It’s Friday! Let’s Fuck Shit Up Together!
Happy Friday, lovely! It’s time to fuck some shit up!
Twice a month, in accordance with the lunar cycles, we gather in circle here and in your inbox for a salaciously good time. We talk reclaiming what has always been ours via ritualized practices and hexing shitty politicians.
Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
✨ SPELL
Because this newsletter is sent out in conjunction with the lunar cycles, this segment offers you a moon ritual. Prior to all the stuff listed above, I studied art history as a way to develop an understanding of world religions. Since childhood, I’ve been on a spiritual journey to develop my own relationship to the divine. In no way do I have any interest in telling you what to believe or not believe. That’s for you. It’s personal. And for me, it’s cyclical. My spiritual practices have changed my relationship to time in such a beautiful way that I want to offer you a bit of that shift here by recognizing the cycles of the moon in order to hand you an opportunity to incorporate cyclical time into your experience of life. I work with many spiritual mentors, and ritualized practices are incorporated into the foundation of Project Reclamation—our equity-centered membership community—as well as the Reclamation Weekend retreats I host. And when you joined this email list, you received a Reclamation ritual from me. Again, I don’t care what you believe in or don’t believe in. Paying attention to the moon will help repair your relationship with time, which capitalism has fucked up for all of us. If you’d like to dive deeper into esoteric spirituality, though, keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for some fun stuff I’ve got coming up. 😉
Across time and culture, the moon has often represented our inner world of emotional connection, spiritual journey, and relationship to self. Aligning myself with the cycles of the moon has offered me the added bonus of shifting my relationship with time. When we allow ourselves the space for rest and renewal, rather than keeping ourselves stuck in the constant hustle & grind mentality of late-stage capitalism, our perspectives on what’s influential, what’s valuable, and what’s worthy of our energy have space to become deeper and more personal.
This week, I’m offering you a full moon ritual to hand you a little piece of that.
This doesn’t have to take a long time. The idea is to be present with yourself and focused on your full experience during the ritual. Pay attention to the sensations you feel during the ritual and make note of them afterward. I’d love to hear about your experience if you’d like to share!
FULL MOON RITUAL
The full moon is an excellent time to release anything you’ve been holding onto. And this can mean one of two things! Either you’ve been clinging to something that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip, or you’ve been working toward creating something that you’re now ready to release into the world. Whichever option resonates most with you, that’s where to focus your energy for this ritual.
Supplies: paper, pen, candle, some sort of non-flammable receptacle (actual cauldron, metal, glass, or ceramic bowl or pot, fire pit outside, the base of a grill — you’re gonna burn some shit up so you want something to let it burn in that’s not going to cause any damage to anything)
Steps:
Take a few minutes and ground yourself, whatever that means to you – whether that’s a few deep breaths, listening to a guided meditation, washing your face, putting your feet in the grass, masturbating, or anything else. Then light your candle.
Write out what it is that you’d like to release. If this is something you’ve been clinging to that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip on it, fold the paper in half AWAY from your body. If it’s something you’ve been working on and are releasing into the world, fold the paper in half TOWARD your body.
Light the paper on fire and let it burn in your non-flammable receptacle.
BONUS: If you want to mix the burnt ashes with salt and/or offer them back to the earth by sprinkling them around outside or burying them under the moon, go for it!
We’ve got a lunar eclipse in Virgo next Thursday.
Eclipses are chaotic.
Mercury rules Virgo.
Mercury goes retrograde next Friday.
And if you speak astrology, you’re looking at all of this and going, “Fuck. 🤦♀️As if we didn’t have enough to deal with, given EVERYTHING going on?!”
This eclipse is going to shine a light on your communication patterns…which may get fucked up during the retrograde.
It’s also going to highlight your perfectionistic tendencies while also highlighting which of your habits and systems aren’t working well any longer. (Maybe the perfectionistic tendencies are part of why the habits and systems aren’t working well any longer. Maybe not. You tell me. 😉)
While many astrologers and witches and other spiritual leaders encourage NOT performing any kinds of lunar rituals around the eclipses, I take a different view. I see ritual as self-care and self-care as ritual. So I’ll leave it up to you whether you do the full moon ritual or not. (I mean, it’s always up to you. But truly, consider whether you want to draw on the chaotic energy of the eclipse or not before you light a candle.)
Ritualized or not, here are some journal prompts to guide you through this full moon eclipse:
🌕Where in your life is perfectionism REALLY not serving you? And how can you release your grip on it a bit?
🌕Where have you recently been overly critical of yourself? And how can you offer yourself some gentleness?
🌕What habits or systems are no longer working as well as they once did? (If they ever did work well.) And how can you tweak them to make them more efficient and/or more effective?
🌕What was happening in your life in 2008? This eclipse is speaking to that time period. How have you changed? How have you grown? What lingering wounds from that time period can you offer yourself some soothing or healing from now? How can you gift yourself closure?
✊ HEX
Politics is a not-so-secret passion of mine. I used to run a couple of political organizations here in Kansas City and lobby at the state level in Missouri with Planned Parenthood. The 2016 election is what led me into coaching after I lost my mind and a therapist told me I had “excellent coping skills” because I was focusing all my time and energy on political volunteerism. And in this segment, we might get a little petty. But we’ll always be aiming to reclaim our power from the cis-heteronormative, puritanical, white supremacist patriarchy we currently live under in this hellscape of climate change and late-stage capitalism. Here, I’ll offer suggestions on candidates to donate to, people to follow, podcasts to subscribe to, and answer the question of WHO ARE WE HEXING? (Josh Hawley is always on that list.)
I just don’t have it in me to hex anyone today. Are there plenty of people who could be on the receiving end of our ire? Of course! But truly, the world is a mess. The US is a mess. Venus went retrograde a week ago. Mercury goes retrograde next week. And the eclipses are upon us.
It’s a lot.
So, instead of shooting off a hex, I want to invite you in for some gentle nourishment.
Retrograde Remix begins next Wednesday.
I’ve just finished writing the opening Akashic Journey to offer guidance from your spirit team (or whatever you believe in) on the healing, wisdom, and insight you need to assist you through the chaos. It’ll align with the full moon eclipse. (And be recorded, so if the time doesn’t work for you, you’ll still be able to receive the messaging.)
We’ll have a tea ceremony for the new moon eclipse in Pisces on the 29th.
Two oracle decks will accompany us through this Remix — one for while Mercury is in Aries and another for when he shifts back into Pisces.
And we’ll have a ritual for the equinox on the 21st.
It’s some BIG energy that we’re working with in this container. And I’m honored to hold space for it.
Far more honored than I am to be living in this current timeline, where a criminal will disrespect a war hero so thoroughly as 47 disrespected Zelenskyy.
And if you’d like to be held in a space of gentleness during this chaotic moment, I’d love to have you.
Sign up for the Retrograde Remix here.
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That’s it for this week, lovely! I appreciate you offering me space in your day. And I look forward to seeing you fuck some shit up today! ❤️🔥
-xoxo-
Keli
P.S. Come down from rage and terror. Reclaim your agency from *gestures broadly* everything happening in our current moment. Project Reclamation is your antidote to the chaos. Join us.
