☾✩☽ Guest Luminary ☾✩☽
Artist and activist Charlotte Church became a global sensation as a child, selling over 10 million records and performing for popes and presidents. Driven by her passion for change, she co founded The Awen Project, a free, nature-based school focused on creative, democratic education. In 2022, she launched The Dreaming, a wellness retreat in Wales where guests can reconnect with nature and themselves. Charlotte’s Late Night Pop Dungeon project concluded at Eurovision 2023, and in 2024, she introduced her podcast Kicking Back with The Cardiffians, showcasing the working-class wisdom of her community.
☾✩☽ Astrological Resources ☾✩☽
Here is a selection of some of our favourite Astrologers you can tune into across 2024.
↠ 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 ☾✩☽
↠ The Dreaming Retreat website
↠ Charlotte’s Instagram here
↠ Charlotte’s podcast, Kicking Back With The Cardiffians
☾✩☽ Cosmic Intel + Teachings ☾✩☽
According to the Farmers’ Almanac, December’s full Moon is most commonly known as the Cold Moon—a Mohawk name that conveys the frigid conditions of this time of year when cold weather truly begins to grip us.
This full Moon has also been called the Long Night Moon (Mohican), as it rises during the “longest” nights of the year, near the December winter solstice. Other names that allude to the cold and snow include Drift Clearing Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Trees Moon (Cree), Moon of the Popping Trees (Oglala), Hoar Frost Moon (Cree), Snow Moon (Haida, Cherokee), and Winter Maker Moon (Western Abenaki).
Other names include Moon When the Deer Shed Their Antlers (Dakota) and Little Spirit Moon (Anishinaabe).
In Europe, ancient pagans called the December full Moon the “Moon Before Yule” in honour of the Yuletide festival celebrating the return of the sun heralded by the winter solstice.
As we approach the mischievous Full Moon in Gemini this Saturday, we're invited into a dance of duality – where wisdom meets curiosity and sacred communication shows us the stories in our hearts.
This Full Moon illuminates the axis of knowledge-seeking Sagittarius and information-gathering Gemini, asking us to find balance between our higher truth and our daily interactions.
☾✩☽ Gemini - The Storyteller | Heroine’s Journey ☾✩☽
The Gemini moon reveals opportunities for multi-faceted communication cosmically, internally, relationally, emotionally and spiritually that can offer personal transformation and healing in our collective consciousness. 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.
The Gifts of the Gemini Energy:
Energetic, Fun, Playful, Versatile, Intelligent, Inquisitive, Info
junkie, Quick-witted, Optimistic, Conversationalist, Socializer,
Curious, Willing, the Reader, the Writer, the Storyteller.
The Challenges of the Gemini Energy:
“I’m bored”, Nervous anxiety, Spread too thin, Burn-out,
Verbose, Unreliable. Scattered. Ungrounded. Top heavy in the
mind.
Sitting opposite of Gemini on the zodiac wheel is Sagittarius, the centaur and great knowledge-seeker. Much like Gemini, Sagittarius operates on learned and absorbing information, but because it’s ruled by the expansive benefic Jupiter, it takes things to the next level. Sagittarius is the crusader, the whistleblower, the social justice warrior. Sagittarius is the sign of Freedom.
☾✩☽ Gemini - Sagittarius Axis ☾✩☽
With this 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. In this spirit, we share with you these journal prompts and invite you to ponder: What does freedom mean?
Ritual journal prompts
The dictionary definition 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. Memorize 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?
Finally, pen a letter to the universe during this time. By writing as if you already have something, it helps with your manifestation. Write about being free in all of these areas.
☾✩☽ 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