New Moon Underworld and Rebirth Watering Ritual
“You can find connection to your ancestors in water. The waters and rain that touches your body today, are the same waters that hydrated and cleansed the bodies of your ancestors.”
There is healing powers in water. Scorpio Season, and the days the moon is in Scorpio, invites us to open to the purification of water and heal our emotions. Will you allow yourself to carve out some time to do something that leads to diving deep into the waters of your emotions and re-emerging as who you are?
When you submerge your body, imagine that you are going into the Underworld, into your healing subconscious. While under water, listen. Feel yourself as though you are back in your mothers womb (male or female, we have all experienced a period of transformation within the womb). Are you courageous enough to sit still, and anchor yourself into presence. The feeling of here and now? Take time and sit in the water, allow your thoughts to come -as easily as they come, observe them and allow them to go. When you emerge from the water, you are re-born, clearer, pure, washed free of all that you are carrying.
What you need (keep it simple):
Est. 1.5 liter of water (bottled water, ocean water, rain water)
Sea Salt (two handfuls)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil (or ritual oils)
2 White Candles (votive or tea-lights)
Sea Shells
White robe or white towel
Lemon balm (if accessible)
Clear Quartz or Moonstone* Optional
Cheese Cloth Strainer* Optional
Florida Water* Optional
This bath will be preformed after you take your standard bath / shower. You will have already washed your hair & body for the day - and cleaned your tub or shower of all soaps and suds.
*You will air dry once you finish taking the ritual bath - you will not dry off by wiping down with a towel. You will NOT shower afterwards for 24 hours. If you do this ritual at night, you will not bath/shower in the morning. You will bath/shower again 24 hours later.
Prepare the Bath
Separate the cools (salt, oils) from the hot items (lemon balm). Now, add some water, as if you were going to boil some tea, as the water begins to heat up, awaken the lemon balm by reminding them their purpose and asking for their assistance. Let the lemon balm steep and then take off the stove top and cool down (you will mix this with the cooling items in a moment).
If you do not have lemon balm, you can mix the cool items: salt, oils and spring water.
Combine the Items
Place the salt (two handfuls), into a bowl with cool water with any complimentary ritual oils at this time (do not add olive oil that is for later) You can add love healing, emotional healing or any condition oil to support emotional healing of your choice at this time.
Mix the warm herbs, salt together in a glass (or plastic) jar. Place a crystal of your choice in the water. Let these items now sit together.
Crystal suggestions: clear quartz, moonstone.
You can further awaken the water by singing to it, ringing bells or chimes.
“When we submerge ourselves in water, we harmonize our physical body and our emotional body. Taking a bath is an act of self-love.”
In the bathroom, clean the bath and or shower of soap or residue; and have your towel or robe near by. Run the bathwater, and put the prepared bath mixture into the water. Sage the space.
When the bath has been made, place two tea lights at the edge of the bath tub or shower entrance. Caution, be careful with fire. You are to walk through the tea lights both on entry and exit.
Once in the bath or shower, this is your own personal ritual. I suggest that you remind yourself of your intentions. See yourself surrounded with light and say outloud - “That all energy that is not mine and does not serve me is returned to source.”
When you submerge your body, imagine that you are going into the Universal Womb, and deeper into your healing subconscious. While under water, listen.
Feel yourself as though you are back in your mothers womb (male or female, we have all experienced a period of transformation within the womb). Are you courageous enough to sit still, and anchor yourself into present moment? The feeling of here and now? What’s coming to mind is a deluge of all the emotions that may have been stifled or stuffed down. These feelings may be returning to us like waves rising toward the shore. These emotions are returning, not to drown us in our emotions, rather to wash and heal us. Allow these feelings, like waves, to roll and release.
Take time and sit in the water, allow your thoughts to come. And, as easily as they come, observe these thoughts, and like waves - allow them to go. Keep yourself relaxed in a meditative state. Remember why you are taking the bath. When you are finished, usually in about 20 minutes, you will exit the bath through the tea lights.
When you emerge from the water, your emotional body is re-born, clearer, pure, washed free of all that you were carrying (depending on your emotional past, you may want or need to do this ritual for three moon cycles/ 3 months).
Protection and Restoration
Now that you removed and released emotional energy, you will need to replace it with intention. Use the Olive Oil (or ritual oil of choice) and if you’re catholic you can use a cross - if you prefer otherwise, you can just dab the oil on the following points on your body.
1) Crown (top of head)
2) Third Eye (forehead)
3) Nape of neck (back of neck)
4) Palm of each hand
5) Base of each foot
Now, wrap yourself in either a towel or robe (do not towel dry).
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