Full (blue) moon and a herbal bath.

Lavender and rose.

Tomorrow, on the 31st of July, we have a full moon. This one is a blue moon, so called when two full moons occur in the same month.

Energetically, I’ve learnt this week (both theoretically and practically) that a blue moon has a very strong energetic impact on us. (Supposedly, 12 times  a normal full moon! That’s some power!) This, whether we notice it or not.

Since the previous Friday/Saturday when the first quarter moon occurred, I’ve been having A LOT of restless/nervous energy. I’ve felt “forced” to slow down – which hasn’t been with my good will (thus creating more struggle within myself… but sometimes that’s how we learn best. 🙂  ) But… I have tried my best to roll with the energy. Which has also meant that I didn’t have much energy to spend in an outward direction. Therefore, very few blog-posts and the second part of the review that I promised last week, will be postponed.

Tomorrow, on the eve of the full blue moon, I’ve decided to do a little self-care as my way of celebrating and honoring myself and the work that is currently taking place on a deeper level. A herbal bath. Consisting of rose petals and lavender,  put into the bath water, perhaps adding some sea salt for re-energizing the spiritual body as well as the physical.

Do you have any full moon rituals you’d like to share?

Happy full blue moon!

 

New Moon: wishing + reflections.

New Moon. Photo from USNO, borrowed from here.

Today a new moon occurs – and as usual, this is a good time to do some wishing.

Also, I thought I’d share some reflections that have come up for me in the recent days as we’ve been nearing this new moon.
Now, new moons (as I think I have touched upon before) – or when we are moving toward them – are always a time where the veil between the conscious and the subconscious become much thinner. As it does when we move toward the full moon – however, waning moons have a different quality of energy as opposed to waxing moons. If you start to observe your dreams, you’ll be able to tell, from the character of them, when we are approaching a new moon and when we are approaching a full moon. Try it out; grab a notebook and note down whatever you remember of your nightly dreams. You’ll notice that the more you begin to do this inner work, to work with your dreams, the more your dreams will reveal and help you to loosen “energy clogs”.
One can use dreams (the nightly versions) for the sake of healing (patterns of thought, old beliefs and limitations) and bringing to light what has been in darkness.

Happy New Moon wishing!

A deep-rooted tiredness.

As soon as the full moon had passed, on the night to Monday, I found myself in this “dissolving” energy. My body was feeling it very clearly too, slowing down and readjusting to the new energy.

Then, on Tuesday I woke up, feeling like I’d run a marathon and a cold had crept up on me, too. As this tiredness is still sitting in my body, along with the cold, I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t my body recalibrating, getting rid of “the old” and adjusting to the new?

It also seems that a lot of tension has left my body – tension I wasn’t even aware off. (I felt this very clearly around the abdomen, lower abdomen that is related to breathing and how/if we are centered in this world.)

However… now… my fingers feel heavy on the keyboard, and I think this is all for today… I’m off to bed for a rest.

 

Full moon: recharging crystals.

I woke up this morning to such a wonderful sunny day. My body was a bit heavy due to the beginning of my period (I’m starting to realize how much in alignment with the moon we, women especially, really are) but it felt like I needed to move. So I took a walk with my fiancé and our dog in the beautiful spring-like day.

Coming home, I felt the urge to set out my crystals tonight in the moonlight to be recharged. I haven’t done this in I don’t know how many years. But I thought it could be fun to revisit them, train my sensitivity and accuracy when it comes to working with energy.
If you’re interested in how one recharges crystals, take a look at this site.

And have a wonderful day!