Let Us Be Evidence: New (Blue) (Super) Moon Rising

 

 

Commonly known as the Sturgeon Moon, this new moon signals work on being strong and enduring.  Many cultures celebrate this moon as religious ceremonies.  To the Celts, this moon and the sturgeon were keepers of knowledge and signify wisdom associated with the feminine goddesses. 

Some stories and myths speak to the sturgeon as able to transform itself into human form that brought abundance.  Eating of sturgeon was a sacred experience that would imbue the eater with fertility.  To many First Nations, especially the Eastern Cree, the sturgeon was a guardian spirit that guide the people on their spiritual journey.   

Every moment of every day, we are called on to keep going, to persevere.  It takes courage to go on, many times.  We risk to live and live to risk.  We carry on no matter what is going on around us.  We hold true to ourselves and carry on even when it feels like all the world may be against us. Somehow, we pick ourselves up from bended sorrowing knee and walk on in life.  We are not sure why we are here.  We are not sure what it is we should be doing.  We may not know where we are going, but we plod on.  We carry on because of those precious moments, those moments of joy, those moments that make the journey all worth while to us.   We, with our lizard brain intact (limbic cortex), carry on in spite of ourselves.   We hope when there seems none.  We wake up every morning, put our feet to the floor, and begin.  Something deep inside us makes us accomplish the impossible and continue on through dire circumstances and sad situations.  We survive in spite of ourselves. 

This moon we may find ourselves called upon to simply continue on.  To gather around our sisters who need our support and need us to show them how to get through what may feel impossible.  In our perseverance, our strengths, we become holders of space for others.  We need to gather up our guts and get on with getting on, able to turn back and take the hand of one following behind us, to walk beside each other and be a brace for others, to lift up those who need to know we can.  We can be evidence that we can survive even the most difficult of things.