dark moon recommendation

🌑 blessed dark moon 🌑

the new moon tonight is opposite Uranus⚡️disruptor⚡️master trickster⚡️chaos magician⚡️surprise orchestrator⚡️accelerator of change and urgency. Uranus is a key player throwing curve balls and deconstructing shit all month, starting with this new moon.

everything will be changing this lunar cycle, meeting the resistance of places that are stuck or need to move more slowly. patiently redirecting the urgency into grounding and the fear into action are the power moves.

dark moons are a time for rest, cleansing, water, sleep, grounding. the mood is “wait and see.”

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may you find pleasure & power within yourself. ⚔️🐍💋

dark moon recommendation

NEW MOON IN CAPRICORN | JANUARY 13 @ 12:00AM EST

let it slip off of you, the residue of everything that’s already left. make a list of everything you miss. locate gratitude deep inside your bones. let time talk.

implode.

sit here, not at the top or the bottom of, but with the mountain. wait one more moon before you begin again. this is the initiation of an integration, not just the end of the world. it takes time, it takes time, it takes time. it takes time.

remember, the darkness is for seeing mystery. the darkness is for finding what can only be known by feeling your way through, relying on all your neglected senses. the darkness is where you’ve hidden all the most precious parts of you to keep them safe. and the unknown is where what you know becomes visible.

implode into the unknown

dark moon recommendation

the dark moon is a time to give things up, preparing the soul soil for the seeds you’ll plant when the crescent becomes visible (best time to do new moon magic). it’s the moment before (re)birth where you just need to fucking chill, hydrate, take that late afternoon nap I just woke up from, cleanse inside out.

I’m giving up some stories into the ground, composting them to fertilize the new ones I want to have energy to create. I’m tired of using the same old reference point for everything, going back & forth over one bit of wild forest until there’s a path made. I’m glad that path is there. it’s a way for me to find my way back if I ever get lost in that part of the forest again & now other people can use it but. I want to make new paths.

I think my recommendation to prep for the new moon during this dark moon is to try really listening to yourself. listen to yourself. what paths are you wearing into the earth of your body through the wilderness of your mind? what stories do you default to add to? are there ones you need to discipline yourself to write for them to take root in your psyche?

I’m sorry to say to some of you but this means you’re going to have to…shut up. be quiet. observe. for others of you, this means you’re gonna have to speak up, raise the volume, be honest. all of this is so you can hear yourself. nobody else is involved yet. that sharing happens as needed or after the new moon. right now, just feel into what you can hear/read/see/sense in your mind. it’s possible to let go of what you don’t need in there, but first you need to know what that is. and the letting go is a practice. it’s not a magical decision (though in the right conditions (ritual) that’s possible, too).

what’s the point? what’s the point of paying attention, giving up, of choosing something different? I think I just want you to remember that you have more to experience & learn from than the stories that were given to you or that you had to create to manage reality. we need you for the stories that emerge from your own brilliance, love, & clarity. not just the ones that you have on repeat that hurt you a little every time they play. I just want you to put that down & play with something else.

I want you to know there are many possibilities. the cool thing about possibilities is that they exist whether or not you acknowledge or believe in them. they don’t need you to validate the truth of their power. but you need them. the cool thing about you?

you are possibility.

”In the beginner’s mind there are so many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

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dark moon recommendation

new moon in taurus | april 22 @10:45PM EST

the dark moon is the period before the new moon begins to make Their silver crescent visible. they will hang in the sky like a fish hook, catching us as we swim between realms, wet with intentions, wet from birthing. until then we wait, we rest, we release, we hydrate our bodies & souls. the preparation to begin again is what makes the new beginning stick. you know, like how you have to hold down the reset button on some things for a whole minute for it to work?

in preparation for this reset, consider these questions. what if your clearest desires are prophesies? what would happen if you call your power back to you from the four corners of the earth, from all the directions, into this moment? what if you engaged with grief, rage, & love as synonyms?

everything you hold, the trees are holding with you too. the water is listening to you. the wind is spreading the word. everything you hold is already held for you. you’re not supposed to hold it all. I say this to say: you don’t need to generate answers right now. make some room to play your role as a vessel, a channel, a collaborator. in relinquishing your authority you access your true sovereignty, because it comes from your interconnectedness. never your invincibility, certainty, or self-sufficiency.

avoiding connection because we think it means being always available or feeling less free means we think connection is just a transactional verb rather than a state of being, a way of life. we do this because we’re terrified, we’re trying to protect ourselves, we don’t know how to trust self or others. I think we can begin to find our way out of struggle & into connection if we don’t conflate trust with absolute certainty. and maybe we can find our way into trust with ourselves if we don’t conflate the purposeful self with perfection.

in forming your priorities moving forward from this new moon, don’t wait for crisis to make connection a priority. and remember how beautiful people are.

it’s you, you’re people.

the horoscopes & ritualistic protocol for this new moon, the scorpio full moon, & the month of May are up for members.