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 tomorrow near the north node, in Aries. But it’s not just any new moon. It’s an eclipse. And just like the last Friday email I sent you, that means it could be a little chaotic. Not everyone loves to use the eclipses for rituals because of that potential chaos, but I’m going to let you make your own decisions. I just want you to be informed prior to making the decision. So continue on if you choose to do so. Or don’t if you don’t want to throw your manifestations into a tornado just to see where they land.
This new moon is the final eclipse on the Libra-Aries axis that began in April 2023. So think back to that time period in your life.
🌑What was beginning that’s now coming to a close?
This eclipse cycle has largely focused on relationships, specifically themes of independence vs interdependence vs codependence. Reclaiming yourself where you’ve previously been giving too much and losing pieces of yourself.
Our relationships are always stronger when all parties are showing up as the strongest versions of themselves. So for this new moon eclipse, the journal prompts I’m offering (whether or not you choose to ritualize it) are centered on that self-and-other concept.
🌑What wounds were ripped open in April 2023 that you’re now finding have healed over?
🌑What unhealthy relationship patterns have you noticed and worked toward shifting over the course of the last two years?
🌑What does it look like for you to show up as the strongest, most resilient, most healed version of yourself inside the context of a relationship? And how is that different from the ways past versions of yourself showed up?
🌑Which wounds are you now noticing still need tending to? What care and support do you need for that stage of healing? And are you ready for it, or do you need a moment to immerse yourself in this moment prior to moving through the next?
✊ 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.)
Okay, listen. I use Signal for organizing and … I just … We’re obviously hexing the entirety of the Houthi PC Small Group chat. Aside from Jeffrey Goldberg, of course. (He’s the hero we all need right now.)
I mean, that’s obvious, right?
Because it just so clearly depicts the ineptitude of this administration.
So hex away, my loves. They’ll get what’s coming to them.
*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.
