Shara Grove Holistics

How is everyone feeling post lunar eclipse? I don’t know about you but this eclipse was not what I was expecting…

Eclipses are known for shaking things up, bringing some chaotic energy to the scene and for highlighting the shadows you’ve been avoiding. I’m not saying that I didn’t feel any of that, but the night of this eclipse has probably been my most memorable night of this year so far.

This was the first eclipse I chose to experience fully. I have witnessed eclipses before (maybe 2 or 3) but they were at a time where I hadn’t fully embraced my connection to Luna and the energy she brings.

For the past month or two, I’ve unintentionally drifted slightly from staying up to date with all this astrological, purely because of routines and day-day life. I didn’t actually realise the eclipse portal had opened till a friend mentioned it to me. Since then, I had this nudge inside of me, telling me to stay awake and witness the magic.

Where I’m living is the perfect spot for full moons. She rises up from behind the dam and carries herself perfectly over our home where she begins to fall behind the trees. Her glow is just magnificent.

I attempted to sleep for a few hours on Sunday night but due to Léon’s hungover snoring, a possum and general excitement for my experience ahead, I failed at trying to gain some sleep.

The world of social media can be great for gaining information or knowledge, but it can also be misleading and can add to confusion. Prior to the moon, I obviously came across a lot of do’s and don’ts for the eclipse ahead. Some of them I agree with, but some said that they would never be outside in the eclipse energy, and it kinda stuck with me. I began to question whether my choice to spend the night outside with Luna was the right or wrong thing to do, and this confusion went on for a few days before I made the decision to stick with what felt right to me, and if things got wonky, I accepted the choice I made.

Can confirm that things did not get wonky, and everything was more grounding and intuitive then I had planned.

I attempted to capture a time lapse of the eclipse but failed in doing this due to technical difficulties (my phone battery being poor mostly), whilst Luna was getting ready for her wardrobe change, I started by lighting a fire. I find fires to be the perfect way to bring some ritualistic sparks into the room and really set the tone, plus between 2-5am it was bloody cold!

I wanted to work with the eclipse energy of leaving behind, letting go and moving on. I started by cleansing myself, my space and the tools I was using with patchouli incense. I then started by writing down everything that I wanted to purge with this eclipse. Once I was done writing, I had this sudden urge to go to the toilet, and I mean I needed to go. Without going into the details, I truly believe that the writing of my purges, caused my physical body to purge also.

By this time Luna had gone black and was barely visible. I put some water in a bowl (Pisces is a water sign), grabbed my purge list and sat around the back on my tent in total darkness.

What got me the most was how silent nature had become. There wasn’t even a tickle of breeze on my skin, any sounds of birds or wildlife, and with where we live, we are surrounded by nature that calls 24/7. I’m talking frogs, so many birds, dogs, foxes, goannas and sometimes goats. The energy in that moment of total darkness, in that moment of preparation for the show was still. Deadly still. It was so surreal. It’s like all the energy that Luna brought during her brightness had paused in that moment, waiting for her to light up again.
During this time I started my purge ritual which consisted of repeating my list to Luna, strongly visualising the purge and asking Luna taking that energy away from me, whilst also washing my hands and wrists with the water I had prepared.

Once Luna was starting to show some signs of redness, I took it as a sign to wrap up the purge and thank her for what she had done. My purge list was then burned on the fire for a final release.

The next part of my night involved burning an old notebook. I have to admit, I am a notebook hoarder. I have so many (but I had even more), since we’ve decided we’re coming back to England, I’ve been going through my things deciding what is coming with and what needs to be let go of. I’ve been making my way through old notebooks of mine that either have bad juju attached to them, no purpose or were a poor spending choice.

The notebook I burnt is one that I’ve had since before I started college. It started off as a dream journal which saw me through most of my first year of college. It’s housed a bucket list and many, many travel plans and ideas. There was something about the notebook that I needed to let go of. Maybe it held too much of my old energy, or it did all that it could for me, I don’t know, but that evening felt like the right time to purge it after a few weeks of debating it.

Following on from the burning of the notebook, I decided to do a card reading:

My interpretation:

Trilogy of Light:
To listen out for any new ideas that pop up. Some or one might be worth sticking with

Dreams:
My dreams are healing deeper parts of my subconscious. Dreams are another way of processing.

Meditation:
A form of spiritual connection, it’s time to mend the line.

I then went back out into the red moonlight and watched in awe. Feeling this energy around, and this wave of energy within me. I moved my body with such fluidity, and I felt inner parts of myself and areas of my skin that I hadn’t felt before.

Life began to wake around me as the red began to fade back into glowing white. The darkness of the night started to lighten into a mystical grey/blue. Stars stopped making themselves known as Venus came into the sky outta nowhere.

With that, my night came to a close and I expressed my gratitude to Luna before she dipped behind the trees.

The whole experience felt like a once in a lifetime. There was just something about the combination of choosing this eclipse, choosing what to do and fully immersing myself in the energy of what was around and what I was creating. There was something beautifully powerful about it all, and I feel incredibly blessed to have experienced such a wholesome and comforting eclipse.