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 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.
We have a new moon in Taurus on Sunday, and this one is a supermoon! This is an excellent time to embark upon tangible steps toward the changes you’ve been trying to make and to reconnect with the pleasures of your body, as well as renegotiating your relationships to your resources. Below are some journal prompts to guide your ritual with this new moon energy.
🌑Where have there been some blocks preventing you from making the changes you want to make that are maybe less blocky now, and what is the first actual step you can take now that those blocks have diminished?
🌑What physical pleasures can you incorporate to allow you to enjoy living in your body a bit more? (Soft fabrics, exquisite fragrances, sumptuous meals, opulent sex, sensuous music…)
🌑On your relationship with money and resources: What’s truly fulfilling for you? And what’s either superfluous or representative of a past version of you that you’ve now outgrown?
This moon is a representation of grounded changes. Big changes. And when we’re creating change in our lives, we often become a bit destabilized. We need support as we navigate the terrain and solidify our new identities within the change.
If you find yourself struggling with creating change, even change you WANT to create, book a consult call with me. I have one 1:1 spot open. Is it waiting for you? Let’s find out.
✊ 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.)
So, we’re all in agreement that JD Vance killed the Pope, right?
I mean, do I think he committed murder? No. Frankie was in poor health for a bit. We know this.
But Vancie-pooh is bad vibes. He’s completely devoid of a moral compass and changes his positions based on which way he can grab the most power. Some have called him the antichrist because of this event. (And by some, I mean me.) And others have said that’s giving him too much credit. (And by others, I mean my friend Mark when we were at the gym on Monday.)
So an elderly man whose body is already struggling to keep on keepin’ on, and whose life’s work (regardless of your detailed opinions on his methodologies, whether or not he went far enough, etc.) is to be a global spiritual leader rooted in compassion and service meets with a power-hungry hypocrite playing a role in destroying the global spirit who’s never embodied the concept of compassion but who claims to be working on behalf of the same god under the same umbrella of religiosity…
That’s fucking stressful!
Bad vibes + cortisol flood + ill health = JD Vance killed the Pope.
So today, we’re hexing ol’ Jay Dee and hoping the fact that Pope Francis appointed 108 of the 135 eligible to vote for his replacement means the new pope will not be JD Vance’s type of Catholic.
*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.
