Scorpio New Moon Lunar Cycle Ritual Inspiration Nov. 1st - Nov. 30th
- Sarah O'Dell
- Oct 24, 2024
- 24 min read
Updated: Dec 10, 2024
Scorpio New Moon Lunar Cycle Ritual Guide
Welcome Ghouls and Demons to the Lunar Cycle Ritual Guides! As I resurrect these guides, in true Scorpionic fashion, I would like to share the story behind the revival of this expression. As you may know, I was initially asked to complete these guides for Rebecca of Darling Star Heathen School for the Eccentric, as a part of her Astrology Magazine. You may also know that we had a fairly brutal falling out, which has been written in a Lunar Memoir and transmuted. I will not deny the teachings of Rebecca, nor will I dismiss her talent or knowledge. She taught me a lot and I am genuinely grateful for how far I was lead and guided through this journey. She is a Manifestor by Human Design and she fulfilled her duty of initiation within our union. I originally discontinued these guides, as I felt they were too deeply intertwined and connected to Rebecca and I was genuinely needing to remove myself from any entanglements. I needed to rediscover, not simply myself, but my purpose in this medium of expression. I wanted to be original, individual and unique in my foundational work as a writer, occultist and unconventional teacher. Many honored my ritual guides and saw them beneficial for their practice. As well, I found it fun to share my creative thoughts on how to build a cyclical ritual phase to phase. Yet, it equally became heavy and I struggled to maintain them, for a variety of reasonings. Mental fog and blockages, as well as day to day responsibilities seemed to get in my way. I had to detach and assess what was important, what was valuable and what was truly authentic to myself and my sense of expression within this world. With all of that being said, I was fearful and worried that I was carrying baggage I no longer needed with these ritual guides. They were Rebecca’s idea and request. However, they were powerful enough for her to try to pass them off as her own, or so is speculated. Regardless of the legitimacy of intentions, the falling out still came to it’s ugly demise. I wanted to remove myself from such energy. Putting it to rest. Yet, like the Phoenix, it is rising from the ashes.
I sat in mediation as the idea to resurrect these guides came to my surface. Determining how I wanted them to go this time around and how I would make them purely my own. I came to the awareness that Rebecca would provide me with themes she wanted for each phase and I would weave it together for her in a beautiful ritual story guide. I expressed myself deeply, authentically and incredibly personally. Not only providing insights to my own ritual workings but my way of being and living. I do believe this opened me up to envy and judgment. Which is ultimately the spiritual battle of healing I was up against. From there, the end of our season came and I felt a bit lost without her thematic guidance. Worried I didn’t actually know enough to be doing this. A sense of dependence on her guidance. But as I recall, I expressed my sense of gratitude in my independence at the dismal of my professional relationship. As I cancelled my Patreon subscription and monthly readings from her, I told her I wouldn’t have been able to take this leap of faith without all she has taught me. To this day, I still believe that to be true. Our time together was important to me on a variety of levels. However, I have come to realize I would have been able to take this leap without her. It had always been within me all along, but perhaps I wouldn’t have believed her. Especially with where I was at the time. She awoke many things within me, but I question her intention and have come to understand that, on some level, she was a pawn in the grander scheme of my uprising. The power has been within me all along. You could suppose she was Glenda the Good Witch. A witch of questionable intentions, that initiated me on a journey to do her dirty work, while all the while coming back to myself. I have speculated her role in multiple forms, unsure of which one is the embodiment of truth. Either way, I digress.
When deciphering how I wanted to re-approach such workings, I had to bring it all back to the beginning. Recalling when I first started practicing magick and conducting my own rituals. I simply dove right into it all. Correlating everything to the Moon. As a Cancer Rising, that is of no surprise. I focused on the Moon, her phase and the sign she was in. I would incorporate the Sun and his phase and potentially connect any intuitively driven dots. Such as, Sabbaths, modern holidays or other astrological components. However, they were not the focus. As I began educating myself on other practices, and eventually working with Rebecca, I found that my rituals became too complicated in thought to plan out or there was too much for me to focus on and incorporate that I became overwhelmed. There was a sense of overload. Like someone lifting too much weight, when they were not trained to do so, or perhaps, even meant to do so. While weight lifting is a common analogy I make, it doesn’t quite fit. It would be best to say that someone was lifting a weight they were never meant to be capable of carrying. It was out of design and an unnecessary focus of achievement.
Now, that was not true in execution of how the ritual guides manifested. I have been deeply proud of how my work has come together. I mean this to express the process of their creation. I was overcomplicating my process of teaching. It would be like a professor attempting to teach 12 subjects in one class, instead of focusing on their professionalized subject. These are Lunar Guides, after all. Why would they have too much more to deal with than simply the Moon? It is not to say that other aspects are not important. In reality, when I conducted my original rituals, other aspects were intuitively driven. These Lunar Guides aren’t necessarily meant for grande specific workings, like when engaging in certain Jupiter Magick Practices or other expressions of magick. The Lunar Guides were a sense of foundation. Adding in discipline, Saturn, within the expression of our inner world the Moon. I may continue to incorporate other areas of planetary alignments or magickal principles, but overall the key focus of theme will be on the Moon, her sign and phase and season within connection to the Sun. I am re-emphasizing the basics. But not only the basics, but the solid foundation of which we build our magick upon, especially when engaging in a sense of “traditional” witchcraft/magick and a feminine expression or approach. Gender can be neutral here and it is important to not get tied up with gender politics. In general, the Moon is not a she or a he, but an it. A transcended being of duality. Just as I feel is true for the Sun and any other planetary configuration. A polarity between the masculine and feminine expressions. I connect to the Moon personally in a feminine sense of expression. I encourage everyone to decide how they perceive these energies and figure out the meaning for themselves as to why they do. As well, be open to adaptations or personal solidifications. The world may be filled with polarity and fluidity, but there genuinely is no harm in rigid binary or boundary.
Now, without further ado, I present to you the Scorpio Lunar Cycle Ritual Guide. A Lunar Guide in alignment with the Witch’s New Year and the Ancestral Day of the Dead. May we welcome in this cycle of rebirth in gratitude from which we came and a fiery uprising of our rebirth. Mirroring our inner and outer worlds into an integrated sense of Oneness. Honoring our canvas boundaries and expressing our creative intuition.
