Earth Mother Moon Journal, Issue Number 3
This moon journal I have a lot of personal news to share with my friends, a practice in sharing my truth... Following that, I've included a short amount of information about this new moon we've entered.
A special note from Calesta Ana...
The new moon is in cancer this month, a time of emotion, a time of mothering. For me, this is a very fitting time to write you all about some large changes going on in my life... which mostly revolve around nurturing myself and my children. It all began in May, all that time of creativity and growth. At that time I found out that June would bring me a time of major changes astrologically. It was predicted to be a bit more negative than i experienced, but maybe my forwarning gave me a chance to really flow with all the energy.
I was spinning, literally my energy just going, we had just finished our homestudy for our next baby (yay!!!). Working on the studio was complete, and we built the nursery. Then came a energy cleanse ritual, a release of old, and a time to allow myself to go into this time of change with my intuition guiding. Shortly therafter my dreams began to pick up. One night it happened, this amazing epiphany. A life changing moment I think I will see years down the road, that this was a crossroads in my life.
Tears going down my face, I awaken to this message. I've been doing some things in my life not because I want them, but because I feel a failure in other areas. Woah. I fully see this clear as day. And I see I'm not doing all that I want to do, sometimes not even what I want to do at all. Where will my intuition guide me to and away from.... I must follow my heart, and move from there, not from fear or fear of failure or just plain wanting it all. Talk about the planets all coming around me saying 'wake up', 'wake up'!
At the same time of this going on, and all the planets colliding, these other things happen: Well, first ofcourse there is the new baby adoption paperwork and prep. Next, we get an offer on our small cabin and decide to take it. No more rentals of that (which would be sad if I didn't have two small children, but really its too much to take on!), and we'll just keep our bigger cabin for ourselves/friends/family. Let's see... next, my massage stuff. All of my paperwork stuff gets stuck in the mail. It's still not here actually- the universe is forcing the issue. So all my massage stuff is completely on hold. Next, I'm not sure how this all came about now, too long a story to explain here... but I'm now homeschooling preschool this year, in the waldorf tradition. I've begun work with a consultant already, and have a wonderful family to do school together with. This I could write a great deal about, but won't (not for now anyway:). This work so far is making me plan and reflect a great deal more on parenting, my life, the set up of my life, routines,etc... and it's led to a HUGE purge, physically (even the TV is now gone), mentally, spiritually, etc. But also to great gains. Great joy. In these past few weeks I've not only been the happiest I can remember in a long time, but nor have I seen my family thrive so well. Clearly it's a good thing. Very good.
And this finally leads me to why I'm writing this. With my epiphany, I have realized that what I LOVE more than anything, is being home with my kids, teaching them, cooking for them, and my family, my garden, my friends, doing a bit of yoga and massage and aromatherapy, learning about herbs... this really simple basic life. Not being the best at anything really. Not having a great career in the eyes of our society. But just being a good mom and living my values, finding that simple joy. As a mom, I do the dance of meeting my needs and the needs of others, and I assume I'll have many more lessons and times to practice this over the years... but for now, I seem to have found a way to balance it. I know what I want, and I am finally saying it outloud. I've been waiting these weeks, for the time to be right to actually say it to myself and to others. I want just exactly what I have, and isn't that fortunate!!!! I want to be me, the young earth mother learning as she goes.
So there will be no yoga studio (except for myself, family, and friends to use for free and for enjoyment), nor classes by me. I will however keep up my website, atleast I plan to at this time. I have thoroughly enjoyed my online work teaching my garden class. I also hope as I learn and grow to continue to offer that online for others to learn from (like home school or preschool activities) along with the moon journal. For now, my focus is on mothering. I will be a earth mother as long as life guides me that way, because this is where my real joy and peace comes from.
It is with such sweetness, and a big sigh of relief I end this letter.
Love to each and every one,
Calesta Ana
Oh so very fitting... and no, I didn't read this before I wrote my letter!
The Mother's Moon, From Earthtime Moontime
Litha, the summer solstice that celebrates the peak of the Father's energies is also the peak of the Mother's abundance. Litha falls in the Mother's Moon in thirteen years of the nineteen year Sun-Moon-Earth cycle (not this year). In the old calendar summer solstice was the midpoint of summer and was also called Midsummer.. The mother opens Her arms and spills forth the cornucopia of Her bounty. Even lazy lifeforms can find food for the asking within few limits. The Father reaches His greatest power and pours forth his life giving warmth upon the land. Days are long and soft, full of the melodies of insects and birds, and the rustle of summer breezes through full-leaved trees....
When we are born, our mothers are the center of our lives. they provide all we need without demanding a return. For the rest of our lives, our ability to thrive rests at least in part in our recreating the sense of security we had in our mother's unconditional love. All the components of that sense of security - our means to live, our health, our homes, our feelings of worth, how we relate to the people we live and work with, and our sense of belonging to community- rest on having the experience of motherlove....
The spiritual issues of the Mother's Moon lie in recognizing our intrinsic self-worth and in trusting that, if we try, we can find what we need to fulfill our lives. The lesson of motherlove is that we are all sacred and perfect, that each of us, no matter where we are on the circle, has the right to strive for life and growth. With that assurance, we can learn to handle the limits and boundaries against which we struggle in that process.
The challenges of the Mother's Moon are connected to our feelings of self-worth, especially in regard to what we achieve as we live. In our culture, we tend to believe that as George Orwell said, "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other's". Thus, we are prone to judge our own and other's worth by degrees of material success. We tend to believe that people who are not materially successful are inferior, and that people who have money are somehow essentially superior, even when they display unbalanced and unhealthy lives, as for example, some entertainment or sports stars do. Note that superior and inferior are qualities mapped on a vertical line rather than a circle..... Our happiness an sense of self-completion lie in bringing what we do into harmony with those around us. The Mother's Moon tells us that we are cells of the single body that is the Tao.
I'm a bit late this month- the new moon was Sunday in Cancer.
New Moon In Cancer (from New Moon Astrology):
When the moon is in cancer, if you are looking to change something in your life, these are the specific areas a new moon in Cancer does well with.
Cancer rules processes, including training and practicing, early childhood conditioning, growth, nurturing new beginnings. It also rules emotional closeness, caring, empathy, vulnerability, intimacy, changing moods, awareness of our feelings, sensitivity ot others' feelings, tenderness and awareness of needs. It rules Nurturing- being supportive, food, mothering, close family relations, taking care of others, and being taken care of. It rules maters of restoring health such as breasts, chest cavity, pancreas, stomach, gas, ulcers and tumors.
Looking ahead- to July (from Moon Magick):
Fun dates:
July 4: Day of Pax, goddess of peace, and Concordia in Rome
July 7-8. In Rome, the oldest of women's festivals, the Nonae Caprotinae, dedicated to Juno, the Great Mother.
July 10. Day of Hel, or Holde, and Cerridwen.
July 14. O-Bon, Festival of Lanterns in Japan, dedicated to the spirits of the ancestors.
July 15. Chung Yuan, festival of the dead in China
July 17. Birthday of Isis in Egypt.
July 18. Birthday of nephthys in Egypt.
July 19. Egyptian New Year. The Opet Festival, or Marriage of Isis and Osiris in egypt. Also a celebration of Venus and Adonis in Rome.
July 23. in Rome, the Neptunalia to honor Neptune, god of earthquakes.
July 27. Procession of Witches in Belgium.
I wish you the best during this Moon Time:)
Feel free to email me using the contact form.
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I was spinning, literally my energy just going, we had just finished our homestudy for our next baby (yay!!!). Working on the studio was complete, and we built the nursery. Then came a energy cleanse ritual, a release of old, and a time to allow myself to go into this time of change with my intuition guiding. Shortly therafter my dreams began to pick up. One night it happened, this amazing epiphany. A life changing moment I think I will see years down the road, that this was a crossroads in my life.
Tears going down my face, I awaken to this message. I've been doing some things in my life not because I want them, but because I feel a failure in other areas. Woah. I fully see this clear as day. And I see I'm not doing all that I want to do, sometimes not even what I want to do at all. Where will my intuition guide me to and away from.... I must follow my heart, and move from there, not from fear or fear of failure or just plain wanting it all. Talk about the planets all coming around me saying 'wake up', 'wake up'!
At the same time of this going on, and all the planets colliding, these other things happen: Well, first ofcourse there is the new baby adoption paperwork and prep. Next, we get an offer on our small cabin and decide to take it. No more rentals of that (which would be sad if I didn't have two small children, but really its too much to take on!), and we'll just keep our bigger cabin for ourselves/friends/family. Let's see... next, my massage stuff. All of my paperwork stuff gets stuck in the mail. It's still not here actually- the universe is forcing the issue. So all my massage stuff is completely on hold. Next, I'm not sure how this all came about now, too long a story to explain here... but I'm now homeschooling preschool this year, in the waldorf tradition. I've begun work with a consultant already, and have a wonderful family to do school together with. This I could write a great deal about, but won't (not for now anyway:). This work so far is making me plan and reflect a great deal more on parenting, my life, the set up of my life, routines,etc... and it's led to a HUGE purge, physically (even the TV is now gone), mentally, spiritually, etc. But also to great gains. Great joy. In these past few weeks I've not only been the happiest I can remember in a long time, but nor have I seen my family thrive so well. Clearly it's a good thing. Very good.
And this finally leads me to why I'm writing this. With my epiphany, I have realized that what I LOVE more than anything, is being home with my kids, teaching them, cooking for them, and my family, my garden, my friends, doing a bit of yoga and massage and aromatherapy, learning about herbs... this really simple basic life. Not being the best at anything really. Not having a great career in the eyes of our society. But just being a good mom and living my values, finding that simple joy. As a mom, I do the dance of meeting my needs and the needs of others, and I assume I'll have many more lessons and times to practice this over the years... but for now, I seem to have found a way to balance it. I know what I want, and I am finally saying it outloud. I've been waiting these weeks, for the time to be right to actually say it to myself and to others. I want just exactly what I have, and isn't that fortunate!!!! I want to be me, the young earth mother learning as she goes.
So there will be no yoga studio (except for myself, family, and friends to use for free and for enjoyment), nor classes by me. I will however keep up my website, atleast I plan to at this time. I have thoroughly enjoyed my online work teaching my garden class. I also hope as I learn and grow to continue to offer that online for others to learn from (like home school or preschool activities) along with the moon journal. For now, my focus is on mothering. I will be a earth mother as long as life guides me that way, because this is where my real joy and peace comes from.
It is with such sweetness, and a big sigh of relief I end this letter.
Love to each and every one,
Calesta Ana
Oh so very fitting... and no, I didn't read this before I wrote my letter!
The Mother's Moon, From Earthtime Moontime
Litha, the summer solstice that celebrates the peak of the Father's energies is also the peak of the Mother's abundance. Litha falls in the Mother's Moon in thirteen years of the nineteen year Sun-Moon-Earth cycle (not this year). In the old calendar summer solstice was the midpoint of summer and was also called Midsummer.. The mother opens Her arms and spills forth the cornucopia of Her bounty. Even lazy lifeforms can find food for the asking within few limits. The Father reaches His greatest power and pours forth his life giving warmth upon the land. Days are long and soft, full of the melodies of insects and birds, and the rustle of summer breezes through full-leaved trees....
When we are born, our mothers are the center of our lives. they provide all we need without demanding a return. For the rest of our lives, our ability to thrive rests at least in part in our recreating the sense of security we had in our mother's unconditional love. All the components of that sense of security - our means to live, our health, our homes, our feelings of worth, how we relate to the people we live and work with, and our sense of belonging to community- rest on having the experience of motherlove....
The spiritual issues of the Mother's Moon lie in recognizing our intrinsic self-worth and in trusting that, if we try, we can find what we need to fulfill our lives. The lesson of motherlove is that we are all sacred and perfect, that each of us, no matter where we are on the circle, has the right to strive for life and growth. With that assurance, we can learn to handle the limits and boundaries against which we struggle in that process.
The challenges of the Mother's Moon are connected to our feelings of self-worth, especially in regard to what we achieve as we live. In our culture, we tend to believe that as George Orwell said, "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other's". Thus, we are prone to judge our own and other's worth by degrees of material success. We tend to believe that people who are not materially successful are inferior, and that people who have money are somehow essentially superior, even when they display unbalanced and unhealthy lives, as for example, some entertainment or sports stars do. Note that superior and inferior are qualities mapped on a vertical line rather than a circle..... Our happiness an sense of self-completion lie in bringing what we do into harmony with those around us. The Mother's Moon tells us that we are cells of the single body that is the Tao.
I'm a bit late this month- the new moon was Sunday in Cancer.
New Moon In Cancer (from New Moon Astrology):
When the moon is in cancer, if you are looking to change something in your life, these are the specific areas a new moon in Cancer does well with.
Cancer rules processes, including training and practicing, early childhood conditioning, growth, nurturing new beginnings. It also rules emotional closeness, caring, empathy, vulnerability, intimacy, changing moods, awareness of our feelings, sensitivity ot others' feelings, tenderness and awareness of needs. It rules Nurturing- being supportive, food, mothering, close family relations, taking care of others, and being taken care of. It rules maters of restoring health such as breasts, chest cavity, pancreas, stomach, gas, ulcers and tumors.
Looking ahead- to July (from Moon Magick):
Fun dates:
July 4: Day of Pax, goddess of peace, and Concordia in Rome
July 7-8. In Rome, the oldest of women's festivals, the Nonae Caprotinae, dedicated to Juno, the Great Mother.
July 10. Day of Hel, or Holde, and Cerridwen.
July 14. O-Bon, Festival of Lanterns in Japan, dedicated to the spirits of the ancestors.
July 15. Chung Yuan, festival of the dead in China
July 17. Birthday of Isis in Egypt.
July 18. Birthday of nephthys in Egypt.
July 19. Egyptian New Year. The Opet Festival, or Marriage of Isis and Osiris in egypt. Also a celebration of Venus and Adonis in Rome.
July 23. in Rome, the Neptunalia to honor Neptune, god of earthquakes.
July 27. Procession of Witches in Belgium.
I wish you the best during this Moon Time:)
Feel free to email me using the contact form.
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