☾✩☽ Guest Luminary ☾✩☽
Erin Telford is a Breathwork facilitator, teacher trainer, business mentor and intuitive guide. She began her healing career over a decade ago as an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and Reiki Master. Her work guides people to look within, open their hearts and heal their relationship with themselves. Her group healing sessions, trainings, retreats and 1:1 guidance support her clients in connecting to their innate wisdom so that they can find the healing and the answers that exist within their own bodies and spirits. She mentors facilitators, coaches/guides and conscious leaders in evolving and growing their missions, visions and businesses. Self-actualization and evolution of our human family are the intention and seed of all of her offerings.
☾✩☽ Astrological Resources ☾✩☽
Here is a selection of some of our favourite Astrologers you can tune into across 2023.
↠ Blue Rose School https://www.andrewsmith.ie/introduction/
↠ Mystic Mamma https://www.mysticmamma.com/astral-insights/
↠ Chani Nicholas https://chaninicholas.com/about-chani-nicholas/
↠ Virginia Rosenberg https://virginiarosenberg.com/about-virginia
↠ Lorna Bevan https://www.hareinthemoonastrology.co.uk/lorna-bevan
↠ Paramatma Siri Sadhana https://spaceweathertransmissions.com/paramatma
↠ Matthew Stelzner https://www.youtube.com/channel/
↠ Jennifer Racioppi https://jenniferracioppi.com/
☾✩☽ Other Recommended Resources ☾✩☽
↠ Erin’s website here
↠ Erin’s IG here
↠ Last night’s Breathwork Playlist
↠ Sandra’s website here
↠ Sandra’s album here
↠ Sandra’s IG here
☾✩☽ Cosmic Intel + Teachings ☾✩☽
Gemini-Sagittarius Polarity / the Alchemy of Knowledge:
The Sun is in Sagittarius and the Moon is in Gemini.
The Full Moon in Gemini is an invitation to reconnect with the seeker inside each one of us. The seeker intuitively knows that beyond the surface of appearances lies a vast ocean of wisdom and uncharted possibilities.
What you seek is seeking you.
Every message you receive comes to you for a reason. At the Full Moon in Gemini, your goal is to connect the dots and find out what is being revealed to you by the Source.
Why now? Why does it matter? What might be the deeper message in the seemingly insignificant detail? These Full Moon hidden messages are cosmic breadcrumbs meant to guide you toward a deeper understanding of yourself and your purpose
With the Gemini /Sagittarius polarity, we seek freedom and truth, so this is the time to revise the ideological basis of our belief systems, individual and collective. This makes it an opportune time to support each other on the quest for meaning, freedom, and truth. Opportunities abound for expanded vision and enlightenment.
What does freedom mean?
Ritual:
The dictionary definition of freedom is, “the ability to act or change without constraint.”
1. What does freedom mean to you?
2. What does freedom feel like in your body, emotional, mind, and spirit?
3. In your areas of Relationships, Home, Money, Work, Health, Spiritual Practice, Body, Sexuality?
4. Imagine it. Memorise it. Note what blocks it. Move towards it.
5. Do we trust ourselves to be free?
6. Do we trust each other to be free?
7. What gets in the way?
8. How are we going to collaborate to make more freedom in the world?
Gemini:
Pen a letter to the universe during this time. Writing as if you are already free helps with your manifestation. Write about being free in all of these areas where you feel constricted and contracted.
☾✩☽ Poem: Becoming the Chalice by Maya Luna ☾✩☽
I wanted to know truth
So I stopped looking
I opened my body until truth found me
I wanted to know love
So I stopped missing it’s absence
I savored every texture in the wilderness of this moment
Until finally love reveled me
I wanted to know power
So I stopped pushing my will onto reality
I let go deep inside
Until the power moved me
I wanted to know passion
So I stopped reaching for perfection
I let my heart melt into the flame of life’s longing
Until passion became one with me
I wanted to know creation
So I merged with the pulse of the core of existence
I wanted to know innocence
So I drank my own presence
I wanted to know God
So I dropped the arrow of my body
And finally remembered to receive
They told me waking up was a complicated affair
They told me to cut myself apart
Who would have thought that flesh
And blood contained the mystery of existence
Who would have thought that the elixir was inside me
They wrote all the books
And gave all the talks
I never knew my own body was the teacher.
☾✩☽ Moon Medicine Rituals ☾✩☽
Create an altar. Create a sacred space in your home - see our guide in aftercare.
Connect with the Moon. Whether or not you subscribe to astrology, the moon is always in the sky, and attuning yourself to the moon's cycle can guide self-care.
New moon: At the beginning of the lunar month, the moon is a new moon. Metaphorically, it's a time to plant the new seeds of goals, intentions, and actions.
Waxing phase: Her growth from new moon to full moon is the waxing phase. This the Warrior Phase—where we gain momentum in our actions.
Waning phase: The Sage Phase happens as she wanes from full, —where we gradually power down, restore ourselves, and integrate lessons learned.
Dark moon: The last few days before the new moon is called the dark moon. Here's when we retreat to our proverbial caves to rest and reflect, preparing for a new cycle ahead
Cleanse. Sage your Home, Bedroom, Chariot & Office. Energetically cleanse the energetic wombs of your life, where you find yourself “creating”.
Observe. Select a journal, and record your dreams, thoughts, insights, experiences and observations.
Collect items: pen, paper, tarot cards, candles, incense, herbs, symbols to represent Luna: mirror, mother, water, seashells, etc.
Have Patience. Have patience with yourself and the journey you’re embarking. Allow yourself the emotional space to process, release, learn, develop and heal.
Lavender Oil. Have lavender in your home, bed or altar. Lavender can bring stillness, and calm an overactive mind.
I Feel. Acknowledge your emotions and journal with what emerges.
Breathe Deeply. The pull of The Moon can bring up strong sensations and emotions – and sometimes this is uncomfortable. However it’s a prime opportunity to feel more and allow the emotion to unfurl. A very practical and grounded way to do so is to focus on the breath and breathe a little deeper than you would normally. Place your hands on your Womb and Heart and take a few deep breaths and feel.
Go For A Moon Walk. Walking in the lunar light in nature can be particularly magical.Watch how the trees move and interact; with The Moon, the wind, with you, and listen, really listen in to the sounds of nature. Moon Bathing can be a truly magical and intimate experience.
Take A Long Luxurious Bath. The Moon affects the tides, the Oceans, the water in our body.
To get in touch with this aspect of nature within and around us – take a long bath.Add in Epson Salts, your favourite essential oil, play some soothing music, light candles and relax.
Tending to your Temple: BodyLiving consciously starts with taking care of your body; the temple that houses you, here on this planet. So, scan yourself from head to toe. How does your body feel? Give yourself all the O2 and H2O your body needs.. Your body will thank you for that.
Ground, Ground, and Ground
The magnetic pull of The Moon is strong so Grounding is super important. If you do nothing else at The Full Moon – ground. It’s especially helpful just before bed as being rooted in the body aids a better sleep.
Beannachtaí 💚
from Kathy and all at The Trailblazery xo