A Virtual Retreat to Start the Journey

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I've created a virtual mini-retreat for you to begin this month of introspection that may help you identify your soul's intention for you this season. I've used it before as a dark of the moon meditation, but it will work during this January new moon phase we're in right now, too.

To get started, you can click the link above now to head on over to the retreat or start here with a little relaxation...



As you begin the retreat, you first want to make sure you are very comfortable and relaxed.

So settle back into a comfy position and begin to watch your breathing as you breathe in deeply and slowly. Breathe deep from your belly and notice how your belly rises and releases as you inhale and exhale slowly. Take several slow, deep breaths and mentally release any tension or stress that attached itself to you today.

Let it all go. Watch it fly far away in a great big balloon that gets smaller and smaller until it is absorbed into loving energy and transmuted. And speaking of loving energy, imagine that above you is a giant jar of warm, golden love energy that is cascading over you, helping you feel secure and warm and comfortable as you continue to relax.

When you feel fully relaxed, you are ready to begin…

Virtual mini-retreat

Have a great day!

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Moon Magic Monday: Getting Ready for the New Moon

 The Waning Crescent Moon & The New Moon

(photo credit: gypsyolie.blogspot.com)

This week, we are still making use of the energy of the waning crescent moon, but toward the end of the week, will get to utter our intention for this new month to the dark of the moon and create an intention ritual when the new moon appears this weekend.

This is the time to begin to identify, create and solidify your new intention. When you feel clear about it, utter that intention to the dark of the moon. 

And then, rest. This part of the moon cycle lasts five days and offers built-in hibernation before gearing up for the next big thing you will do. Though you can choose your next goal, it’s not time yet to do anything about it. You still have time for rest and renewal before creating the next transformation.

Have a great day!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are at the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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Facing Down a Mountain of Resistance

So, in yesterday's post, I admitted that when the time came to gear up for this month's new moon work, I just did not feel like doing it. But today, I can happily report that I am back in the game for this month.

Climbing Resistance Mountain 

(1) First, I ate an impressive amount of white cheddar popcorn. There may have been a few cookies,too. (Don't judge)

(2) Then I grabbed my "take back your power" elixir and my "find your voice" elixir, and after using them, I put them on the windowsill, surrounded by a circle of carnelian, which, itself, was surrounded by double-terminated clear quartz crystal.

(I have rough ones, too, but I used large tumbled ones, like these)

(3) I did a quick ritual that included prayer, my wand, my desert jasper and a lot of compassion for myself. I realized that I had had a dream recently that foreshadowed this resistance.

And I remembered feeling so intimidated by what I understood of its meaning, that I just sort of left it for later. Looked like later had turned into now, LOL! It was one of my driving the car dreams, and was about all sorts of things going wrong after I got behind the wheel.

For me, in addition to whatever else makes the particular dream unique, it comes down to trusting myself and feeling safe.

(4) I decided to make 2 crystal elixirs, one I would call Safe and another for the actual moon wish I am going to work on this month. I would work on trust and safety first and then, create the 2nd elixir.

(5) I also did an intuitive reading to get some extra insight into the problem, and a healing ritual and meditation.

(6) It all worked, and really helped. But the work will continue this month, and I will see how it goes. At each phase, I'll check in with myself and see which adjustments I might need to make to keep things on course.

But meanwhile, have a look at the crystal layout I finally created!

Dealing with Resistance

My encouragement for anyone dealing with resistance is to lean into it, and try to figure out what your inner child needs, or what the inner fear is about, and then, address that in your ritual or moon work. Put the other work on hold, if you need to, until you're ready. You've got nothing but time, right?

How do you usually handle resistance after you've set a goal or intention?

See you tomorrow!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are at the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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My Confession: Resistance & What to Do about It

How I Conquered My Own Resistance

This is the absolutely true story about how when the time came to start my new moon work, I did not want to do it. At all. The most apathy I've felt around moon work in years. What happened?

Well, this month's goal is a "go big or go home" kind of thing. Being all in! Going all out. And when the time came, I just couldn't seem to generate any energy around it.

Here's what happened...

Nothing Much Going On

So, it's Tuesday night. And I know that tomorrow, the new moon will be here, ready for my intention for this cycle. Normally, I would feel excited. And I've waited all day for the excitement to hit me.

By now, I would usually have a crystal elixir sitting on the windowsill. Crystals? Meh.

But why? What the heck is going on?

I am sure it is resistance. Some part of me is saying, "this moon wish is too big and too scary! What if you feel? You won't fail if you don't try!"

Oh boy! I've heard that voice before.

Okay, then. That means that what I need to do is create a blend that addresses the fear and resistance. Maybe some letting go crystals, too?

Stay tuned. Later tonight, in part two of this resistance extravaganza, I'll tell you more about how I rescued my own new moon extravaganza!

See you then!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are at the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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Creating a Crystal Layout

Using Your Crystal Elixir

This post is a sort of part two, connected to my post about creating a new moon ritual. In that post, I tell you how to create a crystal elixir to use as part of your new moon ritual.

Once you've created it, for the next couple of days in the new moon phase, continue to use the moon-and-crystal-charged elixir you created. Splash it on your self, anoint your wrists, heart space, third eye.

Crystal elixirs are very powerful, so you should notice a difference in the way you feel each time you use it.

Should you drink it? Some people do, and if you are planning to do that, I would keep it in the refrigerator. But I also would have run the crystals in hot water before using them to create the crystal elixir. I, personally, don't drink them. But that's up to you!

Creating a Crystal Grid or Crystal Layout

And, if you want, use those charged crystals (from the elixir) in a layout that also will empower your intention. If you can place it near a window (or outside?), where it will catch the moonlight for the next few days, even better.

(An abundance layout I created)

How you create the layout might depend on what your intention is. A circle, with a clear quartz crystal in the middle is always good. But if your intention was to attract love into your life, you might create a heart, instead. If it’s money, maybe a dollar sign or an infinity sign.

Once you’ve created the layout, you can place your written intention under the center crystal or keep it on your windowsill if you’d prefer.

Have a wonderful day!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are at the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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Choose Your Own New Moon Meditation!

New Moon Meditation

One way to intensify your new moon experience during this moon cycle is to create a visualization or meditation moment for yourself wherein you launch yourself into your future when your new moon intention is a dream come true. Take five minutes tonight, tomorrow and the next day to practice living your intention.

Now, in order to create a new reality, you really only need 7 seconds of concentrated positive focus on this dream you want to come true. A few minutes of meditation will give you that 7 seconds of creation over and over again.

But keep in mind that it will work best and happen most easily if you honor the way that works best for you.

(1) Do you need to see it unfold before your eyes in a series of miracle scenes or a silent movie?

(2) Or do you need to hear an inner voice tell you the story of how your dream came true?

(3) Maybe, instead, you just need to feel it happening in your body? The joy, the peace, the rightness of it all when it finally happens?

(4) Or it might be that you are good at just knowing things and that intuitive knowledge comes to you pretty quickly. Even faster than you can set up a meditation scene?

If so, then just relax deeply and have the intention that you will know whatever you need to about the way your intention will manifest.

And whichever way you choose, be sure to take enough time to relax deeply and ground yourself.

Breathe deep into your belly several times before you begin. And when you have completed the new moon meditation, ground yourself again by focusing on the floor beneath your feet, the back of the seat you're sitting in, the sounds in your room and other sensations available.

Let me know how it goes!

Next post: creating a crystal layout as part of your new moon ritual.

See you tomorrow!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are at the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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Enchanted Ritual: The Power of Music

"Song is life itself. Our voice carries the breath, and song carries the pure note of the spirit, a message from the soul, uniting the outer world with all that dwells within us. Song carries story, tale and meaning, and notes that can literally part the walls between worlds, and heal broken hearts and torn spirits." Lucy Cavendish and Serene Conneeley

The Power of Music in Healing Ritual

I am always most drawn to using music during the letting go moon phase, but it could be used during any moon phase and bring story and power, enchantment and magic to your ritual.

One month, I needed to let go of something I didn't even remember. It was intuitively guided information, a soul story about grief and loss during two possible alternate lives.

I say possible because it doesn't really matter to me if they happened just as I am uncovering in the soul story or not. What matters is that my soul served up this story to me and asked me to respond. So I do. I trust myself.

Letting Go of Grief

So I had two stories of grief and loss and wanted to release them during ritual, and I did feel a little sadness. Kind of like an echo rather than the sound, itself. But it was hard to connect deeply without fully remembering.

So I used this song, and it worked beautifully...

How might you use music in your own rituals?

Later tonight, I'll tell you how to use meditation as part of your new moon ritual. And tomorrow, I'll talk about how to continue the new moon work with a crystal layout.

Have a wonderful day!

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What would it be like to design a daily spiritual practice

that's perfect for you because it's based on
who you are ay the core?

Take the Mystic Quiz and discover the mystic within

who has been waiting to be found.

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New Moon Ritual

Welcome to the New Moon

This phase is the one for creating something new! For setting your intention and consecrating it by offering it to the new moon.

Crystal Elixir 

What I often do is create a crystal elixir designed to empower my intention. For instance, when it’s time to work on letting go, I use a base of crystals that are good for letting go (like apache tears, smoky quartz, black tourmaline, danburite, etc.) and then add crystals specific to what it is I am letting go of that month. If I am working on adding something or my intention is to empower something, I use crystals related to that issue.
 

One month, I created a Goddess Love elixir that I still have on my altar. I also sometimes I create a smudge spray made with the same basic potion and then I use that to clear the air whenever that is needed.

If you decide to make a crystal power potion, you want to create it the day before you will use it, so you can leave it on the windowsill overnight to charge it.

How to Make a Crystal Elixir

(1) Start with identifying the crystals that correspond to your intention, gather them together, along with a double-terminated clear quartz crystal to supercharge the potion, and place them in the glass you plan to use.

(2) Pour filtered water into the glass, and charge it with reiki symbols, your wand, a prayer, etc.

(3) Place the glass on your windowsill, cover it with a paper towel and let it sit overnight to soak up the moon’s light and/or energy.

(4)The next day, pour the moon-and-crystal-charged water into the container you want to keep it in and label it, so you’ll remember what’s in there. Sometimes I will keep put one of the crystals in the container, often the clear quartz crystal.

New Moon Ritual

This ritual can be quick and simple: you splash some of the water on your hands, clasp your hands together and state your intention. Or more elaborate...

(1) Clear the energy with a smudge spray or a crystal wand.

(2) Light a candle while thinking about your intention.

(3) State your intention. You also can say a prayer for your intention and call in any "outside" help you'd like to include.

(4) Anoint yourself with the water. Start with your heart space and your third eye and then, anywhere you feel led to anoint.

(5) Hold some of those crystals in your hand and visualize your intention coming to life.

(6) Use a healing technique or pray to heal anything that needs to heal in order for it to manifest.

(7) Close with a statement of faith that what you want is being created already and is on its way to you.

(8) Blow out the candle.

(9) Clear the energy again.

What about music? Tomorrow, I'll talk about adding music to your ritual and then, we can look at crystal layouts to extend the healing and magic of the ritual.

Have you chosen your new moon intention yet?

See you tomorrow!

Have a wonderful day!

New Moon, New Name?

I just found out from fellow UBC blogger, Deb Dutilh, that today, April 9th is National Change Your Name Day. How cool that it is so close to the new moon.

You only get to try it out for a day, but what a fun "new moon" toy to play with, don't you think?

"April 9 is National Name Yourself Day, a day to let your creativity soar and have whatever name you desire. For comical relief, change ‘mom’ to THAT LADY. Rapper Eminem referred to himself in a song as Slim Shady. It was his alter-ego, though not so nice. While you’re at the name-changing game, change your birth name too, even if you have liked it all these years. Involve your children and let them change theirs. Make a fun lesson out of it." ~~Examiner.com

I'm playing with Anna River Moonstone today! :)

ETA: By daylight, I had changed my mind to Anna Jane Moonstone. And I am considering it as a pen name. What do you think?

Which name will you choose?

Have a great day!

Anna Jane