The last New Moon of 2024…or first one for the new season of returning light! The moon will be new at 2:26 pm Pacific and Full on January13th, also at 2:26 pm Pacific. All dates/times are from https://www.timeanddate.com please check their website for your local times.

This holiday season and this year, seemed to fly by in a flash. I’m experiencing time in waves, not linear motion. Like an accordion; compression/rapid and then drawn out/slow. I’m having ample practice to stay grounded, open and discerning. What an exciting time to be here!

While this New Moon is at the end of December 2024, to me, it carries the energy of the New Year. I’m reviewing and closing out the old year, gleaning the gold from lessons and experiences I’ve had; clearing the way for new thought, cleaner emotions and compassionate action. I’m focusing on building the world I want to live in instead of the world that is exposing itself, day by day, as false or unreal.

What have you been doing to stay in your best personal rhythm? Is it time to shake up your routine and inject something new into your daily or monthly practices?

I still like to set intentions and ask my highest self to reveal to me what I need to know at the new moon, to be manifested and given gratitude at the full moon. For me, this can take on different rituals. Sometimes I go outside and sit under the dark sky, allowing my consciousness to slip into the Other World, where I can consult with my Allies in shamanic fashion. At other times, I’ll write out a manifestation I’d like to see come to fruition over the next few weeks as the moon becomes full, in alignment with my highest good. I put this writing on my alter and then burn it on the full moon. Sometimes I pull an oracle card or two for the moon cycle, asking for the best possible place to put my intention and action.

This season, I’m reviving an old practice—I’ll walk out to the place on my land that is my sanctuary, my “working space”. I’ll rattle, sing and commune with the spirits of the Moon, the Land, and all of my Allies. I’ll ask how we can work symbiotically for the highest and greatest good, and bring each other to our highest, greatest potential.

Each one of us have our own way of celebrating, communicating and growing into our spiritual best. What are the changes you’ll make in this new season to honor the rhythm of your soul and nature?

A new 15 Minutes of Love will be posted on YouTube on Wednesday evening, New Years Day!

With Love,

Deborah

The moon is new on November 30^th  at 10:21 pm  and Full on December 15^th at 01:01 am in the Pacific time zone. All times taken from https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/

This is the second New Moon in November (11/1 and 11/30) December’s New Moon will be on 12/30/2024

First of all, I want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement. I’m so blessed to hold the space of peace, love and expansion, as well as facilitate healing on behalf of this planet, for others and myself. This connection is my joy.

Every year Thanksgiving Day in the US is the fourth Thursday in November. Because November first fell on a Friday this year, it made the fourth Thursday the last week of November. I don’t know about you, but this late holiday makes the Christmas/Holiday season seem very compressed to me. There seems an urgency to get through this year.

Over the years my family has had to change the day we celebrate our holidays due to shift work. I worked many years in a hospital or hospice and my husband worked as a paramedic/firefighter. Both of us worked many holidays; this never got in the way of celebrating, we never made it about a calendar day.

As I was reminiscing about holidays past, when my children were young and my extended family was mostly in one place, an interesting thought came to me; what if we didn’t celebrate holidays by the calendar?

National, religious and secular holidays are culturally ingrained in us from the time we’re born. I grew up in a more spiritual and secular, than religious household; Santa and the Easter Bunny were more prevalent than stories of the birth of Christ or the resurrection, though we were taught the Christian foundation of these holidays through Edgar Casey’s, Association for Research and Enlightenment, vacation bible school and church youth groups.

In my childhood we spent many holidays with big family dinners and celebrations, but sometimes just our family of five and my maternal grandparents gathered. Independence Day was also my grandfather’s birthday and was as important in our family as Christmas. But, to get back to my pondering; what would life feel like if as a society we didn’t celebrate these major holidays? Would we still gather for special meals, to exchange gifts, and create family traditions? Would we send messages and cards to express our gratitude for each other? I’d like to think we would choose to gather together.

It’s been my experience that holy days and sacred celebrations must be created and cherished, not just observed because a calendar says it’s time. What the calendar and cultural traditions have given me, is an opportunity for a shared experience a few days each year; a special meal with family and friends, a chance to celebrate each other and take a break from day-to-day life. Even without the calendar, the change of seasons provides a rhythm and flow for life, and a pull to celebrate the gift’s given by our Creator and the Earth.   

My wish for myself, and for you, is to choose to set aside time each day to nourish and rest, to be of service and experience childlike wonder.  I want to make time to gather frequently with family and friends to celebrate the gift of being together—without the need for a “holiday”. Let’s step outside of time, let the world stop for a little while, and savor our personal and Divine connections.

The next 15 Minutes of Love video will be posted on Wednesday December 4^th. I’ll be taking the rest of the month off to rest and have some inward and family time. The next New Moon will be on December 30^th and will be a wonderful time to plant new seeds for the coming year.

With Love,

Deborah

In the Pacific Time Zone, the New Moon occurs on November 1^st at 05:47 am and is Full, on November 15^th at 1:28 pm. All times taken from

https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases

To me, this November’s New Moon feels full of opportunity for change and transformation. This year the New Moon falls on the Celtic New Year, All Saints Day and Día de Muertos or Day of the Dead. All of these holy days speak to the “veil being thin” giving all who choose to venture in, the ability to experience the Other Worlds, and the honoring of ancestors. This is a time to gather wisdom from the old and plant seeds for new ways of Being; new ways of relating to each other, and to our environments.

What will you let go of to make room for more joy, love and laughter? What new skills will you garner, what existing skills will you hone, to be of service to your community, both local and beyond? Let’s support each other in what we choose. Let’s share our dreams and visions for a world that supports life versus death, freedom versus slavery and wear the mantle of responsibility for lives. It may seem frightening to share your true thoughts, but this feels like a time to be Real, without the need to mold your outer ‘you’ to fit someone else’s expectations. Exposing the ‘Inner You’ puts you in a vulnerable place but I’m learning that this is truly a place of beauty and growth.

I’m taking time over these next few days to reconsider everything—including what I offer in this space. All things eventually come to a conclusion allowing other things to sprout and grow. I’m ready to tend my life in a more authentic way. I’m asking myself—am I using and developing the gifts that I’ve been given to the best of my ability? Am I able to let joy and love flow through me and flow out of me, no matter what’s going on around me?

I recently had a conversation with a friend about embracing “the lusciousness of life”. When I reflected on this conversation, I was grateful to have the insight that I’ve put up walls and placed myself in a sort of isolation that has kept me from fully nourishing myself from the sweetness of life. I’ve jumped in; this is not a place for baby steps, this is a time for boldness and living from my heart. This is my wish for you and every living being.