Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!
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This Episode's Theme...
#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Libra :: Air Alchemy, Changing Winds, & Feeling Safe in Transitions
Megan and Venessa discuss the themes of this New Moon in Libra and the importance of self-reflection in these shadowy and triggering times.
We talk about aligning goals with your intentions and how you want to feel, the importance of creating space for your intentions and desires to come thru - and how this usually means releasing which can bring up grief, loss, sadness in this transition (all emotional aspects of the lungs!).
We cover honoring grief in this fall time with the shedding, and how to embody elements in nature, such as the trees up-taking nutrients and storing for the rest of the season - how can we integrate this into our lives too?
Megan also shares the launch of her website Amethyst & Rose, plus she’s offering a free meal plan based on seasonal eating when you sign up for her email list - pop over and say hello!
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How New Moons and transitional seasons offer the opportunity to gain information about how you show up in the world in these different cycles
How Megan was blown away by what she’s learned about herself when she started tracking moon cycles with her moon time
How weakness is not weakness
Learning about ourselves through compassion in difficult and dark times
Differentiating intentions and goals - Aligning goals with your intentions and how you want to feel
How Megan is using her dreams to help tune into her intentions, and using mugwort to assist her in dreamtime
The importance of creating space for your intentions and desires to come thru - this means releasing which can bring up grief, loss, sadness in this transition
Honoring grief in this fall time with the shedding, but trees are also up-taking nutrients and storing for the season as they shed - how can we embody this too?
How there’s an epidemic of work stress depleting us
Megan’s practice to “end the work day” with a ritual walk after work, and her 5 senses practice to help her shift from her “work hat” to “mom hat”
The power of talking with trees and sharing your heaviness and burdens - building a sacred relationship with your plant relatives
Look at your transitions (daily, micro, to the macro) - Where do you have challenges and what can you bring in to assist you in these transitional times?
A focal point for this season - air alchemy: pay attention to the air that moves through and with you (i.e. breath, gas, transitions)
How Megan finds how sobriety has helped her during transitions and with sleep
How family and staying connected with them has supported Venessa in feeling safe and navigating transitions
Practices + Questions to Ask Yourself/Try this New Moon // Journal Prompts
Carve out time for yourself and have a review:
How can I embody trees in the fall - let go of the old “leaves” and take in more nutrients thru my roots to nourish myself in darker times?
Where do I have challenges and what can I bring in to assist myself in these transitional times?
Resources + Links Mentioned
Interview with Joan Parisi Wilcox: Becoming a Master of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru + Andean Cosmovision with Joan Parisi Wilcox
Danielle Laporte The Desire Map
Digital Food Mood Poop journal: Cara app
Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.
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