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 new 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!
NEW MOON RITUAL
The new moon is an excellent time to focus on what you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. Whatever you want to reclaim for yourself. You can get fancy with your rituals, and if you’re into altar work, crystal work, or any other kind of spiritual work, please feel free to incorporate it. Personally, I like to keep things simple.
Supplies: paper, pen, glass of water that you’ll drink
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.
Write out what it is you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. This can be big or small. It can be for the lunar cycle beginning with this new moon, the next six months, the next calendar year, or a lifelong dream.
Read what you’ve written—out loud—over your glass of water. Then drink the water.
We have a new moon in dreamy Pisces next Thursday. And since Pisces is a water sign, I want to extra super double down on the water ritual for it. So if you normally just do the journaling portion and you don’t incorporate the water, do the water bit this time. Hell, maybe even take a bath or shower either before or after your ritual, just to add some more elemental connection.
Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, so it often represents a culminating force. And with all the other astro aspects, we’ve got a lot of authenticity and expansion in the mix. So here are a couple of questions to guide your new moon ritual.
🌑What do you do so well you don’t even have to think about it? Maybe it’s a skill you’ve learned or maybe it’s something that has always been an intuitive strength. But the thing that lives in your depths while also shining brightly AS you — what is that?
🌑The time of hiding and keeping it secret is coming to an end. How can you pull that thing to the surface and expand it further into the world?
🌑What support do you need for that expansion?
✨If your thing involves selling any kind of product or service, I want to support you with that via the thing I do so well I don’t even have to think about it. In the Sales Soiree, we’ll spend six weeks on both the mindset and the skill set of sales to get into the depths of YOUR authentic sales voice and highlight that in the way you sell your offer. If you tend to be a sweaty mess and you black out during any kind of sales opportunity, I want to help you turn it into something that feels more like having a chat with a friend over coffee. Join me inside the Sales Soiree for a six-week transformation of your relationship to sales. Because you love the thing you offer the world. And you deserve to love selling it.
✊ 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.)
We’re still hexing Elon Musk. Obviously. He’s trying to single-handedly destroy the fabric of the United States only to replace it with his own ideology. And while I am well aware that the fabric was tattered and worn, with ill-fitting patches of faded mismatched prints and shredded hems, the path he’s putting us on as a country will only lead to massive amounts of death and destruction.
Was shit fucked? Yes. But this ain’t the way to fix it.
So hex away.
*This segment is not intended to promote harm to anyone in any way. I don’t hex people in real life. ✊
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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.
