I remember how hard it was to find the right words for the readings at the funeral services of my brother and my dad. Some years ago I put together this compilation of beautiful words and poems to help others find the right words for their loved ones life celebrations and memorials. I hope it helps you too if you are in need of finding beautiful tributes for someone you love upon their passing.
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Full Moon In Gemini Plus Lunar Eclipse
Today is a full moon in Gemini with a Lunar Eclipse.
What you need to know:
We really have to read the room carefully and with consideration today. It’s a time for extreme kindness and care even in the face of provocation, and there will be some! Toxic relationships and the patterns that keep repeating therein will be coming to an end, possibly via some unexpected turn of events. Be prepared to be shocked but also see these events as an opportunity for a timely exit. If a door presents itself, let go, finally and run through it to freedom and lock it behind you.
If you allow the painful lesson to end you’ll see the teaching it gave you and the beautiful opportunities and possibilities that lie ahead, free of drama and living with chaotic energy.
What or who do you need to free yourself from so you can truly be your authentic self?
Chaos does not need to be normalised. You have more choices than you know.
Freedom and self empowerment awaits!
Take advantage of the free tools here on this site to help yourself, and you know where I am if you need some soothing treatment tonight!
More power to you… ✨
When Honouring the Dead Seems Wrong
Samhain is a time for gratitude and honouring the dead. We create altars, bring out the photos, make food, gather around the fire and reminisce and share stories about those who went before us. We remember and give thanks for their influence on our lives.
In recent times though, we’ve been reminded that for some, our forebears were horrible people who did terrible things. What if some of our ancestors were violent abusers, homophobes, or genocidal racists, slave traders?
If our ancestors were not and are not people we would welcome into our lives or at our hearths, we owe them nothing.
We are under no obligation to venerate them just because they came before us.
Instead, we owe it to ourselves to recommit to our own efforts to break the cycle.
What can we do instead to build a better legacy for our future generations, to do and be better than those ancestors were?
We are the ancestors of the future, celebrate this fact in whatever way you see fit. Perhaps create a meaningful ceremony to reflect this dedication.
Part of my own ceremony also honours those who were unjustly killed by those who colonialised and invaded other cultures. None of my own ancestors did that according to my family tree, but in my culture, many were invaders and murderers across the world. By honouring those who were hurt and killed by those actions we also set an intention that it never happens again.
Creating a line of distinction between you and your ancestors reinforces this too – a cord cutting exercise will help too.
Along with a full moon releasing ceremony which can be as simple as this, add your own wording to it:
Make your own ceremony empowering and sincere – taking back power and creating a strong message to the Universe of your intent.
Blessings to you, from my hearth to yours.
Samhain Full Blue Moon – Energy Report
The second full moon of October falls on Samhain, in the way more relaxed and grounded energy of Taurus, encouraging us to slow down, be present and take a moment to use all of our senses to guide us to our highest good in all daily matters. It is a sensible sign, reining us in gently. Love and money will be in sharp focus, no rash moves or acting on impulse!
Mercury and Mars Retrograde is upon us which can be a time of duality – a frustrating time for anything going to plan, but perfect with this Taurus energy for going within and assessing what needs to change. If you do make plans, triple check details and be prepared for the unexpected. Remaining flexible is a must, measured responses, take a breath before reacting and make very grounded decisions before any action.
Make time to tune in to how you feel moment to moment during this full moon – pay attention to all of your gut feelings that may be screaming the opposite of whatever seems true on the surface.
Releasing anything that no longer serves a purpose will make space for new adventures ahead. We may be living in challenging times but our minds are free, we are limitless beings and need to be reminded of our collective power to effect meaningful change.
Questions we can ask ourselves on this full moon:
What do I need to change?
What can I do to begin those changes right now?
Do I know my worth?
Am I honouring my feelings enough?
Full Moon October 1st – Energy Report
This is the Harvest Moon, and first of 2 full moons this month.
Time for some fearlessness.
Full Moon in Aries brings the ability to work on our struggles with motivation, identity and being a spiritual being of consciousness living this human experience in this “meatsuit” vehicle.
We have all been experiencing many WTF??? moments this year, and September was a surreal month for those moments! We may even be feeling like we have run out of patience. For us to find greater sense of peace amidst the madness of the outer world, we must put on our armour and walk fearlessly and unflinchingly into those places where we may have unknowingly been in battle against ourselves. The warrior aspect of Aries asks you to honestly fight for yourself in a better way in order to find peace.
This particular Aries Full Moon relates to the Aries New Moon on the 24th of March this year. This New Moon kicked off the New Astrological year, and happened just as most of the world was entering lock down. At a collective level this full moon calls us to release the energy of that moment in time. Aries energy encourages us to think for ourselves, seeing beyond the distraction of media and news to see the real truth. Time to accept that there are two realities at play in any moment, the physical reality – which the eyes see and the etheric reality – which the soul understands. This Aries Full Moon brings to light the connection between spirit and body – and the courage it takes to realise this connection is real within the human experience.
As the first sign of the Zodiac, Aries is all about new beginnings, cycles and very much the energy of us arriving here in human form at birth. As souls we are reminded now we have all chosen to incarnate at this time and in this physical form to learn and evolve within our experiences. Aries energy helps us feel motivated and the desire to get things done, to effect change. It is also about accepting the body you are living in. However we live in a material world where shallow judgements make this difficult and we can end up in a place of punishing or judging the body. This is ego (fear), not soul. This Aries Full Moon calls for a release of self judgement. We are called towards a path of greater understanding that we are both human and spirit combined. To enjoy the ride of being in physical form, we could perhaps embrace the concept that this is not our first birth and it probably won’t be our last?
This Full Moon is an ideal opportunity to manifest some deep healing. Through our deepest wounds we learn about our own healing abilities as well as our true nature.
The physical and the energetic bodies ask us to see their link to one another. For example, if you find you continually get throat irritation, where are you not speaking the truth?
Ask this Moon energy to help dissolve and release what holds you back. Sit in quietude, listen to your emotions and pay attention to your body… allow it to tell you it’s secrets.
Questions to ask ourselves:
Where am I holding myself back?
How can I be more emotionally fearless?
Where do I need to reclaim my power in my personal relationships?
Whose opinions do I really need to take into account before I make important changes?
Where do I need to take action?
Where do I need to be more patient?
What do I admire about myself?
If you wish to work with this energy, I have a Full Moon Ritual guide with some simple ways to harness this beautiful energy and make it work for you.
This is also a Wishing Moon – These particular full moons have even more power than usual for us to tap into and harness for positive change.
The harnessing of moon phase energy in magical workings is an ancient tradition. A Wishing Moon is a very powerful time to be making lists of wishes, hopes, and aspirations, which over time our will can manifest into being.
The key is in making our wishes realistic and achievable with us being prepared to meet the Universe half way with our own efforts wherever possible.
I’m here if you need any overnight treatments to soothe the soul too…
Until next time xxx
September 2020 – Shields up!
Have you noticed an increase in people letting you down, electrical gadgets playing up, physical pain amplified, maybe becoming a little more forgetful and feeling tetchy?
Many of us are experiencing these things the past few weeks, myself included.
I’ve had a total of 9 people mess me around badly in the past 5 days and everyone I know is having electrical items stop working or act up.
So much so I asked my guides yesterday why this is, and they confirmed my inkling, that the global collective consciousness has never been so upset and outraged, angry, frustrated and fearful as it has been the past few weeks. So many low energy interactions and radiation of anger.
This is affecting and amplifying the vibrational energy of every being, making already unreliable people more so, and some have really lost the plot. Add to this we’ve had intense solar EMF bombardment since the Equinox earlier this week, which often increases physical pain and brain fog.
I have increased my own self care with more meditation, Reiki, Eir, Diamond Energy Therapy healing and using Chaos Flush energy several times daily to release frustration and ensure that my energy stays out of that bombardment.
We’re living in strange times and need to use every spiritual tool, and do whatever we can to stay flowing and not caught on the external challenges. Bruce Lee was so right, we must be water.
Some coping tips:
Stay out of external drama. Switch off the mainstream news, dip in and out of reliable news sources online.
Ensure your boundaries are being respected by others who may not have any. Don’t allow your own personal energy to be drained by another person. It is OK to say NO. If you don’t have enough energy to get involved with something you are being asked to be drawn into in that moment, you can be honest about needing to rest. Then you can offer the best help possible.
Don’t say yes to something you know you can’t commit to. Get comfortable with how to kindly say no when you need to.
Have positive expectations even if you feel like the Universe is kicking you in the pantaloons. This time will pass either way no matter how we worry, or not… All time is a series of nows strung together, so why deny yourself hope?
If you are attuned to any healing modality e.g. Reiki – use it! Switch it on little and often throughout the day, a few minutes here and there. Infuse your food, water, bath/shower with the energy and leave it running in the background while relaxing.
Acknowledge that some of what you are feeling right now may not be your own and take steps to get rid.
Here’s a useful little technique to ground yourself – make it part of daily life whenever you need to ground and release any energy you don’t wish to keep, especially when you feel it might not be yours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMaMj1AdBIs
I use sound as a powerful cleanser too, lots of videos on YouTube with 432hz sound frequency –keeps the vibe harmonious. Sing loud uplifting songs whenever you can, even if you don’t consider yourself a singer, it really does lift and change your vibration.
I have created a Cord Cutting with Archangel Michael guided meditation which will help bolster your strength, disconnect from any people or circumstances that are less than and forge new healthy cords of connection with those you love. It helps you work on forgiveness and reconnection with people too. Enter password Michael to view and/or download it whenever you wish.
This is a lovely guided meditation on your chakras to make a part of your daily routine, particularly nice and relaxing before sleep. I’m told it helps some people fall asleep before the end which is about as relaxed as you can be.
Spend time outside. Find a green space, with like minded people whenever you can. I’m often in the woods with Mr F or friends for a few hours restoring my sanity after a challenging time, absolutely nothing recharges the batteries and gives us a boost more. You’ll come home different.
Sending you all love in these challenging times!
Equinox Balance
On this Autumn Equinox, we are reminded of balance and how to look deeply and objectively into our lives to seek it.
Questions we could ask ourselves:
What nourishes my soul?
What practices keep you feeling nourished, and how often do you need to do them in order to avoid burnout and keep you energetically balanced and feeling well?
Commit (or re-commit) to bringing a little more self-care into your life.
Figure out what that looks like for you—maybe a healing treatment, a chakra balance, some yoga; a weighted blanket, cooking with warming spices, such as cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, ginger, clove which are also great for natural reduction in inflammation within the body, especially joint problems such as arthritis. I swear by them and eat them daily and increase my intake during autumn and winter.
Get creative in your grimoire or journal
Painting or colouring with autumnal shades is a beautiful way to honour the energy of this day. If you don’t feel confident in your abilities yet, buy a beautiful colouring book and let your creativity flow! Or even buy a beautiful old second hand hardback book, paint out the pages with jesso or white acrylic paint and make it into whatever artistic book you wish!
Create a nook or altar
I have several surfaces in my home that are little altars… find any little sill, shelf, table or corner and decorate it according to the season.
How can I come into greater alignment with nature?
To align more closely with nature, start by noticing what’s happening around you. Tune in to the changes in the air, the temperature, and the light. Try adjusting your daily routines so that you rise earlier, with the sun, and begin to wind down a bit earlier, as darkness arrives. “The fall equinox is an invitation to come into alignment with the cycles of light and the circular nature of the seasons,” Micah says. “The more we connect with this cyclical rhythm, the more we align with nature.”
Where am I at? Just as we observe the seasonal changes, we can also be the witness and honour the changes happening in our own life. Take a step back, and a compassionate, eyes wide open look at where you are in your life.
Where can you take steps to come closer to what you most want to be doing?
Apply this question to everything! Your career, relationships, creative expression, your personal growth and spiritual evolution.
Can I surrender? Just as the leaves fall without resistance, autumn equinox gives us the opportunity to work with accepting what’s changing in the same manner.
You could decide to let go of what came before and open yourself to accept you are more than capable of making the most of whatever opportunity or challenge comes next?
Autumn equinox reminds us that although nothing is permanent, there is a cycle of rebirth and renewal that never ends. As in nature, we grow, we bloom, we shed what no longer serves purpose along the way of change, and we make room for new growth to come in again.
The wheel never stops turning, always something new on the path ahead.
Click here for Equinox explained, tips on decor, altar ideas and energy work
Energy Report – New Moon in Virgo – 17th September
Virgo really can bring in the constructive energy of purification.
Time for us to attempt to try to be virtuous (hahaha… I know!)
This new moon energy is a great spiritual window of time to receive some energetic assistance with our willpower and intuitive guidance about any health challenges we may be experiencing. If we struggle with sustaining willpower this is a good day for anything we associate with self purification.
See beyond the superficial – focusing on our spiritual progress and desired evolution despite the challenges of this year so far will help hugely.
Health discipline now will reap reward – along with any focus on creating meaningful personal transformations. If we are serious now about what we want and ridding our lives of what we do not wish to focus upon any longer, we will create constructive change and build new possibility in our lives.
Questions we may ask ourselves on this new moon:
- Digestive focus – how may I improve my gut health?
- How may I be of service to help others, how may I mentor or inspire by example?
- What is still of value to inspire gratitude within me?
- What is no longer serving a purpose?
- What is working well for me and needs to be brought forward more?
The impatience of Mars may give us some challenges in staying out of distraction but it also gives us some fiery feistiness wherever we need to channel that energy into positive peaceful warrior stance for ourselves or on behalf of those who are marginalised. Allow it to give you optimism!
Romance is getting a real boost, especially if there has been any imbalance within an existing relationship – if you aren’t happy, you’ll be identifying and acting upon what’s not working and may feel a real prompt to change your own behaviour patterns as a result.
Even if you just sage your home and light a white candle with the intention set of cleansing energy sweeping through your life, it’ll be powerful stuff.
Of course, I’m here if you wish to book yourself in for a little cleansing work…
Until next time
New moon blessings!
xx
Full Moon in Pisces September 2020
2nd September (6.22am) UT/GMT
This full moon is demanding we be present, living in the moment.
Life is a string of nows that we live, moment to moment, right? We need to acknowledge that and go with that flow today. If you think about the past, you’ll be dragged into the here and now whether you wish to be or not!
Dreams, visions, gut feelings, knowings… they will be VERY vivid on this full moon, trust them to be steering you right. You may even have some sense of secrets about to come to light, things may finally come to a head in some cases but its OK, its much needed and will move obstacles out of the way at last! On a global scale we are seeing corruption being exposed left right and centre, so we could even have some huge shifts occurring for the better in this aspect.
We have some Mars influence giving us more than a little warrior stance too, so we need to check our words before they fly out of our mouths! Use the energy to help others in need, those who may need your peaceful warrior energy to support them in a practical way.
Some questions this moon asks of us:
Is the daily duty list outweighing the things that you want to do to maintain your inner peace and creativity?
Creatively you may feel some frustration – so be it in work or leisure, acknowledge it, but please do not go down the rabbit hole of comparing yourself with others!
Emotional much?
Pisces is quite a dreamy energy, so we will all be feeling a certain way about emotional issues or triggers, we will be emotionally in tune more with our intuition.
Passions will be running high!
Ooh la la! Yes, the sexy kind and/or passion for what you do or passion in finding your purpose in life.
With this full moon energy, don’t be surprised if you find some things coming to a head this weekend, with truths being spoken – and heard.
Is your perspective balanced?
It is important to try to see others point of view. Even if that other is being a giant pain in the rear, please try hard to take the higher perspective. I say this for your sake, not theirs!
Can you forgive?
The full moon in any month is a good time to release and forgive. Again, for your sake.
Have you been struggling to deal with a spiritual awakening?
You may find a shift in awareness that makes it all seem a little clearer or makes it a little easier on you energy wise around this full moon. Maybe it is already happening in the build up?
It is a great time to be seeking inspiration and guidance in our spiritual practices, so keep things simple, get out into nature, get really still and quiet for a few minutes wherever you are and just see how you feel.
Higher awareness is yours if you listen.
How I can help:
I have space this week…
However you choose to harness this full moon energy, more power to you.
Until next time…
Brightest Blessings
New Moon In Leo
This new moon is in Leo, which is strong and feisty energy but in all the right ways, such as creating opportunities to reconcile differences between yourself and how you feel about the world/or loved ones who have been getting on your last nerve. Will you carve your own path or submit to the will of others for a quiet life? The former is more achievable right now if you usually opt for the latter.
I woke this morning with the lyrics to John Lennon’s Instant Karma running through my mind – “We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun”
The Leo new moon inspires us to shine in our own unique way. celebrating our quirks and weirdness. Let your freak flag fly!
At its best, Leo is about recognizing and celebrating what makes us truly special. Each of us has been given our own unique abilities. And we owe it to ourselves and the world to develop, express, evolve and share them.
We are not for everyone. And that’s okay!
The key is to shine your light where it can be best received, truly seen – and not waste your precious energy on people and situations that make you feel invisible underestimated, or worse, unappreciated.
Areas we will need to work on today:
Our feelings are amplified and so is the negative self speak and judgement, but instead of looking where to blame, we can address and heal those issues as they rise to the surface now.
Whether we are ready for this or not – it is happening, and we can use the Leo energy of this New Moon to face them head on and roar! Create new and constructive habits instead.
This day is a great opportunity to take incredibly transformative inner journeys. Compassion and unconditional love, self-care to heal ourselves, to open ourselves up, shadow side and all – giving allowance to abundance in all things for our personal and collective greater good.
Have you been increasingly unable to deny being your authentic weird and wonderful self?
Feeling like quitting your soul sucking job, or telling controlling people where to go?
Theres a reason for that. This energy combo is pushing us to choose integrity and authenticity, and to drown out fear.
Creating good new habits and working towards the greater good in any way, shape or form is wonderful right now – go for it!
Be present with what feels good:
Simple things…
- Daily random acts of kindness, be aware of the opportunities around you to pay it forward.
- Learn something new.
- Take time to honour nature, walk in open green spaces or forests.
- Cloudgazing and stargazing (still some meteors until mid September too!)
- Meditate – note down any ideas, thoughts, channelled words or imagery, leave a voice recorder app running while you meditate so you can speak them as you go, then you don’t have the pressure and distraction of remembering it all.
If you feel super overwhelmed and unsure how or where to begin and need some help navigating and coping with this energy, perhaps a Chakra Balance and Cleanse, Chaos Flush Empowerment, Clean Slate or Diamond Energy Therapy will be a catalyst to press that reset button?
Whatever you do today, empowerment and focus on what you CAN do, is the order of the day. Time for you to harness this energy for the highest and greatest good – for you and those you love.
Until next time…
More power to you! xx