Each month, nature in her wisdom and beauty offers us an opportunity, a clean slate, a shining outward and visible sign of the grace we are always given to move beyond our own shadow and start again. In the night sky, the dark Moon begins to clear her shadow and reveals a tiny sliver of […]
Category Archives: Moon Wisdom
Vivid Full Moon Circle – Illumination and Release
It’s Full Moon again! Full Moons bring fruition and revelation. What seeds did you sow at the last New Moon? How have they taken root? Now is the time to look at those New Moon intentions and decide what to do next. Time to consider what needs to be released. Time to slow down a […]
Vivid New Moon Circle – Lunar Soul Care
To honour today’s beautiful New Moon in Aquarius, I thought we could consider lunar rhythms and how we can work with them symbolically. All through our reproductive years, the cycles of our bodies are mirrored by the cycles of the moon. Sometimes our cycles even align with the moon cycles. I know that I have […]
Vivid Conversations – Take Heart – An Interview with Anne Ortelee
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week is a rebroadcast of Bronwyn’s 2014 interview with wise, witty, and wonderful astrologer Anne Ortelee. We talk about the practical and the esoteric in astrology, working deeply with the moon cycles, […]
Menopausal Moon Time
For most of us, for all of our adult lives, we have experienced the rhythmic monthly cycling of our bodies. The cycles of our bodies are mirrored by the cycles of the moon. Sometimes our cycles even align with the moon cycles. I know that I have taken comfort in this reflection of my own […]
Awaken the Senses – Moon
At midlife we often find ourselves fighting the inclination to become dull and stiff. We may go through a phase during which we feel our senses are not as acute, our pleasures less intense, our mind and body less flexible than they were in younger years. Many of us have felt these things. Yet this […]
Full Moon Wisdom
How are you feeling? We are just coming out of the intense energies of yesterday’s Capricorn Full Moon… have you noticed, as we enter the Wisdom Years, that although our bodies no longer cycle so obviously with the moon, that we are still profoundly tuned to and aligned with the lunar cycles? If you are […]
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