New Moon Ceremonies – a year’s cycle

Following on from the success of the first online New Moon Ceremony I ran this week… I’m now scheduling a year long cycle to start just after the summer solstice… 13 moons until the following year.

These monthly celebrations will be £10 each to attend if you wish to pay on a session per session basis… although if you sign up for the whole cycle of the year, I’m happy to do them for half price… and for the first five people who sign up… there’s an early bird offer for just £50.

All ceremonies run from 19:30 – 21:00 GMT… on Zoom, cameras off.

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Click HERE to register… and if you are ready to commit… please pay HERE.

An Experiment in Manifestation

In all the years of doing new moon ceremonies… probably about ten years now… I’ve noticed changes in my life which I do not take for granted… and some would consider them miraculous.

How’s your life going? Are you consciously moving towards certain goals in your life?

This cycle of 13 moons presents us with the opportunity to keep ourselves focused and monitor our progress as we move towards the world our hearts tell us is possible.

The Format – NO CAMERAS!

Although we will be using the Zoom platform… these meetings will be different in that all camera’s will be OFF! At the beginning I will light a candle and I invite other people to also create the right atmosphere at home… but the event itself will be in digital darkness… so we don’t have to look at ourselves or our screens or each other but to revel in the darkness and connect through our voices and our intuitions. Get comfy in your pyjamas… don’t worry about lighting, backgrounds or what anyone else is thinking. Turn off your other devices and relax into an hour and a half of something special… an unforgettable ceremony hosted by yours truly.

The Magic of Gratitude

Life can trigger feelings of fear, anxiety and dread which can be almost debilitating. There are many people suffering with these emotions on a regular basis… perhaps they are familiar to you… and they are certainly not strangers to my life.

And yet, the most effective immunity to a sense of dread, the magic solution in which all negative emotions can be dissolved… is gratitude. When we can give thanks for our lived experience… even and especially when it seems challenging or downright torturous… the sweetness of gratitude melts away the edges of those sensations which can otherwise grip our ability to enjoy life in an almost vice-like manner.

Since making gratitude a regular practice I’ve become somewhat of an expert and I think my current situation reflects this.

The Dark Night of the Soul

The last two years were the most challenging of my life.

First, the business that my wife and I had gone to establish in the countryside in Battle (perhaps the name should have been a warning)… a lovely forest school in a property surrounded by woodland… despite receiving glowing praise from Ofsted… was blocked by all the neighbours and we lost tens of thousands of pounds in a failed enterprise. Then, my older brother died and I had to pick through the remains of his life and clear out his squalid flat, overflowing with unfinished creative projects which I couldn’t bring myself to just throw in a skip. Then my father died and I had to go through a similar process except this time it was a four-bedroom house with 5 decades worth of hoarding to clear as well as a double garage and a shed with all my father’s and grandfather’s tools and materials. The whole house had to be cleared and the family home where I grew up was sold. That sale was to fund the care for my mother who has now disappeared completely into the cloud of dementia… a kind of death without an ending where she remains in a kind of limbo, a spiritual no man’s land. Then, my relationship finally broke down and now the marriage is over, we finally moved apart in March and no longer do I live with my children. I spent two months homeless and much of that time fasting in order to clear out and start again. I now live alone. I never wanted to live apart from my children and yet now, it seems like it has been a gift, the best thing that could ever have happened to me despite it being something I dreaded for so long.

Remarkably, throughout that whole process… I have been able to say, with all my heart, that I am glad to be alive. That I was grateful for what life threw at me, accepting that it’s all part of life’s rich pattern… an aspect of the polarity of existence. There would be no joy without the pain of life to go with it.

The Power of Intentions

For many, many years I have been working on creative projects that are yet to find their fulfilment. Clearing out my brother’s home and seeing all his unfinished projects without him there to bind them together… was a stark mirror… and I don’t want to leave such a legacy to my own family. It’s time for me to get my projects out there… books, music, artwork, events, ideas of all kinds. These New Moon Ceremonies are one such project that I have yearned to share more widely. I have been expressing these intentions monthly for ages and yet not had the capacity to fully commit to publicising them. There are profound reasons that I want to bring these things to the world, it’s not an ego-trip… it’s a deeply felt calling to share things which can help move us forwards. Despite all the shit that is going on in the world… I sense that incredible things are unfolding… that there is much beauty in life for which we can be truly thankful everyday… and that the future is not a pre-determined fuckfest.

So, is it a miracle that all the things that were impeding my ability to fully focus on my calling have fallen away?

Now there is nothing to obscure my devotion to the mission I have been ignoring. For years I have been setting intentions to fulfil my passion… like sharing new moon ceremonies… without being able to fully commit.

Is it just pure coincidence that I have found myself in top health, with work and money really beginning to really flow in… living on a 6th floor seafront property with the view you can see below?

Is it a freak occurrence that my paintings have begun to sell and that the ceremonies I facilitate for funeral directors have been going splendidly?

The Dark of the Moon

Anyone who is a gardener will be able to attest to the magic of the dark of the moon. Hardy, robust and healthy plants grow from seeds planted in the dark of the moon. We have largely become disconnected from the natural patterns of nature and immune to the forces which drive them. The choice to plant seeds in our minds and in our lives at this time is not arbitrary. For millennia, pagans, druids and shaman from every culture have lived in accordance with these rhythms of nature and understood the power available to us in the quiet of the moon when the tides are at their lowest ebb.

The New Moon Ceremonies

What the ceremonies basically entail is a round of gratitude and a round of setting intentions. They feel informal and are lightly held and yet their effect can be profound, deep emotions can be stirred and released. Expect laughter, excitement, even the odd tear.

A Full Year’s Cycle

A group committing to a full year’s cycle present the opportunity to participate in an interesting experiment. How will the coming year unfold for a group of people who are committed to this process for the full 13 moon period?

Again, if you would like to sign up…

These monthly celebrations will be £10 each to attend and it’s possible to pay on a session per session basis… although if you sign up for the whole cycle of the year, I’m happy to do them for half price… and for the first five people who sign up… there’s an early bird offer for just £50.