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Have you ever had a great idea, prepared the way for it, and then just never do it? No? Just me and my anxiety? That’s fair. I don’t usually do that a lot *nervously glances at all of my unfinished projects* Ok… so maybe that has been my modus operandi. That is until now.
Up until this point I have had the best intentions of being active in this blog. And up until this point, I failed. I am the Queen of Best Intentions while also failing to launch. Recently, I’ve experienced some significant growth and changes.
In the last ten months, I’ve confronted so many demons and shadows and learned from them and I am making friends with them. I learned that a lot of the behaviors I used to practice as a way of protecting myself, we’re actually hurting me.
So as I sit here typing this, I feel like more of an incorporated and whole person than I did when I first created this blog and reserved this domain name. Speaking of emotions and feeling myself, this leads me to the new moon in Cancer.
Due to my limited beliefs of myself and the world around me, I didn’t think I was worthy or deserving of taking up space in the world. (One of the reasons I had such a difficult time getting things going.) I am actively working on this for myself and probably will be for a while.
At the original inception of this blog, I wanted to post about potential solitary practices one could do for each new or full moon. However, I actually want to share my own practice in hopes that it resonates with someone or helps them create their own moon rituals. I might create specific rituals in the future, but for today, I wanted to go in a different direction.
For July 5th’s new moon, I want to create an intention for this space. I’m putting it here in the ether and will ground it with a ritual in the physical plane. Part of this is me experimenting with being a Technowitch (more on that to come) and how to integrate the energetic web of the internet with physical actions.
My intentions for this blog space:
This is a safe space for learning, growing, sharing, and connecting. It is a community where we can join together and learn from each other by teaching and by listening. In this space, there is respect, love, and celebration for differences of all types. Gender, ethnicity, socio-economic, sexual orientation, religion, physical, and mental abilities inform us on parts of who we are, but when we’re in this space, they do not define us. Here is a safe meeting place of spiritual energies connecting and building these principles within this space, ourselves, and out in the world.
I call in Archangel Michael to protect this space. I call in Archangel Gabriel to bring forth messages and knowledge needed to integrate into our inner and outer world. I call in Archangel Raphael for healing the hearts, minds, bodies, and energies of those who enter here.
Amen, A’ho, and So it is. <3
My intentions for the collective:
Love and compassion is our guiding light. We use love and compassion to guide our choices and reactions for ourselves and others.
Emotions are our signals to stop, breath, and experience. We observe the emotion, and then let it pass through us. We are not our emotions, and our emotions are not who we are.
My intentions for myself:
I am a conduit of love and peace. As I grow and cultivate love within myself, peace within and around me grows exponentially.
I am capable of completing tasks that manifest my dreams in the physical realm.
Physicalizing these Intentions
For the blog, I’ll post the intention where all can see. I’ll also cast a circle with a direct source to Gaia to power and maintain it around the website. The goal is to make this little corner on the internet a sacred space. I might also create a power rune to help anchor in this energy and give an added layer of protection.
For the collective and for myself, I will create a sigil for each. At the new moon, I will cast my circle. I will then meditate on each sigil and imagine what each intention will look like when it is fulfilled. I’ll then anoint the sigils and leave them on my altar until the full moon.
Preparing for the new moon
When I’ve been experiencing a lot of heaviness or things/events happen that have just put a lot on me, I like to do a clean energetic refresh. The night before, I’ll write down things on a paper that I am ready to release.
There might be things, situations, people that I am still working through and might need more time to learn all my lessons or I might be in the process of slowly letting go. I write what is ready to be released. Then I take a shower and imagine the feelings associated with what I am letting go, going down the drain, straight to Mother Gaia.
During my ritual, after I called the quarters in and casted my circle, I’ll burn this paper to make room for the new stuff that I am calling in. I like to coincide this release with the “Dark Time” of the moon. This time usually occurs the day/night before the new moon.
Final thoughts
I like to keep my Moon rituals simple. Simple is easy to do, especially as a busy mom without a coven. As my spiritual community grows, maybe I’ll get more complex, but right now, this is enough for me.
What’s great about creating your own ritual is that you can get as complex or as simple as you need/want it. Sometimes I turn my new moons into a reset night for me and do a lot of pampering activities. Sometimes I do a reading for myself. Other times, I’ll just meditate on how I want the next moon cycle to look. There’s no expectations.
Some practices and covens will have specific structures and ways of doing things, but in your personal practice anything goes as long as you are staying true to yourself.