January Full Moon || Fresh Start

January 2022 Full Moon Vedic Astrology Reading & Ritual By Gemma Celento

Welcoming the new year, this full moon moves goddess consciousness towards the initial framework for new creative expression. This is the first layer awakening beyond previous boundaries. We enter the phase of creating new reference with the outer world from the soul self. Consciousness is always testing and recreating its ‘known’ spaces through the push and pull of divine feminine and masculine. And this Full Moon the push and pull of forces shifts, marking a new feminine creative outpouring.

The Full Moon will rise in her own house of Cancer at an exalted point within the cosmos. The throne of the Empress, will not be limited in her creative expression. This point will feed new realities and nurture new growth within self and the world. This will work to usher in new forms of abundance from the source of self.

The week leading into this Full Moon was very spiritualizing with all the planets clustered together between Rahu, North Node, and Ketu, South Node. The compounding energies work the deeper sense of self and how life force was/is distributed into ‘foundation’. Energies are moving along the restructuring and simultaneously preparing to welcome new forms within the self and the known. The simultaneous energy worked through healing old traumas, old foundations that once held ‘safety’ ‘perceptions’ ‘guidelines’ but also that bound expression. What was, has served to be the new launching point of what will be. Yet, this time it’s different.

The foundation is no longer there. You must carry forward deeper wisdom that is untethered from a previous world. It can feel disorientating, it can be thrilling then shift into fear. Call upon your trust. Honor what was in existence, offer the old self and the old world the highest form of gratitude-LOVE. These healing forces will pour love into self-acceptance so new realities may blossom beyond the known constructs of self and the world. All of these forces of undoing, rebuilding, soothing, pushing, is preparation. It is tilling the soil. This is what we call preparing the self/world for the soul, that must emerge through the mother goddess. This is a highly spiritualizing energy, and marks the later portions of the ‘death’ phase within the evolutionary cycle.

This month honors the earth goddess and is the point in our evolutionary period in which we prepare for the ‘Rise of the Sun’ (Son)- consciousness. Higher consciousness has been unfolding and expanding throughout the planes; it has shifted the way one shows up for themselves from within. This is no easy feat. Challenges that oppose the higher ideals will be brought to light. The ego self has been slain, and the mind that once created the framework for previous expression, creation, and interaction is laid to rest to be the compost for new growth. Much like the ash of a burned tree feeds new growth, and becomes one with the ground and is the nourishment. This ‘ending’ is the beginning. As all deaths are births.

From December this portion of the death cycle within our collective evolution, stirred direction and dharma. The spark of outward movement created the spark for new creation. This stirred the goddess to make way for greater resources lying hidden from the ‘eye’. This Full Moon now moved the stirrings from the last Full Moon to now into a point of owning. Owning that you are this and not. There is a duality that presents itself in these energies. It is where the collective is shifting to unify. We were called to know individuality without compromising unity. To serve unity without forsaking individuality. How do you wield your sword of awareness, how do you direct your precious lifeforce and purpose. Much has come to light in a short amount of time, and much will continue to unfold through to February.

These changes will shift the interaction within the emotional body and work to bring balance and harmony along the new plane. The harmony will occur within roles, with masculine/feminine, and will create a shake up. There will be more tower moments, more redirection. Much of this is balance, redistribution of energy. The doing and being will come into play. This is of course, Masculine and Feminine energies. For many this may have brought fear, the remnants of relationship interactions into the forefront. For others childhood traumas and lingering relationship ‘theories’ have risen to be healed. An important aspect of this energy on the Full Moon is it will reveal the ‘multiple lives’ the ways we have segregated spirit and form. Primarily the inner light of consciousness has been serving and feeding the past. This is what is known as ‘sin’ ; it is the fractionating energy of divine consciousness.

In these upcoming months the integration will begin to emerge so new levels of abundance and creation come into form. What is important is preparing the ground, preparing the self to be the vessel of divine abundance, grace, higher love and consciousness. How you carry this through the self, will emerge. It will show more being, more trust, and how purpose will unfold for you. The past few months worked how spirit filled the spaces of the ego self, how the small mind envisions how life unfolds. There was a switch in November, and now on this Full Moon we surrender to become the embodiment of what is arising. The New Moon began the process of severing the mind and showed a lot of old connections affecting purpose, love, creation, the embodiment of truth came into full light. This Full Moon will bring even more into view. Truth is the aim of these energies.

Truth within identity is unfolding. Being will surpass doing it will unfold. Through you, recalibration within time, memories, and understanding are unfolding. This Full Moon will resurrect the infinite Goddess, what we call ‘The Goddess with 100s of names and forms’. There may be tendencies to cut away to create strong distinctions in self or others. This is the old mind trying to attach in uncertainty. Resist the urge to define. Direct energy to healing, to serve the being, and to surrender to all forms, all beings, not the limited view from the self-the finite.

These energies should be redirected into understanding what is choking your roots and how to ‘dead head’ to cut away the eyes that once defined reality. The moon will bring in expanded views, so what you once knew may not fit. It may feel like ‘relating’ is off, or things aren’t the way it used to be. This is because the framework is gone. The self is new and will seek to relate and apply the same methods onto life, but the spiritualizing energy and rise of the soul will not pull in what doesn’t serve. If still connected to the ‘self’ there will be feelings of dissonance, arguments, trying to push personal agenda, views, all of this will fall short. Efforts will fall short or lack the momentum needed. It is because momentum is orienting towards new life through the soul. Feeling lost while being in familiar places, or feelings of confusion are natural. Interactions and what is desired from life may shift, which can cause dissonance in may arenas of life. Work with the infinite. The finite mind will seek to draw down a new world through the old self, old methods, and old ways. This quite literally will fall short. In order for anything or one to rise into the infinite abundance that awaits, the perception cannot be tethered through the self. This is to be within the 4D. Another dimension beyond the self is emerging. The inward movement. The delusion is what the self is being asked to overcome.

For some of you these forces will behead the ego and you will quite literally become a new person with a new life and a new view. Beyond this world is what is stirring. Past life spiritualization is occurring on a profound level and will work to insert new life force in this new being. Be mindful of Martian energy, where Mars lies in your chart and it’s position from Sagittarius will show how you will work with these forces. Where Scorpio and Taurus are in your chart will show the greatest push and pull. Because Jupiter has and will continue to play a prominent role through the next few months, it is important to give more. To give an open mind, more grace, more understanding, and to give love to self. These energies will work with the polarizing of inward/outward and will aid in creating through the higher self. It is the Goddess energy he is expanding. Abundance and a new expanded, unified way will emerge. However, anything restrictive against the self or expression will not be fruitful. Be mindful of excess, especially indulgences, sweets, and over giving to feel a sense of security. These are all effects of expanding collective consciousness, and a part of this expansion requires zero connotations. This will work the 4D and shift how life comes into form through you.

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Ritual for the Full Moon

This Full Moon ritual will work with the elements in direction and honor the birth of this consciousness.

Take a ritual cleansing bath with 8 drops of sandalwood. If you don't have sandalwood essential oil, you can substitute with Jasmine oil or flowers. If you have neither, no worries, your intention is potent. Seal it into the water.

Focus and feel the water purify your mind, body, and any remnants of the self that were 'disregarded'. It is important to unify, to nourish and honor all aspects of the divine as it has moved through you in all forms. When you are done with your bath. Face the North and meditate. Call upon higher wisdom and your ancestors to be your guiding light. Surrender your concepts, and ask for infinite light to illuminate your mind and path so it honors truth for self and all. These energies will ask for reverence. Give gratitude.

Get a glass bowl, fill it with purified water and place it in the southeast direction of the house or your altar. Bless the water and state the bowl honors the feminine, it signifies your love to honor the goddess and the forces of infinite creation through you. The water will need to be changed everyday, and the discarded water will need to be poured onto the earth. When you pour out the water each day, give thanks to the earth, honor every form of life that has come together for you and your creations. It is important to feed what has fed us. To give love and respect to the goddess and know these aspects live within the self. For the best results I recommend maintaining this until the New Moon (at the least). But, until the next Full Moon is ideal.

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