Writing Exercises

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius—Molt

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius—Molt

Full moons are times of exfoliation, of sloughing off dead layers of self—and eclipses are when we shed our skin entire. Snake-like, we leave husks of our former selves, our past lives, our previous dreams in our wake. We change directions, change paths, change our minds—or they are changed for us. We form new skin—new layers grow over our raw vulnerability—but at first we are naked, exposed, tender and new. Go gentle through this eclipse, dear ones. Take care of the fresh and untried iterations you are evolving into.

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New Moon in Taurus Writing Prompts + Ritual: PLANT

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New Moon in Taurus Writing Prompts + Ritual: PLANT

Stop spinning, stop running and rushing and getting it all done. Plant your feet on the soil, the grass, the concrete if that’s what you have. Look up at the dark sky of the new moon. See those extra stars. Take a deep breath. And another. Root. Feel the mother earth beneath you. Her soils dark and dank and fecund, her dirt the womb wrapping all the birthing seeds of spring, ready to break, ready to unravel. Yes, this is a powerful moon to manifest… But before you do. Breathe. Stand on the earth. Look at the sky.

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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 Libra Writing Prompts + Ritual—Release + Revitalize

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Full Moon in Libra Writing Prompts + Ritual—Release + Revitalize

Full moons are always oppositions, so the moon in Libra sits across the sky—staring down, and reflecting the light—from the sun in Aries. Libra, as the opposite sign from Aries, is deeply concerned with connection and relationship to others. Where Aries is “I am,” Libra is “I balance.” Libra’s focus is on finding balance through connection and compromise to the other. The Libra-Aries axis, then, is about finding balance and integration between an independent individualistic sense of self and a being integrated into an interdependent network.

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New Moon in Pisces Ritual + Writing Prompt—Dream Weaving

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New Moon in Pisces Ritual + Writing Prompt—Dream Weaving

Pisces is the end of the zodiac, the twelfth house, the final resting place where everything dissolves back into the cosmic ocean. It is the end of the astrological year, the close to the cycle. And Pisces is also the beginning. It is the grave and the womb, the place where energy separates and disintegrates and then recombines to give birth to spring, to the first house, the beginning of the cycle, to the I AM that is Aries season. Aries is our birth; Pisces is the womb that gives birth to us, the mother ocean, and also the place of our death, ego death or physical death. This new moon in Pisces reminds us that every ending is a beginning, every beginning contains an end.

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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 Leo Writing Prompts + Ritual—Passion

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Full Moon in Leo Writing Prompts + Ritual—Passion

Happy Full Moon in Leo—a time of self-expression and passionate creativity—and also a time where we strive to strike balance between the personal and the interpersonal, the individual and the group. Where we explore how we can use our unique creative spark to impact and evolve the collective.

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New Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts + Ritual—Regeneration

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New Moon in Capricorn Writing Prompts + Ritual—Regeneration

Happy first new moon of the new year! I know we were all hoping for a reset after 2020, and I’m sorry to say based on the current events and the astrology, that we’re not there… yet. 2021 will bring a big change in energy—it is the dawning of a new era—but we will have struggles to grapple with yet, both lingering from 2020 and new ones, stamped with the signature of change, innovation, and upheaval, thanks to so much Aquarian, Uranian, and (continued) Plutonian energy at play.

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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.

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Winter Solstice + The Great Conjunction

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Winter Solstice + The Great Conjunction

On December 21, the winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere), one of the most important astrological moments of our lifetimes will occur. This moment is the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. Jupiter and Saturn conjunct (meet together in the sky) and meld their very different energies approximately every 20 years. They last conjoined on May 28, 2000. Making this a generational cycle at any time—however, this year they meet in an air sign, setting off a new pattern that will last for the next 200 years.

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New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—The Macro to the Micro-Cosmic

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New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—The Macro to the Micro-Cosmic

The centaur, Sagittarius is the adventurer of the zodiac. Aspects of our lives that may be intensified include goals and plans that expand our horizons and lead to deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the grander scheme—our beliefs, our visions, our FAITH. Do the work here to examine your belief systems and spiritual values, and root out anything toxic, bypassing, or that just no longer resonates for where you are now—so that you don’t carry it forward in your future patterns, and in the annual intention-setting energy that arrives with the winter solstice.

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—Get in Your Body

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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Gemini Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—Get in Your Body

Welcome to eclipse season (again). This is the sixth of seven eclipses in 2020 (most years we have four to five), just one of the many reasons astrologers have been looking at and talking about 2020 for years (another BIG reason? The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction coming up on the winter solstice, December 21—stay tuned for more on that next month).

Full moons can always heighten emotions, and eclipses amplify and complicate this—so if you’re feeling tired, emotional, irritable or just out of sorts—hold tight, dear one, it will pass.

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Full Blue Hunter’s Moon in Taurus Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual

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Full Blue Hunter’s Moon in Taurus Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual

Taurus is the sign of earthly-delight, of deep embodiment, of the willingness to fully incarnate on this planet, in this life—and to revel in it. While the sun in Scorpio—sign of the depths, the shadows, the repressed, the taboo underbelly, the sexual, death and loss and grief—reminds us that this delight does not come through spiritual or political bypassing—does not come through spraying flowery-affirmation perfume over the pile of shit we’re wading in. But neither does it come through remaining stuck in dark and shadowy underworlds.

We must travel through the deep, the buried, the subconscious—facing our shadows and our shit—shoveling them up, turning them over, roiling and fermenting them into the compost which feeds our earthly gardens.

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New Moon in Libra Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—Relational Balance

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New Moon in Libra Creative Writing Prompts + Ritual—Relational Balance

All other aspects aside, the new moon in Libra is an excellent time to set intentions, not just for the next month, but also for the next six months (until the full moon in Libra in March 2021). And in spite of all of this crazy tension and energy from all the squares and oppositions, I really want us to hold this focus and seed our visions for the future. For ourselves, for our relationships both interpersonal and as a collective society.

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Full Moon in Aries Creative Writing Prompt + Ritual—Honor Thy Anger

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Full Moon in Aries Creative Writing Prompt + Ritual—Honor Thy Anger

Libra season continues the harvest and pushes us into the time of balancing, the time of the equinox. Libra is the scale—of decisions, of choice, of justice. Libra asks us to weigh what we are willing to give, and to give up for justice. What are we as individuals (moon in Aries) willing to offer and compromise in our relationships and, as a society, for collective equity (sun in Libra)?

This balance chaffs against the individual fires of the moon in Aries—sign of individualism, passion, the movement of spring, the strength and courage of the seed to break open in the dark of soil and move toward the sunlight. With Mars retrograde here in Aries too, well, we’ve got some tension simmering.

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New Moon in Virgo Creative Writing Prompt + Ritual—The Sacred in the Small

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New Moon in Virgo Creative Writing Prompt + Ritual—The Sacred in the Small

New moons are times of intention setting and planning—and this new moon in Virgo trine Saturn is the apotheosis of organization and plans.

Virgo is the Virgin, the Priestess, the Devoted One. Virgo reminds us that each small task we undertake, each detail we give attention and care, is in service to something larger than just that act, and in service to something bigger than just ourselves.

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Full Moon in Pisces Ritual + Writing Prompts—Dreaming New Worlds

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Full Moon in Pisces Ritual + Writing Prompts—Dreaming New Worlds

Pisces is the fish, fully submerged in the waters of the other realms, the subconscious mind, the oceanic tumult of the body and its feelings. Pisces is also the sphere of the psychic, the intuitive, the home of the medium, the dominion of the muse. Pisces is the watery womb where all dreams gestate. It is our job to choose which ones will be born.

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New Moon in Leo Ritual and Vision Boards—Mind & Matter

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New Moon in Leo Ritual and Vision Boards—Mind & Matter

These three days, August 17-19, are a lovely little burst of inspired mental and creative energy—and a breath of fresh air from the intensity of 2020 (before it ramps up again in September). So please, take the time to check in with your creativity and your creative goals and projects, and allow yourself to find the joy in the process: the activity and the lulls, the surges of inspiration and the moments of the mundane.

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Full Moon in Aquarius Ritual + Writing Prompts—Lightning Strikes

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Full Moon in Aquarius Ritual + Writing Prompts—Lightning Strikes

The current astro weather (full moon in Aquarius opposing sun in Leo) is speaking to the conflict—and potential—between the collective, the communal, and our own personal light, the individual spark in us, the ideas and creative offerings that only we can bring forth. This energy can feel very polarizing—can tear us in two, split us with what we think we “need” to do from what we feel called to do. But it also has much to teach us.

Black Moon in Cancer Writing Prompts—Devotion

Black Moon in Cancer Writing Prompts—Devotion

This new moon in Cancer is a black moon—the second new moon in a solar month (like a blue moon is the second full moon in a month). The last new moon in Cancer was June 21, 2020.

A black moon is like a super-charged new moon, a time of cycle formation and intention setting that will play out not only for the next month, for the next three years (until the next black moon in March 2023 in Aries).

This is powerful energy to use consciously and wisely.