all the ways we have governed our lives from a place of fear or restriction to initiate a new foundation rooted in trust, wisdom, freedom and love.

The Full Moon is also conjunct Antares.

Antares is a Magickal Behenian Star and 1 of the 4 Royal Stars linked to Archangel Uriel, to Auset / Isis & Selket. This Heart Star brings a harmonious lunar conjunction, assisting us to create powerful Magick & make important choices. Antares is the energy of the sacred pause & spaciousness before choice. And with Sagittarius Moon, this means aligning with your truth & visions to make your dreams come true.

The flames of the Sagittarius moon invite us deeper into Presence to explore important paths/options/choices from our bodies intuitive guidance, rather than solely from the logical mind.

Let the full moon’s luminosity and eclipsing shadow penetrate into your being to deconstruct what achievement, leadership, power and mastery have meant to you, so you redefine this for yourself. It is time to break the chains of comparison, status, competition, power-over / powerlessness by illuminating the emotions and beliefs hiding in the dark (either from society or family). These shadows are ready to be acknowledged and released by feeling them and moving them. During this Moon, allow for any sadness, grief, anger, or fear to have their holy moment of being acknowledged and felt. Any distorted beliefs that have been leading your life are being revealed and dissolved. Honour and thank them for how they have served you and with power of your sovereign choice, let them go!

On the other side of the shadow is liberation! Through this deep excavation of your being, you are creating space for a potent rebirth of love and true mastery for your life and for the benefit All. This eclipse will guide you into the direction of living your dreams and devotions in these unprecedented times as the change agent you are and are becoming! Through the eclipsing of shadow and light, know that you are supported and blessed.

 

Ritual Suggestions

• Eclipsing Earth & Fire Connection: Stand or walk on the earth with bare feet. Imagine roots growing down from your feet and/or your womb space to the womb of Mother Gaia. Feel this as an anchoring pillar of light connecting you to the Earth and welcome in the magick of the Moon, the Sun descending down from above moving through you, as you continue to send the energy deep into the earth to ground you, releasing stagnant or pent up emotional energy. Light a fire to transmute fears and limitations. What you are releasing? Speak it out loud, make sounds, move the energy through your body. This letting go creates space for rebirth.

• Gratitude Speak: Speak aloud to the Full Moon, or write in your journal 11 things you are grateful for. If writing, place in the moonlight overnight. This practice brings to light more experiences for you to be grateful for. 

• Dream Illumination & Sacred Release Journal: What dreams is your soul illuminating for you at this time? What sacred desires are being called into the light? What visions do you have for yourself? How can you clarify and amplify your dreams? Why are they meaningful and full of purpose? What is between you and your dreams? What is stopping you from living them (focusing on your own patterns, thought forms, behaviors, beliefs)? Burn this paper now for sacred release in a fire or with candles outside in the full moon light. Dance / speak/ move/ sound it out.  After the moon has eclipsed (and you feel more space within you), write down and speak aloud how you now choose to commit and devote yourself to your dreams. How you can take action, receive support and rest into the divine timing of these dreams.

• Devotional Dreams: How does your heart want to be expressed/nurtured at this time with the dreams you hold dear and close to your heart? What embodiment practices inspire you right now? Activities that bring you out of your mind and into your body are where it's at when done with the intention of celebrating and honouring yourself and your growing dreams. Trying doing them in the moonlight.

• Elemental Nourishment: Sag Moon is an ideal time for you to get in the Natural World and the Elements. Visit your favorite tree, park, river, ocean or lake etc... Let the wild and sacred medicine of nature seep into your body and your breath. Let the mind go and rest into Earth and practice the art of spaciousness by simply Being. 

• 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.

Share with us what's coming forward for you at this Full Moon time in our Goddess Rising Sisterhood Facebook Group! What are you grate-full for? What blessings are you counting? What embodiment practices are you incorporating into your life at this time?

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SAVE THE DATE FOR THIS FRIDAY, MAY 28

Join us for

The Queen Codes Open House

Friday May 28 | 12pm PDT

This Training, Mentorship and Council is for Women Leaders, Change Agents, Entrepreneurs, Ceremonialists, Artists, Practitioners, Mothers, Priestesses, Business Owners and Lovers of Life who desire to reclaim their sovereign throne, lead with pleasure and confidence, create with passion and magick, and contribute to catalyzing meaningful impact in the world with their loving hearts, inspired service and soulful businesses.

In This Training You Will:

• Activate The Queen Codes within you to catalyze an up-levelling in your life and leadership

• Be seen, honoured and supported in your Light, Shadow, Wholeness and Holiness

• Be held within our Sacred Circle of Sister Queen’s for inspiration, support and motivation

• Unlock your creative potential & arise upon the throne of your Queendom, personally and professionally

• Be empowered to Embody your Sovereignty and lead with courage, confidence and clarity in your soulful work

• Alchemize fears, limiting beliefs and wounds into wisdom, gifts and strengths

• Be inspired to live your chosen Destiny and to co-create in our shared Legacy

Come join us for our Open House. Learn more about the magick afoot for this Evolutionary Women’s Leadership Training and get a sense if this your next step!

We will have plenty of time for Q&A and a replay will be sent out as soon as it’s available.

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Lunar Beltane~ Pink Scorpio Super Moon

The Beltane Portal opens with the Full Moon in Scorpio on April 26 at 8:31pm PDT / 11:31pm EDT.

This Lunar Beltane Super Moon begins the Beltane Portal this year and runs through May 4, which is Solar Beltane with the Sun at 15 degrees Taurus. Can you feel the shifting of energies within? An amplification of your sixth sense, womb & heart pulsing and feeling between the worlds? A potent activation on the spiral of life is happening with the light of this moon.

With the Taurus Sun and Scorpio Moon, this is a time of celebrating your fertile dreams, honouring your erotic nature, and releasing deep emotions. Hidden treasures and tribulations connected to sensuality and sexuality are illuminated. Through shadow and light, this can reveal your greatest womb power and womb wounds for revelation, healing and empowerment!

This Full Moon activates an opening for you to reclaim your sensual and sexual power and to amplify your pleasure, worth and sovereignty. To rise in your truth and come home to the precious inner sanctum of your Womb Temple, the seat of your feminine power. You hold dominion here. No one else. 

Gratitude, Self-Love and Pleasure Rituals to nourish your body are especially important right now that invite deeper layers of excavation, emotion, exploration & embodiment of your erotic innocence and sexual expression. We are in a potent crucible to release guilt and shame within our womb spaces, reconcile wounding and melt the tension of our global feminine cramp! 

Great healing and reprogramming can come by delighting in passionate communion (with self or other) and honouring the gift of your sacred sensuality. Pleasure is your birthright. It is the power of Creation itself!  

PINK 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

• Make Love to Life: Whether this means literally making love with intentional celebration of your creative forces and pleasure, or metaphorically, this is time to put your hearts desires into motion. Dance. Paint. Sing. Play music. Weave. Craft.

• Vision Board: Take action to bring all your sacred visions to form with a vision board and place it under the moon light for blessed activation.

• Lunar Beltane Fire Ritual: Get into Nature. Take off your shoes. Breathe in the air and remember that your cycles mimic Gaia’s. Give any of your limiting beliefs and fears to the Fire (either by building one, or with candles). With movement and voice, write them down and burn them. This is an act of purification and activation and a releasing of any heavy weight or burdens you may be carrying. Then welcome in and all the feelings inside of you that make you feel WONDERFUL and move in that direction. Literally.

• Beltane Moon Elixir: Combine mint/rose/tulsi/hibiscus/cinnamon tea with honey and you've got a simple and delicious elixir. Place it in Full Moon light (you can even add a quartz crystal into your cup for added magic), drink in all that you are great-full for and sip in celebration of your feminine lunar essence.

• Remember: 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.

NEW PLAYLIST

Enjoy 3 hours and 33 minutes of music with 44 songs to move your Soul during the Beltane Portal! This Playlist can accompany any of your Beltane Rituals. Listen while you are driving, working, dancing or making love! Thank you to all the incredible musicians and artists!

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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 magickal time. Attributes adopted by DJ Conway