New Moon & Eclipse in
Capricorn December 25
This year ends in the same moon cycle it started, with a New Moon in Capricorn; this cycle, this journey, this movement returns back into itself. Having traveled, experienced, and savored this movement, this sign encourages us to use fresh energy to look at the
structures within our lives and how they influence our everyday. This New Moon is also a solar eclipse, breathing new energies into those stagnant spaces and new life into the fertile soil of our imaginations. Frequently, this time is centered around preparing for the New Year, planning for the future, and generally looking forwards, away from the complexity that brought us to this point. Instead, using this sign's earthy energy, take root into the structures and rhythms of your
life that have nourished you so far, that have bathed you in richness, and gifted you with sweetness.
Give attention to that growth that happened over the course of the thirteen New Moons of this year. Notice the thought patterns, engagements, and people that have nourished you and those that have drawn from your reservoir. By noticing where you have been giving and receiving you can evaluate if you continue to feel that pull. Are you celebrating that which gives you life? Are you honoring that which you have chosen to
give your attention and care? What would it look like to look at one's structures without guilt, shame, or judgement? To let curiosity encourage pleasure to be intertwined in your everyday. For lusciousness to be a building block of your routine.
The 2020 Five Day Seagrape Self-care Challenge!
2019 has been an impactful year for all of us. Whether you’ve been celebrating your dreams coming true or feeling the collective chaos as a sensitive empath, the need to call our own desires in is felt deeper than ever. I’ve definitely noticed it in the Seagrape community over the last year. I feel it in the medicine you’re asking for, in the questions you’re posing, and in the scents you’re finding comfort in.
As you inch towards the New Year, take a moment to look back on 2019 and thank your past self for getting you to this moment. Thank yourself for all of the amazing work you’ve done, the decisions that got you here, and the magic that has whispered softly to you and allowed you to be guided by your own intuition. You’re coming home to yourself and that’s so worthy of making space for! I’m right there with you. It’s time to celebrate where you’ve come
from and where you are going as we cultivate another juicy and expansive decade full of indulgence!
You deserve to fill your life with pleasure, self-care, and magic. So, as 2020 approaches I invite you to romance yourself together with me and your Seagrape community.
Lets go beyond maintenance self-caring and turn our lives into a full blown love affair! Lets fill our cups until they are overflowing with abundance, encouraging and supporting each other to live our best lives! To bring 2020 in with this sexy, new intention starting on January 5th the Seagrape Babes and I are hosting our very first 5 day Self-Care Challenge and we want you to join us wherever you are in the world!
This free challenge will stoke your inner fire and help you begin the new year of inviting pleasure and embodiment through luscious self-care tools, easy-to-apply prompts, videos and a whole community backing you up. If you are ready to turn the key in your own ignition, feel inspired, alive and even try out some new routines- this invitation is for you!
Please click here to sign up for the challenge (don’t forget to confirm the subscription)! We will send details in January. Also, when you sign up for the challenge we will enter you to win $100 gift certificate to our shop so you can add even more Seagrape tools to your self-care kit after the challenge. Just opt into the challenge here and receive all the deets in January. We can’t wait to self-care with you!
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SOLSTICE MAGIC:
PLEASURE PULL TAROT SPREAD
We've created a brand new tarot spread for you to work with during the New Moon!
Welcome to the final New Moon (and solar eclipse) of the year! This dark moon in Capricorn is particularly whip-cracky, offering a little pleasure to the pain of getting real about goals, desires, and the reality of what the next year will bring if you play your cards right. This new lunar cycle lifts us up into the silky black upperworld and carries us into a brand new decade. It asks us what we need to feel safe, supported, and held, as well as what we
need to face and can no longer ignore or put on hold. There is a demand for collaborative energy from this new moon, acting less like a friendly bus driver and more of a co-peddler on a sky-bound tandem bike. And in case you're wondering, yes, you'll be seated in the back. There are directions this moon will ask of you that could feel new and a little nerve-wracking, but the name of the game here is trust. The fateful New Moon paired with the bossy energy of the solar eclipse can be approached as a sexy daddy dom, or a stern but loving dance instructor. These equal and opposite energies live within you. They want you to succeed, to feel exalted, and to commit to yourself, dammit. This is in order for your new year to have the freshest and most beautiful inception possible. It may feel tough at times, but also wildly terrific if you'll willing to meet it.
This custom New Moon + New Year spread, The Pyramid of Pleasure, is designed to visually conjure the grounded stone-by-stone stacking of personal power, and a fire glowing in a pit, reaching up to the night sky. The inverted approach offers a sensation of cascading energy flowing downwards as water does over river rocks. While accessing our own sensuality and pleasure factor, energy shoots upwards and downwards, brought together by
the elements of fire and water within the perfect diamond of our physical bodies and light bodies alike.
When working with tarot, the number six (ruled by Venus) is balancing and unifying, resembling the energy of the Lovers, and reinforcing deeper aspects of communication and radical honesty. To begin this new cycle with the intention of cultivating these qualities within the self is powerful and important work. Six joins together opposites like the flame climbing up to the sky and the waters flowing down the river, the daddy dom and the
tight lipped dance teacher, the sun and the moon. In this space of commonality, there is room for forgiveness, harmony, and possible joy and gratitude through the acceptance of grief and pain. We may find new surprising routes to our own pleasure, and excitement in saying yes to the mystery. This is an invitation to strip ourselves clean and dive into the unknown. In this moment, we may embody humility and wondrous empowerment all at once.
After shuffling and pulling your cards, arrange them one at a time as a pyramid beginning at bottom and working your way up.
1) FIRST BASE CARD (placed in the middle, between two others)
This card represents you in this moment; the culmination of self after the energies of 2019.
2) SECOND BASE CARD (placed to the left of the first base card)
This card resembles wounds to be healed in 2020.
3) THIRD BASE CARD (placed to the right of first base card)
This card offers divine support, and suggestion around where to gather healing energy and how it could be applied.
4) FIRST MIDDLE CARD (placed to the left, above and between first and second base card)
This card represents one of the opposing energies that will be joined in 2020.
5) SECOND MIDDLE CARD (placed above and between first and third base card)
This card represents the other opposing energy that will be joined in 2020. These two energies are meant to illuminate new routes to personal empowerment and sensuality, guiding your path to personal pleasure.
6) TOP CARD (placed above both middle cards) This card is the tip of the flame, and the source of the wellspring. This card represents the source of your mystical energy in 2020.
Consider keeping your top card on your altar for the final days of 2019 and into the first few weeks of 2020, or create a space on your altar that resembles your top card, holding presence around it for the full year. Do you have a deck of your own that speaks to you? Check out a few of our favorites in shop, such as The Luminous Void, Many Queens Tarot, and the Herbal Tarot.
Blessed New Moon to you!
ENACTING ALLYSHIP:
JUNIPER
As we sink further into the stillness of winter, it's timely to honor the longevity of our neighbor evergreen trees. Here in the Pacific Northwest, our three varieties (western, common, and Rocky Mountain juniper) do not grow together. They are happily unified in their commonality, but comfortably separated - naturally established and rooted in their individuality, and happy to grow within their communities. This sentiment resembles our cultural
needs as people. We all have the shared experience of human life in common, and must make room for each other to live well, thrive, and support the growth of others near and far. However, we must also understand where our safe spaces are, who we feel most at home with, how we choose to establish community. These circles become our spiritual home base, our family, and ultimately are the strongest reflections of self that we turn to. Juniper reminds us to stand strong in ourselves, and
to learn the natural comfort from leaning into our communities when needed, and when others need us too.
To forge the bonds of allyship with any plant, you must first spend time with it. If you don't live near juniper, find a reputable source of juniper berries, juniper extract, or juniper berry essential oil. If you do, simply sit with the trees, and share some sweet stillness together. If you choose to wild harvest, be sure to take only enough for yourself and leave plenty behind.
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Embodiment Through Movement
When we talk about pleasure, it often begins with a calling back of ourselves. A calling back of either a truth or feeling that was once deeply known, and is being re-membered, acknowledged, and experienced. We can do this in a multitude of ways, with physical movement being one of them. Acknowledging our bodies with gratitude and excitement can feel difficult for some, especially since various societal narratives ascribe worth based on
oppressive structures. But by routinely residing in our bodies we can learn the language of our nourishment and nurture ourselves in the way we need.
Using movement to practice embodiment can be a dance in the kitchen, a walk through the forest, or stretching on your porch. It can be practiced in solitude, with roomates, or those in your cubicle. Begin with cleansing breathes that sing you to this moment. Relax your jaw, the skin between your eyes, and the space at the base of your skull. Do a gentle body scan, noticing the muscles and joints that are asking for some care and solitude.
Encourage the movement of your breath to take up more space, allowing it to fill your chest, a massage from the inside. From this space, allow your breath to move your limbs in a way that feels likes dancing to the beat of your own essence. Commune with the space around you, sensing how your movement affects the energy around you. Do this till you feel the exquisiteness of your body resonate anew.
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
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