The season of the witch is here, babe! As we dip behind the thinning veil, October offers us the chance to connect with our ancestral knowing, tap into our intuitive nature, and tend to the magic that's been with us all along. Now is the time to reach for your ancestors and stoke your inner flame through dance, pleasure, self-care, and unabashed presence. Extend gentle nourishment to your body, your home, and all sacred containers you step into this month.

Check in with your own needs, and reinvigorate the living boundaries surrounding your spiritual and mental health. To tend is to give and to receive; by caretaking and receiving care in return, you invoke emotional, physical, and magical balance. Give yourself permission to receive this October. This is a potent time to ask for what is needed, give what you are able, and reestablish pathways towards ritual and magic.

Autumn is a time of deep reverence—for the seasonal wheel, for the self, and for the magic-makers who came before us. Sit in contemplative, fertile darkness this month. Call upon ancestors of blood and of culture by honoring them, and feel their unbounded support through your own unbounded light.

New and Full Moon Missives

Eclipse season begins on October 14th, with a solar eclipse in Libra.

While at its darkest, the moon is also at its most mutable—as we enter the new moon and solar eclipse in Libra, our head as well as our hearts are infinitely pliable. This lunation in flexible, adaptable, and infinitely patient Libra demands that we relax our spirit, and consider where we may be out of balance. The new moon is the ideal time to reassess opinions or beliefs that you may have long considered fixed, or immovable. What beliefs about yourself is your spirit crying out for you to reconsider? Be like the scales this new moon—weigh your moods and emotions with great care, babe. 

This is a difficult time to be a witch in the world—which is all the more reason to tend to the most sensitive, tender parts of you during this lunation. Libra is an airy, harmonious, and level-headed sign, but it's also the sign of justice—now is the time to assess your inner witch's boundaries and desires, as well as their feelings of resentment and mistrust. Look closely at these emotions if they rear their heads, and tend to them with care. How can you seek justice for yourself this lunation? How can you mend the versions of yourself that feel wronged, overlooked, or undervalued? You deserve it all, babe, and then some. Dole out gentleness with an even hand this new moon, and know that you've more than earned it. 

If this new moon feels especially tender for you, connect back to the physical body; level-headed and observant as Libra may be, the dark moon is a time of reckoning with the rich, albeit confusing internal landscape. Your emotional body may feel more prickly than usual—so remember to ground yourself with gentle, healing touch. Libra is associated with the skin, as well as the veins—spend some time lavishing yourself by tracing the veins that are visible underneath your skin, and connect them back to their source: your heart. 

On October 28th, the lunar eclipse in Taurus arrives.

As the last winds of autumn begin to slow, and the chill begins to deepen, you may find yourself reassessing your relationship to safety and security. Feelings of lack are to be expected in the dark months—but the lunar eclipse and full moon in Taurus is here to guide you steadily though your fear, and on to the other side with grace. Virile and persevering, stoic and tenacious, Taurus can be depended on in any situation that requires an enduring warmth. Now, facing down winter, this lunation is urging us to indulge in our comforts. 

Like romantic and flighty Libra, Taurus is ruled by Venus, but where Libra lacks stability, Taurus makes up for it in heaps and bounds. Romance yourself with the simple pleasure of a heavy blanket and a cup of hot cocoa on this full moon, babe. Even better, draw yourself a bath to release the aches and pains of the dark season, and bring your cocoa with you to soak. Taurus delights in the dependable joys in life, and under the light of this full moon, you can feel safe to follow your heart wherever it leads you. 

The Taurus full moon is an uncompromising guide in all aspects; you can be sure that any signs you receive this lunation will make themselves known. If this full moon feels especially tender for you, take some time to follow those emotions to their root. The dark season is a time of deep rest and hibernation, but it's also a time of massive transformation and renewal. You may find yourself at the threshold of an emotional turning point—don't fret about the path ahead, babe. Let sturdy Taurus steer you along; trust that you're headed exactly where you need to go. 

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