Full Moon in Cancer

copyright photo by Achintya Devi

Full Moon in Cancer

The Full Moon is exact in Cancer on January 17th at 3:48pm PST and it is a Wolf Moon.

The Mother is our first teacher and She who is the Miracle of Life itself. In the sign of Cancer, this full moon mirrors the importance of 'Home', living in rhythm with Earth and 'Mothering' in the world with Feminine Leadership.

Having recently given offerings at the Holy Mother Temples of Auset / Isis in Aswan (both at the current Temple site & the original), the Temple of Het Her / Hathor in Dendera, and Sekhmet's Sanctuary at the Temple of Karnak as a part of our December 2021 Egypt Priestess Pilgrimage, the codes of Mother feel very much alive!

The Mother Moon of Cancer is the medicine that mirrors the importance of 'Home'. The home is our own body temple, our physical dwelling place, and feeling "at home" on this planet. She reflects the importance of honouring the sacred waters of your physical, intuitive, and emotional bodies. This can amplify the Light of your Leadership and also Illuminate the shadows that need clearing, healing and transforming.

This January Full Moon is known as the 'Wolf Moon' 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.  
Whether you are howling or softly humming, may you honour all parts of yourself now to be in the supportive embrace and amplified energy of this Full Moon. 

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, Saraswati, Hera

• Medicine: Awakening, Envisioning, Beginning/conceiving, Rest, Protection

• Holy Day: Imbolc

2022 NEW YEAR FULL MOON RITUALS

Empty Presence: Be quiet & still for 10 mins. Listen. Feel your heartbeat. Breath deep. Be present with yourself. 

Honouring 2021: What do you celebrate and honour about yourself from the past year? Whether this related to your personal/business/love live. What were your greatest lessons and how can it serve you now? 

Releasing 2021: What are you laying to rest from 2021? What is ready to be burned or buried? If needed, let yourself release the emotions of 2021 with all the feels. Whether this is a cry, scream or sigh. For reals. Emotional Cancer supports us to release held emotions in the body. This is a healthy way to cleanse the emotional body and opens us up to the next level of deep wisdom to move through us.

Creating 2022 with Magick: Create an altar representing all you are calling forth for 2022 and/or place a 'Wishing Bowl' with your written or creatively drawn intentions under the moonlight to be amplified. Key: Focus on how you wish to feel along with any specific things you desire to come to fruition. Place an apple (or any other fruit) or water beside it and ingest it the next morning to assimilate the Magick into your Being.

Remember: Put out your gemstones 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

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PLAYLIST

I welcome you to enjoy my Spotify Playlist MOTHER MOON. With 44 songs and over 4 hours of music, this playlist was created specifically for you to incorporate with your Full Moon Rituals (from the link above).

Whether for movement, dance, journaling or while driving, cooking, walking in nature, may you feel the Blessings of the Great Mother!

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Included References For Attributes: Moon Magick by DJ Conway

Gemini Dragon Full Moon & Venus Retrograde

The Gemini Full Moon is exact on December 18th at 8:35pm PST.
Venus in Capricorn stations retrograde on December 19th at 2:36am PST.

The final full moon of 2021 in Gemini is the first full moon after the recent eclipses that carries new codes of cosmic communication and revelation and connects to Dragon Goddess Tiamat, just before Venus stations retrograde.

This Full Moon, governed by the element of Air, illuminates both shadow and light and calls for us to integrate both. This is simultaneously a descent into your innermost chambers to release the past and a rise in celebration for all the blessings and lessons of the past year. This paradox is a Gemini moon code revealing opportunities for multi-faceted communication cosmically, internally, relationally, emotionally and spiritually that can offer personal transformation and healing in our collective consciousness.

This Gemini Full Moon links to the Ancient Dragon Mother Tiamat, of our Rose, Dragon and Grail Lineages. There are two parts to the Tiamat myth. One is that in which Tiamat is Creatrix Goddess, through a “sacred marriage” between salt and fresh water, who peacefully creates the cosmos through successive generations. The second is that she is considered the embodiment of primordial chaos.

In the ancient Mesopotamian myth of Marduk’s slaying of Tiamat we find the recognition of duality. Tiamat is Goddess of the Primal Abyss, the void of chaos from which all the Gods emerged, was depicted as a great dragon encircling and encompassing all known creation. As such, She represents the pure state of undifferentiated consciousness.

Allow her primordial energy to supportthe Remembrance of your Origin Code.

Look to the starry skies for galactic Scrying and communion with the Dragon Mothers. This a time to reflect, celebrate and express what you are grateful for, whether through prayer, song, dance, words and actions. And, this is a potent portal for refining the communication of listening, expressing, vibratory sensing, teaching, and speaking - especially with what needs amending and releasing with clarity and grace.

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.

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Venus stations retrograde on December 19th at 2:36am PST.

Venus stations retrograde in Capricorn for approximately 42 days. She enters the Completion Phase of her Synodic cycle that began in June 2020 until she sets below the horizon on January 2 with the New Moon, and will then metamorphically transition from her Evening Star Phase to her Morning Star Phase.

Venus moving retrograde is an invitation for deep reflection, offering expanded perspectives and heightened states of awareness to bring forth great insight. It is also a time to embrace all that you have reclaimed and accomplished during this last Evening Star phase and to honour all those with whom you’ve shared this with. It is essential to offer and devote our learning, wisdom, accomplishments, reclamations, mastery and blessings to the One Source and for benefit all sentient beings everywhere.

As this Venus Retrograde will activate the Pluto-Eris square 3 times, it is deeply connected to clearing karmas, taking ownership of shadows, embracing chaos and allowing what needs to be completed and dissolved to be intentionally offered to God Goddess. May we use this time wisely. Blessings to you!

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Gemini Full Moon 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.

• Sky Scrying: Look to the starry skies. Hold an intention in your heart to receive unique messages from the Dragon Mothers to empower your path. Watch and listen for these messages in the movement of the moonlit clouds, with the wind and in the stars.

• Empty Presence: Be quiet & still for 10 - 30 mins. Listen. Feel your heartbeat. Breath deep. Be present with yourself and the power of this living moment.

  Honouring 2021: What are you celebrating and honouring in your life from the past year? What were your greatest lessons and how can it serve you now? 

  Releasing 2021: What are you laying to rest from 2021? What is ready to be washed away or buried?

• 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 magickal time. 

Full Moon Blessings to you!

Love, Achintya

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

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