moonwork missive: waning crescent 🌘
waning crescent moon is my birth moon & i do love the late integration, the slowness, the commitment to the rest & digest of it all as the main medicine, allowance for the insight after the frenzy, the time spent horizontal with your feet up after hours dancing where the good consolidates. i find i do not feel cycles complete at the full moon, but more in the following weeks as things settle into place & hindsight lets us see the whole arc.
i practice somatically, energetically, developmentally & ancestrally from the midtide; i am a child of the pacific ocean by the living of this body if not my ancestral rights, child of this ocean including the rips & currents & reefs, the places your feet can get cut up that when i lived there, never did cut up mine
(i'm still not quite used to the rebar & razor edges of city river & lake swimming, not even after 20 years)
––this is my 1st off-meta launch; it relies on webs beyond instagram.
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in biodynamic cranial work, as i recall it from my teacher rebekah crown, the midtide is our starting orientation most of the time,
unless the cranioryhthmic impulse (the starting point of much traditional cranio / some mechanical osteo) or the long tide (the infinite place of birth/death & Spirit, among others) immediately reaches for us as we settle into the Relational Field together.
in my recent winter season cranio studies with shannon cooney (via coral), we worked with midtide as the sensing body, seeing from the parietal & level gaze, not the frontal straining forward through cognition. through shannon & her Team's lineage of "hooking up" with a Higher Self & Nature as a Cocreative collaborator, my own personal somatics circled me back
to the 3 Wells, as often happens in me, in my body now: me a humble human, me a humble water creature, me a Mother who has birthed both a Child & many many other Creations including those introduced here, me as a human returning to whatever scraps i can find of my own people who knew & know how to belong to the Land,
knowing that to belong to the Land is to know how to be in right Power in relationship
because the Land never forsakes us & yet always is beyond us, greater than us, reminding us of our right size & moving us always into Her next world which is to say Destiny, inexorable,
and what a transcendent relief into freedom it is to lay down the white supremacist fiction that any of us as individuals can or should be the pinnacle, the ultimate authority, the sole decider even of our own lives: to understand that listening increasingly keenly to our own somas connects us cosmically, even as it individuates us,
––with thanks, here, to my primary current teachers samia & ije & the whole turtle cypher including the OT's & all the smaller cyphers i've been with over the past 3 years especially, & also with thanks to a formative collaborator on the wells, brunem warshaw / well deep remedies.
i am tired of many on the left pretending that we cannot be embodied until we have a pure & pristine lineage of entitlement to practice. you have a body. you deserve to know it as the infinite source of wisdom & the felt point of connection to everything. you are a person relating to other people & the world & there is much embodiment to learn even when exiled, when fractured, when your ancestors have forgotten or been forced away from embodiment for generations.
so feel,
we can work with the wells in vertical & horizontal spirals in their own places, gut / brainstem / adrenals (h/t kathy kain), belly / brain / heart, but there is also the larger triad spiral, all 3 at once, that One who is bigger than our individual skin, that space that is shared with others. as we learn & study our individual spirals that twirl into & become shared with the group spiral that grows beyond into the collective spiral.
When we say relational body / width as interdependence (h/t the lineage fka generative somatics) / well of water / cauldron of motion & vocation,
we are naming our own waterness,
the social/collective nervous system
we are saying we humans too are water
we are saying this is a dimension of Self as the Divine we each must cultivate our knowledge & practice of.
& so part of today's practice is to say thank you to those of you who have made the past 8 years of MOONWORK: somatic practice for queers, which met most tuesdays every season since fall equinox 2018, into a core cohort of dedicated study & growth towards a distinct queer ancestral somatics that is persistently both collective & deeply individual, that is rooted in sick & crazy anti-imperialist queer wisdom & surrender to the humanness of worshiping the Moon.
thank you.
we lay this "core cohort" to rest that it may be alchemized into two new shapes:
MOONWORK: ancestral time for queer futures,
30-45 minutes of light but potent resourcing & digestion practice
tuesdays, 9:30 vancouver / 12:30 toronto / 5:30 berlin
for queers & those who love us
&
BE OUR OWN: queers cruising the next world,
the year-9 / newborn group practice space dedicated to cocreating queer consent culture in reverence & service to our Queer & Leather Ancestors as well as our Descendents, including our own child selves abused & abandoned by the heterosexual regimes of the World
for leatherfolk & those who love us
BE OUR OWN is gathering this month for a liminal summer ritual in 2 parts starting on thursday, before applications open for the fall/winter seasonal cycle of steady ongoing practice together.
the link above will take you just to the ticketing page on eventbrite––full info was shared via emailed invitation last week. if you think you missed out on an invite to BE OUR OWN in error, pls email me by hitting reply to this email––or ask a longtime moonworker to forward you the invite <3
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MOONWORK: ancestral time for queer futures welcomes all queers & those who love us to practice live together on tuesdays, 12:30 pm ET for 30-45 minutes.
practice loves company; practice loves repetition! we practice together to tend to the aliveness necessities of nourishing ourselves & digesting our experiences. captions on; video off or on; participation by silent presence or voice or chat as suits you <3