It’s Friday! Let’s Fuck Shit Up Together!
Happy Friday, lovely! It’s time to fuck some shit up!
Twice a month, in accordance with the lunar cycles, we gather in circle here and in your inbox for a salaciously good time. We talk reclaiming what has always been ours via ritualized practices and hexing shitty politicians.
Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
✨ SPELL
Because this newsletter is sent out in conjunction with the lunar cycles, this segment offers you a moon ritual. Prior to all the stuff listed above, I studied art history as a way to develop an understanding of world religions. Since childhood, I’ve been on a spiritual journey to develop my own relationship to the divine. In no way do I have any interest in telling you what to believe or not believe. That’s for you. It’s personal. And for me, it’s cyclical. My spiritual practices have changed my relationship to time in such a beautiful way that I want to offer you a bit of that shift here by recognizing the cycles of the moon in order to hand you an opportunity to incorporate cyclical time into your experience of life. I work with many spiritual mentors, and ritualized practices are incorporated into the foundation of Project Reclamation—our equity-centered membership community—as well as the Reclamation Weekend retreats I host. And when you joined this email list, you received a Reclamation ritual from me. Again, I don’t care what you believe in or don’t believe in. Paying attention to the moon will help repair your relationship with time, which capitalism has fucked up for all of us. If you’d like to dive deeper into esoteric spirituality, though, keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for some fun stuff I’ve got coming up. 😉
Across time and culture, the moon has often represented our inner world of emotional connection, spiritual journey, and relationship to self. Aligning myself with the cycles of the moon has offered me the added bonus of shifting my relationship with time. When we allow ourselves the space for rest and renewal, rather than keeping ourselves stuck in the constant hustle & grind mentality of late-stage capitalism, our perspectives on what’s influential, what’s valuable, and what’s worthy of our energy have space to become deeper and more personal.
This week, I’m offering you a full moon ritual to hand you a little piece of that.
This doesn’t have to take a long time. The idea is to be present with yourself and focused on your full experience during the ritual. Pay attention to the sensations you feel during the ritual and make note of them afterward. I’d love to hear about your experience if you’d like to share!
FULL MOON RITUAL
The full moon is an excellent time to release anything you’ve been holding onto. And this can mean one of two things! Either you’ve been clinging to something that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip, or you’ve been working toward creating something that you’re now ready to release into the world. Whichever option resonates most with you, that’s where to focus your energy for this ritual.
Supplies: paper, pen, candle, some sort of non-flammable receptacle (actual cauldron, metal, glass, or ceramic bowl or pot, fire pit outside, the base of a grill — you’re gonna burn some shit up so you want something to let it burn in that’s not going to cause any damage to anything)
Steps:
Take a few minutes and ground yourself, whatever that means to you – whether that’s a few deep breaths, listening to a guided meditation, washing your face, putting your feet in the grass, masturbating, or anything else. Then light your candle.
Write out what it is that you’d like to release. If this is something you’ve been clinging to that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip on it, fold the paper in half AWAY from your body. If it’s something you’ve been working on and are releasing into the world, fold the paper in half TOWARD your body.
Light the paper on fire and let it burn in your non-flammable receptacle.
BONUS: If you want to mix the burnt ashes with salt and/or offer them back to the earth by sprinkling them around outside or burying them under the moon, go for it!
We have a full moon in Scorpio on Monday. This provides us with an invitation into the depths of our emotionality, especially those emotions we keep hidden from public view. Think rage, grief, and lust. The things we’ve been enculturated to see as dark. Those associated with the underworld. What’s hidden in the shadows. That’s Scorpio’s terrain.
This moon wants us to dig deep below the surface and allow everything we’ve repressed to step into the spotlight. In considering what you need to release, this is less blowing-dandelion-seeds-to-make-a-wish and more burn-it-the-fuck-down-and-let-it-smolder. These are big releases for even bigger reclamations. Clearing space for something new.
With that in mind, here are a few journal prompts for your ritual:
🌕What have you been lying to yourself about…probably for longer than you want to admit? And what’s actually true?
🌕What have you been hanging onto that’s wildly overdue for a transformation? (What would that transformation look like? What support do you need to navigate it?)
🌕What aspects of yourself have you been afraid to look at? Who would you be if you faced that fear and allowed a more fully authentic version of YOU to emerge? And how can you create the emotional safety for yourself to work through it all?
✊ HEX
Politics is a not-so-secret passion of mine. I used to run a couple of political organizations here in Kansas City and lobby at the state level in Missouri with Planned Parenthood. The 2016 election is what led me into coaching after I lost my mind and a therapist told me I had “excellent coping skills” because I was focusing all my time and energy on political volunteerism. And in this segment, we might get a little petty. But we’ll always be aiming to reclaim our power from the cis-heteronormative, puritanical, white supremacist patriarchy we currently live under in this hellscape of climate change and late-stage capitalism. Here, I’ll offer suggestions on candidates to donate to, people to follow, podcasts to subscribe to, and answer the question of WHO ARE WE HEXING? (Josh Hawley is always on that list.)
Instead of a hex today, I want to celebrate Canada and Australia for not following the US down the path toward fascism.
Are their governments perfect? Of course not. Far from it. Would I, as a bleeding-heart anti-capitalist who believes we would all be far better off with women+ in charge (because FUCKING OBVIOUSLY!!!) prefer so many differences? Absolutely.
And.
We’re in a moment where noticing every act of political resistance against authoritarianism is vital. We’re in a moment where noticing every time a free and fair election takes place somewhere in the world is crucial. We’re in a moment where noticing the collective power of people is of utmost importance.
If you want to hex any of the fuckers trying to destroy the world to pad their pocketbooks even further, I’m not going to stop you.
But noticing what’s going well so we can build upon it? That’s one of the cornerstones of my work in the world — with my 1:1 clients, in the Align Academy mastermind, in Project Reclamation, and here. It’s not optional.
So hex if you want to, but celebrate with me, too.
*This segment is not intended to promote harm to anyone in any way. I don’t hex people in real life. ✊
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That’s it for this week, lovely! I appreciate you offering me space in your day. And I look forward to seeing you fuck some shit up today! ❤️🔥
-xoxo-
Keli
P.S. Come down from rage and terror. Reclaim your agency from *gestures broadly* everything happening in our current moment. Project Reclamation is your antidote to the chaos. Join us.
