Full Moon — Dreaming Our Life into Being
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Each full moon you will receive a practice to help keep you on track with the lunar cycle and your new moon practice. These practices are crafted to keep you spiritually nourished, and to help you continue to expand your spiritual growth.
This month, our practice is Dreaming our Life into Being
Our Prayer is:
Bless to me this night
Bless, Oh bless, the dreams I have
Bless to me a deep calm in my heart
The peace of deep peace
The dreams that I need
Bless to me the dreams that guide my way
It is the full moon after solstice. A perfect moment to reflect on whether your commitments and actions are aligned with your dreams.
Our nightly dreams are invaluable sources of knowledge and insight, giving us access to inspiration, healing and spiritual truth. They are not separate from life, but part of the way we participate in it.
Alongside our nightly dreams, dreaming awake — through imagination, contemplation, daydreams, inner journeys and our creative impulse — is another way we receive guidance and enter into relationship with the deeper currents of life.
The dreams we hold for our lives give direction and purpose. They shape our choices, sustain us through challenges and call us to become more fully ourselves. As we act on them, we are dreaming our life into being.
What is a dream you had that revealed something important and that you trusted enough to act on?
As I pondered this practice, I recalled a powerful dream that came to me not long after my first husband died. It brought healing and showed me the next step I needed to take.
I had his ashes but no idea where to scatter them. The only thing I knew for sure was that I was not leaving them in a cemetery under a rose bush as some members of his family wanted. I knew this was the last thing he would want - to be left amongst strangers in a place he had no connection to.
I had come home late, exhausted, fallen into a deep sleep and dreamed a vivid dream where I was driving a small car through the area where we’d lived before everything changed.
The streets were empty.
It was twilight. Gary was in the back seat.
I stopped at the corner of the park we’d so often walked through with its familiar twisted ghost gums, black wattles and winding pathways.
We got out and walked side by side into the park. The rising moon cast an otherworldly light across the pathway.
As we walked, the landscape changed - no longer a park, the terrain became rocky, uneven. The trees were statuesque with mist wrapping around their roots and ancient moss covered trunks.
We came to the precipice - high cliffs framed by giant Norfolk Pines and large boulders.
The ocean far below. We turned to each other.
At that moment I woke from the dream and I knew where his ashes would be scattered.
And then I remembered him, a year ago, healthy. Alive. Vibrant blue eyes looking straight at me as he said almost randomly - ‘when I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes cast from a high place out over the ocean.’
The dream remains vivid, so real. It still feels alive. Luminous.
How did you respond to your dream? What does your response reveal about your own wisdom?
Some dreams stay with us because they are alive. They continue to unfold long after we wake, asking something of us. If there is a dream you have not yet acted on, perhaps this is your moment. Take it with you into our Full Moon practice.
THE PRACTICE
This Full Moon is a time to pause and recognise the steps that have brought you to this moment.
Begin by contemplating the dream you hold for your life at this time. Reflect on how your actions, choices and commitments are supporting that dream. Where are they aligned? Where might they be asking for your attention?
This may be a question you continue to carry into your dreams over the coming nights. The Full Moon and the days that follow, under the waning gibbous moon, are a deeply creative time for reflection, integration and dreaming.
Now reflect on the path that has brought you here.
Recall the moments that have shaped you: milestones reached, challenges overcome, dreams that revealed something important, moments of deep knowing, creativity, heartbreak, courage, beauty or transformation.
Think of these moments as footprints.
Together they reveal the pathway you have travelled.
If you are able, go outside beneath the moon. If not, light a candle and create a quiet space indoors.
Begin to walk slowly.
With each step, name one of these moments aloud. If you prefer, write each one on a piece of paper and place them on the ground before stepping from one to the next.
As you walk, acknowledge how each experience has helped you on your journey, shaping who you are becoming.
When you reach the end of your pathway, pause and ask yourself:
What has this journey taught me?
How has it shaped my life?
What strengths have emerged?
What medicine do I now carry?
what is my dream now?
When have I felt most alive?
Focus on the moments when you felt most alive. They may have been moments of creativity, wonder, courage, deep connection, beauty or service.
Over the coming weeks, create a constellation of the things that make you feel alive - you might include your dreams, gifts, creativity, longings, talents and loves.
This might take the form of a collage, mood board, earth altar, journal page or a simple collection of words. Arrange it in a way that feels meaningful to you.
Think of this constellation as a map of your inner sky. These are guiding stars by which you can navigate.
Place it somewhere you will see it often. Spend time with it. Add to it. Let it continue to evolve as your dreams unfold.
Pay attention to what makes you feel most alive. It is often one of the clearest signs that you are in alignment with the dream you hold for your life.
Much love
As a special gift, I’d love to welcome you as my guest to our next Wild Wisdom gathering, normally reserved for members.
