Bi-monthly Card Reading

 This reading is using my upcoming card deck: The Sacred Circle Spirit Animal Oracle. 

 This is a one card reading done on the North American Sacred Circle or Medicine Wheel. The card sits in the center of the circle and represents the Creator or Center Stone, which is said to contain the Void and all of creation—the stars, planets, Animal Kingdom, Plant Kingdom, Mineral Kingdom, etc. This Stone is governed by the Great Spirit and our Highest Self.  It is the place of balance at the heart or center of the Sacred Circle where we can go within ourselves to access the wisdom and guidance needed from every aspect in the cycles of life.  

Question: The Earth Renewal Moon is the First Moon of the North and is the moon that ushers in both the New Year. This makes the Earth Renewal Moon and its Spirit Animal guide, the Snow Goose, doubly potent until the next full moon in mid-January. The Snow Goose is the herald for rewriting our outmoded stories, so we can bring to manifestations our deepest dreams, goals, ideas, or projects in the New Year. Ask: What messages does the Snow Goose bring me for the start of 2025? How can I best apply them to rewrite the stories in my life to create and manifest what I want?

Card # 35: The Earth Renewal Moon (Snow Goose (December 22-January 19): 

Teaching: The Earth Renewal Moon is the first moon of Waboose—the Spirit Keeper of the North. It is the moon of the Winter Solstice and is under the influence of the Frog Clan. The Earth Renewal Moon comes from a position of great power—teaching the importance of reverence, ritual, ceremony, and tradition. When you are open to the influence of this moon, it will teach you how to be a receiver, transmitter, and communicator of the ancient wisdom and traditions buried in the womb of Mother Earth. The Earth Renewal Moon will also teach you how to be clear, fluid, and adaptable as well as prudent and wise. And it will guard you against becoming such a perfectionist that you forget how to have fun.

Soul Message: The Snow Goose best represents the Earth Renewal Moon. It vibrates with the masculine energies of resourcefulness, perseverance, dependability, tenacity, and ambition. These qualities bring a strong work ethic and can cause you to be so lost in your projects that you forget everything else. When Snow Goose appears, it cautions you to balance the time spent on your objectives with the simple joys of nesting in your daily life. Its keen sense of vision reminds you that greater vision is on its way. Snow Goose is a Guardian of the cool North Wind that will blow across your path when it is time to rest. In this capacity, it can also use ancient soul knowledge to reveal the deeper insights of the heart. The Snow Goose is mostly white with black tipped wings that protect it against cold and negativity; its feathery lightness reminds you to laugh with a refined sense of humor exuding positive warmth to those you trust. The Snow Goose mates for life and infuses its young with a sense of family values and tradition. Young, gentle goslings are raised to break free of childhood restraints which reminds you to shed your own childhood restraints, so that you can come into your own power.

Snow Goose uses the creative beauty of the Northern Lights to help you reveal elusive spiritual truths. As a weaver of tales, the Snow Goose will aid you in communicating those truths—especially through stories. It can fire up your imagination to discover new worlds in the realms of the mental or physical and can stimulate the excitement you experienced reading beloved stories when you were a child. Snow Goose may even counsel you to re-read those stories because they often reflect the quests you came to fulfill on Earth during this lifetime. And if you ask, Snow Goose will inspire you to write your own stories while helping you move past any creative blocks that might occur.

The Snow Goose is a Master of Migration. In flight, it retraces ancient pathways and patterns to the Great Spiritual Quest. It calls you, with its constant honking, to follow it on that flight returning you from the quest in Spring with the promise of spiritual fulfillment. The ancient pathways may also show you the importance of delving into the traditions and rituals of the Ancients to extract wisdom and ceremony. During flight, the Snow Geese constantly change formation to catch better drafts of wind for those in formation behind. This is a reminder that when you answer the Call of the Quest, it becomes easier for others to follow suit. 

In formation, no goose ever flies directly behind another allowing each to have a clear view of what’s ahead. When Snow Goose calls, it may be reminding you not to take on any quest without first gaining a comprehensive picture of what to expect. The “V” formation in the flight of the Snow Goose is significant, because it resembles an arrowhead. In flight, the point guides towards new directions and possibilities; the opening at the back symbolizes an openness to new possibilities and ideas. When Snow Goose calls you to take flight, it may be telling you that it is time to take off on a new path to facilitate the desired growth or outcome. 

The Earth Renewal Moon-Snow Goose (December 22-January 19)

The Snow Goose calls me

To fly the ancient patterns

In search of the Quest

• Meditate on this haiku outside in nature, on a nature walk, or while listening to your favorite music. 
• Watch a nature series or go on YouTube and watch some goose videos.
• Write down your reflections from being out in nature or from watching the nature series in a notebook, a journal or create a piece of art that reflects your feelings. Society often labels the goose as being a frivolous creature. Do you agree with this? Why or why not? How might the goose prove to be a powerful ally to you? How can you apply snake medicine for good? 
• Wait a few days before revisiting your thoughts.  What have you learned about yourself? Which messages from the goose or nature really resonate? Which do not? Why? What are the most important messages or lessons that the Snow Goose brings you now? How can you apply this message positively for the next few weeks? What do you think the outcome will be?
• Write down at least 5 of your goals, projects, or ideas that you believe are part of the Great Quest. Write down a sentence or two about each and its importance to you. Choose the one that resonates most with you. 
• Are you ready to say “yes” to this Quest. What is the first step it requires you to take.  Can you take the first step?  Why or why not?
• Spend some time as this moon draws to a close saying “yes” to the first step of the Quest through ceremony or ritual. Set your intention(s) and blow them into a stick which you place in the fire of a lighted candle. Place the stick in the fire of a lighted candle and let it burn down as far as you can safely before you put it out.  Then pull your hands over the flame of the candle and pull its light into your third eye with your hands cupped.  Do the same for your heart chakra, and then for your Solar Plexus.
• Thank the Spirit of the Snow Goose and the Creator for their help and blessings.  Thank Mother Earth and her Fire Element for abundance and prosperity.

Actions  

• Take one of your 5 goals, projects, or ideas listed above and create a life board or mandala for it. Draw, paint, or cut out pictures to make a collage of the goal, project, or idea, and create a symbol or snapshot of each baby step you need to take to complete. Make this as colorful or creative as you can.
• Place it somewhere where you can meditate on it daily or weekly. During meditation, imagine yourself completing each of the steps successfully. How does it feel? What does it look like? Keep practicing this until you can imagine yourself accomplishing your task with ease. How does this feel? How does fulfilling this project, goal, or idea enrich your life? Imagine yourself accomplishing it effortlessly, How does it make you feel? Is it worth doing? Why or why not? 
• Journal your responses with as much information as you can. Make them as concrete as possible. 
• Then write a success story about your project, idea, or goal with as much sensory detail as possible. Read your story and meditate upon it daily to help manifest it the way you want to.
• Then, let go and trust the Universe to bring it into fruition in the best possible timing.
• Offer your gratitude and thanks to the Universe with a flower ceremony where you blow your intentions and gratitude for your success in advance into separate yellow flowers. Yellow flowers bring in abundance, prosperity, and manifestation. Then, toss each flower with appreciation into a river, stream, or other running water and let the water carry your thoughts downstream.
• Give gratitude to the flowers, the water, and the Earth Mother with a prayer or some smudging.
• Intentions: 1) I am balancing the time spent on my objectives with rest, simple joys, and insights of the heart; I am connecting with tradition and family values through a sense of humor and positive warmth;2) I am freeing myself from childhood restraints and habits, so I can come into my own power; 3) I am firing up my imagination to read, communicate, or write stories that reflect my life’s quest; and 4) I am exploring ancient pathways to support new directions, ideas, rituals, and traditions that will facilitate my desired growth or outcome.
• Journey or Teaching: Today, I am inspired to offer this Wisdom Teaching instead of a journey.
• Teaching-Purification: This is the perfect message from the Snow Goose and the portal for the 1st moon of the North in this calendar year. The gifts from the North are cleansing, purification, regeneration, and renewal.  Purification can take place at the level of the body, mind, emotions or attitudes, and spirit.  It is up to you to determine how you want to use this unique gift and where it is needed most. 
• Since the beginning of the Fourth World of Separation some 60,000 years ago, polarization and duality has existed at the heart of races, religion, or beliefs and has taught us to fear or even hate the differences we see in each other instead of embracing our similarities. We have become afraid of the differences we see, because they can threaten our own belief systems. We need to remember that our own beliefs can be full of misperceptions and opinions or that something may or may not be true just because someone says it is. These are the types of impurities that need cleansing now.  
• We have only to look around us today, at the news headlines, to witness the depth of polarity that exists throughout humanity during this time of great transition.  The starkness of these dualities is meant to wake us up to find the balance between the extremes, so we can make a shift away from them. It is imperative for us to pray for love, peace, and light to enter the hearts of all races, nations, and belief systems to bring us to the center balance point.  
• Nearly all Indigenous Cultures use some type of purification ceremonies to cleanse the body, mind, spirit, emotions, and attitudes, so that a new sense of the Self can be born at important junctures on the Path of Life.  The start of 2024 is one such juncture.  The New Year is a powerful time because it is one of a few times when people throughout the world are engaging in ceremony and New Year’s intentions at the same time.  Snow Goose teaches that without purification ceremonies, the potential outcome of our prayers or ceremonies or even New Year’s Resolutions is significantly reduced. We cannot get to a place of balance if we are harboring negative attitudes like hatred, anger, jealousy, or resentment. These energies keep us from becoming one and from contributing our talents for the highest good.
• In Native North America, purification happens in several ways: 1) By smudging—using the sacred sage, cedar, tobacco, or sweet grass—to cleanse with smoke; 2) By feathering—using sacred feathers to clear negative, energetic threads, and cords from the body or energy field; and 3)By the Sweat Lodge Ceremony—using heat, stones, and the gift of water to sweat and clear the body of toxins and heavy energies through sacred ceremony.  
• Snow Goose suggests that it may be necessary for you to engage in some type of purification ceremony during the remainder of the Earth Renewal Moon. It can be one of those listed above, but it can also be one of your own makings. Just to give you some ideas, I like to smudge or light a candle and send the smoke with my prayers to the Universe. Afterwards and sometimes before, I write out a letter to the Universe expressing any fears or frustrations I might have. Then, I tear it up and bury it in the Earth with an offering of wine vinegar and cornmeal. I ask Mother Earth to digest the negative energies. Then, I write another letter to the Universe—this time expressing my positive intentions.  I light a candle and offer this to the fire and the Universe through the smoke that rises. I take some of the ashes and rub them on my forehead symbolic of the Phoenix rising from the ashes. 
• Happy New Year and a glorious 2025!