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HAPPY SOLSTICE!!! 😎
If you’re in the northern hemisphere, today is Summer Solstice. And it’s Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere. Times when societies have historically come together to celebrate and pray for light. And inside Project Reclamation, we have a Seasonal Grounding Call tonight at 6pm central to honor the solstice, regardless of which hemisphere you’re in.
If you’re not yet a member of Project Reclamation, you can join as a free or paid member here. Our Seasonal Grounding Calls are open to all of our members.
✨ 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 new 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!
NEW MOON RITUAL
The new moon is an excellent time to focus on what you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. Whatever you want to reclaim for yourself. You can get fancy with your rituals, and if you’re into altar work, crystal work, or any other kind of spiritual work, please feel free to incorporate it. Personally, I like to keep things simple.
Supplies: paper, pen, glass of water that you’ll drink
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.
Write out what it is you want to create, achieve, or accomplish. This can be big or small. It can be for the lunar cycle beginning with this new moon, the next six months, the next calendar year, or a lifelong dream.
Read what you’ve written—out loud—over your glass of water. Then drink the water.
With the solstice comes the beginning of Cancer season, which brings a focus on nurturing spaces (physical and otherwise — home and community) and perhaps a bit of heightened emotionality. And next Wednesday, June 25, we have a New Moon in Cancer.
This offers us the opportunity to consider where we’ve historically felt unsafe, and how we’ve developed trust in ourselves to keep ourselves safe. It gives us deeper access to our intuition and greater capacity for healing. It allows us to delve more into our inner truths and care for ourselves in more expansive ways.
Here are some journal prompts for your New Moon ritual:
🌑What coping mechanisms did I develop in the past to keep myself safe, but which I’ve outgrown so they’re now not only no longer serving me, but also pointing to places where I need to heal on a deeper level?
🌑What are the first steps to that healing?
🌑What support do I need for that healing?
🌑How can I create the most favorable conditions for myself to embark upon that healing journey?
🌑What awaits on the other side of that healing?
If you feel soft and gooey, if you start to cry, and/or if you feel any resistance to any of that coming up as you read the questions, you know you’re onto something beautiful. Probably hard, but beautiful nonetheless.
✊ 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.)
Rather than a hex this week, I want to celebrate everyone who participated in a No Kings event. Whether you were marching, rallying, or otherwise involved, you were part of a collective message that was very clear.
It’s been proven that when 3.5% of a population utilizes nonviolent protest against their government, the government topples. (Though it’s not always necessary to have even that high of a percentage, as there have been populations with smaller factions that have overthrown their government. But 3.5% has a 100% success rate.) And I’ve seen estimates ranging from 5-12 million people participating in a No Kings event nationwide, with 2,100 separate events taking place across the United States.
So we are either well on our way to that 3.5% or we’ve already surpassed it. And either way, we deserve to celebrate ourselves for that.
With the Solstice light today and the New Moon in Cancer on Wednesday, my invitation to you is to honor yourself for however you contributed to last Saturday’s message.
This is definitely a “marathon, not a sprint” kind of situation. And in order to make it sustainable, we need to infuse joy into it for ourselves. So honor yourself and your community. Recognize yourself and your community. Celebrate yourself and your community. Use that energy, along with your anger and rage, to fuel your activism. Anger and rage burn hot. And when that’s all you’ve got behind your action, you burn out.
Celebrate what we’re doing and the progress we’ve made so far. Celebrate your part in it all. I’m celebrating you. I’m celebrating us. 🥂
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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.
