Autumn Equinox Blessings

Photo from our Avalon Priestess Pilgrimage 2019 on Equinox at Stonehenge by Melissa Robin

This Autumn Equinox / Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring Equinox / Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere is exact on September 22nd at 6:30am PDT.

Day and night are of equal length as Mother Earth takes a sacred pause in Her rotation around the Sun. On The Wheel of the Year, this Holy Day in the Northern Hemisphere is celebrated as Mabon (pronounced in many different ways May-bun, May-boon, May-bawn). Mabon is considered a time of the Great Mysteries. It is a time to honour the Sun Gods and Goddesses, the Harvest, and the Spirit World. 


This is a time of balance, to slow down and reflect, enjoy the bounty of our harvests (whether this be from your gardens, your friendships, and family, your work or your personal achievements) and also to prepare for the next season by welcoming the gifts of the darkness to release, let go, give away, share and shed (whether physically, emotionally, mentally or all the above).

This is a potent moment to honour the light and the shadow within your Womb, Heart & Mind. To honour the human part of you and the spirit part of you… the masculine and the feminine. For, to live fully Whole and integrated, we must embody both polarities. This is the power and alchemy of which all creation is based.

Video from our Avalon Priestess Pilgrimage during Equinox 2019. Filmed by Melissa Robin. Original song by Venetia Pristavec.

Harvest is encoded with both joy and grief, bounty and completion, fullness and loss. Allow yourself to experience the full spectrum of emotions as you celebrate and grieve with with both sorrow and bliss. All your feelings have deep wisdom & insight for you at this time when you are present with curiosity and acceptance. Give reverence for how far and deep you have journeyed this year. Honour your pain, shadow, and challenges. Honour your pleasure, light and triumphs. For every step of your path has led you to this moment now.


We offer thanks and honour to the Goddess as she moves from Mother to Crone, and to the Green Man, the King for the fortitude of the Sun, as we now reap the gifts and abundance, prosperity and fruitful ways of being.


May we welcome the power of this Holy Day in our personal lives and as the needed change for the world. May we offer to one another the bounty of love in our hearts, and offer the gifts of respect, kindness, honour, and peace to all those we come across. May we do what we can to contribute our energy in gratitude to the Earth, to the Spirit World and to all of humanity.

 

Symbolism and Attributes

The Second Harvest, The Mysteries, Equality, and Balance.

• Symbols: Wine, cornucopia, gourds, vines, pine cones, acorns, grains, corn, apples, pomegranates, dried seeds, and horns of plenty.

• Herbs: Acorn, ferns, grains, myrrh, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, passionflower, rose, sage, Solomon's seal, tobacco, benzoin, and thistle.

• Foods: Bread, nuts, apples, pomegranates, squash, potatoes, carrots, and onions.

• Scents: Benzoin, Myrrh, Sage

• Colours: Red, Orange, Maroon, Rust, Brown, Gold

• Goddesses: Modron, Morgan, Epona, Persephone, Pamona and the Muses. Gods: Mabon, Thoth, Thor, Hermes, and The Green Man.

• Stones: Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli, Yellow Agate

 

Ritual Suggestions

• Earth Connection: Place your hands and bare feet or entire body on the Earth to receive the imprint of Gaia’s frequencies of Balance, Integration and Harmony. Breathe deeply and commune with these specific vibrations to welcome in the power of this Holy Day and Night, Balance Light and Dark to nourish and support you. Offer gratitude and any intentions for the next quarter of the year.

• Cornucopia Altar of Gratitude: Gather and harvest from the land with reverence and create an altar space for honouring the bounty. Add pictures, crystals, symbols and writings of your gratitude. Speak and share your prayers of thanksgiving.

• Activities: Making wine, gathering dried herbs, plants, seeds, and seed pods, walking in the forest, scattering your offerings in harvested fields, offering libations & elixirs to trees, adorning burial sites with leaves, acorns, and pine cones to honor those who have passed over.

• Magick: Rituals and spells of protection, prosperity, harmony, balance, equality, gratitude, security, and self-confidence.

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

 With Love, Achintya

Pisces Full Harvest Moon

The Pisces Harvest Full Moon is exact on Monday, September 20th at 4:55 pm PDT.

We are living at a time on Earth where there is an acceleration of simultaneous Polarization, Awakening, Grace, Upheaval and Conflict in both our inner and outer worlds. And. All this is here to serve the Great Design of why you/we are here, Now.

The Harvest Moon in Pisces is here to amplify your Greatest Gratitude and light up your Dreamer Within to reflect, celebrate and complete. With the bounty of the Harvest, also comes the grief of it's epic completion.

With this full moon in Pisces in final sign of the zodiac, along with the medicine of the Harvest Moon, we are able to reap the joys, lessons, insight, and experiences from all the previous signs (and the past 6 months since the last Equinox) and receive lunar codes of inspiration for your sacred service in the world.

Looking at the symbol for Pisces, with one fish swimming downstream and another swimming upstream, we can see this as an invitation to enter into the power of experiencing life beyond duality by incorporating both the inner and the outer realms, the light and the dark, the highs and the lows, the ups and the down, your inner king and queen / masculine and feminine, and synthesize these creative powers of polarity.

At this Full Moon, your presence here now invites the awakening of and reclamation of all of you. Your shadow, light and, the rainbow spectrum in between them both. With the Moon in Pisces and Sun in Virgo, you are being blessed to receive this lunar medicine to empower and nourish your soul / priestess path and the sacred dreams you hold for yourself and the world.

Drink lots of water. Get into water if possible. Be present with your breath and the rhythm of your sleep patterns. Take care to be in stillness in the mornings to recall your dreams, deep insight is there for you. Breathe deeply and check in with your inner voice when needing to make major choices. Accept. Surrender. Release. Celebrate.

Harvest Moon Attributes

• Astrology: Artist's Moon, closest full moon to autumnal equinox

• Tarot: Strength

• Herbs: Copal, Fennel, Wheat, Valerian

• Colors: Brown, Yellow-Green, Yellow

• Stones: Citrine, Peridot, Tiger’s Eye, Olivine, Amethyst

• Animals: Snake, Jackal, Sparrow

• Goddesses: Ceres, Isis, Freya

• Medicine: Rest after labor, Mabon, Autumn Equinox, Balance of light & dark, Organize, Clean out Mental/Physical/Emotional/Spiritual Clutter

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INVOCATION

I welcome you to include the Invocation & Playlist below into your
Full Moon Rituals!

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HARVEST MOON RITUAL SUGGESTIONS

• Gratitude Harvest Altar & Release: Gather fruits and vegetables. Flowers and grains. Create an altar of abundance, representing all you are in gratitude of. List all the things you are grateful for in your life from this year so far and place this in the moonlight (outside or window) to attract more experiences to be grateful for. Write down all the things you are ready to release, change or shift and either bury them, burn them or offer them to a body of water.

• Dream Speak: Pay close attention to your dreams tonight and through the weekend. 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.

• Make Space: Time to go through your cupboards, closet, garage etc... and let go of the excess. Spaciousness feels so good and you open yourself up to more internal power and creative life-force.

• Be Still: With so much frequency shift happening now, simply closing your eyes to pay attention to your breath to pause for 5 minutes will do wonders for your nervous system (especially if you can do this 3 times a day, and longer than 5 if possible. Do what you can). Make sure to get a long and full sleep.

• Tea Medicine: Drinking Tulsi & Gotu Kola herbal tea will soothe your nerves and calm your spirit. This also allows you to open up to magical and bountiful blessings being offered.

• Earthing Creativity: Illuminate your dreams and get into your body! Create a vision board or a painting or dance or write in your journal all that you are bringing with you into the next season ahead. Place this out into the moonlight/speak it/sing out loud.

• 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 and dreams that you see for yourself and for the planet.

• 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. (See invitation below).

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.

With Full Moon Love, Achintya

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Aquarius Full Blue Moon

Blue Moon Blessings! The Full Moon is exact in Aquarius at 5:02 am PDT on August 22nd.

Additionally, the Sun moves into Virgo just hours later at 2:35 pm PDT at 0 degrees and the Sun is Conjunct the Royal Fixed Star of Regulus.

This is the second Aquarius Full Moon in a row, making this an astrological Blue Moon. The first Full Moon in Aquarius was in July at 0 degrees, the Alpha point of initiation, and now this Aquarius Full Moon at 29 degrees, the Omega point of completion (as there are 30 degrees in each zodiac sign).

There is something releasing or completing for you in regards to either your perspective of what Evolution looks like or the releasing of limiting ideas and thoughts that have been stifling your Evolution and Growth.

This 2nd Full Moon in Aquarius amplifies the awakening of our collective needs as a humanity. As Aquarius is only fixed Air sign in the zodiac, devoted to authenticity and stability, this Full Moon illuminates creative solutions and inspired action towards humanitarian endeavors through sacred service, leadership, projects and offerings. The Aquarian Moon offers the Blessings for you to speak your truth and to let go of distortions or archaic imprinting and destructive habits that limit you from manifesting and living your greatest visions and purpose.

As sound travels upon air waves, the Aquarius Air Moon energy can be utilized in your life and leadership to release and manifest through sacred intention, sound and communication. This can further bring forth new relationships and ideas with networking, group movements and collaborations.

The Aquarian Moon energy is intelligent, innovative, revolutionary, open-minded and starry-eyed, and offers the exploration of new ideas and revolutionary thinking to create worlds and paradigms of new possibilities.

The 22nd is deeply connected to the Magdalenes and specifically Mary Magdalene that, amplifies the alchemical lunar energy of simultaneous release and rebirth as the Sun moves into Virgo.

On this Blue Moon, the Sun in Virgo is conjunct the Royal Fixed Star Regulus, the bright star in the Heart of the Lion, Leo. This is the same astrological coding of Mother Mary’s Ascension Assumption day (as I shared about in my last Instagram post) that inspires us to Know Thyself through the power of the heart, the power of Love.

Regulus is associated with the transformational healing energy of Archangel Raphael, who supports both the Gaia and Her children, as we experience this time of the Great Change. As the old is dying, the New Earth is being slowly birthed. Regulus will be transmitting loving and courageous energy, from the Heart of the Lion to All on Earth.

In essence, your sacred values are being illuminated so that you can implement needed changes for the empowerment of your personal destiny and our collective legacy.

Please utilize the energy of this potent celestial energy to offer and direct your prayers and rituals for the benefit of All Sentient Beings.

May we attune to the power of unconditional love within our hearts, feel one another in the sanctuary of the One Heart, and beam our loving intentions to the Hearts of All Beings Everywhere. Blessed Be.

This is also known as the Corn Moon.

Corn Moon Attributes

• Tarot: The Empress

• Herbs: Chamomile, St. John’s wort, Fennel, Rue

• Colors: Yellow, Gold

• Stones: Tiger's Eye, Carnelian, Red Jasper,  

• Animals: Lioness, Phoenix, Hawk

• Goddesses: Gaia, Demeter, Corn Mother

• Medicine: Gathering, Gratitude, Health & Wellness, Friendships, Bounty, Motherhood

Aquarius Full Moon 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.

• 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 magick 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 magickal time.

Love, Achintya

Additional Attributes shared from D.J. Conway

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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