1st Lunar Nitya: Kameshvari
Om Kameshvaryai Namaha
Sun: 2 Gemini
Moon: 2 Gemini, New Moon exact at 10:38 am, new Moon
Inner Moon: days 1-7, low progesterone, low estrogen, bleeding
Moon Vibes:
The ambiguous presence that brings gifts of creative potential. Now that we are in the darkest phase of the Moon cycle, the obscure vision makes for reimagining new possibilities. This phase is where we plant new seeds of intention. New Moon relates to Winter Solstice and Yule. In tantra yoga, this is the merging of Moon and Sun from third-eye to crown of the head. In and out breath unite at the crown of the head in breath pause (kumbhaka) where the magic of integration of opposites happens. In the hero’s journey, this is the call to adventure. The phase of the inner Moon cycle related with new Moon is menstruation. Low progesterone, low estrogen and bleeding is present. Take time to rest and reflect. Great phase for receiving dreams and insight. Use foods with higher protein, nurturing, and easy to digest.
Moon in Gemini:
Sun and Moon at 2°Gemini this morning, 10:38 am. Gemini is the Magician using vibration of thought, feeling, and sound (speech, music) to break up stagnant patterns. Gemini is the Air, always new and fresh. Very fast, talkative, flirty, fun (if you like sudden changes) and groundless. This is my favorite season for creations because they fly out of me. I woke up from a dream of Prince teaching me how to create things like kisses, poetry and fashion with personal style. Prince was born during Gemini season. Saturn rx at 120°angle to Sun/Moon encouraging reflection on discipline, getting shit done, building structures and forms from this creative potential. Saturn is our friend. #GeminiSeason #ArtistLife
Astrology info to consider:
Mercury and Venus rx together at 20°Gemini, visible around Sunset yesterday and today. Gemini is in service to spirit through unbounded joy and playfulness. Venus rx and Mercury together express this today. Thinking and speaking with Venusian style. Adding Venus’s love for earth and simple pleasure to our communication. Vesta at 24° adds creative flames and passion for our sacred work.
Thinking and speaking with Venusian style. Adding Venus’s love for earth and simple pleasure to our communication.
Nutrition suggestion:
Gemini is an Air elemental force that corresponds with lungs, arms and hands, the places we split into two. Vata is the energy of wind closely related with Gemini. Tonight’s nutrition suggestion is licorice and mullein tea. Licorice is easy to find, mullein might not be. It is the best remedy and lover of lungs. I recommend keeping some on hand in any form.
Ritual:
New Moon in Gemini is inspired, creating a grand trine in the sky. In harmonious aspect to Saturn in Aquarius we want to respond to humanities cries, in harmonious aspect to Juno in Libra commitment to co-creation and relationships in up. Working with the New Moon over the next 3 nights our rituals will center around stillness, listening, and receiving intention for this Lunar cycle.
I’m inspire to remind us of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tonglen, Ton means giving or sending and Len mean taking or receive. This is the practice of taking and giving. On the inhale you breath in all the pain, suffering, frustration, grief, etc. of the world, on the exhale you breath out love, compassion, kindness, peace, strength, etc. Let us practice this tonight.
- Create sacred space, calling in the energy of the New Moon and calling on your spirit guides to support you here.
- Sit comfortably in a quite peaceful space and breath all your awareness into your body. Feel you spine tall and straight, breath your awareness into your spine. Just be here for a moment. Release doing, arrive in being.
- Practice Tonglen for at least 3 rounds of breath, pause for a moment of awareness to observe how this practice makes you feel, be accepting of what ever is.
- Take more time for stillness and listening now, we will open to receive intention for this Lunar cycle. Remain seated or lay down and fully relax. Relax every muscle in the body, bring special attention to the ungrasping and relaxation of the hands, and the softening of your shoulders, releasing any expression from your face and observe all the muscles of your face relax.
- Shift your awareness to your heart, imagine breathing in and out of your heart, all your awareness in and around your heart as you breath. Soften your heart space and seek to receive your heart’s intuitive guidance. Pose the question to the space of your heart…. what does my heart desire? what am I longing for? what am I seeking? Listen to your heart, ignore mental chatter. You will know you are listening to your heart when the response ignites a feeling within you, something words could not describe. Take your time here, continually bringing your awareness back to your heart and asking your heart for guidance. Be open and accepting to whatever comes; remember silence is also an answer.
- Conclude in gratitude, think of all the things you are grateful for and allow them to flood your awareness, then release the objects of your affection and remain with gratitude itself, the objects of your affection remind you that you are in fact, grateful. Send gratitude to your spirit guides and close sacred space.
Dreams:
Back to the very basics of tending to your dreams.
- Put your screens out of your sleeping space at least 1 hour before sleep.
- Have a routine nightly ritual which includes cleansing your bodymind and sleeping space.
- Keep a pencil, dream journal, dim light near your bed to write dream incubation and record yours dreams.
- Upon waking, be still. Write or record the images, feelings, thoughts upon waking.
Watch this video about dreaming.
Menstruation cycle and Moon:
What phase of your inner Moon cycle are you in? What hormones are most prominent? How does this relate with outer Moon’s menstruation/bleeding phase? Remember, your cycle and Moon cycle do not need to match. Read more about the correspondences here.
