full moon fasting

 

After an amazing first year of dancing at the Moon Dance (Atlachinolli Meztli ) in 2018, I was traveling to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, as I do every year to visit my mom.

 

This time things were a bit different and the visit lasted half of a year, months of healing mother daughter relations, plus a delicate state of her health. During this time, she had 2 major arteries' surgery and  I was coming back to Mexico, City, the city I had left 13 years before.

 

It all turned to be a physical recapitulation of my life, the integration of Eras & Alejandras.

I shaved my hair off. It was the death and the re-emerge "to be me".

 

By Summer 2019 I was back in Switzerland, to attend my second year at the Moon Dance in Austria. I arrived to give thanks and celebrate the joy of living. 

 

By winter 2019 I was back in Playa del Carmen for the year vacation, mom was better, and a little article about a virus appeared on the Swiss Newspaper. I was back home in Bern by New Year 2020. 

 

Under the full moon of January 2020, with the intention to plant the seed of the Moon Dance prayer in Switzerland (Moondace Switzerland), we gather for a weekend of weaving the magic between in a Temazcalli with the Moondance sisters living in Switzerland.

 

In this gathering I was offered to hold space for the full Moon of March 2020 in Bern, sharing about the Altar and the wisdom of the Mexihca Tradition. The 8th of March, during the international day of the women, 7 woman 7 directions reunited in Bern.

 

A week later humanity was told to stay home, the world stopped, the portals opened, and all of the sudden we were all home united by the windows of our screen.

 

For me this pause arrived just in the perfect moment. I needed to step out of time and give structure to my life. 

As a Moon Dancer I had experienced for 3 years the medicine of fasting. Personally was an amazing way of self motivation.

During this silence it was clear, I had the wish to continue the focus to connect deeper with my personal prayer.

 

On the Full Moon of April 2021, I finished a cycle of  fasting with every Full Moon for 4 days and 4 nights for the past 13 months.

 

As this cycle closed I realized the Moon Dance Prayer was taking place in 4 months.  

It was a beautiful "sign" to close a 13 moon cycle and open a new one  of  4 months to share with sisters who felt the call to experience this as a way of self love and motivation practice as well as for all my Moondance sisters as the preparation for our dance. (You don't need to be a moon dancer to participate)

 

We usually start 3 days before the Full Moon and end our water fast with the Full Moon.

 

For the last cycle after our of 4 Full Moon Fast, I offered a Goddess' night as an integration ritual to ground, activate your heart and open your vision. 

 

This type of ceremonies helps us with balance and alignment for our time before arriving to the sacred land as well as in our everyday life.

It works as a guide to connect us with our intention to manifest our prayers for our coming year. (work, love, money, life, health etc)

 

 

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