Full Moon Energies

I don't normally take this blog into a discussion of anything singularly "outside" the natural realm. This one is different--this one deals with the Moon energies. I've no idea if anyone else has felt Her fluctuations this past waxing cycle, but my energies have been decidedly "off."

A truly autumnal chill is in the air here in north Texas. The skies have turned a steely grey and there's a faintly discernable mist which bites at one's skin throughout the waking hours. The roads are sparkly-slick with the night showers. The clouds look "threatening" and angry. And, last night, the night of the Full Moon, all was overcast and darkened.

The "Blood Moon" it was--the moon associated with the late harvest and the livestock slaughter (in past times). According to my trusty "Witch's Datebook 2009" (Llewellen Publications), this is the moon when "the veil between the worlds is thin" (107) which, in my mind, explains some of the odd-to-"off" energies.

This has been a month of reversals. Events that were drawn close in the Waxing cycle actually retreated and in the "dormant" time of the Waning cycle, events are happening. Like I said, "off" energies. Reversals.

There are magickal explanations for this cyclical reversal...some will say it's due to Mercury being in retrograde, some that it's the "nesting" season of the year, some that the Wise One is slowing our earthly increase in Her late age for She is neither the eager Maiden or the abundant Mother now.

Whatever your personal explanation, the energies surrounding us in this season are awkward and discomforting. And, in that, it's reassuring to note that EVERY Blood Moon "pulls" this on we temporal dwellers.

In the chill moonlight...