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.

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

How do you unlock the codes and follow your own mystery?

Follow the lunar movement for three months, read the journal, use the New Moon SoulCollage® process and your life will shift..

I have been a student of symbols and the feminine mysteries for over 15 years. I started writing the journal online in 2001 to help friends and clients understand the cycle of the Moon- her archetypal force connects us to the muse, to our emotions, our menstrual cycle and the intuitive feminine within. My own personal journey is shared and in reading our shared journeys you to start to create magic in your life through the power of art, symbol, metaphor and play.

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 us from moving forward and how to dissolve this energy-the deep, rich shadow stuff that creates soul loss. Following the New Moon cycles can support your dreams to manifest in a proactive rather than reactive way.

I bring to the table 25 years 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...Thank you for reading this. . .

What is your heart longing to create? In 1996 I remembered the connection to the sky and the stars as I entered my first astrology class– sky shamanism. As a shamanic pracitioner the birth charts of friends and clients started to speak to me. I see your ‘soul’s code’, I see where you lost power and how that is affecting you today. From there I am given rituals and healing remedies for soul remembering. A soul retrieval process developed that I teach in the ongoing new moon teleclass.

Why follow the new moon? I invite you to listen in. . .

How a new moon may impact your life-New Moon facts:

Here is a list when the dark moon phase- the New Moon- may impact your life. . .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)

Comments

[Annie Goldberg]

Michele, I am so thrilled to see how your amazing gifts are expanding and touching more and more lives. You have been the single greatest teacher I have had and the New Moon Journal is a constant source of enlightenment and expansion for me. I look forward to the day very soon that I hold your book in my hands and know that you have achieved your dream. Happy New Year!
Namaste always and forever,
Your sister in love
Annie