Earth

Please listen to this Earth transmission

Nettle is one of the plant allies that I tent to initiate circle with. Spending time tuning into the wisdom this incredibly powerful blood of the earth kin has to offer us. She is robust, fiery and will help to move the stagnancy of winter. She demands out utmost respect when we work with her and she brings us into clarity and presence

SACRED INFUSION RITUAL

Head out to find young fresh nettles. Introduce yourself to them and ask them if you can take some of their leaves to work with. Sit down with a well infused cup of fresh nettle tea (dried if you cannot locate fresh just yet) and deepen your relationship with Nettle through this journey activation

ADVANCE CLARION CRY ~ OSTARA COMMUNITY MOON CALL

I hope you can join us to circle together - mark your diary on Thursday 7th March there are two options 2pm or 7pm to share in the group container and receive the activations in connection with the sisters who travel the path with you at Spring Equinox tides. A link for the calls will be shared in due course

ONWARD ENQUIRY

What am I taking with me for this moon journey?

What still needs to integrate from my knowing mind to the gnosis of my body?

ORIENTATION

9th February 2024 ~ Dark Moon in Aquarius = Lunar Imbolc

10th February Lunar New Year of the Wood Dragon

+ Season: Winter

+ North / North East (Lunar & Wheel of the Year)

+ Aquarius Season ~ Fixed ~ Air

+ Element Earth ~ Ancestors - stones and bones

+ Women’s wheel - Crone

+ Mother Earth - Root

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Venus day blessings journey kin

Welcome!

It has been really beautiful to feel all of you arriving through the Ether and onto this path

We are in the middle of Winter in the wheel of the year. We will navigate Piscies Season before we are fully ready to move into the quickening newness of Aries. This time of the water bearer is the pouring of knowledge out on to the earth to support the full circle healing. Each sign will have their own gifts that they bestow on the whole wheel.

There are many maps that make up the journey - they overlay and intersect in ways that you will experience throughout this journey. The only navigating compass needed is the one that resides within ~ and with that a willingness to wander off the beaten track and into the mystery. Being lost is often only a state of perspective and one that can change your trajectory if you learn to trust that the journey path will be revealed as you step forward

For our very distant ancestors the dark moon was understood as a time of in-sight, gradually as time went on, we learnt to fear the absence of the moons light in the darkness. It is in the dark moon we practice harnessing our own light in the darkness

Without the reflection of the moon we are left in present darkness to earth in our temple bodies - there is no light shone elsewhere to distract us

For some, this experience may touch a deeply primal and ancestral fear point in our bodies. A subtle shift into darkness with no discernable navigation point, leaving us potentially adrift. The dark moon of the crones winter time asking us to stop seeking or looking up and out and trust that we will find our way home when we listen to our bodies call

Beginning our journey together, and any journey, it is important that we are resourced for what lies ahead. The journey guided by La Luna is a journey of the subtle sub conscious realms. The Sun, the centre, the bold I am energy, is mirrored by the diffuse quality of the moon’s reflection - who am I?

The Moon is always full and so it is like ourselves vital to remember that the quality of the reflection is always going to change depending on the clarity of the reflector. Seeing ourselves through a smudged and tainted mirror will not be a good place to get a true reflection of ourselves.

Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher is credited with the quote “Wherever you go, there you are” and on this journey I want us to set the intention that we are looking to meet and integrate all of ourselves and each other with compassion and love

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A very brief word about working with guides, guardians and spirit guides - in support of our work we need to be asking for guidance from benevolent ancestors and trusted allies - if a new guide comes in, it is wise to challenge them three times to confirm that they are in fact who they seem to be

As we become the women that the earth needs we need to focus on anchoring the light from within. There are many traditions and practices that would have us drawing light down/from elsewhere - this can create issues. I would encourage you to consider that beautiful light inside you and how you tend it to enable it to emanate outwards

In the way of the priestess we must discern when to walk openly and when to cloak ourselves - I would encourage you to feel into what your own cloak of protection for your journey would look and feel like - what would it be made of

In the time of Winter we are in the Northerly direction and so look to the ancestors, grandmothers and grandfathers for support

Our great grandmother earth can support us in very Earthy and practical ways if we are finding working with the spirit realm some what challenging. I would like to start our journey with the strength and resource provided by the plant kin

NETTLE

Nettle is a Guardian plant that supports us to enter the delicate maiden energies of spring feeling supported. Like the threshold keeper between the seasons it supports us. It shifts the cold and damp energy of winter and assists us as we activate our fire for the new season. Earthy, blood like, iron rich. If you are already feeling the depletion of being out in the world a lot during winter and the energy being whipped up - tap into this deep rooted ally.

I have seen the rich teachings of this plant in so many ways but I feel called to focus on the way that Nettle can excavate feelings around trust. This powerful plant ally can illuminate for us acknowledgements about our own levels of trust. It can support us to create healthy boundaries.

When we connect with the earth with an intentional relationship we literally change our own landscape. Our bodies respond, changing our state of consciousness. We rewire our neural pathways and come into embodiment to find a sense of settling and sanctuary. We are co-creators of our own sacred temple and we can heal and mend this relationship to ourselves by the mirror that nature offers us. The medicine offered by plant kin is one such way that as we land deeper into embodiment we can navigate around the parts that still need courage, love and integration

ASTROLOGY

Notice that the zodiac turns in a wheel with twelve signs which also group in threes as the Seasons

Cardinal ~ Initiator energy

Fixed ~ Immoveable power

Mutable ~ Impermanence

Beginning of the Zodiacal Year: SPRING Cardinal - Aries, fixed - Taurus, mutable - Gemini; SUMMER Cardinal - Cancer, fixed - Leo, mutable - Virgo; AUTUMN Cardinal - Libra, fixed - Scorpio, Mutable - Sagittarius; WINTER Cardinal - Capricorn, fixed - Aquarius, Mutable - Piscies - End of the Zodiacal Year

Of course as with trying to map anything in nature - we fall short - there are no straight lines, only a flowing current of overlapping and ever unfolding energies

RITUAL

Do you see that you are capable of so much ~ that was never in doubt ~ but in order for you to sustain this work of loving and giving, being and creating, you must honour and feed the soil that will produce. Without considered ground work, the foundations can not support strong, healthy and abundant growth

Intentionally carve out some time to pause - to really stop and marvel upon all the processes that are currently happening silently under the soil of your skin

Turn off your phone

Lie down

Place your hands on your body

As if you were outside discovering a new piece of land - Allow your eyes and hands to come into contact with different surfaces in your own nature playground. Allow the exchange of energies be felt. Notice not only the textures, but intuit the feelings of the living landscape that is you

Give thanks for your body and consider some ways that you can show your gratitude

SACRED ADORNMENT

Warm some natural body oil - you could consider infusing some rosemary oil for her warming and protective qualities but work with what you have for now - create a post shower, bath, sea or river dip ritual where you adorn your body with warm oil maintaining an attitude of thanks for supporting you through the winter months and supporting your skin to receive warmth. Consider you are preparing your skin for the emergence of Spring, preparing before shedding the winter layer

JOURNAL REFLECTIONS

What do I need to feel resourced?

How can I offer it to myself or ask for what I need?

Does my eco system need tending in a particular way?

Do I need to move? Or do I need to rest?

Am I getting enough water? Nourishment? Community?

Can I make an ongoing and sustainable commitment to do something that will support me?

OFFERING

Make an offering of gratitude to the earth

Enrich the soil for the coming cycle

This could be your moon blood, a song, in what ever way feels possible - a connection of your attention and time

Consider the circle of reciprocity - are you able to receive and yield in the winter?

PRACTICE

Tending to self

Permission to tend to yourself. The act of mothering yourself. Of nourishing the roots of you to enable you to work from strong foundations. Aquarius energy can really pull us into our heads to awaken visions and future plans. What is vital is that we are nourished and regulated in order to carry out the task of simply being, let alone in acts of creativity, resistance and … We need healed elders and we need to realise that it begins with us.

As we are in the Winter - this is a reminder that we are very much still in the slow time. A time of Visions (Aquarius) and dreaming (Piscies is our next season before Spring). In this time we nourish the roots, we lay down fat stores, we tend. Becuase we know that we want to offer the greatest of potential to ourselves when we do emerge. We need courage to resist the temptation to be out, busy and creating. Ultimately depleting our cups.

Whether we like it or not, we are where we are. We can choose to hide from it or we can choose to meet what is present. For many of us we currently hold the great privilege of living in a country of peace. We hold the polarities of great privilege whilst being the observers of great destruction and inhumanity on multiple layers of life. So we are learning as the High Priestess does, to deftly navigate the light and the dark. To know that feeding one over the other is unwise. We must tap into the Aquarian ability to sit both with the vital needs of our own bodies in order to offer the unique and sacred heartistry we are here to offer the world.

As often as possible - place your hands and feet on the earth - enjoy the transference of energies as you allow yourself to connect back in with the great grid of the mother

For now, we sit with the wisdom keepers of the grandmother spirits, the crone (crowned one) and we will work with their support to move around the wheel of the year - anchored in their presence

As we move towards the Spring we will begin to work with the maiden energies and welcome in the shadow of our maidens selves with practices to support the retrieval of any fragmentation to move towards the Mother archtype more whole and holy

CONSIDERATIONS WHEN WORKING WITH PLANT ALLIES WE MEET THROUGH THIS JOURNEY

Cultivate relationships with slow and steady resolve

Ask for their support

Make an offering in return for their wisdom

The first pour is always to the mother (if taking native plant medicines intentionally I suggest giving the first pour back to the earth mother as a sign of your thanks but also an acknowledgement of enriching her and continuing the cycle)