Lunar Samhain Wisdom & Rituals

Blessed Lunar Samhain to you with the New Moon in Scorpio on November 4th at 2:14pm PDT / 5pm EDT / 10pm GMT.

We are ending and beginning a lunar cycle within the Samhain Portal of ending and beginning a new spiral on the Wheel of the Year.

Within the darkness and stillness is where all creation come home to source and then begins anew.

This Scorpio Lunation brings forth an awareness of the intensity of your passions and emotions deep in the watery realms within your soul. The invitation is to greet your feelings, feel them, listen to them, and sense what wisdom keys are being offered.

🖤 What wishes to remain in this next cycle?

🖤 What illusions & limitations need to be released and cleared?

🖤What is ready to be birthed?

This is the moment to dive into the depth of your spirit self with courage and step forth from the threshold of the mystery. This is a time to dive into our subconscious and affirm our courage to step into the mystery, into the unknown.

As you journey in the Dark, you can purge limitations, hear the songs of your ancient-future Self and cast sacred spells of Magick to begin this next cycle lunation and then next yearly cycle of your Earth Walk come Solar Samhain on November 6th, anchored as the next expression of your exalted Authentic Self. And so it is!

Lunar Samhain Rituals

Take Off The Mask:  Feel into any ways that you may be inauthentic with yourself and any masks that you may be wearing that aren't serving the essence of who you are. Draw or paint these out or write them down and then lay to rest any of the false faces that you may be wearing. In this way, the more you peel away the masks that aren't you, the more you can rise into the truth of who you are, right now, and emerge more fully as your radiant self.

Honour Your Ancestors:  Write down all the things you are grateful for about your lineage. The gifts you have received. The lessons you have learned. Perhaps you may wish to create an altar for your ancestors. In your unique way, create the space to offer gratitude to those that came before you and acknowledge them for the wisdom that now flows through you. They love it if you make something delicious and offer it to them!

Fire Release Ritual:  You may also wish to connect with the parts of your lineage that may be less than joy filled. If you desire, you can get in touch with the part of you that feels feels angry, sad, frustrated and confused about what your blood line or lineage has passed down to you and offer this into the fires of transmutation (by literally building a fire or safely using a candle). You can write these down or say them out loud, or both. Then, move your body and make any desired sounds to finalize the release. When complete, you can offer any authentic words of forgiveness, empathy and realizations.

Empty The Mind. Feel Into Your Dreams:  Give yourself the gift of moving from your head to your heart. It's an auspicious time to FEEL your dreams. Your goals. Your desires. Scorpio is all about feeling. Bring any visuals or ideas about what you'd like to experience for your life into the visceral experience of your body. In this way, you are sending out messages to the universe to magnify these experiences into your life. Take some time to literally experience how your desires and dreams FEEL in your body. This is truly the magick of creating your life.

LUNAR SAMHAIN SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

Enjoy our Playlist this weekend to include in your Lunar Samhain New Moon Rituals, Dance, Journaling, Meditation and Dreaming.

Aries Full Moon

The Full Moon in Aries takes place on Wednesday October 20th at 7:56am PDT / 10:56am EDT / 3:56pm GMT

How are you? The winds of change are blowing! Do you feel the magick, the intensity, the power?

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

With the Moon in Aries & the Sun in Libra, now is an auspicious opportunity release excess baggage and initiate the shifts needed to live your dreams and desires.

With gratitude for all the lessons & gifts from the past season, it is now time to ignite the inner flames of your wild heart’s passion, strength, determination, commitment, ambition & soul beauty.

Now is an auspicious lunar portal to sever any chains of illusion, burn away disempowering beliefs, spark the remembrance of your truth & rise into new dimensions of trust, creativity, expression, harmonious relations, sovereignty, empowerment and love.

The opportunity is here to deepen into your greatest gratitude
and light up your Warrior /ess Within.

This is a Full Moon to both reflect & to amplify. To commune & celebrate. To share honour & reverence. To spark inspiration or (r)evolutionize your life.

It is time to initiate and also let go! It is a time to release anger, rage, frustration or fear in healthy ways, to avoid continued internal tension and external aggression.

Use the power of Fire wisely and it will support you fiercely.

Aries Moon can ignite you to take external action as the (R)Evolutionary and Warrior ess by contributing your voice, energy, money (any form of action), to participate in the change you wish to see and Be in the world.

Your presence to embody both your inner Sacred Feminine and inner Sacred Masculine stimulates needed Awakening, Remembrance and Reclamation for us all!

Your presence with both your shadow and light stimulates needed Awakening, Remembrance and Reclamation for us all!

• What do you wish to ignite or re-ignite in your life?

• What gifts are you reclaiming?

• What is ready to be released?

• What is being catalyzed within you?

• How are you called to Revolutionize?

Whatever inspires you, move in that direction. Blessed Be.

Full Moon Attributes

• Tarot: The Magician

• Herbs: Basil, Chives, Dragon’s blood, Geranium

• Colors: Crimson red, Gold

• Stones: Ruby, Garnet, Rose quartz

• Animals: Bear, Wolf, Hawk

• Goddesses: Hestia, Hathor, Ceres, Ishtar, Venus, Bast

• Medicine: energy into creating and producing; change; self-reliance; tempering emotional flare-ups; taking

 

Ritual Suggestions

• Inquiry Journaling: Bring your pen in hand to paper and let your heart answer these potent questions. What am I holding on to that may feel safe, but is truly not serving? In what ways to do I perpetuate tension, anger, repressed emotions and injustice in my inner and outer world? What do I consciously choose to burn away and release with love and gratitude? What is shaking loose within me? What can I let go of? What does my soul/heart need right now? What is the deep unwavering truth of who I am? How can I contribute? (plus any of the other questions further up in the blog).

• Move your Body and Dance Dance Dance: It is time to SHAKE loose all that is not your truth and ignite love through the body. Get in your body, breath deep, let go and let God/dess.

• (R)evolutionary Action: Take 1 - 3 steps to actively contribute to the change you wish to see. This could be money, energy, your voice, art, supporting another person, cause or organization.

• Remember: Put out your gemstones 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.

Full Moon Blessings to you!

Love, Achintya

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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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SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

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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