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Winter Solstice.

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Yours truly in my grandparents pecan grove. They started with 19 pecan trees and over the past 43 years had to cut a bunch down from storms and damages. They have six left but their neighborhood is still abundant with pecan trees. They also have a few fruit trees and blueberry bushes. Roses and other garden delights. Winter time has slumbered them for the time being.

  

Grandpa. Crossword puzzles. His Red Silverado. Standing in his pecan grove.

  

Grandma. Picking her roses. Trimming their thorns. And spotted little garden friends.

 

Spent my Winter Solstice with my Grandparents in Putney, Georgia.

The first day of Winter…the shortest day of the year. With Earth soundly sleeping there is promise of light coming near.

Love & Moonlight,

Kelly

PS. Stay tuned for a Winter Solstice activity tomorrow! Good night moon!

Iris (Hold Me Close) by U2

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The star
That gives us light
Has been gone a while
But it’s not an illusion
The ache
In my heart
Is so much a part of who I am
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years to get here
Something in your eyes
Took a thousand years, a thousand years

Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I’ve got your life inside of me

Iris… Iris…

Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we came
But you
I’m sure I’ve met
Long before the night the stars went out
We’re meeting up again

Hold me close, hold me close and don’t let me go
Hold me close like I’m someone that you might know
Hold me close the darkness just lets us see
Who we are
I’ve got your life inside of me

Iris… Iris…

The stars are bright but do they know
The universe is beautiful but cold

You took me by the hand
I thought that I was leading you
But it was you made me your man
Machine
I dream
Where you are
Iris standing in the hall
She tells me I can do it all
Iris wakes to my nightmares
Don’t fear the world it isn’t there

Iris playing on the strand
She buries the boy beneath the sand
Iris says that I will be the death of her
It was not me

Iris… Iris…

Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see yourself
Free yourself, to be yourself if only you could see…

 

When a song hits you JUST RIGHT…

New Moon Sagittarius 

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The archer…seeker of knowledge. God, the formless force that makes us whole, guide me to transcendence. Wield me into the women I need to be…use me as an archer and point my arrow towards the path I need to take. 

As we round out the end of the year and the moon is in its last new moon phase for 2015…I feel very, VERY, very open to what lies ahead. Again, for my new moon intention I would like to transcend into a woman of grace…a woman with an open heart and an open mind…an everlasting intention….

Above is me working towards Urdhva Mukha Paschimottanasana. Can’t quite get onto my sitting bones and completely fold comfortably…but with time and practice, I’ll get it! Gotta work those hamstrings. 😁 #yoga #yogapractice #practiceeveryday #thewaldenmoon #findyoursanctuary #urdhvamukhapaschimottanasana

 

Full Moon In Gemini. 

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Tonight the FULL MOON is in Gemini. Can you feel the frenzy? I can.

Gemini…the Twins…is all about communication. The Gemini has a tendency to go, go, go…and is always talking or listening…they can’t sit still. A Gemini can often become bored and a bit chaotic if their minds aren’t challenged…it’s all with good intent. They need to know. They need to see. They need to feel. They need to be heard. Sometimes they get ahead of themselves because their minds are going 100 miles per hour…they are already thinking about the next step. Sometimes they can appear to be listening but really they are on to the next thought and have already guessed what you are about to say. After all, for the Gemini, their curious minds are always running and their thirst for knowing something new is never tiring. They are quite charming, charismatic, and intellectual.

THE strategy to conquer the Gemini mind is to stop for a moment to breathe. You have to ground yourself every once and a while or you’ll go mad. Ground yourself. Find your center. Find your soul. When you feel the Gemini part of you getting out of control and your mind has turned chaotic…pause. Stop thinking. And ground yourself. Tap into the Gemini who is the teacher. Teach yourself to be calm. Teach yourself to just sit with yourself and with God the eternal formless force. Find that union.

So tonight…if you are feeling the frenzy….be still. Be still and let all those thoughts fade away. Become heavily meditated. YES meditated.  MEDITATE.

Love & Moonlight,

Kelly

P.S. For my grounding I did two sessions of yoga at The Awakening Yoga center tonight…one was a vinyasa flow and the other was a flow & restore. I needed that. I needed it really bad. I felt clear headed and good after. I’ve seen a difference in my life since I’ve really gotten deep into yoga…although I am not completely healed just yet. There are things in my life that I don’t understand and have had a hard time letting go of. One day I will understand…and one day I’ll learn to let go. (That is a very hard thing to do.) Steven Forrest suggests (when talking about Gemini and their strategies in The Inner Sky) is to “Give the universe permission to not make any sense.” Easier said then done.

Find Your Sanctuary 

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Lotus.

Tonight I felt like being spontaneous. Figures…the moon is in Aires. I finally set up an instagram account for just this website where I’ll post about the moon, yoga, herbs, mother nature, and my personal spiritual journey complete with photos of my personal sanctuary…I felt like I needed a space to share just my spiritual things only…you can find me on instagram at:

@thewaldenmoon

and also @kellywally (where I post all kinds of things like family, meme’s, jokes, moon stuff, yoga, and all kinds of random things).

I also linked my website and new instagram to my new Twitter account:

@thewaldenmoon

I just have to do a couple more things to get everything linked and working together…tech nerd things. But I felt like I needed to do this next step…I started this blog this summer…and I’m SLOWLY but surely building my sanctuary.

Love & Moonlight,

Kelly

First Quarter Moon in Pisces.

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The sky was just… 

Heart Opened.

Love Flowing. 

The sun set.

The moon rises.

Now that it’s the first quarter moon phase I can feel myself craving to come back. Back to my authentic self. Back to my intentions. 

What have I intended? Where can I go from here? How can I feed this craving? 

Pisces…the fishes. Flowing. Flowing. Flowing. The ocean. Vast. Expansive. My heart. Vast. Expansive. Flowing. Flowing. Flowing. Ebb. Flow. Light filling. I think back to my intention. I feel the vastness of what I intend…I am expanding. I am flowing. I am opening my heart. I’m letting the love flow freely. I am a lotus. I am open. My heart is open. I am flowing. Lotus mudra. Lotus mudra. Lotus mudra.

  
Love & Moonlight, 

Kelly

Nature Hunt.

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My Loot from our Nature Hunt

Uma had to bring home branches too.

Uma wanted to bring home every leaf.

Uma’s polka dot leaf collection.

Ava’s collection.

Uma staying busy with making a nature book.

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.”

– Heraclitus

Today after we finished up cleaning the house the girls retired to Uma’s room…watching videos on TV and on iPhones…even I, myself, was guilty of plopping on the couch browsing instagram and pinterest…

Then I stopped and remembered that I had recently read this blog entry from A Cup of Jo and was inspired by the idea of taking the kids out EVERY single day of the year. I went to check on them and I was like…it’s happening RIGHT NOW. They were sitting on the bed…vegging out on devices…I said okay girls get your shoes on…to heck with waiting until the first of the year to make an honest attempt at getting them outside everyday. IT STARTS TODAY…and it did.

First we hung out in the front yard and I had them chase leaves to catch them before they fell on the ground. It was funny. As I recall back when I lived in Kentucky me and my friends used to do that…it was the most fun when there were tons of leaves that fell at once…we would just laugh and laugh and jump around trying to catch leaves. I can’t wait until the leaves really starts falling hard here…I think the girls would have a ball dancing in the leaves. That is what childhood should be like…

After we played for a minute we went on a walk and looked for pretty leaves to collect. Ava was quite selective in her collection and Uma seriously tried to bring home every leaf.

When you play like this…play like a child…with all the seriousness of curiosity…you are then truly and nearly yourself…

Love & Moonlight,

Kelly

P.S. get the kids out in nature…and away from the digital world. Bringing it back to old school playing…

New Moon in Scorpio

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The moon entered Scorpio last night…at the new moon phase. This is a time to set an intention/goal for this lunar cycle.

Sorry but I have been pretty busy lately and this will be short. 

Scorpio..:the scorpion:. Think about what is present in your life right now. Are you living the life you want? Are you living on auto pilot? The Scorpio is here to jolt you awake…start living the life you want and be mindful of what you are doing. No more auto pilot…live intentionally and mindfully. 

Love & Moonlight,

Kelly 

P.S. the moon is in Sagittarius at the moment…but the new moon phase started in Scorpio. Because the new moon phase lasts about 2ish-3 days, it can move to the next zodiac sign during the new moon phase. So here is a side tip from Sagittarius… KNOWLEDGE. Get it. Learn it. If in your life you want to live a certain way…learn how to…and then do it. If you’re an aspiring bee charmer…learn how to charm the pants off of some bees and make some honey. (Shout out to my bee charming friend TJana in Alabama).