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Full Moon in Libra Ritual + Writing Prompt: Reckoning + Renewal

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Full Moon in Libra Ritual + Writing Prompt: Reckoning + Renewal

This full moon glows in Libra, sitting across from the sun in Aries. Full moons are always a time of integration, of navigating the polarity of two opposite signs, of exploding the binary by embodying the paradox of the axis. Aries is the sign of the individual, of the self—it’s catch-phrase is “I am.” Aries is the beginning, the birth of spring, the individuating into a contained and separate self. Libra, on the other hand, is the sign of the other, of relating and relationship, of partner and collaboration and working together.

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Full Moon in Virgo Ritual + Writing Prompts: Devotion

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Full Moon in Virgo Ritual + Writing Prompts: Devotion

This full moon fattens in Virgo, sign of the Virgin—the one whole unto herself—the devotee dedicated to the goddess—the small, daily acts of service that add up to a lifetime of reverence. It sits across from the Sun and Neptune, along with Jupiter and Mercury in Pisces, sign of the fish—swimming the grand cosmic ocean, the ending and beginning, the place where all of our individual drops eventually return, death, rebirth. The vast, veiled planes of spirit.

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Full Moon in Leo Ritual + Writing Prompt: Shine

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Full Moon in Leo Ritual + Writing Prompt: Shine

This is a big, emotional, POWERFUL full moon, y’all. This full moon is a crossroads, a threshold. Forming a grand cross with the sun and the nodes of fate, and with Pluto in conversation with the nodes as well, the decisions we make now are destiny-making choices. You can choose to stay stuck in your karma and the past—or you can choose let go, step into an unknown future and evolve.

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Taurus Writing Prompts—Uncover

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Taurus Writing Prompts—Uncover

Taurus is fixed earth, the bull—the deep appreciation and pleasure of the body, the earth, incarnation. Scorpio, meanwhile, is everything beneath—beneath the earth, beneath the surface, beneath the veneer of society. Scorpio is the taboo, everything a culture represses and denies. Taurus is the earth unfurling in the height of spring; Scorpio the inward coiling and falling leaves of deep fall.

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Full Moon in Aquarius Ritual + Writing Prompt—Shine

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Full Moon in Aquarius Ritual + Writing Prompt—Shine

Welcome to Leo season, sun babies! Leo is often known as the drama queen, the performer, the one standing in the spotlight. But what Leo truly represents in its most evolved form, is the deeply individual, unique creative self-expression each of us, and only us, has to offer this world. The challenge here, is that Leo can sometimes come to depend on, to crave, the applause, the attention and approval of others. That’s why (in the lovely symmetry that is the zodiac), it sits across from Aquarius, who, on the other end of the polarity, teaches us to embrace our weird quirky uniqueness and own that authentic individuality without shame.

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New Moon in Cancer Ritual + Writing Prompts—Feel

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New Moon in Cancer Ritual + Writing Prompts—Feel

The moon conjuncts the sun at 18º of Cancer on July 9, initiating a new moon cycle and a moment of pattern-setting for the next two week period—as well as the next six months (until we return for the full moon in Cancer, January 17 2022, closing the cycle). The constellation of the crab spans the portion of the sky assigned to Cancer—the word cancer itself is Latin for crab—and this crustacean spirit animal has much to teach us about the lessons and journeys of Cancer season, and this Cancer new moon in particular.

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Full Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts and Ritual—Ascend

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Full Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts and Ritual—Ascend

As is always the case with a full moon, the moon sits across the sky from the sun in the opposite side of the zodiac, staring each other down, and therefore shining the full light of the sun onto the reflective moon. The moon rules Cancer, so it doesn’t fare well in the opposite sign, Capricorn (it’s in its fall here, a debilitated placement). Capricorn is rather dry and harsh for the watery moon. Ruled by Saturn, planet of boundaries, Capricorn is known for rational thinking, rules and structure—quite different from oceanic Cancer.

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Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual + Writing Prompts—Sex, Death + Transformation

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Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual + Writing Prompts—Sex, Death + Transformation

Scorpio is not a light and easy sign. It is intense; it asks nothing less than the full transmutation of everything you were into who will become. The Full Moon in Scorpio in the spring reminds us that every birth requires—contains inside of it—a death, loss, grief. The seed must be cracked and hollowed to become a plant. The caterpillar must dissolve before the butterfly will emerge.

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Full Moon in Virgo Ritual + Writing Prompts—Tethered

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Full Moon in Virgo Ritual + Writing Prompts—Tethered

This is the Virgo-Pisces paradox, in the vastness of our smallness, and the tininess of our grandiosity. It asks us to hold both giant cosmic awareness, and the mundane tasks of taking out the garbage and making to do lists, in our mind’s eye, at once. And to value both with love and honor. The gift these signs offer us, when we work with their guidance and use them well, is the ability to use Virgo’s rituals, practices, and the beauty of daily routines and details to connect with, empower, and bring to earth the creative and healing power of Pisces’ waters.

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Full Moon in Cancer Ritual Bath + Writing Prompts

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Full Moon in Cancer Ritual Bath + Writing Prompts

It’s the final full moon of 2020, and at last we end on a lovely sort of note. The full moon is in Cancer, its sign of rulership, where the moon feels its happiest, glowiest, and fullest self. Enjoy this moment of brightness in the dark season of winter solstice and the dark year that has been 2020. Use this full moon to celebrate and honor what you personally, and we as a collective, have learned and begun to evolve into in these past six months, especially around emotional intelligence, awareness, and honoring, and the nurturing of our most deep, dark, and beautiful emotions—and also to acknowledge and recognize where we still need to grow.