Full Moon - Sept 20, 2021

How you doin’? In my neck of the woods, we survived a summer of a crazy heatwave and crazy forest fires. Happy for the temperature and season change. Keep it comin’ Mother Nature.

I sometimes feel like going by the Gregorian calendar is messing with my flow. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could plan things by the lunar cycle? Like realizing oh — maybe moving would be more ideal for the full moon? Or maybe, planning the big chunks for the full moon, or maybe thinking about being mindful of energy and not overdo it.

So I sat last night, with my sleeping baby stretched out. I laid beside him wondering: what it was this full moon felt like to me. And I had a vision of the full moon lasting as the full moonlight shone for days. I thought about The Harvest Moon and how it falls during the Autumnal Equinox. Then it clicked. The energy of this full moon was the last push for nature to say get it in while you can, everything is flowing at max power, ride it as far as it’ll take you.

We’re days from moving, Whit has done an immensely amazing job at packing up the whole house, lining up help, coordinating all the things. So we ride this wave and hopefully plant our roots down for one last time. I hope that this is the last move we have to make for at least the next 20 years.

Much love,
Erika the Doula

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New Moon — September 5, 2021

I laid in bed on this Sunday reminded that today is the new moon. Now that I've made this commitment to myself to write for the full and new moons, I am connecting more regularly and spending time checking in.

On this new moon, I went back and read and reflected on my last few writings. What's come up, listening to the story, and reflecting on what's pulled through.

"Move like you are unseen". I thought about how I've been feeling recently, we have lots of changes happening in our world. Moving later this month, school starting, on top of life, membership co-op stuff, brain stuff, baby stuff…

This phrase "move like you're unseen" came to me as I pictured being in a forest, in the dark. There's a well-walked path I'm following, and I feel comfortable like I know where I'm going. Yet I've never seen this place before. I feel like this is the next step. Going with the momentum, I've been practicing the skills that my therapist and occupational therapist have been working on for the past year.

I am thinking about the yin energy of the new moon. The past almost 3 years have been a transition space. My life before the car accident was very yang energy inspired by yin energy. And this has been the transition from yang to yin. Wow. I never understood that until this very moment. Ahh, I knew this was going somewhere. Yes. This has been a loooonnnngggggg ass season of transition. Hmm, brain injury, dad's death, pandemic, the birth of our baby. That's a lot eh? That shit takes some time.

So that's this new moon. Ain't no thang, eh?

Going with the momentum. I've set up all the systems, we've created the container in which we can thrive, now I just have to BE.

For some reason, I've found that my thoughts and connections happen during the day when I can have some uninterrupted time to connect with myself. Today it was with a full belly (after breakfast) and a hot bevy.

I would have loved to sit and journal, sit outside, do a circle, pull cards…. But you know, just showing up for yourself with an intention and just do what feels called to you — that works too.

That’s it, that’s all! How did your ritual go? Like and comment below.

Much love,
Erika the Doula

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Full Moon - Aug 22, 2021

I preface this with feeling rushed or under the gun to “do something”… as in to write something for all of you, somewhere and someplace in the future.

As I sat doing my best mom meditation or efforts of finding stillness tonight, I keep thinking about fullness, peak of energy, and riding the wave. I’m reflecting on noticing what I often think about how hard it is riding the wave and feeling the need to describe in detail what lead up to it, why it’s hard, how I’m feeling, and how I’m pacing.

While today specifically was a challenging day with an afternoon of celebration with friends + little people, I look back and realized that I used so many skills I’ve learned over time. I built the container to find my flow inside. I have the skillz to marry the two. Building containers to find flow inside.

I’ve built the container to do moon rituals. I’ve made the commitment, and regardless of when or how I show up — that is part of my lesson. Yet, what I can say is that I AM showing up. That’s a win.

So that’s what this full moon brought me. Appreciation for the fullness of energy and ripeness of the season.

Much love,
Erika the Doula

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