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On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 there will be a New Moon in the sign of Sagittarius. This marks a potent time for setting new intentions that relate to the sign of Sagittarius—expansion, education, freedom, travel, and the general enjoyment of life. Find out more about the New Moon phase, the sign of Sagittarius, and how you can use these energies to set new intentions for your life.
The month of August begins with a New Moon in Leo. This event helps us start fresh when it comes to success, joy, loyalty, confidence, strength, and leadership. New Moons signal the beginning of the Moon’s next phase. There are new slivers of light on the Moon, and its strength begins to grow. This makes it a great time to set new intentions for ourselves or make a new start.
Typically when we talk about moon phases and rituals related to them, they can be treated as separate: you release on the Full Moon, cut cords during the Waning Moon, and set new intentions on the New Moon.
So before you set your intentions related to all of the fiery and expressive attributes of the sign of Leo, why not release what keeps you from making those intentions become a reality?
New Moons are a time for new beginnings and setting manifestations for what you want moving forward in your life.
This New Moon is in Taurus, which rules over things related to love, money, stability, and abundance. The sign of Taurus is ruled by the planet Venus, which influences everything around love. Taurus is a sign that can be stubborn at times, but overall it likes to feel good, enjoy life, have lots of pleasurable moments, dwell in a well-decorated home, and eat good food.
So what does all of this mean for you? The New Moon in Taurus is an excellent time to work on manifesting the things in your life that make you feel good, such as love, and it can also help you build financial stability and wealth. As an Earth sign, Taurus is also practical, and you can harness this energy into creating practical steps to move your ideas forward.
One of the best ways to start is with a visualization. Imagine the life that you want. Imagine yourself waking up and imagining a day doing exactly what you want. This can relate to both love and money.
Where do you live? Are you waking up next to someone? Do you know this person? If it’s an ideal partner, how do you feel with them around you? How do you say good morning to each other?
How do you get ready for your day? What kind of work are you doing? How many hours are you working? What kind of lifestyle do you have? Who do you see throughout the day? Are you meeting friends in the evening or having a meal with your family?
These are just some suggestions, but let your mind lead you through the mediation. Take note of what you see and how you feel. That’s the goal—to move into the way you feel during the meditation.
Next, write down what you saw and how you felt. You can also write down what you want to manifest in your life related to love, work, and money. If there are things that did not come up in your visualization that you want, write those down as well.
A common guideline for writing these manifestations is to write down what you want as if you already have it. For example, start with “I am so happy now that…” and then write down what you want in detail.
If you don’t have time for a visualization, that’s alright. You can always write down what you want in terms of love, financial wealth, and home life.
If you have a manifestation practice, use the list as you typically do. Personally, I burn my manifestations with the intention of sending the energy up into The Universe, but do what you feel guided to. Some will keep manifestations under their pillow for a full moon phase, place them on their altar or a certain place in their home, others will put it under a dressed candle, and others will bury it in the ground. Do what feels right for you.
To help bring your manifestations into being, think about some realistic goals you can set for yourself.
How can you realistically take a few steps closer to what you want? Is it taking a class, applying for a new position, or asking for a raise? Is there a person you want to ask out on a date?
Do you want to feel some more confidence within yourself before you emerge into the dating world? What’s one step you can take to feel more confident with yourself?
Are there any changes you want to make in your current relationship? What’s one small change you could make?
If it seems like your goal is a large issue you’re not sure how to tackle, break it into bite size pieces. Write down the multiple steps it would take to accomplish your goal. Then write down how you could achieve each of those steps. Start with the easiest one and work your way up from there. You may not have all the answers right away, but even shifting your energy around this goal will help make it seem easier to accomplish.
If you need some support, guidance, clarity, or healing, you can always book a tarot card reading or reiki healing session.
Tarot readings can help provide clarity on various topics, and around a New Moon they can help you determine where to direct your energy.
In reiki healing sessions, I use energy to help move energy out that needs to be released, provide balance where it is needed, heal energetic wounds, and bring in loving energy to the places that need it most.
All of these sessions can be done either in person or from a distance. Distance tarot readings can be done over the phone, through Skype, or sent in an email, and distance reiki sessions can be conducted at a time when you’re ready to rest or even while you’re sleeping.
If you’re not sure what to ask in a tarot reading, here are some options you can book:
To book a tarot reading or reiki healing, email Kajora Lovely at kajoralovely@gmail.com
If you like to use herbs to make your own body sugar scrub or Epsom salt bath, there are a fair amount of choices. You can check out my recipes for a Lavender & Lemon Sugar Scrub or the Love Sugar Scrub with Rose & Cardamom.
If you’d like to make your own homemade concoction, here’s some information I gathered from The Hearth Witch’s Compendium: Magical and Natural Living for Every Day by Anna Franklin.
Apple, Cardamom, Daisy, Honeysuckle, Lilac, Lovage, Magnolia, Moss, Mugwort, Oakmoss, Orchid, Patchouli, Periwinkle, Plumeria, Rose, Thyme, Tonka, Vanilla, Violet, Ylang-Ylang
Aloe, Birch, Blackberry, Camphor, Clover, Daisy, Gorse, Ground Ivy, Jasmine, Lily, Mulberry, Ox-Eye Daisy, White Rose, Wormwood
For a sugar scrub, I use a base of 2 cups of sugar and 1/2 cup of melted coconut oil, and you can add whatever herbs you like, stir to fully combine, and store in a plastic container.
To make a salt bath, use 2 cups of Epsom salts (unless you’re diabetic, then use Himalayan salt) and combine any herbs you like.
For both, I recommend grinding the herbs to about as small as you can so they don’t clog your drain.
Of course, you can use these herbs however you like. For example, you could make a face mask with mashed apple, dried roses, and cinnamon, or burn honeysuckle incense while writing down your manifestations. It’s your practice—it’s entirely your choice!
May Tarot Readings for Every Sign
Sugar Scrub Recipe with Rose & Cardamom
Happy New Moon in Pisces! How are you feeling this month? There’s a lot going on in the month of March, and we’re starting it in the middle of Pisces season. On Thursday, March 7th, we have a New Moon in Pisces as the first slivers of sunlight are being reflected off of the moon.
Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac, and it contains aspects of every other sign within it. This can feel like a lot of energy, and sometimes that can be confusing. It’s also a water sign, meaning it connects to our emotions and can make us feel things we would rather not feel.
Pisces also rules over secrets. Think of what’s submerged in the depths of the ocean—crashed pirate ships, buried treasure, deep trenches, coral reefs, and sea creatures stories have been written about. Pisces season is a great time to tap into our subconscious, the thoughts, beliefs, patterns, and experiences we might prefer to ignore. This is not necessarily for the faint of heart—swimming into your own depths can take courage, strength, and stamina.
As the last season in this zodiac cycle, there’s an opportunity to wrap up and finish old patterns in our lives. We’re approaching the Vernal Equinox, which gives us an opportunity to find balance between the sun and moon, day and night, light and dark, within our own lives (more on that later).
For this New Moon in Pisces Tarot Reading, let’s explore aspects of your subconscious or waking life. What’s something you want to know more about? Is there a situation in your life where you feel people are keeping secrets from you? What’s an aspect of yourself you’re thinking of exploring? Do you keep having a recurring dream that you’re trying to make sense of?
This reading is being offered around the time of the New Moon because this lunar aspect is an ideal time for new beginnings. It’s an opportunity to set your intentions for where you want to go in the future, and once you have more information at your disposal, it can clarify exactly where you want to direct your energy.
Also, Pisces season ends on March 20, leading us into Aries season and a new zodiac cycle. Aries energy is the warrior and leader; it knows where it wants to go and is happy to lead the charge to get there. As a fire sign it wants action, and it wants to use its masculine energy to light the way forward.
Once secrets are revealed, you have time to consider what that means for you, and what you want to change (if anything) moving forward.
The New Moon in Pisces Tarot Reading answers the following questions:
What needs to be revealed?
How does this information benefit you?
Knowing this information, what’s the next best step for you to take?
When booking this reading, you can specify if you want something revealed from your subconscious or from your everyday waking life. But you certainly don’t have to—in the individual reading we can see what comes up, which is often what your spirit guides want you to know in that moment. This reading is $70, and can be prepaid for distance sessions or paid upon completion for in-person sessions.
To book, email kajoralovely@gmail.com. If you are interested in a distance reading, you can prepay to @Kajora-Lovely on Venmo. In your email, you can include where the secrets are that you would like to be revealed. You can also not specify and simply request a reading—the choice is yours.
March Tarot Readings for All Signs
On Tuesday, February 5, there’s a New Moon in Aquarius. This isn’t exactly a normal New Moon because it also coincides with the celebration of Chinese New Year.
Monday February 4 is the Dark Moon, the last phase of the previous moon cycle when zero sunlight shines upon the moon. This is often confused with the New Moon, but it is a day for introspection and doing internal work. It’s a great time to curl up at home and read, take a bath, or even just rest.
The New Moon is marked by the first sliver of light on the moon, and it’s an opportunity to set intentions for the future.
This New Moon is in the Air sign of Aquarius, symbolized by the Water Bearer and linked to the planet of Uranus. When we are in an astrological season, we can personally feel affected by that sign’s attributes, and the New Moon is a great opportunity to take advantage of those.
Every sign has various aspects to it that can be considered positive and negative or good and bad. The attributes associated with Aquarius include being independent, intellectual, humanitarian, creative, stubborn, detached, seeking the truth, hot headed, rebellious, aloof, and loyal. There can be difficulty being emotionally open but generally well-liked by a fair amount of people. As with all Air signs, Aquarius is often in their head, considering possibilities and sometimes focusing too much on anxiety.
No matter your sign, it’s important to not let your thoughts get too carried away and to come back into your body. Dwelling in the Air element can mean feeling like you’re up in the clouds, which can feel good, but you’re also detached from the real world. This can be tricky because you can get lost in hypothetical situations or thoughts, and not creating a plan of action or taking actual steps to conquer a situation.
However, there’s also an ability to use this to your advantage in problem solving. It’s about balance—knowing when to strategize and think, and then when to put those thoughts into a plan of action. Using the creative, rebellious, and intellectual aspects of Aquarius can also help you find unique solutions to long-standing issues or problems.
The New Moon in Aquarius Tarot Reading is meant to help you approach life in a different way, using the Moon’s increasing energy as well as the creative aspects of this Air sign. The custom New Moon in Aquarius Tarot Reading can be sent to your email and answers the following questions:
Where do you need to be more creative?
How you can focus that creative energy
What is a distraction you need to avoid?
Something to keep in mind at this time
The New Moon in Aquarius Tarot Reading is $90, and can be prepaid to @Kajora-Lovely on Venmo. To book your reading, email Kajora Lovely at kajoralovely@gmail.com.
New Year, New Moon! How are you feeling at the moment? After the astrological events of the summer, retrogrades of the fall, and the holidays around the time of the Winter Solstice, there’s been a lot going on. Now we’re starting 2019 with some events back to back, ending with the New Moon in Capricorn. We’ll be in Capricorn season until January 19th, and starting the new year under this aspect gives us the discipline and determination to move things forward in our lives.
If you’d like to skip to the New Moon in Capricorn reading, feel free to scroll to the end.
On Saturday January 5th, it’s the Dark Moon—the day when there is zero light upon the Moon. This time is meant for releasing, doing internal work within the darker aspects of ourselves, banishing, and dark magick. Saturday is the last day of the week, making it a great time to do cleaning of all sorts.
This is a great time to release anything you want to leave behind in 2018.
One way to release is to write down everything you want to let go of: fears, negative thoughts or patterns, self-doubt, mindsets of scarcity, anxieties, worries, negative self-talk, concerns about the future. In this case, you can be as specific or as vague as you like. For example, you can write something like “I release any and all concerns about my future.” Write these down on paper and then, in a safe place, set them on fire. You can burn them in a fireplace, in an outdoor fire pit, or even over a fireproof bowl away from other flammable materials. Once they are burned up, take a deep sigh and know that they are no longer in your life.
If you have a bathtub at home, you can also do something similar with bath salts. You can either say aloud or imagine all of the things you want to release. You can write them down as described above and say them out loud or read them to yourself. Imagine all of those feelings, thoughts, etc leeching out of your body and going into the water. When you’re done, rinse yourself off to get rid of any last residue.
The idea is to release any thoughts or feelings that do not serve you moving forward. Whatever your purpose, whatever you want to manifest or make room for in your life, let those go so that there is space in your body, mind, and energy field to make those things possible.
Sunday is the first of the day of the week, which is always a great time for the first phase of the waxing moon. The planet Uranus also goes direct in Aries on January 6th, and these three elements combined will help create a lot of forward momentum in all our lives. This is a very powerful day for writing down manifestions and intentions for the future.
(By the way, if you weren’t able to release on Saturday, you can also do this on Sunday. It’s all about intention, so make it very clear to yourself and to The Universe that you do NOT want these things in your life moving forward.)
When you write down intentions and manifestations, one way is to write in the present tense—as if what you want already exists in your life. You can start with the phrase “I am so happy now that…”
If that doesn’t jive with you, find the wording that feels comfortable. It honestly doesn’t matter what works for anyone else. We are all different, and you’re telling The Universe what you want for yourself. It’s important to speak your true language.
The main idea is to be as detailed as you want. Dream as big as you possibly can. This is not the time to believe in a limited version of yourself or a limited version of your future.
We’ve been going through so many damn changes since 2012. You’ve gone through who knows how many waves of healing and learning lessons over the last few years. 2018 might have shaken you to your core and revealed some very important details to you. Use those lessons, those experiences, those epiphanies, and then shoot beyond the Moon and into the stars. What is it that you truly, truly want?
If it helps, you can meditate sitting up or lying down (whichever you prefer) and begin to visualize the details of the life you want to have in six months, a year, two years, ten years—whenever you want to plan for. Imagine what it’s like getting up, starting your day, interacting with the people in your home. Notice the colors, plants, decor, and food. Where do you work? What do you do? How do you feel throughout the day? How do you end the day? Do you have dinner with friends or come home to have a meal with your roommates or family or spouse? How do you interact with your coworkers and the people you love? How often do you travel?
You can adapt these ideas to whatever goal you have, but the idea is to make sure it’s a life you want to lead. We each have our own innate talents, ideas, abilities, and goals. How do you want to make the best use of your skills and put them into the world? What does satisfaction feel like to you? Even if your dream life sounds simple in theory, the idea is to ask for what you want in the best case scenario.
Once you tell The Universe what you want, it will do everything it can to bring it to you. This can happen with either positive intentions or negative intentions.
For those of you who need a little help or want to make sure your bases are covered, I’m offering a New Moon in Capricorn Tarot Reading. As an Earth sign, Capricorn energy is disciplined and thorough, and the energy of this New Moon can help you move things forward in your life from 2019 onward.
This reading can be helpful if you:
Don’t know where to start when it comes to releases or setting intentions
Know what you want to release and manifest, but want to make sure you’re not missing something
Fall somewhere in between
For this particular reading, we will either speak first on the phone, or you can email me. Either way, you can tell me about what you want to let go of and what you want to bring into your life. This is confidential and will not be shared.
The idea is to help you speak about where you are presently and think about the thoughts or patterns that no longer serve you and what you really want for your life. I will pull tarot cards on both and see what messages come up, along with the messages of the cards themselves. These can validate what you’re already feeling or point out something you might not have considered. They may even flesh out an idea you were beginning to explore.
Then I will pull a last card about something for you to consider this year. This could relate directly to your releases and manifestation, or it could be a different message entirely. Every reading varies from person to person, and the idea is that it’s a specific message that is meant to help you on your own unique journey.
This reading is $70, and can be prepaid to @Kajora-Lovely on Venmo. If you’re interested in getting a reading for the New Moon in Capricorn, email kajoralovely@gmail.com.
If you have any questions or thoughts about releasing and intention setting, please let me know in the comments below! If you have any personal questions, feel free to email me at kajoralovely@gmail.com.
Happy New Moon!
It’s the last New Moon of 2018, and it’s in the astrological sign of Sagittarius. Ruled by the planet Jupiter and symbolized by the Archer, Sagittarius is a fire sign that can be impulsive, passionate, expansive, generous, happy, and honest.
As a fire sign, Sagittarius energy likes action, ideas, and momentum, and that expansive energy means it wants to try new things or embark on new adventures. However, in that enthusiasm these signs can double book themselves or get a little overzealous in their commitments.
So how to use that energy to your benefit? We’re nearing the end of one year and the start of another, and we’re being called to end toxic situations and relationships and focus on what we want to build moving forward.
Sagittarius energy is very much about feelings—what does your gut tell you it wants to do? What feels right to you? Then, of that goal or idea, what can you realistically accomplish? This is when it helps to set parameters for yourself and be honest about how much time, energy, and effort your idea or adventure will need.
While every year calls for its own culling of the old in order to make way for the new (at least energetically or emotionally), in 2018 it feels no different. In my video tarot readings for each sign for this month, some messages were about getting out of toxic relationships while others were about figuring out who in your life you’d give life & limb for and realizing they’re the ones to carry with you into the new year.
It feels as though we’re on the brink of some major changes in the next few years, and so releasing old energy can make a huge difference in preparing for what’s to come. In a way, it seems to be figuring out where you really want to be, who you want to have around you, and how you want to spend your time, energy, and money. These are not always easy questions to answer, but let’s start at the beginning with the New Moon.
As the last New Moon of the year, it’s the last time to set intentions in this specific cycle. Harnessing that expansive, excited, adventurous energy of Sagittarius, what gets your internal fires going? What makes you want to overcommit to some exciting ventures, ideas, or partnerships?
In honor of this New Moon in Sagittarius, I’m offering a reading that answers the following questions:
What’s something you should be optimistic about?
What’s a risk you should take or an adventure you should consider at this time?
Where should you direct your energy moving forward?
Your custom reading can be emailed to you, and it costs $70 per person. Payments are made to @Kajora-Lovely on Venmo, and if you’d like to book your reading, email kajoralovely@gmail.com
Sunday, September 9, 2018 marks a new moon in the sign of Virgo. New moons are a time of new beginnings because the moon just finished its darkest period (the dark moon on Saturday, September 8) and is now building energy, which culminates on the full moon. In general, this is a great time for building, starting new things, growing something in your life, and manifesting.
On top of that, the new moon is in Virgo, and the Sun is in Virgo. When we're in a particular season for an astrological sign, we can all feel the influence of that sign's qualities in one form or another—regardless of your particular sign. Virgo is an Earth sign, which means it is practical and methodical and has a steady pace—which can feel slow compared to the other signs. Virgos seek perfection in their lives and in everyone else, so they can be very critical of themselves and of other people in their lives.
Combine all of that with the day of Sunday! It's often considered the first day of the week, which means you have a new beginning coupled with a new beginning.
All of this new energy makes this a great time to set something in motion. What do you want to see building or growing in your life? Do you know what you want to focus on moving forward?
If you need some help moving you along, I've created a tarot spread that helps answer some of these questions and give you some insight. Tarot spreads are a way of looking at questions along a theme, and the cards answer those specific questions.
In the More/Less Spread, the questions are simple but can be very helpful:
What do you need to focus on more? Why or How?
What do you need to focus on less? Why or How?
What is something you can stop criticizing yourself about?
This reading is $80, and can be done over phone or Zoom, or sent to you in a detailed email. You can pay via either Venmo or PayPal, and to book a reading, email me at kajoralovely@gmail.com.
