I realized that I had moved on from my childhood trauma, but I never went back to validate and heal who I was at the time. Essentially, I treated that me exactly the way they had been taught to expect the world to treat them – with utter and complete abandonment. No more. ALL of me deserves validation and healing, and so I am making the dedication on this full moon to accept and nurture the younger me.
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My 2012 drawing, The Longest Night, is a dedication to the deeper meanings behind the sabbat of Yule, of the winter solstice, of the longest night of the year. That symbolism is relevant throughout the year.
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It is easy to fall into the thought trap of needing everything to be perfect before acting, whether that action is magical or mundane. It is certainly true that some things must happen before other things can happen, or it may be best practice to wait for certain circumstances. However, you can never be absolutely certain that everything will go perfectly, so if you wait until perfection is assured, this can easily result in never acting at all.
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Grief is love with nowhere to go. There is a lot to grieve right now, and there will be a great many more losses before the COVID-19 mess is over. This article gives some insight and advice around grief and the grieving process, and offers full and new moon rituals to help with processing your grief.
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It is easiest to make moon water by bathing it in moonlight at night, but that’s not always possible. The energies of the moon are pervasive, if more subtle in the shadows. Moon shadow energy reminds us that even when we can’t see the light, can’t see a way forward, such things still exist and affect us.
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