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Heart Moon
Our full moon this month coincides with Valentine's Day, feeding our hearts with its radiant light.
Moonlight connects us all. When the moon is full, I imagine the many others who are helping to create the full moon web of light. When I adopted my then-infant daughter in Honduras, I carried her outside every night saying "Mira la luna," and connected with my partner who was viewing the same moon in California.
The baby unicorns in A Wrinkle in Time drink moonlight for their sustenance. We can too! This is a wonderful, simple practice:
Drinking Moonlight
Facing the moon, tip your head back and open your mouth so moonlight hits the roof of your mouth. Swallow the moonlight, drinking it in. Feel and see the bright moonlight spreading through your whole torso and into all your cells.
Moon Energy and Flow
The moon is present every night of our lives: waxing, full, waning, and being dark (absent from view). The more we attune with the moon, the more we can entrain our bodies and intent with its cycles.
Engaging with the moon's rhythms helps remind us of our own life's rhythms, and our own inner light. It also connects us to the night sky and one of our planet's beautiful allies, making our sense of the world bigger.
It is one of my favorite ways of setting intent for releasing and filling. The first step is to notice the moon's rhythms. The second is to connect your intent with these rhythms: waxing-intend to grow something in your life; full-intend to connect with others; waning-intend to release and let go of a particular energy; dark-rest in potential.
After a while of doing this, your body will draw you outside, almost of its own volition, to help you come into resonance with moon.
Entraining With Moon Rhythms
When the moon is waxing (about two weeks, from new moon to full), go outside and connect your belly, heart, and third eye with the growing moon. Set your intent that something you are growing in your life (a project, an idea, a baby) draws power from the moonlight's growth.
When the moon is full, swallow its light. Feed the Full Moon Web of Light with you radiance. When the moon is waning (about two weeks, from full to dark), go outside and connect with the moon. Set your intent to release something you are ready to let go of. Use the diminishing moonlight each night to remind yourself of what you are releasing. When the moon is dark (three nights), let yourself rest in the potential that abides in darkness. See the dark as fruitful and nourishing, like a womb. Let this darkness remind you, also, that all energy has a rhythm of darkness as well as light. Try this. Let me know how it works for you! As we move towards this special time of acknowledging love, think about this: "Have you ever been loved? I bet you have been loved so much and so deeply that you have become nonchalant about the enormity of the grace it confers...To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness." --Rob Brezsny 
Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers Copyright @2014
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