The World’s Lantern: The Wolf Moon and the Call to Repair
As the Full Moon rises, we walk the Via Transformativa feeling the call to justice, to transformation, to healing, and to celebrating.
Opening the Circle
In the glow of the full moon, we gather to welcome in the new year. Let us celebrate the new and the passing of the old. May our minds be opened to the illumination of this moment, so that we may see clearly the works we are called to, a justice-making in celebration. May our minds be renewed, our hands strengthened, and our will sharpened, that we might have the resolve to carry on.
The Sacred Moment
Today, the Wolf Moon rises full, pulling tides and truths alike to the surface. May we feel the call to justice, to transformation, to healing, and to celebration. In this sacred brightness of the Full Moon, we walk the path of the Via Transformativa: the way of change, the march of justice, the track of living love into form. The world aches for healing, and transformation begins not just in systems, but in souls.
This is a moon to act, to bless, to become.
Path Illumination
We have celebrated Advent and the Christmastide together. Now, in the light of the full moon, we are asked to see how this passage has changed us. As Meister Eckhart asked, what does it matter if a child was born 2000 years ago if he is not born now? Look at your life under the light of this moon and ask what has changed. What is being born? What is being renewed?
The justice that we are seeking is one of healing and reparation, of coming together as a stronger community once again. We remember that even as the continents drift apart, they will inevitably join back together. We only hope that through our intervention and through our actions, we can speed up the healing of our society and of all those who have been harmed by it.
The Sacred Question
As the Wolf Moon howls in the sky, we hear within it one question, one clear call upon ourselves. In this moment, what comes to mind? What injustice, what pain, what thing needs to change? What change has already happened that you feel called to celebrate?
Remember, we are not called to go out and be great heroes that single-handedly change the world. We are called to participate and to call others into solidarity with us to bring this change into the world. Though the actions we take may be small, many small actions add together and grow into a wave that brings great change to the world.
Embodied Practice
Remember when we heard the wolf howl earlier? What did it say to you? What did it bring up in your mind? Take some time, maybe 5 to 15 minutes, and work with that. Stay with it. Do it however you feel works best for you. You may want to pull out a journal and write about it. Think about the ramifications and what it is that you feel called to in this present moment. Maybe you just need to close your eyes and sit with your breath, or go for a walk and just be with those ideas for a little bit.
In the end, try to come up with one sentence. Not what you are going to do next, but why what you feel called to matters. What about it resonates with you so strongly? Why do you feel called to that thing in particular? This Wolf Moon has illuminated something in your mind. What specifically about it is calling for repair?
Blessing of Becoming
May the light of the first full moon of the year renew and refresh you, preparing you to shine ever so brightly in the days to come. Carry its light with you throughout the month, so that it might illuminate your path and help you to find the way through the shadowed moments when the steps become hard to see. May the grace ever present in this world shine through the moon and illuminate you, reminding you of its eternal presence. The original blessing that we were created in cannot be destroyed. It can only be covered up or buried. The work that we are called to is to free it again, so its light may ever shine.