These rituals — written just for women — help you connect with your inner power and wisdom. You don't need to adopt a new religion to benefit from sacred time that helps you tune into your own rhythm. You can start your week in a sacred way by honoring yourself on Monday, the moon's sacred day.
As a woman, you are familiar with the cycle the moon makes. There is no better way to honor the sacred feminine — that's you! — than to recognize the moon's rightful place in women's mysteries. This is not some abstract notion. The moon constantly tugs at your body and emotions just as it surely as it pulls the tides.
You're already under the moon's influence. Here come 53 ways to leverage that influence for your own fulfillment, balance and abundance.
These 53 rituals — one for each Monday in 2007 — are simple, practical and contemporary, based on spiritual and psychological principles for transformation and manifestation, written by Elka Vera, a clinical hypnotherapist and experienced ritualist.
Ritual is one way we communicate with the deep part of our psyches — the subconscious. Ritual is another way of saying "meaningful habit." Each of these 53 Monday rituals is a way to make honoring yourself as a woman so natural that it becomes a consistent and persistent habit. When self-love is as much a habit as self-doubt, life is way more rewarding!
Though these rituals aren't of the religious persuasion, they do use language and lore from Goddess traditions. This is for several reasons. First, esteeming the Goddess restores esteem to all women everywhere. Second, many cultures never lost their connections to the sacred feminine, and recognizing the Goddess reminds us that the world's cosmologies are not limited to a Great Creator with assumed masculinity. Finally, this language is especially empowering for women who are exploring their own personal magic.
Magic is a slippery word for many people. Does it mean sleight of hand and card tricks? Is it Wicca or Witchcraft? In these user-friendly rituals, magic refers to the power that weaves us all together in a collective web of energy that responds to our thoughts, our actions and our words.
Use these rituals to cultivate your relationship to your own strength, power, creativity, and playfulness. Not only will you understand and come to respect your own natural rhythms, you'll reclaim Monday from the back-to-work blues.
Monday has gotten a bum rap in our work-driven world. Saturday and Sunday — the Sabbaths in two of the world's dominant religions — are the traditional days of rest. In some Slavic languages, the word for Monday even translates as "the day after not working." Still, by and large, the Latin-root languages name their days after the planets, with Monday belonging to that mysterious orb which tracks its journey across the night sky in a waxing and waning pulse.
Monday, the day of the moon, follows the Sun's Day who follows Saturn's Day. In the astrological line-up of planet-deities, you could say Monday is ruled by the Goddess, with Sunday ruled by the son aspect and Saturday by the father aspect of the Judeo-Christian God. You can restore value to the feminine face of the divine by claiming Monday as your own holy day through these simple rituals. They will refresh the spirit, while enriching your life with meaning, mindfulness and magic!
