FIRE

MOON

Full Moon in Libra / Scorpio axis

ALCHEMY

The initiating energy of Aries season - initiating fire - whipping up in the direction of maiden Air - met by the Full Moon of Libra balance and at the threshold of the shift of the moon into the sign of intensity of Scorpio

KEY THEMES

Revelations • Transformation • Renewal • Regeneration • Calibration • Balance

ALTAR

Add the changing Winds and the Fire of life to your medicine woman altar. The glyphs for both are upward pointing triangles. The energy is growing from the earth upwards. Perhaps consider putting seeds or seedlings on your altar for this Aries energy. You might also place a snakeskin or old butterfly cocoon on your alter to symbolise your shapeshifting state

AIR & FIRE JOURNAL

Libra is a cardinal Air sign - cardinal means that it initiates - in this case balance. After the eclipse and retrograde portal we have been in - this may not be comfortable but it will be a welcome release

Aries Fire is hot, direct and clear. Fire element plants are often ruled by planets such as Mars. Nettle is a good example of this. How do you find working with actual fire? Can you work with it slowly and sustainably or does it burn out, or burn you. How do you weald your fire (your agency and will)?

What burns to grow through you? What winds are looking to change your direction?

Allowing our throats to open and release tension is a vital practice as we clear lineages of blocked ancestral oppression. Is your communication clear? Does rage erupt through you, does passion envelop your communications? Are you able to apply new skill to the way you communicate?

Since this moon may highlight close personal relationships (its conjunction to Venus going direct) we are bound to investigate how we are received (I am - Aries) and how we relate - to check for the balance in the relationship between giving and receiving. Are you giving away yourself too easily. How can you play in the fun and fullness of who you are?

Where might you need to make space for the incoming energy of new life and new ways of being. A new fire will need preparation, space, and the right balance of elements to begin

Remember that you are lovingly integrating what needs to change rather than shaming, shunning or oppressing it. Utilising it as soul food for your open and wild heart journey path. Humans are nuanced creatures and the way that society has tried to create linear meaning no longer serves us

What is truth? And what is illusion? We have ‘our truth’ and ‘universal truths’. What creates the veils of illusion that separate us? How to we heal and reconnect?

FIRE MAGIC

Is it helpful to utilise fire to energetically burn and transform parts of you that need to be left behind. Consider gathering dry sticks to represent various offerings that need transformation. Sitting in contemplation whilst holding the sticks and winding thread around them intentionally as you do so before surrendering them to the fire - whether alone or being witnessed - is an action statement of intent. As we move into Spring it is our action that is being called forward. How will we weald this fire? Particularly as we move towards the season of the Lovers

EMBODIMENT

Can you play with how water and fire interplay between you - the push and pull between states of action and rest. How do you balance these states? Does your fire burn out quickly because you are unable to offer yourself deep rest and replenishment?

If your intention is to live more cyclically how are these illuminations supporting you

Practice offering yourself rest with nothing else tied to it. Away from all distractions. Can you gift yourself the act of being present. What does your body want to tell you?

INCANTATION

“I call myself to balance. I tend to myself with care so that my souls healing song will be heard, felt and carried along timelines”

RITUAL

Working with Air and Fire is calling on your wisdom (Chiron) to balance these two elements

The full moon is a traditional time to work with water magic and imbue water with the rays of the full moon. If possible set a bottle of water outside or on a window ledge to imbue the water overnight before imbibing (or using ritually) the next day. Water molecules shape-shift with your intention and words so pay attention to what you ask the water to support you with. Write an affirmation or call in what you need by setting a note under your bottle. Drink in the magic of your affirmation or spell or sow seeds and water them with this powerful moon water.

If you haven’t already tried the cleavers tonic from the previous moon this would be a great time to activate the sap in this water element plant

GREENING ECOSYSTEM TENDING

Poultice young birch leaves, nettle and cleavers for a rejuvenating tonic

GARDENING BY THE MOON

Make a nettle fertiliser

Forage nettle - being sure to check for butterfly eggs (although a little early for that still just yet)

Submerge a bucket of nettles in water, stir with a stick and place outside

Keep returning to the elixir to stir

After a couple of weeks you will have a strong and rich fertiliser for your seedlings to grow powerful and strong

GODDESS

You may like to work with the energies of Airmid as she awakens the medicine garden of the land. Airmid is the celtic goddess of herbal healing. Legend has it that her cloak held the secrets of 365 varieties of herbs - each one whispering their uses to her. She was blessed with the gift of combining herbs to cure any ailment. When her angry father found out he threw her cloak to the wind, scattering the herbs across the earth. This is an allegory for patriarchal rule disconnecting us from our innate gifts as wise women. Thankfully we are returning!

INVOCATION

Call upon the elemental spirits of air and fire and connect with any appropriate air or fire goddesses, guides, or deities that you are drawn to. (There are many!) Respect and honour the connection and tend to it - it will bring untold gifts! Brighid is the fire goddess of these lands that presides over the sacred flame. Owl, woodpecker, raven are all powerful Air allies with much to teach us

Should you be experiencing a particularly challenging time and feel as though you are literally being forged in the fire you may wish to connect with the support from your spirit team. Always remembering to seek support from those allies that love, honour and respect you and are working for your highest good.

If you aren’t sure where to begin - call on the support of a guardian fire animal such as the Salamander who can withstand the flames or the pheonix who rises from the ashes rebirthed anew. A particularly powerful ally for these times is the Dragon. We have been singing to the songlines of the deep earth waiting for their return and they are making themselves known now.

BLESSINGS

Full moon blessings sisters as we learn to honour the deep beauty in the breakdown that inevitably provides the breakthrough