Introduction to the New Moon Journal

Welcome to the New Moon Journal~ practical musings for magical results using story and art through the SoulCollage® process. Let's explore the stars, the mystery you found in bits of paper and glue.

I'm Michele Lessirard~ a wife and mother, an artist and shamanic practitioner. I blog and create art about the New Moon with others of like mind and heart. You don't have to 'know' astrology to grok this. Just feel into it.

Astrology is a sacred language of symbols and metaphors that connects heaven with earth. Following this mystery I dance through the doorway of the new moon each month sharing stories and insights.

The New Moon Journal® to helps you understand the current sky energies and how they may be affecting your daily life. Just as Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon in the DaVinci Code studies the codes and symbols to unlock the mystery your quest becomes...

How do I unlock the codes to follow my mystery?

If you follow the lunar movement for three months, reading this journal and using the New Moon SoulCollage® process I promise your life will shift. You'll to start to create magic through the power of art, symbol, metaphor and play.

As a student of symbols and the feminine mysteries I started writing this online journal in 2001 to help friends and clients understand the cycle of the Moon- her archetypal force connects us to so much in our lives- to the muse, to our emotions, our menstrual cycle and the intuitive feminine within.

When the Moon meets-up with the Sun- called a New Moon- it offers us a wonderful way to tap into what is happening in the dark shadows our emotional life, to pin-point where the blocks are that stop you from moving forward and how to dissolve this energy it's the deep, rich shadow stuff that keeps you separate from your essence, related to your soul loss. Following the New Moon cycles supports the manifestation of your dreams in a proactive rather than reactive way.

I bring over two decades of practical experience as a life coach for home and soul that fosters community, healing and empowerment through ancient sacred ways. To contact me e-mail Michele at newmoonjournal dot com.

At this New Moon I invite you to unfold your myth and follow the Mystery and thank you for stopping by!

The dark moon phase- the New Moon- may impact your life in a number of ways. . .excerpts from Demetra George's book Finding Your Way through the Dark (ISBN 0-935127-36-4) published by ACS.

• Every night in the last hours before waking.
• Every few days when the moon goes “void of course”.
• Every month when women menstruate.
• Every month, in the 3.5 days of the balsamic moon phase, just before the New Moon.
• Every month when the Moon passes through your twelfth house of our birth chart for several days.
• When the New Moon transits through the sign on your 12th house cusp (get ready to rumble).
• Every year in the month before our birthday. (I remind friends and clients of this fact).
• Every year when the Sun passes through the twelfth house of our birth chart for a month.
• Every year during the shortest daylight houses in the time before the Winter Solstice.
• Every 28 years when our progressed Moon passes through our 12th house for 2.5 years.
• Every twenty-nine years when our progressed Balsamic phase occurs for 3.5 years.
• During all twelfth house transits, especially by the outer planets- Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
• During eclipses.In the final years of any planetary return cycle, i.e., the years before our Saturn Return (28 years, 56 years) or progressed lunar return.During the transits to the dark goddess asteroids, the dark moon and the Black Moon.After menopause.
• The final weeks, months, or years before physical death.

"We have been conditioned by our lack of night vision to feel lost, confused and frightened when we pass through the many dark moon times in our lives. The experience of loss, alienation and grief that we normally feel can be intensified by our lack of knowledge concerning the nature, purpose and potential outcome contained in the mysteries which bridge the dark and light, the old and new.  We encourage you to learn to recognize these times and begin to use special qualities available during the dark closure phase of any cycle to heal, transform and empower yourselves and others." (George, p.164-165)