Virtual Celebration of the Full Strawberry Moon on Sunday May 7th

If the sky were a digital sphere, the password to get in would be the moon’s phase.  Every ancient calendar, until ours, the Gregorian calendar, was linked to the phases of the moon. This calendar was made to dissuade worship of the natural elements, prevent polytheism, and gather the power in one central location.  We have been undoing this for centuries.  Join us to continue this awakening.

The Full Strawberry Moon is the closest of all moons to the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year.  It is also a lunar eclipse.  Though we will celebrate our Rites of the Moon the Sunday directly after, the full moon itself will occur on June 5th at 12:12pm.  The Strawberry moon gets its name from the Algonquin tribes in the New England region, who gathered the sweet fruits plentiful at this time.  It is also often called the Mead Moon, the Moon of Horses, and the Honeymoon!  For the Swinomish, a Coast Salish tribe, this moon is called the Salmonberry Moon, and along with the ripening salmonberries, and huckleberries, cues a time when salmon runs begin.  This time offers low daytime tides allowing access to shellfish for harvest.  

Themes for the Full Strawberry Moon include a ripening, and a sense of pleasure.  But because this moon occurs in Sagittarius, we will explore how it shows up in a ripening Curiosity, Intuition, and a sense of Adventure.  If you have felt irritated, annoyed, and emotional, you are in good company.  If you have (mostly) kept your cool in the Emotional Coronacoaster, you are ahead of the curve.  It’s required us to disassociate and re-associate in new ways, and within each of us our child self is in the back seat of the car screaming “Are We There Yet!?”  No.  Not yet.  How do you soothe this part?  You shift the focus.  You keep growing, you make discovery multi-dimensional. 

These times have stoked our restless hearts, and the edge is nigh.  As we crest Gemini season, community and communication are essential.  In this Rites of the Full Strawberry Moon, we’ll explore some ways to get present to the joys of the body, and harness our internal seeker to keep us in check. 

This ritual will be virtual. It will maintain physical distance, but not social. It will be physical distance, but not emotional. Join us for meditation, authentic relating, divination, and spellcraft.

Join us on Zoom from 7-9pm. Be ready with a journal, a deck of either playing cards or tarot, and a few sweet berries to nibble on.

This circle is sliding scale, and you can pay here online, or venmo me later if you’d like. Preregistration is still required. Invite your friends! Register early, we sell out! And, if minimum registration isn’t met 24 hours prior, circle will be called off for the month.

Open to all women and nonbinaries.

Call Xan with any questions 206-683-1838.