Full Moon in Taurus: Dropping Your Seeds

The Taurus full moon, on the heels of Samhain, helps anchor us in the season of dying and shedding. All year, you have navigated the seasons, opening yourself to new experiences, ways of being, and perhaps unexpected lessons or hardships that have come to pass over the previous year.

Taurus, a fixed earth sign, invites you to pause, be with your body, and notice what's ready to drop from your being. The flowers and trees in the land have been in preparation all year, waiting for this season to drop their seeds. What seeds of wisdom are dropping within you? What wisdom is ready to be handed over to the womb of the earth for incubation?

Each plant, attuned with the wisdom of the earth, feeling in their being when it's the right time to drop. Now too, it is time to feel into the landscape of your body. What is the landscape like, and how does it feel? Are there seeds within you that are ready to drop?

Keep reading for a gentle way to tune into this Taurus full moon and the season.

Full Moon in Taurus Themes

Taurus energy is associated with the bull. While this symbol is often linked to stubbornness, the bull has much more to offer. The bull is stable, sturdy, and calculated in its movement. The bull understands the importance of the pause and is not afraid to spend time firmly rooted on the earth before taking action.

The themes of slowness, sturdiness, and patience are potent medicine as you navigate shifting into the darker half of the year.

Themes: patience, slowness, grounding, sensuality, the body, being with what's arising, the landscape of the body, being present with the earth

Corresponding element: Earth and Water

Corresponding planet: Venus and Earth

Modality: Fixed

Ritual Support for the Taurus Full Moon

This full moon wants to illuminate the wisdom of your body and its ability to sense and feel what seeds of wisdom are dropping from you this season.

For this ritual, I'll guide you to connect with your inner landscape to feel into the lessons you've navigated over the last three seasons, and to notice if there are seeds of wisdom ready to leave you.

The best time for this ritual is on the day of or 2 days after the full moon, on the waning side.

You'll need: 

• 20-60 minutes to be with your body

• A journal or note-taking place and something to write with

• Optional: a candle, any stones or plants that feel supportive, a tarot or oracle card deck, and access to outside space

1. Prepare your space in a way that honors your practice and feels good to you. This could include physically and energetically cleansing your space, lighting a candle, selecting some music, calling on guides or ancestors, casting a circle, and setting out any supportive items nearby.

2. When your space is ready, sitting or standing, begin to notice your breath and stay with it for a few minutes. When you feel settled in, start to imagine traveling inward to your body.

3. As you move inward toward your body, imagine it as a landscape. Let this fill in within your mind's eye intuitively. If visualizing is hard for you, imagine what your inner landscape feels or sounds like. Stay with this for several breaths as it unfolds.

4. As your inner landscape fills in, ask aloud or in your mind, "What seeds have been prepared over the last few seasons?" Notice where you're taken in your inner landscape, what the seeds look like, perhaps what plant they're from or what you feel they're associated with, and be with these seeds.

5. Spend some time moving your body, dancing, and/or singing to honor all of the experiences you have navigated this year to create these seeds.

6. Trusting the wisdom of your body and the seeds, ask whether there's anything you can do to assist them. Perhaps they want to be planted within your inner landscape, or maybe they want to leave your body to be planted in your environment.

7. When you feel ready, begin to move out of your inner landscape the way you came into it, thank your body, the moon, and any guides or ancestors you called upon, and gently return to your space.

8. If you have access to an outdoor space, consider taking a moment to place your hands or feet on the earth to honor the connection between your inner landscape and the outer world.

9. Consider having some food and drink to ground yourself, and write down anything from your experience, or draw some cards to anchor it.

Prompts for the Taurus Full Moon

Work with the following questions as journal prompts or as guidance for tarot or oracle card pulls.

1. What does my inner landscape look like, sound like, and feel like right now?

2. What stands out to me the most in my inner landscape?

3. What parallels do I see between my inner landscape and the outer landscape?

4. What experiences over the last three seasons impacted me the most?

5. What wisdom does my body now carry from experiences over the last three seasons?

6. Does the wisdom my body carries, the seeds I've created, want to remain planted in my inner landscape or be planted somewhere outside of me?

7. What potential do these inner seeds hold?

May the wisdom of the land and your body lead you into the dark of the year with the sturdiness and strength of a bull. So it is. Blessed Taurus full moon.

Full Moon in Capricorn: Owning the Power of Your Shadows

The summer solstice initiates movement towards the darker half of the year. Even though it may be in the heat of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the Capricorn full moon brings an essence of the dark of winter to remind you of the power of your shadows.

While some may view shadow work (the intentional practice of noticing and tending to your unconscious, unhelpful habits, and repressed emotions) as something negative, it holds great power. When you know your shadows well and are aware of how they present, it enables you to move through the world with self-aware, grounded strength. 

As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn signifies a time of deeply rooted action. Capricorn energy paired with a full moon, brings an opportunity to recognize and tend to your shadows and release unhelpful habits around how you relate to them, enabling you to move through the world with an understanding of how your unconscious realms affect your waking life.

The Capricorn full moon encourages you to own the full spectrum of your humanity, even the parts of yourself you might prefer to diminish or disown. Your unconscious realms are endless. There will always be something ready to surface. Each time something new surfaces, you have the opportunity to either avoid it or welcome it into your being and create a more rooted and empowered foundation. 

For this full moon ritual support, you’ll be guided to become aware of something in your unconscious that’s ready to be witnessed, own it fully, and identify anything that needs to be released around your relationship to this part of yourself. 

Full Moon in Capricorn Themes

Themes: Shadow work, unconscious realms, tending to your foundation, power, owning your imperfections and learning from them

Planetary correspondence: Saturn

Element correspondence: Earth

Corresponding tarot cards: The Devil and the Knight of Pentacles

Modality: Cardinal 

Quote: “Before you can slip off the chains you must become conscious of them.” - Rachel Pollack, on The Devil card from Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom

Ritual Support for the Capricorn Full Moon

For this ritual support, you'll be guided to bring to light something from your unconscious realms that desires witnessing.You'll be invited to work with the Devil card from the tarot. You don't need the card to explore this moon. Look up images of it if you don't have it handy. 

As always, change and modify this ritual suggestion to make it work for you. It is ideal to work this ritual over 2-3 days. Be intuitive with it and notice when you feel pulled to move to different steps. 

You'll need: 

• Something to write with

• The devil card from the tarot (any deck) or images of it to look at

• Optional: An outside space to bury paper, books or readings about the tarot and any additional items that make you feel supported, like candles, crystals, herbs, etc. 

1. To begin this ritual, spend time with the devil card from the tarot. Notice what you like about it and what you don't. If anything makes you feel uncomfortable about the card, what stands out to you? 

2. Take a moment to journal about your feelings regarding this card. 

3. Over the next 24hrs, revisit this card. Consider placing it near your bed or under your pillow around the time of the full moon, meditating on it, or reading about the card from tarot authors you enjoy. 

4. Notice what comes up for you as you spend time with this card and what it represents to you. 

5. Journal about anything that's coming up for you on your own or with the prompts provided below. 

6. Identify one theme that is arising for you this lunation as you sit with this card and what it represents to you. 

7. Once you've identified a theme that wants witnessing, create space to be in ritual with this theme. 

8. Allow yourself 15-60 minutes to engage with this theme in a way that feels good to you, such as journaling, moving your body, dancing, making art, or expressing your emotions. Open your ritual space in a way that aligns with your practice. 

9. As you sit with what's arising, ask what this part of yourself wants you to know and how it could be more fully incorporated into your waking life. 

10. Ask if there's anything about this part of yourself that needs to be shed or released. 

11. Bring this ritual to a close in a way that feels good to you. Consider journaling again about this experience. 

12. If you feel guided to release something about this theme or the experience, find time to write down what you'd like to release and bury it on the waning side of the moon. 

Prompts for the Capricorn Full Moon

Use these prompts as a way to reflect on this full moon. They can be used as journaling prompts or as questions for tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What emotion(s) do you avoid feeling? (keep in mind this could be positive feelings)

2. What does this avoidance stem from?

3. How could spending more intentional time with these emotions empower you? 

4. What is a habit you would like to change? 

5. What might this habit have to teach you?

6. Identify a person, place, or activity that you avoid because it makes you feel uncomfortable.

7. What could be at the root of this discomfort?

8. How would it change your life to be more comfortable with the person, place, or activity you identified?

May this full moon inspire you to be with the neglected and wounded parts of yourself that desire witnessing so that you may incorporate or release what's ready to go and walk with more rootedness and power. 

New Moon in Cancer: Imagining Radical Care

As the sun and moon both sit in the sign of Cancer this new moon, you have an opportunity to imagine what radical care might look like for yourself, your loved ones, and your community. While the cardinal water sign of Cancer is often associated with emotions (as all water signs are), it is also linked to love, caregiving, mothering, family (whether chosen or biological), and home.

The theme of feeling safe and comfortable in your home is reflected in the crab, the animal associated with the sign of Cancer, with its protective exterior shell. Unlike the crab, you get to decide what home, family, and caregiving/mothering mean to you, and you get to change your mind as often as you want.

This new moon is an ideal time to be aware of your relationship with and feelings about themes of family, mothering/caregiving, and home. Whether or not you're a mother or live with your family of origin is irrelevant. This new moon invites you to investigate what it means to care for yourself and others, what family means to you (even if it's not your family of origin), and what it means to feel at home (even if it's untraditional).

New moons are a time of curiosity, imagination, and receptivity. We live in an overculture that devalues the role of caregivers and mothers and often views self-care as something purchased. There's no idea too big or "out there" when it comes to how you reimagine caring for yourself and others. The core theme of this moon asks, "What does radical care look like?"

Keep reading for themes, ritual suggestions, and prompts for the new moon in the sign of Cancer.

New Moon in Cancer Themes

Themes: radical care, love, family, home, caregiving/mothering, tuning into your relationship with these themes, being aware of what home means to you

Sign: Cancer

Element: water

Modality: cardinal

Quote: "The ethos of mothering involves valuing in and of itself a commitment to the survival and thriving of other bodies. It presents a fundamental contradiction to the logic of capitalism, which un-moors us from each other."

― Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

New Moon in Cancer Ritual Support

What better way to sink into a Cancer new moon than to create a radically cozy and caring space for yourself? The ritual support for this new moon is simple: take radical care of yourself, get curious about how you might create more care for yourself and others, and consider using the prompts shared below to explore these themes more deeply

This ritual can be sweet to do with a friend or a loved one. Consider swapping foot or back rubs, doing each other's nails, or giving a scalp massage. As always, adjust this ritual as needed to make it work for you.

You'll need:

• 30-60 minutes of uninterrupted quiet time

• Cozy clothes and anything that makes you feel cozy

• Optional: candle, crystals, tea, snacks, and anything else that feels supportive

  1. Begin by preparing yourself and your space to create a cozy atmosphere. Consider wearing your favorite and most comfy clothes, grab your favorite comfort beverage and snack, and set the space with items that make you feel cozy. Take your time with this. If this feels difficult, imagine setting up a space for a beloved friend or family member who is visiting and needs some love.

  1. Invitation: Before you decide to purchase anything to set up your cozy space, consider stretching your imagination and creativity to discern if you can create an ideal environment with what you have on hand or by asking a friend or loved one.

  2. Take any time to cleanse the space energetically or call in spiritual support in a way that aligns with your practice.

  3. Look over the prompts outlined below or notice what themes of home, family, and mothering are arising within you. Consider journaling or pulling cards to explore these themes.

  4. Pamper and care for yourself and/or a friend or loved one for as long as your heart desires.

  5. Remain open and curious about the ways that you might extend more love, care, and coziness to yourself, your beloveds, and your community.

  6. If you opened this ritual in any specific way, consider closing with intention and gratitude.

New Moon in Cancer Prompts

Utilize these new moon in Cancer-inspired prompts to journal about or with your favorite tarot or oracle card deck.

1. What people and places make you feel most cared for and comfortable?

2. What does home mean to you?

3. How do you mother and/or care for yourself? How do you mother and/or care for others?

4. What would radical care look like for yourself, your loved ones, and your community?

5. What barriers prevent you from caring for yourself and others in the way you want to?

6. Imagine three ways you could creatively create more care and comfort for yourself and others alongside these barriers.

7. What feelings arise for you as you tune into these themes?

In an over-culture that consistently devalues the role of mothering and caregiving, this new moon is a loving reminder that everyone needs care and a place that feels like home. It's our sacred task to imagine what a radically caring world looks and feels like.

In radical care,

Cassie

Full Moon in Sagittarius: Tending Your Fire

Are you harboring desires that you know with every ounce of your being are true but feel too big (or scary) to act upon? The truth-seeking Sagittarius full moon provides insight and energy to burn away anything standing in your way and start taking action toward your most authentic self.

Acting in alignment with your most authentic needs isn't always easy, especially when your desires go against social or familial norms. Work with this fiery full moon as a supportive co-conspirator in moving you, and all of us, towards personal and collective liberation. 

If your conviction towards your inner truth has waned or you've been ignoring essential parts of yourself, this Sagittarius full moon could feel like a gut punch. This full moon reminds you to stay true to your deepest desires with conviction–no matter how unrealistic they may seem. Because the moon shines a light on your subconscious realms, this Sagittarius full moon might bring truths to the surface that you weren't expecting or have been deeply buried. 

Working with the energy of this full moon doesn't need to be explosive, but it could be. Sagittarius's energy is honest and direct, and your small daily actions can create a significant impact over time. Allow your internal arrow of truth to guide your way and the fiery energy of this moon to show you what actions to take. 

Find Sagittarius full moon themes, ritual suggestions, and prompts to explore its energy. 

Sagittarius Full Moon Themes

Themes: truth-seeking, justice-oriented movement, taking action towards your most authentic self, burning away anything keeping you from your truth, changes, and movement

Sign: Jupiter

Element: Fire

Modality: Mutable

Sagittarius Full Moon Ritual Support

In this ritual, work with a theme that feels authentic to you and is something you want to expand at this season in your life. 

Because Sagittarius is all about making moves in alignment with your truth, this is an ideal full moon to get into your body. As always, make this work for you and your body. Move as little or as much as you'd like or are able. If you're able to work with a candle to bring in the fiery energy, that can be a great support! 

The best time to perform this ritual is the day before or the day of the full moon. Working with this full moon on the waxing side of the moon is perfect for working with the fiery energy associated with Sagittarius. 

As always, modify this ritual as needed! This is a template for creating meaningful rituals aligned with your practice. 

For this ritual, you'll need:

• 20-40 minutes 

• Space to move around

• Something to write with

• Optional: favorite music to move to, a candle, and any other items that would feel supportive

1. Prepare your area and create a sacred space. This might include lighting a candle for yourself and this practice, clearing your space in a way aligned with your practice, and calling in any supportive guides or allies as you sit with this practice. Have music ready to turn on (if you plan to listen to something), and ensure you have something to write with nearby.

2. Spend a few minutes tuning in with your breath and body. After a few minutes, tune in with your soul and ask what's something true, authentic, and liberatory that you want to bring more of into your life or the world. Spend a few more minutes with this authentic part of yourself, noticing how it feels to be with it. 

3. Holding this truth and a desire to bring more of it into your life and the world, turn on your music and begin moving your body (or move in silence without music). As you start to move, ask aloud or in your mind to be shown steps and actions to take to move you closer to this truth. 

4. Holding your intention, try experimenting with new ways to move your body. Don't worry about how it looks. This doesn't have to be a dance; it can be any movement. Shake, jump, wiggle, roll, slither, move in any way your body feels called to and is accessible. 

5. Stay with your truth and the movement practice for as long as you feel called to, and provide yourself with ample time to gently slow yourself down and return to resting. 

6. When you feel ready to stop, sit or lie down and breathe for a few minutes. 

7. Begin writing down ideas you have to take action to bring more of your authentic self and inner truths to the world. Reflect on how this could be beneficial for yourself and others, and consider including actions that support others. 

8. Consider putting these actions or something that reminds you of them on your altar or in a place where you'll regularly see them.

Sagittarius Full Moon Prompts

Here are some prompts to further support you during this full moon. Use them as journal prompts or questions to work with your tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What inner truths or desires feel most alive in you in this season of your life? 

2. In what ways are you able to express and honor your most authentic self? If you don't feel like you're able to, why not? 

3. What is a personal truth you hold dear that you'd like to see more of out in the world?

4. What are three actions that would be in alignment with or move you in the direction of your most authentic self? 

May you feel the support of this fiery full moon to take action toward a more truthful and liberated inner and outer world. When you honor your truth, you inspire others to honor theirs. May your truth expand in ways that inspire liberation for all.

Blessed full moon,
Cassie

Reclaiming Eros in Magic: My Story & Ways to Reclaim Yours

Three years ago, I had an experience that I knew I would share one day, and I couldn’t fathom sharing it for most of the last three years. But today is that day. While it still feels vulnerable, I trust that it’s important for me to share it. 

This story needs to be told not because it is unique, but because it is common. Yet, it’s something that many choose not to or feel unsafe to talk about, which is exactly how I felt for a long time. 

The truth is, what I’m going to share is as fundamental as eating, drinking, birthing, and dying–it’s in your genes. It’s your ability to be present with your most innate and primal power, the power of your erotic and sensual energy. 

This is not about sex and orgasm, although they can certainly interweave. When I speak to the erotic here, it is as one of my teachers, Kalah Hill, would say, our origin story. Your erotic and sensual desires point to why we are here today. It is where we all came from, and that is a powerful concept.

Eros is your sense of desire and capacity to access pleasure in your sensorial body, whether it’s a full-bodied walk through a forest where every one of your senses comes alive and erupts into bliss, or physical intimacy with a partner, it’s all eros. 

Here’s my homecoming story to my body, pleasure, and erotic power. You’ll also find some ways to start exploring this work and how you might want to incorporate it into your practice. If you want to do a deep dive, join me in a 2-hour live workshop here. 

It’s a “Kundalini” awakening!

Some will read this story and say, “You had a Kundalini awakening!”. If that’s the language you would use, I want to challenge you to think broader (unless it is a part of your cultural and ancestral practice). Kundalini is a Hindu term that describes the coiled, primordial life force residing at the base of the spine. Like many practices, the term “Kundalini awakening” is yet another that has been misused and appropriated by people outside the culture. 

As is often the case when terms are appropriated outside of their culture of origin (beyond the harm of cultural appropriation), it causes a separation from one's own cultural and ancestral inheritance. 

While the phrase ‘Kundalini’ is unique to Hinduism, erotic energy and the unique ways it manifests in each person are not. After having this experience, I devoted myself to discovering how these practices were incorporated into my ancestral traditions and how others continue to work with them today. 

This is how my erotic awakening occurred and how it led me to explore my ancestral inheritance of working with this sensual and primordial energy. 

A Homecoming to my Body and my Power

A past mentor instructed me to journey to the lower world. I didn’t think much of it because I had made lower world journeys in the past. This time was different. It was the Leo full moon, and when I entered the cave pathway into the lower world, I was met by an older female ancestor whom I’d worked with in the past. She had something to share. 

She instructed me to begin rocking my pelvis forward and backward. While this was a little out of the ordinary compared to past journeys I’d experienced and past interactions with this ancestor, I was in the lower world, so ordinary doesn’t really apply. Because this was a trusted ancestor I’d worked with in the past, I did as she said.

Within minutes of moving my pelvis back and forth, an explosion of erotic energy cracked open in my pelvic bowl. The ancestor was loving but firm in her direction. She wanted me to continue with various pelvic motions and stay with the intense energy coursing through me. While I did my best, the intensity was so great that after a few minutes, I shifted into different positions, moving from standing to lying down and then sitting on my knees. 

I was able to stay engaged by focusing on the drum beat and my breathing. Even though part of me did not know what was going on, I knew I had to surrender to the experience.

I completely lost track of time, but the realization that people in other offices were within earshot of me did make its way into my mind (this happened when I had an office and storefront in Arizona). While the orgasmic energy coursing through my body was extremely intense, I could tell there was more. I knew I had to surrender even more and that it was going to be loud when I did.  

When I surrendered, I felt energy shoot up from my pelvic bowl into my heart. A primal yell escaped my mouth without my permission, and orgasmic shock waves radiated out of my heart with such force that it sent me falling backwards. Heaving on the floor, I had just experienced the most intense full-bodied orgasm of my life, fully clothed and without physical touch.

An Extended Afterglow and Shame

As I lay on the floor, I was simultaneously blissed out, confused, and a little ashamed. It was unlike any usual orgasm I’d ever experienced; I wasn’t even sure if it was an orgasm. I was fully clothed, didn’t touch myself, but felt orgasmic bliss radiating out of my body at a level of intensity I’d never experienced. Not to mention my vulva continued to vibrate with pleasure for days after.

I’d heard of a kundalini awakening before, but it wasn’t a part of my practice. I also knew this was something different, or at least something with a different name, because it was a European ancestor who guided me through this experience. 

As I navigated life with my body buzzing and my vulva still on fire, my head was spinning. While walking around with a permanent orgasmic buzz might sound enticing, as an overworked new mom of twin 2-year-olds running a business, it was jarring.

Over a week’s time, the intense sensations I experienced eventually stabilized in my body as I slowly metabolized this experience. Fortunately, this experience was not the end of my story, just the beginning. 

This experience encouraged me to confront aspects of myself that had been overlooked. I was able to face my relationship with pleasure, sex, desire, and my body with a fresh perspective. If you think herbalism and spellwork are suppressed, watch out because the suppression, erasure, and vilification of erotic energy, pleasure, and sex is (no shock) truly impressive. I now understand that it was by design that I felt shame after this experience. It’s also why so many feel uncomfortable talking about these kinds of experiences, pleasure, and erotic power. 

As you’ll learn, if you explore these parts of yourself, reclaiming your erotic power is political, radical, and liberatory. I am certainly not the first to share this; Black women and femmes, like adrienne maree brown and Audre Lorde, have been leading this work for decades. 

Reclaiming My Erotic Power

In the last three years of integrating this experience and learning more about my erotic power directly from my body, working with my ancestors in journey states, and with the help of others guiding this work, I’ve begun the life-long process of reclaiming this part of my ancestral inheritance and magical practice. 

My experience and the ensuing exploration it spurred changed every facet of my life. It brought a sensorial awareness into my life that I didn’t know was available to me. I have access to entirely new states of consciousness and ways to feel and move energy as a result of intentionally incorporating my erotic power into my practice. My senses are more heightened, and my entire practice is transformed.

Reclaiming this part of my practice extends far beyond energy and magic. It has positively affected my mental, physical, and emotional health. It uncovered my queerness, pansexuality, and femme-ness. My connection to my erotic power continues to liberate me from an overculture that only wants me to produce and perform within the confines of cis, het, and patriarchal parameters. 

The changes that unfold in you as a result of exploring your erotic power will be unique to you and likely look very different than mine. You likely have practices in your ancestral lineage to connect you with your body, pleasure, and power. I think we all do. 

Reclaiming Your Erotic Power

What I don’t want you to walk away with here is that you need to have some explosive and mystical experience to explore this work or claim your erotic power. You don’t, or maybe yours will or did look completely different from mine.

I believe that the practices that open these sensorial channels were once standard, taught, and shared between generations. Just like my wise ancestor taught me in this journey.  I believe that in our past (and still today in some places), these experiences didn’t happen in isolation, but were coordinated and deeply held by elders in the community who understood the power of erotic energy. 

There are many paths to reclaiming your erotic power, and there are, in fact, many leading this work, but it can take some digging (remember that suppression I mentioned earlier). How you decide to navigate your journey into this realm will be a personal choice. 

Remember, erotic energy lives within your body. While you might feel intrigued to learn from others, it is not necessary. Your body is your best teacher. 

As someone with European ancestry, challenges to exploring this work presented quickly due to the Inquisition and the burning times, which caused extreme suppression of anything deemed heretical, especially erotic power in women. While I have read and learned from others, much of my exploration into this realm has been through self-exploration, spiritual journeying, and working with my ancestors.

There are lineages where this work has remained intact through the generations, like Tantra and Daoism. While these are the lenses through which much of this work is presented, I believe these practices were/are alive in all of us.

As with any craft that’s been deemed inappropriate by a patriarchal, white-supremacist over-culture, getting to the root of the matter will likely be a unique and winding path. 

Bringing Erotic Power into Your Practice

Here are some gentle ways to begin exploring this realm. Here are some starting points. Get more details about these in my upcoming workshop, Reclaiming Eros in Magic. 

• Take some time to be with the topics of pleasure, your body, and sex. What does it bring up for you? What excites you? What makes you uncomfortable? Journal about it or have conversations with others whom you feel safe talking about these topics.

• Explore possible trauma with your body, pleasure, and sex. This may require the assistance of a trained professional, depending on your personal experiences. The books Sacred Sex by Gabriela Herstik or Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown can be supportive places to start. 

• Carve out regular time to be with and engage your sensorial body (solo and/or with a partner). This doesn’t have to be sexual, although it can be, but could be as simple as going for a walk and engaging your senses.

• Explore the elements (air, fire, water, earth) through your senses. For example, to work with the earth element, grab a rose or your favorite flower and engage with it through your senses. Smell it, gently brush it over your face and body. 

• If working with your ancestors or guides is part of your practice, approach them with curiosity about this work and how you might explore it. 

• Read or listen to folks who have led this work or are leading this work. Here are some of my favorites: Sacred Sex by Gabriela Herstik, Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown, Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra George, the essay Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde, and Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici. 

I’m not here to present myself as an expert, but I do want to create spaces where talking about pleasure, erotic energy, and how it pertains to magic is more accessible and trauma-informed. My goal in sharing all of this is to help normalize it, especially for mid-life and aging women, femmes, non-binary folks, moms, and caregivers who, like me, maybe feel like this realm isn’t for them. 

Eros and pleasure are for everyone, and I’d argue we need them now more than ever. 

Have a similar story, or did something in this resonate?a I’d love to hear about it. If you want to explore this more, I hope to see you in the live workshop or the replay, where we’ll discuss the story of Lillith and how she relates to this work, history, and practices to begin exploring your erotic energy. 

In Care, Cassie

Full Moon in Scorpio: Navigating Your Depths

What themes have been swirling within you that have felt too emotional or challenging to be with? The Scorpio full moon asks you to enter your depths intentionally. Scorpio energy lives in the subconscious, encouraging curiosity about all those emotions and topics you’d rather avoid. This is the beauty of working with the moons: there’s a time and place for everything. 

Working in the subconscious creates fertile ground for profound changes and transformations. For any transformation to occur, something needs to be grieved and let go of. Death is an innate part of transformation. 

Full moons are ideal for working with themes of acceptance, grief, and letting go because they offer energetic support to bring what’s ready to be honored, grieved, and released to the surface. 

Grief and death (big “D” and little “d” deaths) are a natural part of life, and you don’t have to wait until your emotional landscape is at capacity or you’re on the verge of a meltdown to access these parts of yourself. Working with the energy of the moon phases provides natural times to access the depths of your emotional realms and tend to your grief cyclically.

After anchoring into a new season with the Taurus new moon (spring for the Northern hemisphere and autumn for the Southern hemisphere), the watery depths of this Scorpio full moon invite inner transformation. 

Find themes, ritual support, and prompts below to support you during this Scorpio full moon. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Themes

Themes: transformation, grief, death, emotions, the subconscious, sex, shadow work

Corresponding Planet: Pluto

Element: Water

Modality: Fixed

Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual Support

For this ritual, you’ll guide yourself into your watery depths to excavate something that wants to be worked with and possibly grieved this full moon. 

The best time to perform this ritual is the day of or the day after the full moon. Working with this full moon on the waning side is particularly powerful for working with themes of grief, release, letting go, and acceptance. 

As always, modify this ritual as needed! This is a template for creating meaningful rituals aligned with your practice. 

For this ritual, you’ll need:

• 20-40 minutes 

• Quiet and comfortable space

• Something to write with

• Optional: a candle, water or tea, music, and any other items that would feel supportive

1. Prepare your area and create a sacred space. This might include lighting a candle for yourself and this practice, clearing your space aligned with your practice, and calling in any supportive guides or allies as you sit with this practice. 

2. Prepare yourself to journey inwards. You’ll need a quiet and comfortable space for 20-40 minutes. If you want to listen to soft drumming or music while you journey, turn that on now. 

3. Sitting or lying down, begin to turn your attention inwards by closing your eyes and focusing on your body and your breath. 

4. Within your mind’s eye, begin to visualize or imagine what it would feel like to sink into the center of a deep, warm body of water. Imagine what sinking lower and lower into the water would feel like. 

5. Continue with this guided visualization of sinking into the water for as long as feels appropriate for you. Imagine you hit the surface or find a natural place to stop and be. When you do notice what this space looks and feels like. Notice if any light is coming through the water. What sounds are present? How does the water feel on your skin? 

6. In this deep and quiet watery space, invite in your emotions. What’s present in your emotional landscape? What wants to surface? Can you allow it to surface fully with the support of the element of water? If this feels hard, consider asking the element of water to assist you. 

7. Move with what comes up and allow yourself to emote as you can, if it arises. 

8. When you feel complete, slowly imagine yourself rising out of the water. As you move up through the water, visualize yourself releasing and leaving anything in the depths that wants to stay and bringing up anything that wants to return to the surface. 

9. When you return to the surface, thank the water and the moon. Slowly come back to your body from this journey. Have some tea or water to ground yourself. 

10. Consider writing down your experience or moving through some of the prompts below. If it feels better to simply be and rest, do that. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Prompts

Here are some prompts to further support you during this full moon. Use them as journal prompts or questions to work with your tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What emotions wish to be witnessed and honored within me?

2. What topics have I been avoiding that want my attention? 

3. What’s ready to be grieved within me? 

4. How does this full moon want to support me in honoring my emotions and grief?

5. How will honoring my emotional landscape and grief support myself and my community?

May you feel the support of this watery full moon to honor your full range of emotions. Your emotions, even the hardest ones to be with, hold wisdom and purpose. Let them flow.

Blessed full moon!  
Cassie

Taurus New Moon: Anchoring into your Senses

As a fixed earth sign, the Taurus new moon anchors us into the changing season (spring for the Northern hemisphere and autumn for the Southern hemisphere). It is a reminder to be with your body and the body of the earth, two sides of the same coin.

The corresponding sign for Taurus is Venus, which brings a welcomed sensual nature to the sturdiness of this sign. This new moon invites you to examine the riches of your body, senses, and the earth. Of course, what those riches are will vary from person to person.

Your body and the body of the earth are the keys to accessing the medicine of this new moon.

This is a slow and steady new moon, not one of those new moons to jump on a new project. This one is all about feeling. Maybe it is time to reorient towards something new in your life, rather than planning. Imagine what it would feel like to reorient in a new way. What would it smell, taste, look, sound, and feel like?

Keep reading for a ritual to work with the elements and your body to get your senses going.

New Moon in Taurus Themes

Themes: the body, earth, slowness, sensuality, intentional movement, embodiment, the senses, claiming or creating one's desires

Shadow themes: stubborn, unfeeling, lethargic, unresponsive

Corresponding planet: Venus

Element: Earth

Modality: Fixed

Quote: "Supremacy and oppression does not want us to slow down, connect or have space for our uncomfortable emotions to land because doing so is a threat to systems of violence." -Thérèse Cator

New Moon in Taurus Ritual Support

There are many simple ways to be with this new moon. Embodying a slow and sensual way of being while walking, eating, dancing, or taking a bath would all be excellent ways to explore its energy.

Below, I outline a malleable ritual for you. As always, please take what you like, leave the rest, and make it work for your practice.

Consider practicing this ritual with a trusted friend or lover if that sounds supportive and fun. The best time to practice this ritual is on the day of the new moon or up to two days after.

I adapted this ritual from a practice I learned from Kalah Hill.

For this ritual, you'll need the following:

• A quiet and uninterrupted place to be with your body, inside or outside

• A physical item representing each of the four elements (examples: feather for air, candle for fire, water for water, and food for earth, or favorite scent for air, lava stone for fire, rose for water, granite for earth)

• Optional: any other items you want to explore physically or have near you for the ritual, pen/pencil, and paper

1. Gather your supplies and prepare your space (inside or outside), making it as cozy and comfortable as possible.  

2. Take 5-10 minutes to be with your breath and body to allow space to arrive in the present moment.

3. One at a time, move through each item that you brought to work with for each element by exploring it tacitly. Tune into the item and element it represents for guidance on how it wants to be experienced or felt.

4. Slow way down and be playful. For example, gently and carefully move items over sensitive parts of your body like your face, neck, or the backs of your thighs. Try to spend 5-10 minutes with each item.

5. When you finish with each item, pause and notice how you feel and which senses were most utilized for each item. Spend a few minutes tuning into your body and breathing before moving to the following item.

6. Once you're finished moving through each item, tune into your body and breathe again. Notice how you feel and what sensations are arising. If you have time, lie down and be with your body for a while before moving to something else.

7. Consider journaling about the experience. Find some journaling prompts below.

New Moon in Taurus Journal Prompts

1. How does it feel to slow down and give yourself time to be with your body?

2. What is your relationship with pleasure? In what ways do you cultivate pleasure in your life (sexually and non-sexually)?

3. What kinds of sensations would you like to cultivate more of in your body?

4. What riches have you discovered by engaging with your senses, body, and/or the earth?

As you move through this new moon, may you be reminded of the power of your senses and your ability to cultivate pleasure within your body. See and feel it in the beauty and wisdom of the earth.

Blessed new moon!  
Cassie

Deepen Your Intuition by Building a Personal Intuitive Language

If you're reading this, you likely already have a relationship with your intuition, but what happens when you're ready to go past gut feelings? So much of what's available online and in books skim the surface of what it means to be in touch with your intuition. 

As global changes continue to stir and we move deeper into unknown times, having a robust relationship with your intuition will help you navigate these times. 

Knowing your gut feelings is essential, but it's just the tip of the iceberg when working with your intuition. Is it time to deepen your intuition into a full-fledged intuitive language? 

Working with an intuitive language is something many mediums rely on, but don't let this scare you away. You do not have to be a medium to utilize this essential intuitive skill. I've created a system to make crafting your intuitive language accessible, whether you're just getting started or already have a well-honed intuition. 

In this blog, you'll learn:

• What an intuitive language is 

• How building your own can help deepen your ability to navigate life and relationships with your guides and magical allies

• How to start creating your unique, intuitive language

• An example of what an intuitive language can look like in real life

Do you already know you want to go deeper and learn practices to create your intuitive language? Explore my in-depth workshop, Building an Intuitive Language in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle membership here to access the class, or grab a drop-in class pass to attend live and get the replay here. 

What is an Intuitive Language?

A personal, intuitive language lets you dialogue intuitively with your spirit (higher self, oversoul, whatever term you prefer), spirit guides, magical allies, ancestors, deities, etc. But keep your mind wide open. I'm using words like "language" and "dialogue" here as metaphors. Communicating with your intuitive language will differ from chatting with your bestie. 

Having an intuitive language is unlike learning French or Spanish; I can't just teach you my language. Building your intuitive language will be unique because we each receive and process intuitive information uniquely and have different associations with feelings and images. Sure, some people might have a similar language to you, but it's like a fingerprint; yours is unique. 

An intuitive language enables you to go beyond binary "yes" and "no" dialogue with your intuition. While establishing a “yes” and “no” communication is an integral part of the process I lay out for you here, adding additional vocabulary is also essential.

Having an intuitive language allows you to decipher the subtleties of intuitive communication more clearly and accurately. 

While building your intuitive language will help you navigate life, the goal isn't to utilize it as a spiritual vending machine. Having an intuitive language doesn't mean you'll suddenly know how to navigate every moment of life perfectly. Even with a robust, intuitive language, aspects of your life and this world will remain in flux in ways that won't allow you to gain definitive advice. Some details will always belong to the Great Mystery of life. 

I'll share an example of my intuitive language later in this post, but for it to make more sense first, let's cover why you'd want to do this and how to get started creating your intuitive language. 

Why Create an Intuitive Language? 

Creating your unique intuitive language isn't just about gaining insights about how to navigate your life. It's about knowing yourself better and understanding the depth of variety in which intuition can express itself (in yourself and others). But it goes beyond this. 

Creating a unique, intuitive language allows you to form genuine and reciprocal relationships with your closest magical and spiritual allies. 

Think about some of your closest relationships, friends, family, or animal beloveds. What's your communication like with them? You probably have a deep rapport with them, perhaps even unique ways you communicate that only happen between you and that beloved. 

When you focus on your ability to communicate with your spiritual and magical allies, your relationship naturally deepens. 

By learning how to communicate better via intuition, you create an environment that leads to deeper relationships, creating a cyclical loop of understanding and deepening. 

When you communicate intuitively regularly with your closest spiritual and magical allies, it will come naturally to you, and your ability to understand your intuition will happen more automatically. 

5 Steps to Build Your Unique Intuitive Language

When building your unique intuitive language, understanding how intuition manifests in your body (subtle and physical) and how it feels is key. You might already have a great foundation with this. If so, great, skip to step two! If not, start with step one below to learn more about the "clairs".

1. Understanding your dominant "clairs"

This will give you a place to focus when learning what intuition feels like in your body. Think clairsentience (clear feeling), clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), etc. Check out a past blog post where I break these down in greater detail here. While the clairs aren't the only way to understand how intuitive information lands in your body, it's a great starting point. 

2. Practice noticing how your intuition shows up and feels in your body 

Understanding your clairs points you toward where and what to pay attention to. Practicing listening, feeling, seeing, and knowing how your intuition shows up makes sensing it more automatic. Like learning any language, understanding how these sensations arrive in your body without spending a lot of time questioning is part of the process. Think of this step as an intuitive bootcamp. At this point, what's most important is recognizing how intuition feels in your body instead of focusing on how accurate you are. Building up your accuracy comes later. 

Here are some simple ways to start weaving intuitive practices into your day. Lean into your most dominant clair sense for each one. 

• Tune into your intuition each morning to ask for any insights or guidance for the day.

• The next time you need to make a decision that won't have a long-lasting or serious consequence (like deciding which direction to walk or what to have for dinner), check in with your intuition.

• Practice pulling tarot or oracle cards for yourself or others, and don't rely on the guidebook. 

• Tune into your intuition each night before bed to ask if there's anything you missed during your day that would be important to know.
  

3. Create a “yes” and “no” communication system

Once you understand what your intuition feels like in your body, start practicing a simple "yes"/"no communication system with your intuition to begin strengthening your communication muscles. I share some simple techniques for this in my book, Craft Your Own Magic, and will also share them in the Building an Intuitive Language workshop here. Essentially, you'll need to discern what an intuitive "yes" vs "no" is like in your body; again, this will be different for everyone. 

4. Form relationships with your guides, ancestors, or magical allies

To practice any language, having someone or something to communicate with will be helpful. Now, it's time to build a relationship with a spirit guide, magical ally (plant, tree, crystal, etc.), God, Goddess, or ancestor. If this sounds like a big leap from step three, grab my free guided journey to connect with a spirit guide here to get started. Start practicing your "yes" and "no" communication with a being of your choice and notice how it feels in your body.

5. Incorporate an inner circle of correspondences to form your intuitive vocabulary 

Moving your intuitive language beyond a "yes" and "no" system will require understanding what I call your "inner circle" of spiritual and magical allies. For some, myself included, these are the four elements and four cardinal directions. Feel free to borrow my inner circle if you're not sure what yours is yet, and don't worry; you can always change it later. 

Your inner circle is the birthplace of your intuitive vocabulary. Understanding how each energy in your inner circle appears in your body creates your intuitive vocabulary. For example, suppose you're getting to know a new plant, and you receive an intuitive insight that reminds you of something in your inner circle that aligns with themes of openness and curiosity. In that case, that plant is likely sharing that its energy is one of openness and curiosity.

Apply the same intuitive communication principles in the previous steps to incorporate your inner circle of correspondences into your intuitive language. 

Want more guidance? I share practices and a more in-depth look at this step in my workshop Building an Intuitive Language here, which you can also access in my membership here. 

Keep reading for an example of how I utilized my intuitive language in a recent experience. 

What an Intuitive Language Can Look Like in Action

Here's an example of how working with my intuitive language has been helpful recently. I sensed a need to build some quiet time to journey, a practice of spiritually traveling to different planes of existence and times. This initial nudge is what people often refer to as the gut feeling. My intuition got my attention. 

Here's where my unique intuitive language starts to come into play. Leaning on my intuitive language enabled me to discern what the journey was about, so I could decide if it was something I wanted to do. 

Based on the feelings in my body that I associate with the element of earth, I could tell the need to journey was rooted in something ancestral. In my practice, I associate the ancestral realms with the cardinal direction north and the earth element. 

I also saw pink roses in my mind, indicating that this ancestral journey pertained to my mother line because I associate pink roses with my mother line. 

I could also sense an intense fire energy around this invitation to connect with ancestors in my mother line. Coming up on a full moon in Leo, I knew fire would likely be very present, and the messages I needed to receive were likely quite intense. 

Journeying on the Leo full moon felt aligned. The ancestor in my mother line made herself known immediately. What came up was intense, but I was prepared. Our work together resulted in ancestral healing on my mother line, and I began noticing shifts and changes within myself and my family members within days. 

Start Building Your Intuitive Language

As the example above illustrates, building an intuitive language can make connecting with your intuition easier to understand and more approachable. Other benefits include connecting with plants and crystals, performing rituals or energy work, receiving insights from your guides, and more. 

While I have dedicated years to honing my intuitive language, I did much of it alone. I do this work to help you skip over some of the trial and error I went through. How different could this world be if more people could tune into their intuition from a deeply grounded and embodied place? The potential is incredible and positive. This is why I want to see you communicating intuitively with a well-honed and robust intuitive language. 

Did you find some new avenues to navigate building your intuitive language? I hope so. If you want to dig deeper, I'd love to see you in the Craft Your Own Magic Circle, where you can access this class or get the class on its own here.

Deep care,

Cassie