Pink Moon 2024

FULL MOON In April  🌕 
NAME: Pink Moon 💗 
ASTRO SIGN: Scorpio ♏ 
PEAK TIME: Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 7:49 PM EST
TYPE: First full moon after the solar eclipse

THEMES:

1. Transformation and Renewal: Scorpio's energy encourages deep transformation, pushing for a shedding of old skins and an embrace of new beginnings. This can be a time for spiritual rebirth or significant life changes.
2. Introspection and Truth: The full moon in Scorpio shines a light on hidden truths and deeper insights. It's an excellent time for introspection, allowing individuals to confront their deepest feelings and hidden aspects of their psyche.
3. Emotional Intensity: Scorpio is known for its emotional depth. This full moon could heighten feelings, bringing intense emotions to the surface, both positive and negative.
4. Healing and Purging: With its focus on the truth, the Scorpio full moon is a potent time for healing. By confronting and releasing suppressed emotions and past traumas, individuals can cleanse their emotional palette.
5. Power and Control: Themes of power dynamics may become prominent, with a focus on regaining control over one’s life or navigating power struggles in relationships.
6. Mystery and Secrets: Scorpio is associated with secrets and the unseen. This full moon might reveal secrets or prompt individuals to explore mysteries, whether personal or external.
7. Psychic and Spiritual Awareness: The energy of this moon enhances psychic sensitivity and spiritual insights, making it a powerful time for divination, meditation, and connecting with the spiritual realm.

STONES:

• Prehnite - encourages new changes in our life. Clears out old energies. Settles feelings of unrest.
• Rhyolite - enable us to accept what’s happening. Promotes greater understanding. Facilitates change without forcing it.
• Labradorite - “transformation stone” Imparts strength and perseverance. Allows us to see through illusions
• Lapis Lazuli - truth, awareness, and friendship. It helps strengthen your third eye and makes sure that when you speak it comes from a place of wisdom
• Any blue gemstones (throat chakra, soothing anxiety)

BODY AND ORGANS:
Reproductive system, sexual organs, genitals, nose, blood, bowels

HERBS:

1. St. John’s Wort: Traditionally used for its mood-stabilizing properties, St. John's Wort can help alleviate mild to moderate depression and anxiety. It's thought to help balance brain chemicals that affect mood and emotions.
2. Chamomile: Known for its calming effects, chamomile can help reduce anxiety and promote relaxation, making it easier to cope with emotional stress and facilitating deeper emotional exploration.
3. Lavender: Lavender is renowned for its soothing properties. It can help calm the mind, relieve anxiety, and improve sleep quality, creating a peaceful state that aids emotional processing.
4. Ashwagandha: This adaptogen helps the body resist stressors of all kinds, whether physical or psychological. Ashwagandha can help stabilize mood, reduce anxiety, and improve overall resilience.
5. Lemon Balm: Often used to ease stress and anxiety, lemon balm can improve mood and promote emotional well-being, helping to bring clarity and truth to one's feelings.
6. Passionflower: This herb is particularly effective for those dealing with anxiety and insomnia. Passionflower helps to quiet the mind, making it easier to reach deeper emotional truths without overwhelming stress.
7. Rhodiola: Another adaptogen, Rhodiola can enhance your body’s stress tolerance and improve symptoms of burnout, which can cloud emotional clarity and truth.
8. Valerian Root: Best known for its sleep-inducing qualities, Valerian can also help to calm the nerves and reduce anxiety, supporting a more introspective and emotionally truthful state.

THEMED TEA:
Lavender and chamomile

SUPPLIES:

• Notebook
• Pen

MEANING:
When the full Moon aligns with Scorpio, a mystical ambiance permeates the air. Governed by water and Pluto, Scorpio compels us to delve into our most profound emotions. This sign teaches us that we possess the powers of magicians and healers, enabling us to transform any energy, emotion, or behavior. We have the ability to convert darkness into light, and tension into calmness. We can overcome the deepest hurts, transforming them into insights, and effortlessly steer through any turmoil. The key to harnessing this energy lies in our readiness to experience intense emotions, as the full Moon in Scorpio promises to be one of the most powerful of the year.

WHAT TO RELEASE:
This Moon encourages us to set aside our logical reasoning. It suggests that analyzing our emotions only extends them. To truly transform, we must feel our emotions deeply, which involves slowing down, bravely examining our inner selves, and creating space for any feelings that may emerge from our subconscious, including tears if necessary.

Scorpio's energy is particularly potent because it immerses us in the immediacy of the present. It compels us to halt, shed our distractions, and face reality head-on.

During this full Moon in Scorpio, our masks are removed. This force slices through any facade, taking us directly to the core of issues. On this Moon, we find it impossible to deceive ourselves or others. Anything we've been ignoring is now coming to the surface.

This unveiling also exposes emotions, subconscious beliefs, and biases we'd prefer to avoid, along with suppressed feelings we've projected onto others. This full Moon in Scorpio unveils all, making us uneasy but also offering a powerful chance for deep growth.

RITUAL:
Seated Hip openers (emotional opening & balance)

• Badakanasana (Butterfly pose)
• Agnistambhasana (Fire log pose)
• Balasana (Childs pose)

Energy Yoga

1. Hip Rotations - Come to a standing position and spread feet about hips distance apart.  Start to rotate your hips in a clock wise motion. Moving as slowly or fast you you feel comfortable. After about 10 rotations change to counter clockwise or when it feels right. Slowly come back to a centered space. You can repeat through out the exercise when it feel needed
2. Stretch - Reach arms up and take a stretch through the right side, the left side, back and forward.
3. Organic Movement - Keep knees in place and start to bounce shake or move in any organic matter that feel good for you. You can wiggle dance a little or just sway from side to side.
4. Tapping - come back to a neutral position with knees slightly bent and move into tapping exercise. Make 2 fists and gently tap a few inches below the belly button. Each person around the circle counts to 10 and the next person goes until the circle reaches 200. 
   - First person: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
   - Next person: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20
   - so on and so forth
   Finish tapping by rubbing the belly. Keep knees bent and shoulders relaxed.
5. Repeat - Option to repeat shaking, moving, bouncing or any other movements you’d like. Let go of excess energy and emotions by letting our any sounds that you need (sighs, audible exhale, grunts, groans, screams and crying)
6. Slow down - Slowly come back down a seated position and then come to lie down. End with Savasana with one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly to check in with your energy. What emotions came up? What energy was released?​

JOURNAL QUESTIONS

1. What emotions have you felt come up lately?
2. What emotions are you still having a hard time letting go or moving through.