This Full Lunar Eclipse in Taurus during Scorpio season is an opportunity for major transformation.
I am not an astrologer, but I do pay attention to what is happening in the sky because as soon as I started working with the energy of the moon on weekly and monthly basis, I started to see my life change dramatically. This is not some far-fetched, woo-woo concept. Farmers, fisherman, and hunters have used it for centuries. Since I started to use an astrologer in my business, my business changed dramatically, and my personal life changed for the better as well. I wish I could say that I am dedicated and knowledgeable in this area, but I am not. It is my goal in 2023 to take this part of my spiritual practice to the next level and see what else is possible with this energy.

What I do know is energy. I have studied and worked with energy for most of my adult life. I can feel and see the movement of energy in myself and others.

For this Full Lunar Eclipse on November 8, 2022, I had a lot of interest in the session that I am offering, but not everyone can afford the high fee associated with it, so I wanted to give you some guidelines, information, and ideas to create a session that you can do on your own.

For as long as I can remember, I have always tried to teach independence from me. As a personal trainer for 25 years, it was always my goal to provide you with the how and why of things so that you can do it on your own should you ever choose to or need to.

While I am not super consistent with that in this business, I do want to do better with it. Be patient with me, I work 2 full time jobs.

Okay so let’s get to it.

I will give you a basic idea of the structure of my Eclipse session. What will I personally do for myself? I don’t do all of this on every full moon. This is a special occasion. This is a powerful lunation that won’t happen again for 3 years. This is a chance to change my life so I will use all my magical tools.

Basics:

Energetic cleanse
Grounding
Release what I need to release
Work with/feed each chakra
Work with each of the senses
Work with/honor each element (Earth, Air, Water, Fire)
Clearly define and visualize what I want to create/manifest/expand/change

Overview of the Elements:

Earth- Keep the Silence, to be

Keywords: Luxury, security, career, finances, manifestation
Sense: Touch
Chakra: Root (1st)
Direction: North

Water-To dare, to feel

Keywords: Love, emotion, memory, feeling
Sense: Taste
Chakra: Sacral (2nd) and Heart (4th)
Direction: West

Fire- To forge, to will, to do

Keywords: Passion, will (determination), transformation, strength
Sense: Sight
Chakra: Solar Plexus (3rd)
Direction: South

Air- To know.

Keywords: Mind, Imagination, Thought, Communication, Spirit, Change, Expansion
Sense: Smell, hearing
Chakra: Throat (5th), 3rd eye (6th), Crown (7th)
Direction: East

Overview of the Chakras:

Root- Material drive, grounding, survival, manifestation, arousal
Sacral-Sexual drive, intimacy, emotions
Solar Plexus-Will power, power drive, confidence
Heart-Love, connection, compassion, hope
Throat-Spiritual drive, expression, creativity
3rd Eye-Intellect, intuition, clairvoyance
Crown-Connection to higher power, understanding, enlightenment, consciousness, Shiva

How do I use the information?

In order to know how to best use the information and what to actually do, you have to know what you want to achieve. You don’t have to know HOW you will get the goal, but you will want to know the goal. I advise you to consider how you want to FEEL above all else. You may THINK that you know how to get the feeling and set out to achieve a goal that doesn’t end up with the feeling you wanted.

For example, I may THINK that buying a farmhouse as a vacation house is the answer to my need for nature, privacy, spiritual recharge, and unplugging, but have I really opened my mind to consider all of the other ways I could potentially achieve these things? Have I allowed the universe an opportunity to speak to me and show me options? (This is a real-life scenario for me by the way).

You may want to make more money and you think that a specific job or job position would be the answer, and you may think that certain things must happen to get that job, so you start to set all of your goals around that job. What if the Universe is repeatedly offering you a better job? My advice, ask for the thing you really want, not your interpretation of how to get it. What you want is? job security, high salary, financial freedom, financial security, benefits, health insurance, or whatever it is. That is the thing you want so ask for THAT not the job that you think is the answer.

Okay so let’s get started.

**Step 1: Cleanse**- do an energetic cleanse to rid yourself of the obvious shitty energy so you are more clear and less foggy.

**Idea**- A Spiritual bath- This also connects to our Water element, so we are already bringing the elements in. Also note the opportunity to balance the water chakras as well.

Spiritual bath- This can be as simple as just water in a tub with intention (or shower if you don’t have a bath). You can also use any number of additional elements to add to the bath. This post will go on forever if I explain everything so feel free to Google ideas. I use Epsom salt (healing and cleaning at the same time), essential oils that I put into the salt before adding to the bath, (the oils depend on the intentions), I have a purification body wash that I buy from Art of the Root that I use after every session and in the shower before every spiritual bath. Young Living has Purification oil. I make my own sugar scrubs (if you want a recipe posted, just message me).
I light candles (element of fire), for this I use white for purification. I set an intention to neutralize and release the energy that doesn’t belong to me. (I do a quick shower before with the body wash to remove obvious crap and actual grime), then I do a quick shower rinse after so that I can really visualize everything washing away. The water in the tub really synchronizes my energy, maybe because I am a water sign (scorpio).

**Step 2: Grounding –** Get yourself connected to the earth

**Idea**- Tree of Life Meditation – This brings in an Earth element and note the connection to the earth chakras

Tree of Life Meditation-
Stand up and place your feet flat on the floor.
Take a moment to notice if you’re leaning forward, backward, or to one side or the other, and then consciously balance your energy, centering your weight and beginning to tune into the earth beneath your feet.
Once you’re balanced, standing there with your feet flat on the ground, close your eyes, and imagine that you’re a tree.
Imagine you’re a giant tree, standing tall, completely hollow on the inside, clear of thought, worry, or tension.
Imagine you’re reaching up towards the light with your branches, letting the light shine down and through your entire being.
Next imagine you have roots, reaching way down through the ground towards the earth, firmly grounding you in this present moment.
Feel your energy flowing down like tree roots grounding you to the earth and flowing all the way down to the center of the earth. Feel your energy reaching down with tree roots, through layers of earth, and bedrock, and sediment, past rocks and pebbles, other roots, worms and bugs, reaching down, grounding you in this present moment.
Feel your energy fully grounded, and simultaneously feel yourself reaching up towards the sky, reaching up towards the light, your branches reaching up and out, absorbing the sunlight.
Feel yourself soaking up and absorbing pure source light, filling you, filling your body, filling your tree trunk with light.
In this moment let yourself simply be balanced between the sky and the earth. Just being, breathing and observing the world around you.
Feel your connection with all the other trees in the forest, with the birds, with the air, with the sky. You are one with it. You are one with the Divine, one with the Earth, one with Nature, one with All That Is.
Breathe…

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Step 3: Brain Dump – I use this as a way to just unload my mind, my head, my brain, whatever. Just get all the shit out so I can have a clearer mind.

Idea 1- I was taught a version of this by a shaman and I am sure I will be butchering it a bit in trying to simplify it, but honestly, I have spent my life learning from as many people as possible and then taking what I can to make it work for me.

Find a stick or stone - (Earth element)- Sit in silence with this stick for a bit, and then just tell it everything that is on your mind, pass to it every feeling, emotion, tear, frustration, anger, everything. Just pour out all of your ideas, your words, your incoherent thoughts, every name that comes to mind, every thought. It is most powerful to speak out loud, but if you cannot, then you can do it silently. I will give you an idea to use for silent brain dumping next.

Now take this stick and put it into a fire, bury it in the earth, or throw it into a moving body of water (not a pond or fountain). If you cannot get rid of your stick safely in one of these ways, don’t use this method. If using a rock, DO NOT put it in a fire.

You can do this by using a candle and then burning the candle, I have used the candle method in client sessions before.

Idea 2- Brain dump on paper. I have used this soooooo many times for myself and clients. It is an easy one to do inside and for sessions.

Use a piece of paper and just write until nothing else comes out. Don’t journal, write words, write phrases, write names, write emotions, write them on top of each other, just write and write. It turns into an unreadable mess oftentimes. It doesn’t matter. Just pour the emotion and the words, thoughts, etc. onto the paper. Do it for longer than you think is necessary. Keep writing.

When you finish, if you can burn this, burn it in a fire safe spot, preferably outside so you don’t set off smoke alarms. I literally set off smoke alarms in my apartment weekly because of some ritual I am trying to do. I have learned that ripping this paper up and burning it a few pieces at a time can be helpful.

If you cannot safely burn, then bury it in the earth.

**Step 4: Get creative, know your intentions**
Okay here is where you have to use your own creativity, your own mind. Depending on your intention, you will use these things differently. See if you can find a way to relate your intention to each of the elements and each of the chakras.

In some types of sex magic, we relate our goal to each chakra in some way, see overview of chakras above and think “how would each chakra help this goal if it were balanced and empowered?” and also think “how would achieving this goal empower this chakra”

Example: If I were making more money, I would feel safe. (1st chakra), I would have the financial freedom to be creative rather than reactive in my business (2nd chakra), I would feel confident enough to turn down clients I don’t like in favor of those that inspire me (3rd chakra), I would feel passion for my work because I won’t be working with people just for money (4th chakra), I would be able to speak my truth and live more authentically when working creatively with people I enjoy (5th chakra), I would have time to clear my mind of worry allowing me to slow down and see the opportunities around me (6thth chakra), If I am able to align and empower all of my lower chakras I can achieve consciousness, be present ( 7th chakra).

This is a vague example, and you should really figure yours out on your own. Feel it and envision it when you do it.

Now set out to honor each of the chakras while also honoring all of the elements.

How can the element of Fire help you? Look at the overview of the Fire element, which of those if any will serve you? How about water, earth, air?

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Ideas:

Earth:

Grounding with the tree of life
Brain dump with stick or stone
Meditation (keep the silence)
Sense of Touch- Earth likes luxury and feel-good items- wear a luxurious robe, sleep in your best bedding, get a massage. I like when I can honor the earth element by giving myself pleasure.
Honor the Earth- Do something for mother earth. This is not always easy to do, but ideas are: Plant a tree, plant some herbs, pick up some litter (that is very easy). I say a prayer for Mother earth and give gratitude for all that she provides me.

Water:

Spiritual bath
Make eclipse water-Leave tap water out under the moon from sundown to sunrise, then drink the water in the morning or bathe in it.
Walk in the ocean
Sense of Taste- Try something new or eat something you love, try a blind tasting with your partner. I do a tasting with fruit with clients, and they almost always get the fruits wrong. I ask them to describe them, not identify them, but most don’t listen, and they try to identify. It is amazing how wrong people are when they cannot see it.

Fire:

Use candles to light the room
Use fire to burn your brain dump stick or paper
Light a bonfire if you are able to and if you are, I am so jealous. I crave that.
Sense of Sight- Go to an art museum or look through galleries online of whatever you find beautiful, I think it is fun to find galleries of things that are highly magnified and try to figure out what they are or looking at things in slow motion. I think that is my favorite thing. It changes the way you see things.

Air:

Dance- Movement
Spoken word- Read poetry out loud or sing
Ring bells or windchimes
Do breathwork
Sense of smell and hearing- You can combine smell and taste, you can burn incense which is an air element, hearing comes in with singing. You can listen to a piece of music and try to DESCRIBE pieces of the music; how does it feel in your body when you hear it?

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