Dark Sturgeon Moon
Deep peace of the dark moon to you
August 4, 2024
Centering
Get comfortable in your seat. Take a deep breath. Let it out. Look around you. Notice five things that you see.
Next, what are four things you can touch? (Feel free to reach out and pick up or caress some things if you’re not already connected to four.)
For the next three, I invite you to close your eyes, if your comfortable. What are three things you can hear? What are two things you can smell? What is one thing you can taste?
Take a deep breath. Let it out.
Learning
Sturgeon are giant, ancient animals that shared the planet with the dinosaurs 120 million years ago. They live long, slow lives, feeding on fish and crustaceans at the bottom of the sea, rivers, and lakes. They are fish without scales. Instead, they have skin like shark skin and panels called scutes, like a pangolin.
Sturgeon are sensitive animals. They live in the deep darkness so they don’t use their eyes to hunt and feed. They use receptors on their heads, including their adorable whiskers (they’re not really whiskers), to sense electric and chemical signals that tell them about their environment.
So on this, the dark sturgeon moon, I invite us to explore our extra-sensitive abilities and tap into our intuition as we seek what nourishes us.
Imagining
Click to listen to a guided meditation on the theme of connecting our extrasensory intuition with our physical bodies.
Reflecting
Where do you feel your intuition speaking to you or trying to get your attention in your body?
What are some things that help you lean into trusting your intuition or inner wisdom?
Who are the people around you that encourage you to trust yourself?
Suggested Practices
Write down something that keeps you from fully trusting your inner voice of wisdom and (safely!) burn it, bury it, or release it in a body of water.
Do something out of your usual routine—a yoga class, a YouTube belly dancing tutorial, or cooking a new recipe.
Savor a summer fruit with your eyes closed.
Closing
As the Sturgeon moon waxes and grows each night over the next two weeks, may your third eye glow strongly as you attune to your senses, inside and out.