NEW MOON RITUAL
Creating a ritual is something we all can do. It is an integral part of a process of making a transition from one space to another. While we often think of it as a particular experience that marks a particular event . an event that someone else plans and we attend and as a result of the attendance, simply showing up we are changed.
A key notion about creation is that you begin to see yourself as an active partner. Whether you are aware of it or not, as a participant in whatever part you play, you are primed and made ready for the next phase.
How we do something matters. Some of us are deeply comforted by doing the same thing in the same way at the same time. Rules and laws and instructions can make routines less onerous. This is the way it’s always been done, it is our tradition. While some routines even though we may have done them for seemingly forever can be harmful, even soul crushing. A simple act of changing even a small aspect of a habit can change everything.
The New Moon beckons…
Monday, July 17th coincides with the new moon for the for this cycle. While the moon may not be visible to you, it is still there. For millemnia, folks have rituals associated with light and dark, recurring cycles. Your awreness working with the enrgies that already occur seem to heighten the ability to make a change. I could create a ritual, participate in a ritual, and make a change.
What if setting up a sacred space or going to a place where ritual already occurred. I could go along for the ride. Light the candle, drink the coffee, watch the sun rise. Set the table, setting things in motion…
What if there was a better idea for dealing with the things I believed were lacking. Put ritual into action! Not good, not OK! My frustration, poverty, the world not going my way. What a challenge to think about imagining the future, imagining today, imagining the love, imagining the health, the wealth, whatever it is that we want, that we think we don’t have in this moment.
Imagine seeing the vision and spending some unrushed time with that. It sounds so new age and woo woo, but maybe it is one of the only things that we really can do, that has been done for eons. It is something so clearly within our power that we may not recognize. When we’re in a certain place where our vision is blocked on all the possibilities and the gratitude that we might have for what we have right now. Where exactly is that third eye?
So swing back with me for a moment and consider the power of rituals to help us move. Don’t limit your ritual to creating change for the outcome. Just gently move one thing, take a step, watch your steps and see, feel with all of your senses what takes place in that moment.
One of my favorite spiritual teachers who is pretty darn good at crafting rituals for the rest of us….mentioned casually or so I thought about rituals as providing an opportunity for greater awareness. Relationships, perspectives, rituals facilitate subsequent change moving through stages: Transactional, transformative and then transcendent. WOW!
I have been crushed by the bad news of violence, rage and inexplicable repetitive harm and tragedy. Words like innocence, victim, senseless, perpetrator seemed hollow to describe how hurt and helpless I felt. Paralyzed and feeling unable to take action. Searching for the peaple and the answer that will solve the problem yet or better yet make us feel better. Could a ritual do that?
If I could set my intentions simply. I want to be in a position to not feel not good enough. Not feel like if only I had more money, a better car, a better house: like if I wasn’t going to lose things because I couldn’t pay or keep up. What might I be doing instead? Who might I be? Kind to myself and others when I can.
I don’t like that feeling and I would like to feel like if I had more…. More of whatever, fill in the blank. And less… debt, less only …less feeling. Like oh…my… I guess the impostor syndrome or whatever that is, I’m not who I really say I am.
So with this new moon. Invisible sun and moon opposing sides, earth in-between ….
I set in motion an idea for being grateful for having what I have? And Expanding my territory for creating and moving through cycles and seasons of all that may occur.
so with this new moon….
I have been crushed by the weight of the debt that I have. Believing I owe what I can’t pay. Crushed by the bad news. Murdered children. Guns and violence and just plain mean folks. I can’t live after being a witness, listening and seing more harm and injury. Where do I retreat..
Scared to death to leave the house, drive even a short distance. Fear overtaking me. I’m obsessed by not just my whining, but my intolerance for other people whining as well.
I know that there are principles about being able to imagine what I want. And not just imagine it, but spend time with it. Not like 5 minutes a day, but to really spend time when I know that the comfort that I feel in prayer and meditation is really a way that I can feel all the time, but also that I can go about my business, do the routine stuff like wash dishes. Be a chauffeur for my grandkids and be able to tell people how I feel and to be able to listen to people when they’re not feeling well too.
Know that they’re not trying to hurt my feelings and make me crazy, but they do. And it’s not their fault. It’s my fault. Or nobody’s fault, just is…It’s like, I really don’t need to have a fault. But this is a big one for me. How do we imagine the world that we want to live in, have things be that we want and hold that, hold that special place? For a moment…
Where we see it and we join a community with other people that see it the way that we do. I’m gonna try that. I’m gonna try that not just every day. And my prayer time. And my meditation time. And my writing time.
But just quite simply. Ask. You know, refine the “ask”. So that I feel better, feel better. Move through the transition. Or can tolerate feeling bad and being yelled at, or being accused or persecuted. Or just feeling terrible or tired. Trying not to hurt anyone else in the process and still be close. loneliness is different then solitude… sometimes….Try a bit of rest, slowing down, changing one small thing: the coffee, the paper napkins, breathing, creating a new ritual for your own self. Where is the moon where you are?
I don’t want to be part of greater divide, but I want to feel comfortable taking time out to be in a better place, be be that light in love. Oh, for myself and others.
New moon ritual…
I welcome abundance
All my debts are repaid
Enlarge my territory
I have more than enough to care and share
I no longer experience lack, fear, and doubt
My income greatly exceeds all my expenses
There is more than enough for the
Return on all investments
expands by the light on this brave moon
Acceptance of the healing reflective light
Power balance harmony restored
Shine bright
Energy flows freely
Protected in Divine Feminine Order
She restores
She renews
