It’s the new moon in Pisces today, March 13, 2021. This new moon energy brings with it the potent opportunity for healing and for setting goals and toning for the weeks and months ahead. This new moon, in particular, is also influenced by Neptune, and Neptune’s influence is BIG. It is the purveyor of imagination, inspiration, vision, faith and belief.
Messages and messengers are important this month, as is communication with others. Friends and allies may come from unexpected places to help and support you and give the beneficial green light or help you get to where you need to go.
Venus is also involved, and Venus is the Goddess of good fortune, and in conjunct with Neptune brings with it a sense of dreams coming true.
I mention these astrological alignments because it feels like my dreams are, indeed, coming true. I am feeling optimistic and hopeful. I feel the magic of this time permeating into my being on every level. Although the energy can have a whimsical nature, I am also feeling a profound sense of being at the right place, at the right time, and that things are unfolding for me as nature and karma intended.
I recently embarked on a further journey to deepen my understanding of working with medicinal plants and have been certified by Being True To You as a Transformational Addiction Recovery and Entheogenic Integration Coach.
SO, in the spirit of healing using sacred plants, I decided today would be an auspicious day for me to do my own journey of transformation and healing. I prepared a tea using 4 grams of mushrooms and sipped it in ceremony, with intention and reverence.
My focus going inwards today was twofold; for healing and to spark creativity. What I have learned from experience is that the insights and gifts from using these sacred plants, are rarely what you expect and yet, almost always, exactly what you need. They have a magical adaptogenic quality of getting to the heart of the very issues you may be feeling need some clarity, sometimes without you even being aware of them going in.
Today, I was blessed to have had a huge dose of both healing and creativity.
Physically, I am in a period of deep detoxification and nutritional infusion. I have given up sugar in all its forms, corn in all its forms, wheat, alcohol and marijuana and all acid-forming foods & substances. I am on a plant-based alkaline diet. It has only been 10 months and I feel re-born!
I feel as alive as the food I use to nourish my body at a molecular level. The phrase “you are what you eat” came full frontal into my awareness today. How vital it is to realize that my health is directly related to what I do to cultivate and nurture it. What a gift it is to realize that without health, life itself loses its vitality. This message was so clear and simple, and this detoxification path was acknowledged as being the best thing for me right now.
Emotionally, I wept today for the first time in years (yes, years). Tears of sadness flowed for my family & friends who suffer from dis-ease, and I cried for the state of the world and the state of fear that our society is now drenched in.
But mostly the tears that flowed were tears of deep gratitude.
Gratitude for the clarity and awareness that working with plant medicine brings.
Gratitude for the joy that my relationships bring.
Gratitude for the wisdom and lessons from my ancestors who have passed on.
In particular, my maternal grandparents and my sister-in-law, Johanne, who died when she was 44.
Their spirits recently made “appearances” in my life, and I was reminded of the lessons they taught me but had not realized until today. Johanne taught me to lead with my heart, her kindness and sheer love of life and her family shone so brightly and continues to influence me. I got the message to let my heart be the larger part of making decisions, not just my mind alone.
My maternal grandparents were kind and generous people. They gave us unconditional love, financial support and opened their home to my Mom, my siblings and I, when my parents divorced. Today they reminded me that their support continues to this day, I need only to tap into it, through my heart, to feel it. I felt intense gratitude for their support.
I also visited my Father and my Stepmom this morning, they are still living, but aged. I felt a strong need to see them and felt that this day would be a good time because of the healing energy which I hoped to impart to them, I was feeling very energized all morning. Another part of this Pisces new moon energy is saying goodbye to the past and letting go, and through this experience with the sacred plants today I was able to finally see much more clearly how I needed to be letting go.
You see I am a nurturer by nature, a Taurus and my desire to help and heal is very foundational to my being, it is why I am drawn to Holistic Health and Functional Medicine.
Today, after spending time with them and witnessing their suffering from chronic health conditions, I was able to finally let go of thinking that I needed to help them.
I realized that they can and will make their own decisions for themselves which will deliver them to their destiny, whatever that may be. I let go of the thoughts in my mind but held tightly to the deep love and cherished memories of the time we’ve spent together. Memories, as I explained to my father this morning, live forever because they are not bound by the physical dimension. I will remember them always with deep abiding love and I cherish all the lessons they taught me.
The lessons that I gleaned from my father’s actions, his strong work ethic and artistic attention to details, certainly, but maybe even more profoundly, by observing what was missing from his actions. The clarity that I gained from the observation of his life choices, good and bad, have been instrumental to me.
The lessons I learned from my stepmom, even today, are ones of wisdom that comes from an extraordinary life lived and from being able to discern which lessons worked (and were therefore adopted) and which ones weren’t and discarded. I love her wisdom and consider her to be the mother & mentor I never had. She has a quiet way of sharing her wisdom, it is offered but never forced. She speaks of her story, her experiences and what they taught her about being resilient in life.
My heart expanded today in the knowing of this love they have for me and feeling it throughout my body to the core of my soul.
My greatest realization, however, was understanding that the lessons and wisdom I have to share and offer are not meant for them at this time, but are meant for others, for my clients, for my son and for future generations to come.
I wept in gratitude for the incredible people they are and how great a capacity for love they have. I’ve never been more grateful for cleansing, healing tears.
Psychologically and intellectually, I am in a period of deep clarity of vision about my future. My business, which has blossomed into an outlet for my creativity, has become a testing ground for my deep belief in the viability of conscious capitalism. My goal for the future of my business is to model the tenets of Conscious Capitalism and show others that a business CAN thrive when we share the wealth and success with all who help to create and maintain it.
Creatively, I have literally blossomed! Inspiration, creations, manifestations of all kinds are springing forth like a fountain. The faucet is open full blast, and the possibilities are infinite. I have manifested the ability to build around myself the necessary foundation for that creativity to blossom and now there is literally, no stopping it.
Dozens of new products for my online store are in progress and I am fueled and fulfilled beyond belief.
I was recently guided to spend more time writing, as it is a passion that I put on the back burner for the past few years but am feeling ready to take it up again, in earnest. So much has poured forth, today alone, that I have enough material for 5 blog posts! I am so grateful for being shown that this is a positive creative outlet for me. I have been neglecting it and have felt a little lost without it, frankly.
Writing in journals has always been a great way for me to express myself and the practice needs to come back into my life. As a blogger, I am so thankful for the opportunity to share my thoughts, even if the audience is small. It’s not about the outcome for me or the acquisition of followers but the sheer joy of the creative act itself. It is a blessing to love language and words, and to feel free enough and vulnerable enough to use it as a tool of personal self-expression.
I hope to grow and sharpen my skills through the process, and I look forward to seeing my progression and to discovering new words and phrases with which to express the boundless creativity within.
And so, my wishes for today were fulfilled, in spades. What I received was confirmation that my physical healing, the detoxification protocols, are right on point. The profound emotional healing was both transformative and needed. The subsequent creative juices that flowed through writing this blog post (and others that I started today, to come later), all help to confirm to me the powers of transformation through the use of medicinal plants.
I am so grateful for all the insights from the experience, and now that I’m working through the integration process, I realize I am exactly where I need to be right now. I am a newly certified Transformational Coach, and I will be able to help guide people who are suffering from a myriad of dis-ease, and offer them the opportunity to take steps to heal on a deep, holistic level. I’m excited!
My aims were met! I am grateful to have been led to this path, and I am reminded of a favourite quote by
Howard Thurman;
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
Then go do that
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive
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