Moon Letter - Teal Moon 🩵

Hi dear,

This upcoming moon also marks a change in season. Summer to fall, or winter to spring, depending on where you are in the world. I wonder what new season is about to emerge in your life?

Whatever it is, I’d love for you to meet it with us. This moon we have our first Moon Practice together in community, and two circles are opening. Everything with a date is below.

We’re calling this one Teal Moon. There are many lenses for the meaning of a moon; here are three, in case one of them gives your practice a shape.

Astrology. The cycle opens with the new moon in Virgo, a sign known for quiet attention to detail and the instinct to be useful. The full moon lands in Aries, facing the sun in Libra across the sky: a pull between standing alone and staying in relationship.

Vedic. In the Hindu calendar this new moon opens Pitru Paksha, sixteen days set aside to honour one’s ancestors. It closes with Mahalaya Amavasya, the day for remembering everyone who came before, known and unknown.

Folk. In the Northern Hemisphere this cycle’s full moon is the Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the equinox. It was prized because it rises at nearly the same time for several nights running, giving farmers extra evening light to bring the crops in.

Moon Practice is how we stay anchored, moon by moon. Choose your favourite way to practice:

🌐 Guided Online  ·  Wednesday Sept 9, 5.30–6.30pm Berlin time

One hour of reflection and intention-setting, live with other practitioners. Please register here , and bring a friend along!

✍️ Self-guided  ·  any time

Ten minutes to a few hours, whenever it suits you. The written steps are here in the practice instructions. Doing this once a moon, even briefly, you’ll likely feel a difference already.

Coming Back to [Ourselves], Again and Again

🇧🇷 Floripa, Brazil  ·  starts Saturday, Sept 12

Open to everyone. Learn more about it here, or invite someone you’d like to sit beside.

Opening to Sexual Mysteries

🌐 Online  ·  starts Tuesday, Sept 8

Open to men, and this one is already full. If you’d like to be told when it runs again, add your name to the list. You can also pass an invitation to someone for the next one.

Practiced daily by Derya in Berlin 🇩🇪

Mode writing  ·  Direction grounding, releasing  ·  Realm functional, works through what you do, not what you believe  ·  Path none

What it is. Three pages of longhand writing, first thing in the morning. No editing, no rereading, no audience. It comes from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, and it works as a way to meet yourself on paper.

How to try it. Sit down with paper before you touch your phone, and keep going until three pages are full. Don’t stop to think, don’t fix anything, don’t read it back. Nothing here needs to be good.

Before you start. Unfiltered writing can bring up things you didn’t expect. If something heavy arrives, it’s fine to stop and step away. This isn’t a practice you have to push through.

sitting with Bayo Akomolafe on moving through chaos without needing to control

moved by the Buddhist documentary For the Benefit of All Beings

humming along to Kabbalah Kirtan

learning from Faisal Muqaddam on pregnancy and relationship as a spiritual path

inspired by having seasonal practices for kids

This was the first moon letter. I’m curious: How did you like it? What else would you like to see in future ones? Just reply to this letter. It comes straight to me.