I enjoyed reading what Jana Stern had to say about the current lunar cycle we are in, and I think you will to:
The Super Worm Moon is almost Full in Virgo
This is a big one!
Full moons, as we know, are best for releasing and banishing the things that do not serve the reality we are trying to create.
Virgo is all about systems, organization, and the material world. When the moon is full here tomorrow, we are letting go of a lot!
Get organized!
Check in with yourself and investigate what new routines you need to create in order to bring your ideal reality forward.
This is an excellent time to clean house, to organize the cupboard & clear the cobwebs from often ignored corners of the mind too.
Spring cleaning starts now!
Cleanliness is next to Godliness they say, and this is because in a clean space we have room for more creation, innovation and silent reflection.
Pisces season wants us to get into the psychic connections to higher realms & Virgo Full Moon is helping us make space for reflection.
Think back to your New Moon in Virgo intentions from August. Now is the time when the worms and insects begin their spring renewal. All the seeds we planted in the fall are starting to spring up, and the same is true for our inner seedlings too.
We will see the fruit bear soon!
The best thing we can do during this time is give ourselves the grace of releasing the habits, people, vibrations and beliefs that stop us from resonating individually and collectively on the level we all so desperately want to get to.
This is the time to release whatever is holding you back. If 2023 has been a slow starter for you, this is the jolt we need to get clear on what we want. The future five years from now will look nothing like it does now. Set up frameworks, systems, and values now to support you in the future.
Seeking stability and consistency are what gets this Virgo Super Full Moon going. When we are releasing this month, consider what has been holding you back from creating the systems you need to support your dependability to you & others. Where can you tighten up your frameworks?
Jana Stern
After we ponder these Full Moon themes and perhaps meditate, journal, or discuss among friends, we are ready for ritual. Please unlock your creativity and make this process your own.
Gather a board, cloth, or sit near an altar, table, or windowsill. Collect your crystals and jewels. Natural items like seeds, shells, and pinecones may fill in the gaps. Intentionally place your crystals down and at the end say your intentions out loud. For our words are spells and we must bring our inner soul desires out into existence.
Here is a Grid article I found accompanied with my own photos.
How to Use Crystal Grids to Maximize Positive Energy in Your Home
Meredith Craig de Pietro
If you’ve scrolled through the more spiritually-minded corners of Instagram lately, you’ve likely come across at least one intricately designed pattern of crystals known as a grid. According to those in the know, these pieces of high-vibe home art can bring all kinds of good vibes to you and your abode.
Never heard of them before? “A crystal grid is when you take different crystals and set them up to help focus their energies for a specific intention,” says crystal expert Sadie Kadlec, who teaches and practices at Maha Rose Wellness Center in Brooklyn. “You’re magnifying the energetic properties of [the crystals], and getting them to work together in a synergistic way.
But, if you’ve ever tried to create one yourself, you’ve likely come to realize that it’s as complex as it looks—from finding the right shape and crystals based on your intentions to the “activation.” Before you give up on the good vibes, though, try these easy tips from Kadlec. Her four-step guide for how to do crystal grids is below.
The first thing to do is determine the reason behind why you’re making a grid. Possible purposes could include abundance, love, or even acing a tough test. To help her deal with current events Kadelac’s creating a grid with the following intention in mind: “Having courage to do what I feel is right and to speak up at a time we’re all being asked to be more courageous in our lives and not shrink.”
Many of the grids on Instagram are massive, but a grid could also be a simple circle or square. “All these shapes carry a different energy,” explains Kadlec. According to her, triangles tap into simplicity and structure. Squares help with boundaries, while spirals are about reaching out and expanding. “The grid that’s really powerful for courage is a circle shape,” she says, which represents belonging, oneness, and protection. “I like to place a grid in locations that I know I’ll see them,” she adds and suggests placing yours near plants or by windows to receive solar and lunar energies.
You’ll want to choose crystals that have the properties that coincide with your intention. “I’m choosing a grid to help me tap into my own well of courage, so I would choose stones that would help me reach that place,” Kadlec says. These include stones like kyanite to help with communication, heart chakra stones like rose quartz and malachite for self-compassion and self-acceptance, prehnite to call in spirit guides, and amazonite around the edge for universal love.
You don’t have to go broke buying crystals though. She suggests using what you have, even including elements of nature like flower petals or popcorn kernels if they coincide with your intention. “Maybe you have some special items that you found like some seashells or really just any special trinkets that mean something to you,” she says. Those can stand in for stones and add even deeper meaning to your grid because of their personal connection to you.
“Once I have my grid in place,” Kadlec says, “I activate it with my intention.” This means speaking the intention aloud so that the universe knows you’re serious. For Kadlec’s grid, she would say something like, “I have created this grid to help inspire connection to my courage, to lift my voice, when I have a tendency to shrink.”
Each time you pass your grid, you can hold your hand to your heart and solar plexus, and remind yourself of its purpose. “Crystals are from the earth,” Kadlec says. “They’re healing. They’re supportive. They’re there for you. We’re walking on them all the time. They’re with us in our cell phones and our computers. We don’t realize they’re so prevalent in our lives already.”
Because of this, crystal grids are one DIY way to amplify their energy healing properties in your home where there’s no such thing as too many good vibes.
We are made of star stuff. When we honor the Full Moon, or any phase, we are acknowledging that we are cyclical beings. The same power that turns the tides, and turns the wheel of the seasons, is in us.
When we live cyclically, riding time that spirals around, we tune into signs, support, and agents of change. Currently we just observed Imbolc and we recognize we are in the middle of the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Since the new moon and Imbolc I am hyper aware of natural signs of spring.
“When we are in synch with rhythmic seasonal time, we perceive the early signs of change, in our body and in the environment. The shifts begin to seem more gradual like the phases of the moon. One benefit of aligning with lunar time is that time doesn’t sneak up on us.”
April McCarthery, The Moon is My Calendar
Not only are we able to expect and prepare for the following full moon energies but we know there is built in time of rest and restoration around the end of February during the new moon. This Leo in Full Moon is asking where in your life needs a hero, where in your life needs you be seen, get noticed, show up for others or in your community, execute your mission, your project, your plan, your idea, You may feel the urge to perform your best and claim this Leo Moon time to see a goal to completion.
Tap into your creativity, your inner fire, your drive, follow your heart and go for it this cycle! As in all cycles, we are promised time to rest, regroup, realign, and reenergize later, now is the time to be productive if you are called to do so!
Crystal Grid
Lay out your newly acquired or older crystals and jewels and assign each one with meaning. Maybe a focus or characteristic you need to get your goal this season completed! Place and arrange your crystals, spend some time in a deep meditative state, and relocated your stones in your house where moonlight seeps in on a normally clear night. Allow them to recharge, transmute, and program their energy overnight. As you collect your crystals and jewels the next morning, you can lean on them for support as you are crossing out your to do lists and completing projects you initiated this year. Because we are aligning with our heart centers, we can lead with our light, or spark, our passion and attract helpers to get us thru our mission!
“ This is a powerful lunar portal of shift to amplify your Imbolc intentions, release that which no longer uplifts you, and welcome the illumination of your heartfelt and passionate self to roar as the wise leader of your own life (Leo). Now is the time to clarify your desires and offerings with a sense of inspired action and responsibility.”
Goddess Rising Mystery School
Starseeds, acknowledge the energy of this Leo Full Moon, you may feel a tap, a twitch to move yourself forward. Start accomplishing what you set out to do this year, step by step, moving through one phase to the next.
It’s crystal charging time! The point where we take a breath, reaffirm what we call into the New Year, and energize our spirit, intentions, crystals and jewels!
If you created any sort of list, journal entry, or mandala, pull it out. You can use this crystal ritual to infuse your intentions into your crystal pieces. While meditating, we deeply listen to our hearts. We may be guided to refine our intentions and course correct so that we are asking the universe for what our soul truly desires at this time. Pull out the crystals and jewels you want to support you this cycle. A candle, tea, cacao, essential oils, a playlist, photographs should also be included in this ritual. After you hold each crystal in your hand, you may want to create a grid instead of placing them on the windowsill or moonlit spot in your home, so grab a wooden board or plate. Lastly, find a nice place to sit inviting you to slip into a deep meditative state.
The Mother Moon of Cancer is Our First Full Moon of 2023.
“This full moon invites us all to call ourselves home and explore our emotional shores.”
April M. • The Moon is My Calendar
Cancer is the archetype of the Mother who nourishes her offspring and nurtures love and growth. After the midwinter celebrations, the giving of gifts, your time and energy, showing up at special events and ceremonies, this Full Moon comes at a time where we can pause to stop and nourish ourselves. In the Full Moon with all her bright energy and promise to return to the light, let’s celebrate this new start of the solar year that the Solstice brought. Enjoy the moonlight, let your crystals and jewels bask in the rays, connect with your heart, listen to your intentions, and align with Mother Gaia.
While performing your Crystal Energizing Ritual, the wise ones tell us to dab (diluted) essential oil to our wrists and neck or diffuse it to honor the Cancer Wolf Moon.
🌲 Pine essential oil is nourishing and maternal while entrenched and filled with sacred reverence for many of North America’s Indigenous nations. (For this ritual, I simply burned a Fir/ Spruce candle:)
We are back in a season of new beginnings, and this makes it easy to create a full moon ritual to release all which does not serve us and reclaim our intentions deep within our hearts.
What did we call into our lives at the Solstice, December’s New Moon, or at the start of the year? The New Year’s vibration is filled with dreams, goals, and desires. Tap into the collective to receive love, energy, and knowledge we need to keep evolving into our highest timeline and greatest version of ourselves.
With your collected crystals, jewels, and ritual items, sit comfortably and form a semicircle with them around you. This may be a good time to meditate. Hold a piece in your hand and close your eyes, listening to your breath, sensing the heart beat of the Earth, vibrating thru your crystal.
Meditate with Mother Gaia. She has a heartbeat and a rhythm; our crystals and jewelry can help us hear and listen to Nature, guiding us into a deep meditative state. Departing from disrespecting the Earth, we want to return to syncing with the forces that change the seasons and move the tides. Our Mother, our souls, and our ancestors are calling us back to live in harmony. The relationship between Gaia and us crystal people is changing, and we are welcoming a new paradigm of balance, inclusiveness, spectrums, diversity, abundance, contentment… and more.
Through our crystal rituals, observation of the Luna cycles, and celebrations aligned with the Wheel of the Year, we are dancing with Mother Earth, each other, and the universe.
I’ve learned the more I practice these rituals with crystals and live as a cyclical being, I have dream like experiences of ancient wisdom, lightcodes that heal me, and feelings of being supported. The love I receive fires my passionate plea for you to join me!
Let’s Create a Full Moon Ritual by Using Crystals for Meditations and to Seal and Energize Our Intentions
💎 One by one, piece by piece. Hold a crystal and speak individual intentions to it to seal that energy and vibration.
💎 Find a good spot, in your home, porch, deck, where the moonlight will hit. I use a chair or a windowsill. You can also use a board for a crystal grid.
💎 Set out your crystals overnight, let them seal your thoughts, wishes, desires, feelings, and be open to their support and love to hold you through both the outside cycle of the moon and inner season of your life. Upon waking up, collect your crystals and keep them close.
If my meditation to sync with Mother Moon sounds familiar, I believe is my mission to amplify the voices who are already doing the work. We are simply joining the collective of people who want to restore balance with nature.
Crystals are gifts from the earth that physically remind me of my intentions to join the community and create a more balanced, fair, and just world for the land, animals, water, and sky.
My intention is to join the chorus with you to create change and growth. Pictured above is my crystal I am infusing with this intention- during this cycle and many moons to come.
Vanessa
Consciousness is magnetic. Where you focus you flow. Elect to hold high quality thoughts, emotions, wishes, and beliefs.
If you’re moving thru emotions low vibe feelings this cycle, that is something you can focus on too. In examining frustration, jealousy, anger… you’re able to work through that heaviness and move through it with grace. Work to reframe your thinking. Transmute this energy to neutrality – not all emotions hold positivity, love and light but, they are able to be neutral in your mind. Call on support if you want it!
We are part of an infinite loop of creation, energy, motion, emotion, belief, that is aligned with our thoughts. Trust that and tap into it.
I’d love for you to join me; it can’t hurt to try. We are part of a larger community.
Boho Bahia 