The Lunar Rites: Threshold Rituals for Meeting Yourself at the Edge of Change
The world is moving too fast. We can all feel in our bodies the constant demand to produce, pivot, perform. The pressure to keep up with a pace that has nothing to do with the natural rhythms of your body, your creativity, or your soul's deeper timing.
Lunar Rites exist to bring you back to Earth. They are not nice-to-do rituals, spells you aren’t sure will work, or feel-good journaling prompts. They are tangible, applicable invitations for meeting yourself at the psychic thresholds of the moon's cycles—when the subconscious is most ready to release expired stories or create new ones for you to exist inside of.
These are rites because they help us make sense of change and integrate the medicine of change into our bodies. They guide us in how to express the regenerative potential of our soul nature and how we might choose to give and receive new stories, new experiences, and new somatic mythologies.
The Moon as Psychospiritual Teacher
The Moon is the archetype of intuition, change, the ebb and flow of tides, and internal knowing. She teaches us how to be with the ebbs and flows of life in a graceful way and how to co-create with those flows with integrity. The Moon doesn't force. She doesn't fix. She reveals, reflects, and regenerates.
Working with the Moon is not a productivity hack. It's a mirror for personal and collective process—a way to pause and witness where you are, to become a steward of your life's outcomes rather than a victim of circumstance.
New Moon: Seeding the Subconscious
At the New Moon, we seed new stories into the subconscious. We invite new potentials in. The New Moon is a time of receptivity, wonder, practical prophecy, and deep imagination. It's the fertile dark—the moment before the first breath, before the seed breaks open.
This is an ideal time for planting new intentions for what you'd like to see manifest in your lived, material reality. When we work with the Moon, though, manifestation isn't just about vision boards or manifesting from the mind. It's about dropping into the body's knowing, into the soul's真 longing, and asking: What wants to be born through me? What new stories am I ready to weave?
The New Moon invites you to get low and listen. To attune to your vision as a living current of story in your body. To orient toward the changes you need to make in your work, your life, your relationships from a place of deep receptivity to what is already emerging instead of striving.
Full Moon: Releasing What No Longer Serves
At the Full Moon, we release and metabolize expired stories. The Full Moon illuminates everything. It makes the unconscious visible. It's a time of detoxification, purification, de-manifestation, and cleansing.
Often the things we manifest will reveal to us what and who we need to let go of. The Full Moon shows us where we're still operating from old programming, outdated identities, or stories that once protected us but now constrict us. It's a moment for letting go of the templates and norms that no longer resonate on a soul level.
This release is not about spiritual bypassing or forcing yourself to "let go" before you're ready. It's about creating the conditions for a natural metabolization—the way a snake sheds its skin or a tree drops its leaves. The Full Moon asks: What has completed its cycle? What am I ready to compost so that new life can grow?
Each Lunation Carries a Unique Signature
No two lunar cycles are the same. Each New Moon and Full Moon within a zodiacal season carries its own transmission, its own teaching, its own invitation. When we pay attention to these signatures—through astrology, Human Design gates, and Gene Keys—we receive real instruction for moving through the day to day.
We begin to see the Moon's cycles not as arbitrary or mystical, but as precise, embodied technology for navigating change. We learn to read the seasons of our own becoming and to work with the intelligence of our psyche rather than against it.
How to Work With Lunar Rites
The Lunar Rites are not meant to fix, force, or help you bypass the discomfort of change. They offer you a structured practice to:
Get low and listen to your vision
Attune to your body's wisdom
Navigate the way you show up in relationships and responsibilities
Anchor yourself to Earth when everything feels too fast
Become a conscious co-creator of your life's unfolding
In the posts that follow, you'll receive specific Lunar Rites for each New Moon and Full Moon, woven with the astrological signature, the Human Design gate, and the Gene Keys transmission of that particular lunation. Each rite will offer you a pathway for meeting yourself at the threshold—for seeding new stories or releasing old ones with integrity, presence, and grace.
The Moon is waiting. Your subconscious is ready. Let's begin.
