Moon Magic
Femininity and the Moon ~ we are bound together in our
monthly cycles.
This past week we celebrated the triple whammy of a Super Blue Blood Moon!
“Sister Moon” waxing and waning....
Tap into the Goddess lunar energy.
The moon reflects the light of the Sun.
She has a Dark Side.
Traditionally the moon is a symbol of the negative, introverted, mental, cool and creative qualities.
The full moon can be a time of intense emotion, insomnia
& vivid dreams.
Can we transmute our darkness into LIGHT?!
Let’s begin with some whimsy.
Who Knows if the
Moon's a Balloon
By e e cummings
who knows if the moon's
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it, if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited, where
always
it's
Spring) and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves
DANCE in the moonlight:
Playful Blue Moon by The Marcels
Fly me to the moon
Sister Moon by Sting
Moon River
Moon Shadow
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Debussy's Claire de Lune
MOVE:
Chandra Namaskara (from 2:01)
Salutation to the Moon
The Vedic scriptures speak of the spiritual and cosmic
importance of the solar and lunar phases. The Sun controls our soul, while the
Moon has command of our mind.
Chandra Namaskāra is a practice of adoration of the Moon.
In
Sanskrit, Chandra means "the moon" and Namaskāra stands for
"salutation, adoration".
This practice linked with the lunar cycles consists of
fourteen asanas performed with the left and right side. The sequence of the
asanas matches the 14-day movement of the Moon to the full moon phase and the
14-day movement to the new moon phase. Chandra Namaskāra is performed 14 times,
with 7 cycles for the left and right side, reciting the mantras of the Nityas.
Regular practices of Chandra Namaskara purify vital energy that circulates in
the body and allow control of moods.
The best time for performing this practice is the evening or
the night when the Moon is visible.
Chandra Namaskāra Mantras
1. om kāmeśvaryai namaḥ Salutations to the Goddess who
fulfills desires!
2. om bhagamālinyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who bestows
well-being and protects from evil!
3. om nityaklinnāyai namaḥ Salutations to the gentle one who
bestows eternal grace!
4. om bheruṇḍāyai namaḥ Salutations to the ferocious one
that destroys evil!
5. om vahnivāsinyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who resides
in me and connects with the divine world!
6. om vajreśvaryai namaḥ Salutations to Vajreshvari, the
Goddess of the weapon that destroys evil, who bestows great Force!
7. om dūtyai namaḥ Salutations to the herald of the divine
message and the messenger of God!
8. om tvaritāyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who reveals
herself swiftly and bestows grace!
9. om kulasundaryai namaḥ Salutations to the most charming
one of the whole divine Family!
10. om nityāyai namaḥ Salutations to the eternal one!
11. om nīlapatākinyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who has
been known in the depth of eternity!
12. om vijayāyai namaḥ Salutations to the victorious one!
13. om sarvamaṅgalāyai namaḥ Salutations to the auspicious
one who bestows prosperity, wealth, fertility and joy!
14. om jvalamālinyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who is
garlanded with arms and annihilates anger and rage!
15. om citrāyai namaḥ Salutations to the one who sparkles
with the clarity of Consciousness!
16. om tripurasundaryai namaḥ Salutations most beautiful in
the three worlds!
OM TAT SAT
Modern Moon Yoga flow:
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which (s)he never
shows to anybody”
Mark Twain
CREATE:
Freewrite – what are you hiding, even from yourself?
Allow
the shadow to come into the light. What are you willing to transmute?
Black Charcoal on circular white paper, rub away the dark
Smudge with sage/burn/hold tenderly
MEDITATE:
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Full Moon Meditation (20min) from
1:05
Homework:
Dream Journal
Moonbathe, strip naked and get half an hour of moonbeams
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