You Were Never Meant to Bloom Every Day: Reclaiming Your Cyclical Nature Through Moon & Menstruation Magic
What if the parts of yourself you've been taught to see as inconsistent, unpredictable, or inconvenient are actually expressions of your deepest wisdom?
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from trying to be the same person every single day.
The same motivation. The same energy. The same capacity for connection, creativity, productivity, and showing up for everyone who needs something from you.
Wake up. Get moving. Get things done. Go to sleep. Do it all again tomorrow.
But look outside.
Does the oak tree produce leaves in January? Does the garden bloom through December? Does the moon remain full every night?
Of course not.
Nature moves through cycles of expansion and contraction, growth and decay, creation and restoration.
And we are nature.
Yet somewhere along the way, we've inherited a cultural expectation that our energy should operate like a machine rather than a living ecosystem.
What might happen if we stopped fighting our cyclical nature and began collaborating with it?
That's the magic I want to explore with you.
🎧 Listen to this episode of Embodied Magic with Melinda as we explore solar and lunar energy, the Wheel of the Year, menstrual cycle wisdom, and the spiritual practice of living in rhythm with nature.
Solar and Lunar Energy: Two Sacred Rhythms Within Us
I was having coffee with my husband recently, and we got into a conversation about something I find endlessly fascinating.
What is it like to grow up socialized in a culture that celebrates a predominantly linear, solar approach to life?
And what might we learn by paying attention to the lunar side of our existence?
I use solar and lunar as symbolic descriptions of two complementary ways of moving through the world.
You might recognize similar ideas in discussions of masculine and feminine energy, yin and yang, or linear and cyclical living.
These aren't qualities that belong exclusively to men or women.
We all contain both.
☀️ Solar Energy: The Power of Outward Expression
Solar energy is the energy of doing.
It's action, momentum, visibility, structure, and outward expression.
Think of the sun rising in the morning, climbing toward its highest point, and descending again.
There is a recognizable daily rhythm.
Our modern productivity culture is built around this kind of energy.
We have schedules, deadlines, expectations, and routines that assume we can show up with roughly the same capacity every day.
And there is tremendous value in solar energy!
It's what helps us bring our ideas into the world.
But what happens when we expect ourselves to remain in that outward-facing, productive state indefinitely?
What happens when we forget that even the sun sets?
🌙 Lunar Energy: The Wisdom of Cyclical Becoming
Lunar energy invites us into a different relationship with time.
Rather than measuring ourselves by how consistently we produce, we begin noticing the natural rhythms of our expansion and contraction.
The moon doesn't remain full.
She emerges from darkness, grows toward fullness, and gradually returns to darkness again.
And we don't look at a waning moon and accuse her of failing to shine.
We understand that she's moving through her cycle.
What if we extended ourselves the same grace?
Lunar wisdom teaches us to recognize the gifts of every phase rather than treating our fullest expression as the only one worth celebrating.
Reclaiming Feminine Wisdom in a Productivity-Obsessed Culture
One of the most damaging messages many of us have internalized is that changing energy makes us unreliable.
If you're someone who menstruates, you may know this experience intimately.
One week you're inspired, outgoing, creative, and ready to take on the world.
Another week, you want quiet. You need more space. Your tolerance for stimulation changes. Perhaps your body is asking for gentler movement or additional rest.
And somewhere in the background, there's that little voice:
Why can't I just be consistent?
As a mother and business owner, I've wrestled with this myself.
There's always something that needs doing. Someone who needs something. Another project, another responsibility, another opportunity to be productive.
It can feel terribly inconvenient to inhabit a body that has its own ideas about how much energy is available.
But here's something that changed my relationship with myself.
What if I'm not unpredictable? What if I'm predictable within a cycle I've never been taught to recognize?
When I began tracking my menstrual cycle alongside my energy, motivation, desire for connection, and creative impulses, something shifted.
I started recognizing patterns.
I could see when I naturally felt more expansive and when I needed additional space.
Rather than constantly wondering what was wrong with me, I began asking what season I was experiencing.
And that question opened up an entirely different relationship with my body.
Your Body Is Not a Problem to Solve
There is some scientific grounding for recognizing individual menstrual patterns, although these experiences vary considerably.
Research published in Molecular Psychiatry explores how sensitivity to hormonal fluctuations can influence emotional experiences for some menstruating people. Importantly, this does not mean everyone experiences predictable changes in mood, motivation, or creativity.
But the deeper invitation here isn't about proving that every person experiences the same four phases.
It's about curiosity.
What happens when you stop approaching your changing needs as evidence of inadequacy?
What becomes possible when you begin listening?
The Wheel of the Year: Finding Your Place in Nature's Sacred Cycles
If we zoom out from the menstrual cycle, we find another beautiful expression of cyclical living.
The Wheel of the Year.
In many contemporary Pagan and witchcraft traditions, the Wheel of the Year marks the seasonal turning points through festivals and rituals.
From the darkness of Yule and the winter solstice to the abundance of midsummer, we're invited to witness the earth's perpetual cycle of death and rebirth.
❄️ Winter: The Sacred Darkness
Winter is the season of roots.
The leaves have fallen. The outward expression of life has quieted.
But beneath the earth, life continues.
Seeds wait. Roots rest. The soil holds the promise of what will emerge.
Winter reminds us that stillness is not emptiness.
There are things that can only develop when we stop reaching outward.
🌱 Spring: Emergence and Possibility
Spring brings the first tender shoots of new life.
What has been gestating beneath the surface begins to emerge.
This is the season of possibility, experimentation, and new beginnings.
We don't need to know exactly what the entire garden will look like.
We simply begin tending what has sprouted.
🔥 Summer: Expression and Celebration
Summer is our bonfire season.
The light is abundant. The garden is flourishing. The energy of life is spilling outward.
This is the season of connection, celebration, visibility, and sharing our creations with the world.
But summer is not the destination that makes the other seasons worthwhile.
It is one beautiful expression of the whole.
🍂 Autumn: Harvest, Wisdom, and Release
Autumn invites us to gather what we've grown.
We celebrate the harvest, recognize what nourished us, and acknowledge what didn't flourish as we'd hoped.
And then comes one of my favorite metaphors.
We compost.
We take the experiences, disappointments, lessons, and unexpected gifts of the previous season and allow them to become nourishment for whatever comes next.
Not everything needs to be carried forward in its original form.
Some things are meant to be transformed.
Moon Magic: Working with the Four Phases of Creation
One of my favorite ways to practice cyclical living is through moon magic.
The lunar cycle takes approximately 29.5 days, moving from one new moon to the next.
But you don't need to menstruate, identify as a witch, or even believe the moon influences your energy to find meaning in this practice.
You can simply allow her phases to become invitations for reflection.
🌑 New Moon: Rest, Intention, and the Sacred Seed
The new moon represents the fertile darkness.
That beautiful moment between the outbreath and the inbreath.
The pause before something new begins.
Our culture often encourages us to set an intention and immediately start working toward it.
But what if we allowed our intentions to take root first?
Imagine holding a seed in your hands.
You know what you hope it will become.
But once you plant it, you don't dig it up every morning to check whether it's growing.
You trust the process unfolding beneath the surface.
This is new moon magic.
We become still enough to listen for what wants to emerge.
New Moon Reflection
Ask yourself:
What wants to be planted in the darkness of this next cycle?
What would happen if I allowed myself to rest before beginning?
What wisdom might emerge if I stopped filling every quiet moment?
You might light a candle, meditate, journal, or simply sit in darkness.
There is nothing you need to accomplish.
The stillness is the practice.
🌒 Waxing Moon: Nourishing Your Becoming
As the moon begins to grow brighter, we move into the energy of emergence.
The seed has begun sending roots into the soil.
A tiny shoot reaches toward the light.
This is where we begin taking inspired action.
Not frantic action.
Not the desperate need to prove that we're making progress.
But movement that grows naturally from the intention we've planted.
We begin gathering resources, experimenting, and noticing the opportunities and synchronicities that support our vision.
Waxing Moon Reflection
What small action would nourish the intention I've planted?
Where am I receiving support?
What wants to grow through me?
🌕 Full Moon: Celebration, Connection, and Creative Expression
The full moon is our midsummer bonfire.
The moment when our creation reaches its fullest expression within this particular cycle.
This is a beautiful time to celebrate what we've cultivated.
To connect.
To share.
To allow ourselves to be seen.
And perhaps most importantly, to enjoy what we've created.
How often do we reach a milestone only to immediately begin thinking about the next thing?
We barely allow ourselves to bask in the beauty of our accomplishments before demanding more.
The full moon invites us to experience the pleasure of fruition.
Full Moon Reflection
What have I created that deserves celebration?
Where am I allowing myself to shine?
Can I receive the pleasure of what already exists without immediately reaching for more?
Dance. Gather with friends. Light a bonfire. Make love. Create art.
Or simply stand beneath the moon and celebrate being alive.
🌘 Waning Moon: Harvest, Composting, and Calling Your Energy Home
As the moon begins to wane, our attention gradually turns inward.
We begin gathering the wisdom of what we've experienced.
What worked?
What surprised us?
What do we want to carry forward?
And what are we ready to compost?
This is where we begin calling our energy home.
Think about all the places you've extended yourself.
The conversations, projects, relationships, responsibilities, and expectations that have received pieces of your attention.
Imagine gently gathering those pieces back into yourself.
Not because connecting with the world was a mistake.
But because your energy deserves replenishment.
Waning Moon Reflection
Where have I extended myself beyond my capacity?
What am I ready to release?
What wisdom can I carry into the next cycle?
As we approach the dark moon again, we begin preparing for rest.
And the cycle continues.
Menstrual Cycle Magic: Honoring the Wisdom of Your Body
For those of us who menstruate, there's another layer of cyclical awareness available through our bodies.
We can observe the relationship between our menstrual phases, emotional experiences, energy, and creative rhythms.
I often think about these phases symbolically alongside the seasons.
Menstruation can invite the imagery of winter and the dark moon.
The follicular phase can resemble spring's emergence.
Ovulation can symbolize the outward expression of summer.
And the luteal phase can invite the harvest, discernment, and release of autumn.
These are archetypal associations, not biological rules.
Your menstrual cycle doesn't necessarily synchronize with the moon, and your energy won't always follow a neat seasonal progression.
The magic isn't in forcing your body to follow a prescribed pattern.
It's in discovering the pattern that's actually yours.
For me, that discovery came through months of observation.
Noticing how I felt.
What kinds of work came naturally.
When I wanted connection.
When I wanted solitude.
When my body welcomed vigorous movement and when it asked for something gentler.
And gradually, I began recognizing my own rhythms.
Blood Rituals and the Sacred Creative Life Force
For those who feel drawn to earth-based spirituality, menstruation can also become an opportunity for ritual.
Some contemporary practitioners choose to honor their menstrual blood through symbolic offerings to the earth.
These practices can become deeply personal expressions of gratitude, creativity, and connection with ancestry and place.
For me, there's something powerful about honoring the creative potential represented by the womb.
Not simply the potential to create children.
But the creative energy we bring into our art, our relationships, our work, and the lives we're building.
If you choose to work with menstrual blood in ritual, consider the environmental and hygiene implications of how and where you make offerings. A symbolic offering of water, flowers, or intention can be just as meaningful.
And if you don't menstruate?
You haven't been excluded from this magic.
Your creative life force is not dependent on your reproductive anatomy.
The moon belongs to all of us.
You Are More Than One Season: The Archetypes of a Lifetime
Now let's zoom out even further.
Beyond the daily rhythm of the sun.
Beyond the monthly cycle of the moon.
Beyond the Wheel of the Year.
Consider the seasons of an entire lifetime.
We move through periods of emergence, exploration, creation, maturity, transformation, and eventually the closing of our earthly experience.
In archetypal language, we might recognize the Maiden, Mother, Queen, Crone, Sage, or Wise One.
But these aren't rigid categories.
They're invitations to explore the different expressions of our creative life force.
And here's something I find especially beautiful.
Even in the winter of your life, you still experience summer days.
You still have moments of full moon energy.
You still experience inspiration, passion, connection, and creative expression.
They may simply look different than they did in the spring of your life.
Perhaps the energy that once went toward building something entirely new now goes toward sharing wisdom.
Perhaps the desire to be seen transforms into the desire to witness and guide.
Perhaps your greatest creative work becomes the legacy you leave through the people you've loved and the lives you've touched.
No season is inherently more valuable than another.
And none of them requires you to stop becoming.
A Simple Moon Ritual to Reclaim Your Natural Rhythm
If this resonates with you, I want to invite you into a simple practice.
Tonight, go outside.
Find the moon.
Notice where she is in her cycle.
If you can't see her, that's okay. You can look up the current phase.
Then take a moment to connect with your own body.
Feel your feet on the ground.
Notice your breath.
And ask yourself:
Where am I in my own cycle of becoming?
Am I in a season of planting?
Am I beginning to emerge?
Am I being called into fuller expression?
Or am I gathering my energy back home?
Then zoom out.
What season of the year am I experiencing?
What season of my life am I in?
How do these different rhythms interact?
You might discover that you're experiencing a full moon moment within a much larger winter season.
Or perhaps you're in the springtime of a new chapter, but today your body needs rest.
All of these things can coexist.
You are not required to make them perfectly align.
The practice is simply to notice.
And to respond with a little more compassion, curiosity, and intention.
The Deepest Magic Is Remembering That You Belong to Nature
We have inherited so many ideas about what it means to be valuable.
Be productive.
Be consistent.
Be available.
Be useful.
Keep going.
But the earth doesn't measure her worth by how much she produces in January.
The moon doesn't apologize for disappearing into darkness.
And the trees don't cling to their leaves because they're afraid of becoming bare.
They simply participate in the rhythm of life.
What if we could learn to do the same?
What if we could release the expectation that our fullest, brightest, most outwardly productive expression is the only version of ourselves worthy of celebration?
Because the seed matters.
The roots matter.
The compost matters.
The darkness matters.
And so do you, in every season of your becoming.
You were never meant to bloom every day.
You were meant to live.
To grow.
To create.
To release.
To rest.
And to begin again.
That is the magic of cyclical living.
✨ Continue Exploring Your Inner Magic
If you're ready to deepen your relationship with your own inner wisdom, I invite you to explore my free resources, hypnosis recordings, courses, and private coaching offerings.
Visit melindalovecoach.com/podcast to discover ways we can work together.
And until next time, go out and make some magic.
Frequently Asked Questions About Moon Magic and Cyclical Living
1. What is the difference between solar and lunar energy?
In spiritual and archetypal practices, solar energy represents outward expression, action, visibility, and structure. Lunar energy represents inward reflection, intuition, rest, and cyclical transformation.
These are symbolic frameworks rather than scientifically established categories of human energy.
Everyone can explore both qualities, regardless of sex or gender. The goal isn't to choose one over the other but to recognize when different approaches to life may be nourishing.
2. How do I start practicing moon magic?
Begin by observing the moon's phases and reflecting on their symbolic meanings.
The new moon can represent rest and intention-setting. The waxing moon invites growth and inspired action. The full moon symbolizes celebration and expression. The waning moon offers opportunities for reflection and release.
You don't need elaborate rituals, expensive supplies, or special abilities.
A journal, a candle, and a few moments of intentional reflection can be enough.
3. Does my menstrual cycle have to align with the moon?
No.
Although menstrual cycles and lunar cycles have inspired symbolic associations throughout history, they don't necessarily synchronize.
The lunar cycle averages approximately 29.5 days, while menstrual cycle lengths vary from person to person.
You can honor your body's menstrual rhythm and practice moon magic as two complementary forms of cyclical awareness without expecting them to match.
4. Can I practice lunar rituals if I don't menstruate?
Absolutely.
Lunar rituals aren't dependent on having a uterus, experiencing menstruation, or identifying with feminine energy.
Anyone can observe the moon's phases and use them as opportunities for reflection, creativity, intention-setting, and spiritual connection.
The moon offers a visible reminder that change is a natural part of existence.
5. What is cyclical living?
Cyclical living is an approach to life that recognizes changing rhythms of energy, activity, rest, and renewal.
Rather than expecting identical productivity every day, it encourages awareness of personal patterns and changing needs.
Some people practice cyclical living through menstrual cycle awareness, while others connect with seasonal changes, lunar rituals, or the natural rhythms of their daily lives.
It's not about following a rigid schedule. It's about developing a more responsive relationship with yourself.
6. What is the spiritual meaning of the dark moon?
In many contemporary spiritual practices, the dark moon symbolizes stillness, introspection, release, and the fertile space before new beginnings.
It can be an opportunity to withdraw from external demands and reconnect with your inner world.
Rather than viewing darkness as something negative, dark moon practices invite us to recognize the creative potential of rest and uncertainty.
Like a seed resting beneath the soil, something meaningful may be developing even when we cannot yet see it.
7. How can I connect with the Wheel of the Year?
Begin by observing the seasonal changes in your environment.
Notice the light, temperature, plants, animals, and changing rhythms of the natural world.
You might celebrate seasonal festivals such as Yule, Beltane, Litha, or Samhain, or create personal rituals around the solstices and equinoxes.
Consider what each season represents in your own life.
What are you planting, cultivating, harvesting, or releasing?
The Wheel of the Year can become a meaningful spiritual framework for recognizing your place within nature's ongoing cycles.
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Embodied Magic with Melinda, where we explore the science and magic of reclaiming your pleasure, trusting your body, and transforming inherited patterns so that you can experience deeper intimacy live a joyful, creative life on your own terms.
So today, I am really thinking about the cycles of energy, the cycles of our lives, and our embodiment of those things. I had coffee with my husband this morning, and I was asking him his take
on the menstrual cycle and how we see the archetypes and the seasons showing up through that.
I was curious what it was like for him being raised and socialized in a male body in this culture that praises that linear, solar, masculine approach to life. And what were the wisdom points that he could see and feel
[00:01:00] inside of the lunar side of things, inside of the cycles that the female experience goes through every month,
We had an interesting conversation, but it really brought me back to this thing that I ponder a lot,
How our culture has deprioritized the feminine experience of cyclical nature, and in turn deprioritized the process of nature herself, and the changing of the seasons. And there's this expectation that everything should be the same from day to day.
That is a very, what I will call solar or linear approach to energy and how things work. It's only half of our actual experience of life
as humans. And it doesn't matter what sex you are or what gender you identify with. We're talking about energies that flow through all of us,
[00:02:00] and we must get into better alignment with both of them in order to really utilize our energy to create the things that we want to create in life and to restore our systems when they need restoration.
So I wanna talk about this solar versus lunar energy And how you might see that showing up. So this is called different things in different cultures and belief systems. You might call it the masculine and feminine dynamic, the yin and the yang
Linear or cyclical
And in our productivity focused culture, we see a lot of solar energy. Now, this is the idea that the sun rises to its peak and then it sets every day. There's this steady rhythm of sun comes up, sun goes down. When the sun is rising, I am waking up, I am bringing my energy to its peak at the middle part of the day, and then it
[00:03:00] is waning through the later part of the day.
And then at night, we rest, and we should have enough energy to get back up the next day and do it all the same exact way. The lunar approach is a far more spacious and cyclical approach because we're thinking about the phases of the moon and how that is a 28-day cycle. We go from the new moon in the darkness, and it takes two weeks for it to move from darkness to full brightness, and then two more weeks to move from full brightness into that dark space again. And so that is a completely different rhythm. Now, if you zoom out even further, you can see this cycle reflected in the cycle of the year. From the darkest night of the year at Yule in the winter when the light is
[00:04:00] shortest to midsummer when the light is longest. So you see that cycle reflected throughout the whole wheel of the year. We are lower energy, resting more in the dark parts of the year, the colder parts of the year, conserving energy, rebirthing ourselves, and then we slowly move into that outward connection energy at midsummer. And then we feel our energy waning through the autumn, and as the leaves fall, we feel that falling down of the energy moving back towards the earth, and then eventually during the winter, moving into the earth, rooting in and staying cozy, going beneath ground to reseed, to reroot
So I think the answer to how can we collaborate and reintegrate from this experience of where our culture has prioritized that solar effect of every single
[00:05:00] day I'm up and then I'm down and then I'm all the way back up again the next day, we can look at how the day itself has these seasons in it as well, and it's just the fastest version of these larger cycles, of the lunar cycle, and of the cycle of the entire wheel of the year
And it really does come down to deconstructing the misogynistic culture that we have internalized around what it means to allow ourselves to rest, to allow ourselves to be a different person on each day of the cycle of the month, and depending on where we are in the wheel of the year.
Now, if you wanna zoom out even further from one year's time, you can zoom out to a life cycle and how we see the seasons represented there from birth until death.
As a person who cycles and who works with many people who do experience a menstrual
[00:06:00] cycle, I am different every day. According to the dominant narrative, I might be called erratic, unpredictable, all over the place, and that's the conversation I was having with my husband this morning, was growing up inside of a culture that praises that solar energy and actually says that the lunar experience is not as good, not as important, and is even wrong, can be very detrimental to the way we relate to this inner magic that we feel and the magic of the moon
So a large part of this work is about going inside and seeing what did I inherit in my belief system about being a lunar-based creature
I know some of the things I've worked with to reprogram over the years are that it is very inconvenient to be on a lunar cycle when I need to be up and getting productive every
[00:07:00] single day. Especially as a business owner and a mother, you're feeling that need to be on every single day, and there's less permission to be where you actually are in your energy
So that idea that my energy is unpredictable, that's a huge one that I hear coming up a lot for people who cycle. And when we take off the table the idea that predictability means having the same solar type energy expression every single day, and we move it to I am predictable inside of this cycle that my body experiences every month
When I began tracking my cycles and tracking the lunar phases, I found so much more peace within my experience of life because I knew what was coming next. It was not a mystery to me what my energy would feel like, what type of
[00:08:00] connection that I would need in the world and from friendships and relationships, where I would be with my ability to do different types of work or to want to do different types of movement with my body, different workouts work better at different times of my cycle.
And so when I could really take six months to a year to track that, to track where the energy is, to track where the motivation is, and find what works for me and what does not work, does not work to force oneself into a season that you're not actually in at the time. So when I was able to do that
and really be open to the different pieces of wisdom that would come through for each cycle. You can gain access to the gifts of each season
And all people can benefit from this wisdom through ritual observance of the lunar phases. So you don't have to have a menstrual
[00:09:00] cycle in order to relate to this more lunar way of thinking of things and feeling your way through life. Everyone is both lunar and solar regardless of your relationship with menstruation.
Perhaps you are not menstruating yet or you no longer have your menstruation
Or your body has never menstruated
we can still observe this pattern inside of our energy field and inside of how we respond to the changing of the seasons and to the changing of the lunar phases. So moon magic is such a beautiful way of connecting with this
When we think about connecting with the moon in each phase, and we start with the very beginning of the cycle, the dark moon, the new moon
And we meditate on what does that symbolically mean to me? What has it meant archetypically and mythologically to
[00:10:00] be in the new moon phase and allowing ourselves to experience a stillness, a reprieve, a out breath, that space between the out breath and the in breath. And we allow ourselves to linger there
for the duration of the days in which the moon is dark We allow ourselves that mental and emotional and spiritual rest that we need in order to listen to what wants to be cultivated in the next cycle. From that place of quietness bubbles up the new inspiration for this next phase. And so that's where we can get the seed that becomes planted.
This is what I wanna create in this cycle. And right now I'm allowing myself to rest around that intention, to see it as a seed that needs to go beneath ground. It needs to rest and grow its little roots down. And while we're resting, that
[00:11:00] doesn't mean nothing is happening. It means we're providing the stillness for which the roots grow down, and we allow the time for that to happen.
And then as we move into the waxing phase, we feel that energy come back. If you are cycling inside of your body, you will feel that hormonal shift. Coming into follicular phase brings with it a acceleration of the energy and inspiration, and it gives us that boost that we need to begin implementing the action that moves us from the seedling phase into, I'm beginning to really grow my roots down, and my trunk is starting to emerge from the ground, moving up towards the light.
And so as we move from the crescent into the waxing gibbous, we're becoming fuller. We're feeling more of the fleshing out of the We're also
[00:12:00] co-creating with the universe. We're noticing synchronicities. We're noticing where we're getting other energy from the outside world that helps us to build that vision, create the growth and the nourishment that the seed is moving from
And as we transition into that fullest phase, the fullest expression of where our goal will come in this cycle, we are moving into full moon energy, connection, relationship, sharing, celebrating
We're thinking midsummer energy Bonfire energy
ovulation energy if you are cycling
This is where our creation has taken on a life of its own. It is birthed into its biggest expression in this cycle
And it becomes an entity of its own that is inspiring to us, and we just allow ourselves to bask in it, to bask in
[00:13:00] the connection, to bask in what we've created, and just enjoy ourselves
As the moon shifts from full to that waning gibbous, we are collecting the gifts from that fullest expression, from that full moon phase and the sharing, and we're beginning to draw the energy ever so slightly back in as we slide down into that moon getting smaller and smaller. We're gathering the wisdom, everything that we learned through the creation phase, through the celebration phase, and we remember where we came from.
We didn't get to that full expression by continuing full on full moon energy all month. We came from a place of darkness and rest. That's where the seed sprouted. So we never forget that. And as we slide back down to the darker side
[00:14:00] of the moon phase, we're entering that autumn. If you're cycling, you're moving into your luteal phase, and you're drawing that energy back in.
You're looking at where have I extended my energetic feelers all out to in the world that I need to pull back in? I need to take my resources back into myself, care for myself, notice what I've created, and where I need replenishing right now. So you allow that wisdom to trickle in. What is the beauty that has been made, and how can I compost this, transform some of the lessons I learned about things maybe I wish I had done differently, and things that went really well, and I transform this into the next cycles intention.
And in that moment, I may or may not necessarily know what that next cycle's intention's
[00:15:00] going to be.
It doesn't really matter at this point. We're just allowing all of our energy to come back home, calling it back home. Like at the end of the day, we're calling ourselves back home from wherever we extended ourselves out to so that we can calm the system down in order to get a good night's sleep. We're sliding down into the dark moon phase at the end of the cycle and re-rooting back into the Earth as we draw our eyes from the outside to the inside and opening up that inner eye where we
feel into what is the nourishing next step for me right now. And that means
All layers of the existence are coming into a resting phase. We are resting the physical body, resting the mental body, resting the emotional body, and opening up the
[00:16:00] intuitive body. So during that full moon phase, there is a lot of outward physical energy. We are connecting mentally, emotionally, we're bringing things to fruition.
And in that new moon phase, we are resting the physical And opening up that third eye and the spiritual body in order to look inwards, to connect in with the energy of the Earth
As the dark moon directs our attention back in and down
In that dark phase, we are resting, rejuvenating, and allowing for the next seed to become known so that we root it in. Now, this is such a beautiful practice to combine with your blood ceremonies if you are a bleeding cycling person
You can combine these and offering the blood back to the earth, offering it with your intention,
[00:17:00] thanking the ancestors and the stewards of the land where you reside and
Honoring the life of the blood that flows through you, the blood that creates not only children, but your creative pursuits are driven by this energy in that womb space
If you no longer menstruate or you are not a menstruating person, you can use the cycles of the moon in order to connect with this creative energy and get into sync with that generative force that is flowing through our bodies and through the moon phase all around us all the time
So if you want to get into this, I really encourage you to, tonight, go outside, connect with the moon, see where is she in her cycle, and reflect on what that phase means to you internally. Where are you in your life right now, and where are you in relationship with
[00:18:00] solar energy? Where are you in the year, and where are you in your life cycle, in your life season?
All of these things flow together to create the reality of your experience and the reality of what you are really being called to create right now Because no phase is more important than the other, and we have, high noon and full moon phases in our autumn phase of our life. In the winter part of our life, we still have access to that full moon energy, that full midday sun energy.
It may look different. It may look like we are more in our sage, in our wise one energy. And how is that different than when you were in your spring energy experiencing full moon and full sun?
The messages that come through to be delivered, to be shared may be different
The things that you're called to create will be different
And these are the rhythms of nature that are
[00:19:00] reflected inside of our body through our circadian rhythms, through our menstrual cycle
and through the entire life cycle that can guide us into a place of more intentionality Around how we use this solar and lunar masculine, feminine energy to create the life that we want to create
So I'm wondering what your takeaways are from this today. How do you relate to your inner solar and lunar energies, and how do you use these forces to anchor you into a meaningful expression of your creative life force
If you feel called to explore things like this more deeply with me, I would invite you to head on over to my website, melindalovecoach.com/podcast, where you will find free resources as well as courses and coaching offerings
thank you so much for being here today I hope that these ideas have been inspiring to you, and what can you do tonight to connect with that lunar phase that you're in
[00:20:00] currently. Connect with the season that you're in and feel what wants to be birthed in me in this cycle? Or am I in a phase where I really need to honor my dark moon, honor my winter, and allow my creative energy to be reborn
until next time, go out and make some magic.
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