Full moon crystals, potions and reminders
This is our second full moon in the sign of Aquarius, the last one was fairly potent for me, as was the new moon sandwiched between them. I’m hoping this one might be calmer and thus far it does seem that way…albeit there’s still time!
The message coming through is one of receptivity, trust and gratitude. I’ve felt in clients recently too.
This is receptivity as part of the whole, of unity and oneness. Often we can be much better at giving rather than receiving. When faced with receiving we may get embarrassed and automatically feel that we have to reciprocate without appreciating that sometimes just have to accept. Sometimes, underneath the resistance to receiving is a lack of self-worth and self-love. Some will feel more comfortable giving for this very reason. but as we know, each half makes a whole and each whole therefore comprises the balance of halves - give and take, inhale and exhale, light and dark, new moon and full moon, high tide and low tide and on it goes. Thus to appreciate our WHOLEness, we need to be open to giving and receiving and being OK with that. Easier said than done!
I’ve been noticing this in my yoga practice. There’s a sense of the thigh bone deepening its connection to hip joint. Can the hip joint be a comfortable and supportive place to receive? Can the knee joint both give and take? Can it straighten and bend? Can it find the dance to support the flow of life and find the humility to bend down if needed, the strength to straighten and allow us to stand up for what we believe in, and the movement to allow us to follow the path of the heart when called to do so without being stuck by fear, grief or sorrow? Can the foot receive the earth? Can we allow a resting after movement and movement after resting? Can the crown receive the support of the divine and trust in that?
Trust is another huge one. This is trust in the primordial support of the universe. Trust that all our needs will be met as we follow the path of the heart. Trust that every perceived mistake is actually another opportunity to learn and expand. Trusting in the divine (or whatever name you wish to us, universe, God etc) is not easy. It requires faith and a sense that whatever happens is happening for the highest interest of all levels of your being. Trust asks that you take a leap and fly without any certainty of outcome, letting go of any need to control this either. Fear keeps you stuck in the rational mind, trying to control and make certain.
The most life changing events happen without us having any seeming control over them, at leats that’s my experience. I write more about this in my new book, about to start it’s professional edit…life is made up of moments…the only thing asked of us, is to keep laughing and aligning and realigning to heart.
Gratitude of course comes next, or maybe at the very beginning. This isn’t wishy washy love and light gratitude, you know, listing things without really meaning any of it. I have a very bad habit of focusing on what I don’t have rather than what I do, it’s a hangover from the ‘achievement-focused’ education that conditioned my mind a certain way, well towards achievement and box ticking ultimately! I’ve been trying to change my mind and release this conditioning, but I still notice it and gratitude has come in on this full moon as a needed reminder. Gratitude alone, when practised with meaning, changes things.
I’m increasingly grateful for my health, which I often take for granted, especially as more and more friends tell me how they’re suffering from this ache and pain, or hormonal issue as they get older and blame it “on old age”. I don’t seem to be suffering in quiet the same way just yet, so I am very grateful to yoga, Ayurveda and Reiki for that. I’m grateful for E and my family and for E’s family too. We spend a lot of time together and our boys are growing up with three devoted grandparents, which is amazing - let alone the support E and I receive and the support I receive from him.
I’m grateful for so many things really, my friends, my home, this island and it’s safety - I sometimes think us Guerns must have done something good in a previous life to end up for here, when we could have been born in Afghanistan or Syria for example - for fresh air and the opportunity to experience so much freedom - mind, speech, thought, even travel to a certain extent (mainly because I don’t want to go further than Sark even if the whole world was open to me at this time, well OK, I’d still like to get to Nepal, but heck, Sark is amazing and on our doorstep!). There’s so much to be grateful for. Always someone else worse off, someone who can be helped, always there’s that motivation, because life is so bright really, even if it doesn’t feel like it at times.
But that’s life. Our mind’s are tricky things and much of our suffering is self created. I don’t know how anyone survives without a spiritual practice, the pace of life makes it tricky at the best of times, and there’s huge stresses out there at the moment. But you know, gratitude. It could always be worse.
So I’ll leave you with that as I’m heading out to catch the waxing moon, we have a date.
Don’t forget to get yours crystals out, and any potions you've made.
Love Emma x
