A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES: CRYSTAL HEALING + CLEANSING RITUAL FOR THE CAPRICORN LUNAR ECLIPSE

The purpose of this ritual is to charge a crystal with the moon’s healing energy and guidance, so that you can connect with healing light energy in dark times, and ask to receive guidance or clarity to help you navigate the challenges and understand the meaning or lessons from what you’re facing.

When I’m hurting, I often turn to the moon for solace. I stand under her brilliance at night and ask for nurturing, peace, healing, understanding.

The moon is many things: a guiding light in the night sky, a sorceress, a mystic, a keeper of wisdom.

She’s powerful, she moves the tides, and flowers bloom in the sway and cycle of her phases.

Studying the moon, following her phases and their effect on our lives, as well as rituals and devotions, has grown in popularity these past few years.

Is it the seeking of something more in our everyday lives? Or is the return to a primal, healing source that resonates very deeply to our DNA?

It’s very easy to imagine the first humans gazing upon the moon in wonder. She captures the imagination and ignites the intuition, the magic of our souls.

An eclipses, likely terrifying to them — an omen or portent of dark things or times to come…

I know these past few weeks have been hard for a lot of you.

There’s been a lot of loss, grief, shocking turn of events, stress, and emotional upheaval …

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CRYSTAL HEALING FOR THE NEW MOON IN CANCER + SOLAR ECLIPSE

Crystal Healing for New Moon in Cancer + Solar Eclipse / www.krista-mitchell.com

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On Tuesday, July 2nd at 3:16pm, we’ll be entering the new moon in Cancer phase as well as experiencing a solar eclipse.

New moons always represent new phases according to the theme of the sign they’re in; solar eclipses herald change or transformation that propels us forward on our evolutionary journey.

As Cancer (the crab) represents our home, family, roots, emotional needs, introspection, comfort, and our foundations (physical, mental, emotional), we can expect potential big change or revelations in this area.

Adding to this, Mercury goes retrograde on July 7th (until the 31st). We’ll feel a greater pull to draw within, contemplate, review, revisit, and re-do or reconsider.

This may all sound, and feel, quite dramatic.

I’ve found through my life and experience as both healer and human, that the best way to flow through powerful phases is to channel their energies in ways that are for our highest good.

As someone who’s been in the process of breaking free of old patterns and ways of being that were holding me back, I actually look forward to eclipse seasons and Mercury retrogrades: Out with the old, in with the new!!

It’s not always a comfortable or pain-free process, I know, having already experienced a deep loss this week. But life is made by change, and I’ve learned to look for the healing, Grace, or gift from even the saddest experiences.

If you move through them consciously, allowing yourself to surrender what you cannot control, powerful cosmic phases like eclipse season and Merc retro can be times of healing and positive change.

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Entering the Eclipse Season | New Moon in Cancer Energy Report

While this one might feel intense… it has the power & potential to transform us thoroughly.

A Solar Eclipse always happens when the moon is New but this total Solar Eclipse in Cancer holds potential for an emotionally intense yet refreshing rebirth. During a total Solar Eclipse, the Moon has darkened the Sun completely, meaning you will likely feel your emotions stronger than on a typical New Moon.

Your emotional and intuitive energy will be stronger than any physical action you can take right now. This is to allow us to sit back and fully witness and feel the emotions we may have been avoiding so that we can step forward into our rebirth.

A New Moon’s influence typically lasts for four weeks, but the energetic lessons from an Eclipse last for about 6 months, which is why it is called an Eclipse Season. Expect patterns, lessons, and themes from the last 6 months might come up for you this cycle. It’s time to finally feel them in order to heal them.

Entering the Eclipse Season | New Moon in Cancer Energy Report

This Eclipse holds huge potential for rebirth and transformation on many levels. Mercury goes retrograde this month as well which will help us look at the way we are communicating our needs in a new way so we can be more constructive.

There are endless possibilities and opportunities ahead right now. Now is the time to walk through the threshold of the Eclipse.

All new moons hold potential for a new beginning, but this cycle in particular holds 2 eclipses and 5 planets in retrograde meaning the effects will be lasting and important.

Don’t let this potential go to waste! Each month for the New Moon, using our planners, decks and the stars as our guide, we put together the New Moon Energy Report to help us navigate the cycle ahead…

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2nd Moon of Summer 2019

A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing: A Healing Grove of Renewal

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Reishi growing from a stump in my sacred forest

Many years ago, I shared the story of the “mystery of the stumps“, which was my path into druidry. I grew up spending all my days in a forest that was rich, full, and bountiful. When I was 14, that forest was logged. My heart broke, and afterward, I tried to enter the forest but it was horrible: downed trees everywhere, so much damage, so many friends that had been cut and taken away. I thought the forest would never heal. I withdrew not only from nature, but from my spirit and creative gifts, and spent a time in numbness and mourning–a period that lasted almost 10 years. I didn’t return to the forest till I was 24. When I finally went back in, so much had changed–the land was regrowing. Large thickets of birch, blackberry, and cherries were…

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Clearing and protecting your energetic space at home from shadows.

Sacred Tree Profile: Cherry (Prunus Serotina)’s Magic, Mythology, Medicine and Meaning

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Butterfly on choke cherry

When most people think of cherry trees, they think about plump, juicy, red or purple cherries from cultivated cherry trees. However, here in the USA, we have a variety of wild cherries that are an interwoven and rich part of our landscape. An enigmatic tree found throughout the eastern part of North America and South America is prunus serotina, the wild cherry, black cherry, mountain black cherry, or rum cherry tree. Most people interact with this tree not in its living form, but through the beautiful reddish-brown heartwood that this tree produces, and that can be frequently found in their furniture and flooring. And yet, this tree has so much more to offer than just beautiful wood! While I’m targeting my comments today about the black cherry, many of the material found here can be about *any* cherry tree local to you, including domesticated cherries. Many…

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Summer Solstice Celebration Oil

Dandelion Divination & Tea Leaf Reading Ritual | Full Honey Moon in Sagittarius

Tonight’s Full Moon shines bright in the expansive and optimistic sign of Sagittarius. Our days continue to grow longer and warmer here in the Northern Hemisphere as we get closer and closer to the Summer solstice happening later this week.

As the days get brighter and busier, it’s more important than ever to take the time to appreciate the sweeter things in life.

The Honey Moon is known by many names in various cultures… it’s sometimes referred to as the Strawberry Moon, Rose Moon, and the Mead Moon. The one thing that each of these names has in common… sweetness!

This Full Moon in Sagittarius has us looking at the bigger picture with greater ease than ever before. While making detailed future plans might be hard right now, looking at your present situation or even your past under the light of Sagittarius can help you realize just how far you have come in the last year or even 6 months!

This Full Moon is also being influenced by expansive Jupiter and dreamy Neptune which brings us a heightened sense of abundance, brighter optimism and enhanced intuition for the rest of June.

During this Full Moon, our intuition and divination skills will be enhanced. Sagittarius ramps up our curiosity and has us wanting to explore our inner worlds with a fiery enthusiasm. Keep an open mind this week and get to know yourself and others better. There is a combination of wanting new adventures and connections, while also coming to know yourself better.

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Working with and Honoring the Sun at the Solstice

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Sacred rays of the sun

The sun’s rays come over the horizon, on the solstice, the most sacred of days. The solstice goes my many names, the day of high light, midsummer, Alban Hefin. Across the globe and through time, it has been celebrated since before recorded history. In the light of the sun, we have strength, warmth, growth, energy, abundance, healing, and wisdom. The sun has been shining down upon our beautiful planet has been shining for at least four billion years and we can expect it to remain unchanged for another five billion years. The sun is also enormous–it accounts for 99.86% of the mass of our solar system. It is such an incredible thing that it’s hard to image in the scope of the sun as it compares to of human lives or human history. You might say that the sun is one of the most…

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