Full Moon in Cancer January
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Welcome to the start of the New Year and decade! It's time to welcome and cultivate your inner-light, your intuition, and most importantly, your pleasure. This Full Moon and Eclipse falls in the sign of Cancer which rules the breasts and belly, the protective nurturer
concerned with home, and the home within.
It's a gift to start the year off with this powerhouse Full Moon, an invitation to tend our sense of place and self through the lens of gratitude and abundance. Today I invite you in to practice a spell of security and care for your physical body, your forever home. Write this spell for yourself or find your favorite body oil and spend some time moisturizing your skin, focusing especially on a gentle belly and breast massage (everyone has pec
muscles!). Say to yourself: Thank you for being my Divine home, thank you for guiding me. I welcome in a stronger connection to my intuition and open myself to radical vulnerability with this Full Moon." If you have the time take a long and relaxing bath, massaging your skin during and after.
As the year begins anew, the warmth of your inner light thaws the stagnancy of the past and prepares you for the coming seasons. We are blessed to be here, and live in gracious awareness of this time with the planet and stars that birthed us into existence. Happy Full Moon, babe.
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Calling Pleasure home to you
It's the start of a new year, and a new decade- can you even believe it? Before the year slips through our fingers lets take a moment to carve space out, and cultivate a pleasure practice together! Here is a snippet out of our recent Self-care Challenge to help you:
Pleasure and desire are some of the most important qualities to cultivate in pursuit of self-care. As a society, and socialized femme folks we often sexualize desire and pleasure and think of it only in tems of attraction or other people ie: how to be more desirable, how to please others. What role does pleasure and desire play in your self-care routine now, if any?
Here are 3 journal prompts to get you thinking about your needs as opposed to what society says our self-care should look like!
1. write out what your self-care looks like now
2. make a pleasure list with 25 items on it
3. list of 5 things that make you feel balanced
Also, here is a Morning Magic practice for you to try today:
Hop in the shower like you normally do (this can happen in the evening too) and as you’re soaping your body just notice your skin. Pay attention to the texture, tension, pleasure, soreness, and anything else your body is feeling. Rinse off and thank your body for holding and supporting you. Think of it as a poem, a song, a prayer. Let your gratitude settle on your skin. If you have the time rub your hardworking feet with oil before getting
dressed.
As the day progresses think of your Pleasure list and actively do something that gives you pleasure. Does this make you feel more balanced? Now try this daily/ weekly.
New Year Tarot Spread
This simple 4 card spread is made to illuminate inner nurturing, and to kindle the warmth within. As we approach this new collective cycle and face the future with grace, we also have the opportunity to work by the light of the full moon, guiding our way into a fresh year of possibility.
This spread conjures the image of a fresh sprout, breaking through the cold and dormant earth with the warmth of life and possibility. This spread offers gentle clarity around what serves us and could be further cultivated, what could be pruned or healed, and that which we should be mindful of as nourishing energy. When we are willing to face what no longer serves us, we may then let these parts go. Perhaps they are habits or aspects of self
that once kept us safe, but now hold us in a cage. Or maybe they are past hurts that have been left to decay for far too long. No energy is without use or cause, and all will eventually be returned to the source. This spread gives us some timely guidance around what to take in, and what to give back.
CARD 1 - TO NURTURE / SEED & ROOT
This card symbolizes the undercover forces and ancestral wisdom at work that may lead and illuminate your path. Remember this theme as the lessons of the year unfold.
CARD 2 - PRUNING / HEALING
We all have wounds, and this card offers some nurturing guidance towards yours. This card signifies a sensitive point of our lives, or a roadblock that must be treated with kindness and care in order to heal and grow from.
CARDS 3 & 4 - BLOSSOMING POTENTIAL
These cards sheds light on two standout aspects of equal and opposite energies at play for you in this new year, acting as mirrors to one another. These together offer you a glimpse of what to cultivate during the next 12 month cycle, initiated during this new moon.
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The Magic of Lavender
A long used and cherished herb, lavender has been known and taken up by herbalists, healers, magical practitioners and witches of many origins and eras, offering an array of remedies as vast as those who have worked with it. Originally thought to be from North Africa and the Mediterranean, lavender quickly found roots in all all corners of the world. The fragrance speaks to its capacity to heal and protect, support and regulate. An easy to dry plant, you may
hang a bunch behind your front door to protect those within and to share gratitude with the house itself. If worn, it protects from ill will and self-sabotage. The smell is sweet and lingering, topped with the slightest sharp echo of mint, reflective of its family of origin. Lavender shares this botanical territory with basil, thyme, lemon balm, oregano, rosemary, and sage amongst others. When spending time with them all, you'll notice a balmy aromatic resemblance which is refreshing and
soothing in the same breath.
It's no wonder that the magical uses of lavender so closely parallel its practical healing properties. In fact, it may be the perfect introduction to magic for those magically-dubious-but-still-open-minded friends and family members. You know that auntie who went to nursing school but felt conflicted about standard medical practices, or the neighbors kid who seems especially good with the garden chores? Plant some magically charged practical lavender wisdom
with them! As an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, lavender oil supports healthy immune system and respiratory functioning. It also lowers cortisol levels, making space for better sleep and cognitive activity. From this perspective, it's easy to see the magical effects of calming anxiety, healing the heart, encouraging clear thought, and promoting love. Yes, love. When we are calmer within ourselves, we have the scope to see who we and others are, and be a little more accepting in a world that
wants us to judge. Lavender says yes to the simple joy of existing, to giving, receiving, and experiencing pleasure in all facets, to slowing down, and to balancing the internal scales of firm and calm. Strong and soft. Sub and dom. There is a vastness of thresholds that lavender ushers us towards, based on what we need at any given time. All it asks is that you trust yourself, and it's here to support that process.
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From our latest post;
Starting a Tarot practice with the New Year
...In the beginning, you'll likely feel confused, guilty, bashful, or pressured to act quickly. The gaze of capitalism and imbalanced patriarchal rule has greatly damaged our ability to shamelessly be with ourselves for the simple yet profound sake of self-understanding and growth. This little offering to yourself is an act of gentle protest, and is entirely for you. From this action, your intention ripples out to the world and makes it stronger, even if you don't
feel it. That's what magic is...
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