Each full moon you are sent journaling prompts to explore in your own time.
Journaling can be a beautiful, non scary way to explore our hearts, our minds and our relationship to nature both inside and outside of us. It can be fun, interesting and inspiring. You do not have to be a writer, you do not need to able to spell well, be a poet, nor do you have to write regularly. Writing in this journaling form, is a tool, a tool to explore curiously what is held within and create a communion between the head and heart.
So grab your journal, a herbal tea or a jug of coffee, a blanket, a cosy space or whatever it is you need to explore these prompts along with pen/pencil and maybe a timer if you want to give yourself timings which I personally think is a good idea, but do what’s right for you.
Hello Lovelies,
Happy Full moon to you all.
In Celtic tradition, this moon is called the Oak Moon or the Full Cold Moon. The oak is a symbol of strength and eternity, and when the winter is in full reign over the Earth, it is important to remember the oak’s endurance, and the magic and power of the acorn within us and within soil, for as we head into the colder days, it is worth remembering why we need this time of cold, wet and inner time, so we can hold and nourish the magic within all.
In these cold times, in the middle of winter, we are called to rest, and yet, it can be so hard to go against a lifetime worth of being and performing a certain way for external validation or to just fit in.
A few days ago, someone reminded me that my granny Mary, would have different knitting that she was in the middle of making on each of her three of her three or four landings, as she considered it a terrible thing to waste even a minute. So if she went to the toilet or something she would do her knitting so she was always being productive.
She could never rest, and was always making, creating and doing. And although she created incredible things, she was a weaver, a gardener, a wonderful cook and home baker, a concert pianist and a teacher, she never stopped. She never let herself just centre, come home to her inner worlds or check in with her feelings.
How will you be useless to capitalism today?
-Brontë Velez
The seasons teach us of the importance of heading inwards, of change and a need to not alway produce outwardly or we would be in danger of overwhelm and exhaustion, as well as not really knowing who we are and what our hearts and bodies truly feel.
Rest is not a nothingness, it’s a powerful and beautiful way to come home, to re centre, to bring heart and mind back together, to listen, to feel and to know.
Disrupt and push back against a system that views you as a machine. You are not a machine. You are a divine human being. WE WILL REST!
Tricia Hersey (the nap ministry)
Free Writing -
Start the process of journaling with free writing. If you are unsure what that means follow this link and read the description. Give yourself about 20 minutes if you can but you can do a longer or shorter stretch depending on your own needs.