Earth

Earth Muse

Dark Moon Taurus. Taurus is an earth sign that calls us into the fullness of embodiment. A full meeting of our senses and our earth body with the revelatory beginning of the outward bloom of mother earth. She says FEEL. In the dark moon we are also taking, albeit brief, a pause to drop the last moon cycle. If something is teetering on the edge of arriving, can we surrender to its own glorious energy and timing? Releasing our expectations and allowing it the space to become in whatever way it needs to be revealed without our interference

Deep belly breath

Embodiment may not be fully comfortable if we are not able to embrace the fullness of ourselves for so many layered reasons. When and if we are able to turn down and in and confront these shadows of discomfort, here begins the alchemy. Facing the stoy and unravelling its threads. Allowing our minds to see through the veils of illusions. To dissolve the disconnect and recognise ourselves as whole and holy in our blessed chaotic messy real raw body selves. To revel in the truth of this.

Perhaps this moon you will meet real root issues - for example actualising exchange for your energy. Notice anything that crops up about stability, foundations, abundance, nourishment, nurture …

Taurus wants to make love - to bring connectivity and sensuality. To ignite our sexual energy - the full power life force present in every cell. This moon wants to support us to expand into not only asking for what we need but to go for it! To be in the fullness of the love that we already are

The charge of love

Taking the bull by the horns and charging towards the Summer Solstice. The bull is a strong and grounded creature representing not only a gravitational connection to earth but a strong sense of spiritual union with that. Horns always represent our connection to the universe and spiritual plane - to accessing higher dimensions. The epitome of ‘root to rise’.

Litha is where we can witness the earth making love to herself. The full bounty of her bloom is unapologetic. Each turn of the wheel invites deeper embodiment and in polarity deeper dissolution of our attachment to the fleetingness of all. An expansion from outdates patterns and beliefs that allow us to e x p a n d. Taurus asks what are you fully here to put your life force and focussed attention towards? What is the red flag to your bull? What is your charge!

With this new moon also flows a new perspective - which has come about by the necessity to shift out of the learnings of the eclipses and retrogrades and take action to move forward from anything that revealed itself to us as needing action to change.

What have you learnt?

What patterns have been revealed for you to have agency over and re-story?

EARTH

The fullness of the mother is here

In all her real and raw chaotic entanglement - entanglements arent bad things if we view them as a necessary part of being messy real humans in relationships that offer medicine for our soul path

How are your land relationships mirroring what is present for you?

Notice that the mother energy can hold all of this

Are you having trouble recieving all of this? Is it overwhelming, does that make you want to close off?

It may feel as though everything is blooming all at once but in truth everything has its own subtle timing. Have you worked out what your own rythmn is? What suits you? What is necessary for you? Do you need to break the mould and challenge the status quo in order to carve a whole new way of being that actually suits your needs? If you want to address this and bring something earthside - this moon is a powerful shifting energy for that. It is all about action. If Aries initiated a lot of deep work and has called you forward, Taurus is grounding it into reality. Just remember that old habits are hard to break so stay strong and focussed to really address and change that which needs it

Part of the process of blooming is recognising that it is good for others to receive as well. They too have their time of bloom. Consider another woman’s bloom. Be honest. How does it make you feel and what does that reveal to you about where you might want to tenderly have a course correct of your own. Regardless of how anyone else conducts themselves, the only agency that you have is of your own response. Hold your sisters in the highest light as they bloom. Call in any parts of yourself that feel any of the shadow of that witnessing and be tender with yourself and the ‘other’. Honour one another in the perfection of their souls own journey

RITUAL

Passionately declare your strengths to yourself - list them out - (no ifs, buts or maybe’s) - what makes your unique alchemy so potent. Can you celebrate yourself. Is this a loathsome and arduous task?

If at all possible do this whilst being witnessed and ask the other person to reflect this back to you.

Do it for one another from a place of love and for the intention of healing.

SACRED ADORNMENT

It is time to be bold and adorn yourself accordingly. Consider what makes your body feel good. Are you still wearing winter - do you need to move to a more summer expression. Shed the winter and be seen in your own skin

E X P A N D

JOURNAL REFLECTIONS

Grounding and earthing

What is your sacred heartistry, your yearning, your love language in this lifetime?

Passion is the creative flame borne from love that we can work with to (wo)manifest

Write and speak what you wish to bring forward. Speaking it out loud to others brings a sense of accountability making you more likely to action it.

Make a clear action - no matter how small - towards energetically putting motion to that wish

Small consistent action in the way of our wishes creates earthing of these ideas

The shadow: What are you afraid to say you want?

What happens if you get it? Many people hold a fear of actualising what they want for the fear of being allowed to enjoy it, losing it, having to ‘do a deal with the devil’. Examine your fears around what it is that you want

If what you want feels outlandish - what is the feeling connected to what you want. What do you actually want to feel, to experience? Ie freedom, clarity, spaciousness

How do I replenish my solar and lunar tides? Am I balanced in action and rest? How can I take action to remedy this

OFFERING

Being in your fullness and allowing others to be in theirs. Make an offering that supports another woman with no intention for reciprocity (but it is an added bonus!) Recieve someone else fully - even if just during a conversation. Listen with your whole body and recieve them. Notice how this makes them and you feel. Change the pattern with someone and offer a fresh new way of re-newing your relationship

ALTAR

Create an abundant and sensual full body love shrine

Make an outside altar in nature as an offering to the nature spirits

PRACTICE

Rooted breath practice

Lie down in a comfortable position, head supported on a cushion. knees raised on a bolster or cushion if possible.

Connect to your solar plexus (under your sternum) - place a hand here - connect to your solar energy in this part of your body. Breathe into this area and connect to a sense of your solar energy expanding. Allow your breathing to be gentle and light (no forcing or consciously changing it). Play with connecting to this solar energy emanating through your front and back body. Notice how it feels and looks. Don’t pathologise what arises - simply witness with open curiosity.

(Just a short time initially - ie a minute - you can consciously build on this)

Drop the practice and move onto connecting to your lunar plexus (the area under your navel) breathe into this area and connect to the lunar womb energy here. Again just for a short time to begin with. You can build this up. Then drop the practice.

Next imagine a figure of eight (infinity) and breathe as you connect the flow of these two energies. Once you are familiar with the practice you can alternate between breathing in as you flow to the solar plexus energy and out as you drop into the lunar plexus energy and vice versa.

If you want to deepen this practice you could consider placing a thin cushion or folded towel under your lower back to create deeper extension in your spine

You can choose to close at the breath practice or stay with exploring your voice activations through gentle yawning, sighing and allowing soft sensual noise to bathe you

Feel yourself