A super badass super moon

Being witchy not bitchy, thoughts from a full moon gathering and finding your gravitational pull + video of my "magic" crystals (scroll to the bottom for clip!)

full moon circle

Do you follow the cycle of the moon? I did not until recently. Over the last year, the moon pulled me in its direction, from various directions of my life.

I started to first notice when I suddenly had trouble falling asleep. I’d toss and turn in bed wondering why because, not to brag, I am an expert sleeper. I can fall asleep the instant I place my head on the pillow. Yeah, I know. It’s annoying to everyone else, sorry insomniacs! During those fluke nights, I’d find out the next morning the moon was full and it made me wonder.

My husband is an avid fisherman and he came home one day defeated. It was a hard day of fishing and did not align with the tides and the moon. Since then he’s bought a moon calendar that hangs in his office and I can rely he’ll be home when the moon is at its fullest.

And my 40th this year also happened to land on a full moon. During my birthday, I went on a trip and my friend, who doesn’t live near me, told me about a circle of friends she sees each month on the full moon. I thought, wow, I’d love that in my own life.

Soon after my trip, my local friend asked me if I wanted to be apart of a moon circle.

What the?! Is this real life? Of course I responded with a scream: “Oh hell yes!”

And so, on Wednesday, 4 women and their 4 daughters gathered, charged their crystals and water in the moonlight and offered a space for each other to share their stories, their worries, and good company.

It was extremely woo woo and witchy and I soaked up every moment of it.

witches, not bitches

When I tell people about our moon goddess circle and gatherings, they ask, what do you do?

It’s hard to explain. After all, there’s only been two so far and it changes each time. My friend leads the group and takes us through prompts that allow us to open our minds and hearts, no egos. We share, we write, and explore. What do we want to honor about ourselves? What stories and programs do we tell ourselves but want to release? Who are we now and who do we want to become?

Our daughters had their kid-appropriate circle upstairs, which complemented what the moms did downstairs. We were prompted to pick 3 cards from an oracle deck. Journals in hand, we flipped the card and read the words, viewed the image and wrote what we saw.

We turned card 1, wrote, “There once was a woman who…” and started our own story.

Then we flipped card 2, and wrote the next part with, “Suddenly, she…”

And then with card 3, we wrote, “Finally, she…” and wrote the endings to our entries.

You can see the cards I picked in the image below, which include a lady in water under a forest with her nipple peeking through her kelp-textured hair, then a woman in a cloak looking down at a source of light, and the last card featured the legs of a woman walking into a dragonfly matrix. Once you see the cards, obviously this is a practice of perspective.

I wrote a story about a woman in the world, in nature, exploring the possibilities of life.

Each of us read our stories aloud.

we wrote a story based on 3 cards we pulled from an oracle deck

my journal entry during full moon circle

Then the prompt turned more interesting. After we read the stories, we were asked to read it aloud again but change it to say, “I am.” We read our entry in first-person.

I decided to type the first-person narrative for you.

Before you read the journal entry, I want to leave you with a thought. You don’t have to believe in the magic of the moon or witchcraft. You may think this is all silly. Heck, I’m not fully bought in.

On Thursday morning, as we all drank our moon waters my son was confused and didn’t understand all the fuss around this “charged” water.

He asked, after taking a sip. Does this really work?

I said, “do you think it does?” He said, “yeah, I think so”, and took another swig.

Does it really matter if it works or not? I enjoy the idea of magic within us, this fun energy in a world riddled with hard realities. For some reason, I suddenly have a pull toward the moon and it led me to a really cool connection with friends I didn’t know all that well before. Because of all the moon brouhaha my kids hold onto their imaginations and something mystical for a little bit longer — isn’t that the beauty of childhood?

For me, the magic is not the moon, it’s what I got from being open to the possibilities of this symbol in the sky.

It doesn’t have to be the moon for you. Is there something in your life that pulls and calls to you? Maybe it’s your religion. Maybe it’s a search for spirituality or faith. Perhaps your pull is your daily workout or your search for deeper connection with your partner.

What is your gravitational pull and what is it inviting you to feel or do? What gifts has it given you?

front side of the oracle cards I picked

I am a woman who is in the world, not of the world. What does this mean? I walk through the trees without feeling the forest, I swim alongside fish but do not see the vast ocean or the the streams and rivers of which they derived from the mountains that line the earth. To be of the world is a mission I still seek and live each day understanding my maker, my spirit and my soul.

Suddenly I am a receiver, a participant, and student of the forest, of the oceans, rivers and earth. Perhaps the future is always unknown and I am at peace with the journey to get there. I have the power of openness to possibilities and that is all I need in this present moment, trusting a future that will deliver beauty, safety, love, passion and compassion, adventure and light.

Finally, I bring it into form. It is not a revelation, nor is it an expected outcome. It is a place in my being that feels home. Home is being one with the earth, it is awareness of the human experience. I bring into form awareness of what envelops my whole self. It’s growing, learning, being flexible but strong in my value system. It’s living life with intention, with service to others and myself. It’s the vulnerability in respecting that I have much more to learn in this journey. I am in the world, of the world, and with the deepest depths with the world, and out of this world.

charging our crystals and waters

an August super moon