Grandmother Moon flows and ebbs into different named full
moons. She is a gift to Mother
Earth. All things on Mother Earth Ebb
and Flow with her. Each Full Moon is
given a new name to connotate what healing can take place if you work on the
healing she takes on each full moon. I
follow these moons and work on the physical, intellectual, emotional and
spiritual work suggested. I will share
what I know and perhaps you will come to know your own knowing of each of these
moons as they come. The September Moon
is known as The Corn Moon. As
Grandmother Moon withdraws her light, as the days go by, she draws up the
waters for healing. As she begins to grow again, she is like a
beautiful big flower that unfurls night by night. She models the way to cleanse ourselves, to
p[urge and to take in knowledge and acceptance of things being as they should,
and prepare to have things illuminated that need work. Spiritual advancement is the end result and
in that is healing that comes more easily as we let go of things that hold us
back.
We are all addicted to something; food, drugs, alcohol,
relationships, tugging at our hair, picking at scabs, bouncing our knees, physical
pain and lack of ability to control it, emotional pains, lack of gratitude,
blaming…etc. … there is something we do with excess energy or lack of energy,
to comfort ourselves. If we have
anything that needs working on, following the moon cycle is the way to work on
those things. We have patterns that repeat
and repeat, negative patterns, in our lives, and if we do not heal those, they
continue to follow us through our days and nights. The things that haunt us at night (those
nights of bad dreams, etc.) are good things to begin with. Using the medicine of the month, given by Grandmother
Moon, will help us. We are not meant to
suffer. Yes, life down here is hard, and
the only thing that makes it better is following a structured way of healing ourselves,
day by day, night by might, week by week, and month by month.
Burning the Stickman was one of my ways of using Moon
Medicine, of purging. It took me time to
make and then let dry, the stickman. All
the days I worked on it, and waited for the right time to burn him, was a time
of purging. Our physical body builds up
toxins, our mind gets filled with unnecessary thoughts, our hearts can weigh
heavy or be in denial and it affects all areas of who we are as a whole person. Our spirit (not religiosity) suffers with us
not paying attention to it and setting it to the side as well get enmeshed in
all the other areas of our life. Here
are some ways to prepare to change that as a new full moon prepares to
come.
Keep a calendar of some kind, at your desk, on your morning
ablutions area, at your kitchen sink area, where you will see it each
morning. I keep a purse calendar and an
open desk calendar at my desk where I head each morning for my morning coffee
and blogging. Keep track of the moon
cycles in that journal or calendar. Keep
track ( in code, if you like to keep it private|) of things you wish to purge
or things you are working on, for the month, letting go of.
Create a sacred area somewhere in your home. It might be a simple bedside area, a quiet
corner in your house, a space outside in your yard area (mine moves from
bedroom dresser to outside as soon as weather allows and is brought back in
come first frost. You can place smudge
or candles or whatever you intuit that you wish to be there.
Release
and purge at the beginning of each full moon.
Use stones that you choose intuitively.
Do some research and find the symbolic healing each stone can bring to
you. Carry a protection tone on your
person and put on your altar. Each
symbolic thing you can do will remind you of your intention for the month. Work diligently to heal what holds you
back. Be honest with yourself. Be honest with others. Know the healing that intentions and purging
can do for you. Keep it private as such
work is sacred. Bless yourself
often. Purge what is needed to be purged
as soon as you become aware of it/them.
Use
the healing of Grandmother Moon, as you release and purge. Go stand out under her blossomed brilliance. Bathe in her glow. Feel her soak into your skin, your mind, you
heart and soul. Feel her find your
shadowed places and allow light to bring knowledge and healing. She will bless you. She has blessed women since First Woman.
©Carol
Desjarlais 9.3.20
