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Pisces Full Moon Ritual

Next Tuesday, September 1st is a Full Moon in Pisces.

This is a time for celebration and gratitude.

Below is a ritual from my Free Spirit Guidebook.

Full Moon Ritual:

  • Find time on the night of the full moon or the 3 days before or after to do yoga poses, breathing exercises, say affirmations, or light candles.
  • Express gratitude for your life and your intention or project at this time.
  • Take note of any manifestations or guidance that have shown up so far and celebrate.
  • Possibly journal about thoughts, emotions, or ideas to help you get even more guidance.

This is powerful!

How to add some Pisces flair:

Pisces is a water sign and is associated with fish. The energies associated with Pisces are idealistic, artistic, dreamer, imaginative, self-delusion, compassion, healer, and family.

Which one do you need to tap into during your ritual?

  • You can do fish pose or moon salutations.
  • Go sit by or on a body of water.
  • Practice Lunar Breath (left nostril breathing).
  • Leave drinking water out in a jar to be filled with lunar energy to drink during the rest of the moon cycle.
  • Surround yourself with crystals associated with Pisces like green aventurine, sodalite, and aquamarine.
  • Fill a bowl with water and gaze at the reflection of the full moon in the water as a meditation. Notice what thoughts and intuitive hints pop up.

Play around with it and make it your own. You can use all of the lessons in my Free Spirit Guidebook to create your own rituals.

I’ll add this to my blog and social media in case you lose this email.

Enjoy taking this time for yourself on the full moon!

Resources:

New Moon in Leo Ritual

Below is a ritual that you can do for any new moon. Before we get to that, I am sharing tips to make this special to the New Moon in Leo. Leo is a fire sign and is associated with the lion.

In my book, Tend To Your Vibration, I share that the energies associated with lions are powerful, strength, personal power, assertiveness, domination, regal, and king-like.

Which one do you need to tap into over the next moon cycle?

For me, it is personal power.

If you have essential oils, then pick one based on the energy you want to tap into. I might pick Cedarwood or Frankincense. Or pick it based on the color of the bottle!

Grab stones that remind you of the fiery energy of Leo, like citrine, red jasper, tigers eye, or carnelian.

Gather your supplies and find a quiet place to sit.

Ritual:

  • Place your stones on your altar, in front of you, or around you. (Cleanse them before if needed.)
  • Tune in with your breath. Deep breaths or Lunar Breath (left-nostril breathing) for 1 to 3 minutes. You could do Solar Breath to tap into Leo’s fiery energy also – here is a post about how to do each breath.
  • (Optional) If you have a ritual or taper candle, you can anoint the candle by rubbing your essential oil on the outside. Keep the energy you chose in your mind as you do this. No candle? You can simply diffuse or inhale the scent during the ritual.
  • Light your candle with your word, energy, or intention in mind.
  • Write down the energy you want to bring in or your intention for the next lunar cycle.
  • Hold your cards in front of your heart and ask God/Universe/Spirit and your guides to help show you how you can embody or manifest this in your life.
  • Shuffle and pull a card.
  • Journal about the message you receive.
  • Gaze at the candle flame and let your mind relax. Know that as the candle burns your intention goes from the physical world into the spirit world to be manifested back in the physical world in the future.
  • Then close your eyes and see if any more intuitive guidance shows up.
  • Write down any actions you can take to make your intention a reality.
  • Pick a stone and empower it with your intention. Hold it in your hand and imagine it being filled with white light then say your intention. 
  • Close out your ritual by returning to your breath.
  • Give thanks to God/Universe/Spirit, your guides, and yourself.
  • Blow your candle out. (Light it during the next moon cycle to tap into your intention or again on the Full Moon.)
  • Carry your stone with you or place it somewhere special to remind you of the energy you are shifting.

You can check in daily with your intention or simply during the waxing phase, the full moon, and the waning phase.

Play around with it and make it your own. You can use all of the lessons in Tend To Your Vibration to create your own rituals.

Enjoy taking this time for yourself on the new moon!

Resources:

4 Tips to Make Your Mornings Magical

Mornings can be magical!

It is so easy to have your alarm go off, grab your phone, roll out of bed, get coffee, get cranky, and then wonder why your day went the way it did.
Especially after during this wacky pandemic! 

If you are looking to put some magic into your mornings or your kids are going back to school like mine are and you need a magical morning routine then this post is for you!

I used to hate mornings.

That means I know things have to be quick, easy, and fun in the morning in order for me to do them.

These tips will help you feel guided, sparkly, intuitive, and free-spirited!

If you have more to add, please share in the comments and spread the magical morning love!

4 Tips to Make Your Mornings Magical

  1. Ask for Guidance
    • Before you get out of bed, even before you open your eyes, you can ask for guidance from the divine. You can connect with God, Universe, Spirit, Mother Earth, or any other way you address a higher power or force. Then simply ask: “Can you please guide me, help me, lead me, move me, show me?” Any variation or all of those. Then stay open to receiving guidance during the day.
  2. Sun Breath or Solar Breath
    • Also called the Pingala Nadi Breath. Your right nostril is connected to the solar nadi (or channel) in your subtle energy body which is associated with vitality plus masculine and warming energy. Use the first two fingers on your left hand to close your left nostril. Begin breathing deeply through your right nostril. Practice for 3 rounds or 1 or 3 minutes. Then release the left nostril and breathe deeply through both nostrils. Pause and notice how you feel. This breath is featured in my Free Spirit Guidebook.
  3. Pick an animal guide for the day.
    • You can use the printable animal guide oracle cards that come as a bonus with my Free Spirit Guidebook to shuffle and pick a card as shown in the video. You can also ask for an animal to show up during your day or for the name or vision of one to pop into your mind. Once you see or think of one, then look up the meaning and energy associated with that animal and figure out how that energy can help you in your life right now.
  4. Sun Salutations.
    • Face east and greet the sun! Moving your body is a great way to start your day. It helps you get out of your head and release stress. If you are not familiar with Sun Salutations then simply watch this video I made a while back sharing different variations to get your morning started right. ***For a simple pick me up you can stand with your palms touching in front of your heart, inhale and lift your arms overhead, exhale and fold forward and touch or reach for your toes (bend your knees slightly), then inhale and roll all the way up, and finish with your palms back at your heart. Do this 3 times and start your day!

Just picking one of these things to do each morning will help make your morning magical!

A Resource Guide for White People to Become Racial Justice Allies

(All illustrations are from https://www.instagram.com/shirien.creates/)
(All illustrations are from https://www.instagram.com/shirien.creates/)

A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO BECOME RACIAL JUSTICE ALLIES

(These were all recommended to me. I have not read and watched them all yet. I have started by getting on email lists, making phone calls, following the people and organizations below on social media, sharing on social media, starting conversations with both my white and black friends.)

What to read:

Articles:

I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy (Part One)

I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy (Part Two)

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

Anti-racism Resources

For Our White Friends Desiring To Be Allies

Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

When I needed you to speak up

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama

New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing

Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

Books:

Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad (This is what I am currently reading – Feel free to read along with me.)

Antagonist, Advocates and Allies: The Wake Up Call Guide for White Women Who Want to Become Allies with Black Women by Catrice M Jackson

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jenkins

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge  

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson Ph.D.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING RACISM: A BOOKLIST FOR WHITE READERS

Young Adult and Children’s Books:

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA book)

A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

A Diverse #SummerReading List For Kids

Who to follow:

People:

Ally Henny

Layla Saad

Rachel Cargle

The Great Unlearn

Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Sonya Renee Taylor

Desiree Adaway

Rachel Ricketts

Shaun King

Catrice M. Jackson

Ibram X. Kendi

Dr. Tee Williams

Robin DiAngelo

Organizations:

The Conscious Kid

Black Lives Matter

Color of Change

Antiracism Center

Teaching Tolerance

Intersection for Mankind

No White Saviors

#8cantwait

Obama.org

What to listen to and watch:

Code Switch podcast on NPR

1619 Podcast from the New York Times

13th Documentary on Netflix

Systemic Racism Explained (4 minute animated video)

10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You

Shop Black-Owned Businesses Online:

Len’s Kitchen

From Granny’s Kitchen

Arizona:

Black-Owned Restaurants Phoenix Metro Area


This is by no means a comprehensive list but it is a good starting place for people looking to become actively anti-racist.

Within each resource are a ton of other resources.

I am just delving into all of these too so don’t feel overwhelmed.

Pick one and start there.

What has been amplified for me recently is how tired black people are from having to stand up for themselves and help white people figure out what to do next. Take the time to educate yourself.

(All illustrations are from https://www.instagram.com/shirien.creates/)

Free Spirit Guidebook Lessons to Help:

Here are a few adapted lessons from my Free Spirit Guidebook to help you cope with the emotions that come up moving forward.

Letter to Your Younger Self: I want you to think of yourself back in grade school when you learned about Civil Rights. Most likely you were outraged and thought that if you had been alive at the time that you would have marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Unfortunately, the racism and oppression is still occurring. Look for ways to support the current issues and BIPOC. Make your younger self proud while making a difference in the world.

Working with Your Runners: If you feel overwhelmed by all of this and don’t know where to start, ask your runners for help. Runners are like your energetic guides who help you find things faster. Ask them to find the best path for you to be an anti-racist ally.

Working with your Breath: When you start doing this work, a lot of fear and uncomfortable feelings are going to come up. Allow them to come up. Taking deep breaths will help you move through these feelings. Pause. Close your eyes and consciously breath deeply. Inhaling and exhaling through the nose. Feel the belly and ribcage expand on each inhale and draw it back in on the exhale. If your heart is racing, you might like to exhale out of your mouth.

If you would like to see more added, please comment below or email me at hello@kerryburki.com.

If you are a Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color, I am sorry that I have not helped you carry the burden more.

I am committing to educating myself and becoming anti-racist.

Free Spirit Guidebook

Free Spirit Guidebook

Kerry Burki has combined ancient techniques with modern concepts to teach you how to live a free spirit life

PLUS, 50 pages of DIGITAL bonus content!

FREE SPIRITS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR INDEPENDENCE, AND THIS GUIDE WILL HELP YOU CONFIDENTLY MARCH TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN DRUM WITH JOY AND EASE.

“This bright guide will assist you in finding your calm and staying on track. Easy to follow. I will use the Free Spirit Guidebook over and over.”

– GINA V DRISKELL – HOSPITALITY CONSULTANT

“I really enjoyed the guide book, it’s full of happiness and it really helps you see the little joys all around”
– DAWN PRATT, ARTIST

“I love that you can pick any section that you are in the mood for and apply exercises or rituals for whatever is bothering you.”
– TINA POTAMOS KULIAS, TRANSFORMATION COACH. EFT/TAPPING AND MATRIX PRACTITIONER

© Kerry Burki | TERMS

5% of profits from this guidebook have been donated to the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation. The dreamcatcher artwork is inspired by the authentic American Indian tradition from this tribe.
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