This full moon in Leo is shining its light on you! Not everyone loves attention. It can be challenging to know what to do with it, and often makes us retreat from the world - and from ourselves. Leo steps in and reminds us that the spotlight can be fun, and it can shine from within. During this time expect to feel seen- and prepare yourself for feedback. Often these moments can feel like criticism, but do your best to hear the voices from your own reflection
smiling upon you, and offering sweet guidance. We're all on our own paths, doing our best to become better and better. Be kind to yourself, admire all that you are, and praise how far you've come! You deserve all the admiration in the world and more.
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The Flame Within: Illuminate your Dreamspace
The Flame Within spell is simple; meant to infuse your sleepspace with intentional magic, and illuminate your dreams to uncover messages of how to benefit the most from this Full Moon energy.
YOU WILL NEED:
- 1 candle, any color except red (we recommend the Magic Hour Full Moon or Dreams candle!)
- Matchsticks or a lighter
- A bundle of herbs such as lavender or dried mugwort
- A cloth, handkerchief, or muslin bag
PART I : Preparation
Create a small altar space in your bedroom just for this spell, or incorporate it within the altar you already keep. Place your candle on your altar space, as well as any extra materials you may wish to include, listed above.
PART 2: The Flame
Once you feel ready, light your candle and use this incantation:
Strong and Loving Moon,
Please Gift Me with Your Sight
May my Dreams Bring Forth your Wisdom
On this Day and On this Night
Continue to whisper the incantation as you burn a little of your herbs and let the smoke gently dance around you.
PART 3: SLEEPSPACE
Let your candle burn as you gather your herbs and optional stones into your handkerchief, cloth, or small bag. If you so wish, you may also add one drop of essential oil to your herbs. Once all is collected, fold over your cloth or seal your bag and place under your pillow. Keep a journal close by in case you need to jot down some messages in the night.
Listening to your Dreams
Dreams are our stepping stones to a purposeful path. They allow us space to experiment, stretch our beliefs, and test ours limits in ways that may be too intense for our waking lives. Dreams pull back the curtain on things we may fear, be hoping for, or even need. Self-nurturing comes in so many forms, and dreams are our internal visual guide towards our most robust selves. With visual talismans and prompts, we can better understand our emotional state. You may wake
up and feel confused about why something in a dream made you feel afraid, or excited. In our day to day, these details may not make sense - which is why it's so important to offer space to solve the dreams riddles.
Throughout February, we'll be focusing on the mystical aspects of dreams, learning to listen with deeper awareness as we sleep, and putting what we learn in our dreams to good use. As we delve into this theme of Dreams & Intuition, we welcome you to engage with the SeaGrape coven through our monthly CSW (Community Supported
Witch) Box. This month, it's full of dreamy tools to keep your intuition bright, and your magical self thriving. In includes:
- Dream Herbal Smokes
- - Psychic Eye herbal Tea
- - Dream Decoder divination deck
- - House-made Dreams Talisman
- - House-made Relax perfume
- - Third Eye Anointing oil
Imagine lighting an herbal Dream smoke by Wild Grace and shuffling your deck of Dream Decoder tarot cards. The aroma of our house-made earthy and grounding "Relax" perfume dances through the air - an invisible partner to your Psychic Eye tea, as it steams from your favorite mug. Once you pull a few cards, you might journal your insights before anointing yourself with some Third Eye oil, and climbing into bed. The blend of
gentle fragrances sends you into the sweet darkness of night, where you dreams gift you with messages from the otherworld.
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Romancing Yourself
There are so many roads to romancing the self. What even is romance? According to the Webster Mariam dictionary, romance is "a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life." To court. To woo. To fall in love with the mystery of. Shouldn't this be a value applied to ourselves first and foremost? There is real healing in the disappearance from the superficial. As spacetime gets foggy around us, we can dissolve into our own
sensual nature, enjoy the pleasure of our company as we are, or find space to luxuriate in our perfectly imperfectly perfect selves. However we feel, whether we're experiencing joy, sorrow, anger, hilarity, or a mixture of feelings - they can be validated and supported from within. This is a time to unhinge from the draining need to find our purpose, and simply let the moment be the reason for all things that we are.
This is the time to cultivate gratitude for the self. It's our right from the first to last breath in this life to exist in awareness for our divine being. This awareness can wane, and that's okay. However, the need to resuscitate speaks to us as the changing seasons do.
With the February theme of Dreams & Intuition in mind,
give this simple exercise a try:
If you are able, find a place outdoors and simply connect your bare feet with the earth. Doing this indoors can work as well - consider holding a flower or fresh cut tree branch in your hands. Keep a gift with you, such as a special stone or dried herbs. This could be done in a park, or any open green space. Ensure the rest of you is well bundled and cozy. As you connect, breathe into your feet. See the roots of your divine energy
move past the soil, greeting the mycelium, and feeling the refreshing subterranean waters on the way down until connecting into the deepest core of the earth. Ask the energy of the earth to grant you abundant self-awareness of true, natural and original beauty. You are beautiful, and always have been. Let this be reminded to you. Slip out of any habitual ugly thinking you reserve for defining yourself, and let the earth drink it down through your roots. You are loved, seen, and
needed. You exist for reasons more profound than you could realize. You're made of light in every color ever known, and every color that is unknown too.
Allow this moment to last for whatever amount of time feels right. Two minutes, or two hours. Once you feel ready, return to yourself with this new profound awareness. Find a special place to leave your gift to the earth.
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From our latest post; How are your Dreams speaking to you?
Have you ever awoken from a dream that felt so real that it takes you a moment to recalibrate? Sometimes messages from the otherworld can take time to taper off, echoing throughout the day and reminding us of nearby messages. Perhaps upon waking from such a dream you feel relieved. Or maybe disappointed. Or simply charmed. But regardless of how you feel based on the visions and sensations from your dreamspace, one thing is certain: there has been a message
given to you, and you alone....
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