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Ivy Moon

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The Ivy Celtic Month starts on 30 September and ends the 27 October. This lunar month offers the possibility to be grateful for life’s blessing and prepare to inner growth during the dark season. The Ivy month coincides with the end of the harvest season, where success and failure are put onto the balance so that we can learn from all.

Taking into account that opposition, negativity or pain are also teachers, gives us a wiser perspective on life in which all becomes a blessing. This balance in learning to see ” the good” and “the bad” as ONE, enables us to take full responsibility of our life, take off our victim coat and embrace fully what’s coming up without giving a judgement, knowing that it makes you stronger.

Ivy is strong, it grows in spiral resining us stay center and move along while focusing on the core.

Signature

The latin name of ivy is Hedera helix, which means “hold on” and “spiral”. When ivy can no more grow, it is going to bloom. Flowering occurs in November.
It is quite impressive to see how Ivy holds on to a tree: by sucking the tree bark with its aerial roots. In the signature theorie, this means that ivy is for people who seeks support and contact. Finding ivy climbing on an oak is a sign of wisdom. But ivy is also able to squeeze the oak to death, showing its possible oppressive relationship. The evergreen, woody and autumn flowering Ivy stands for resistance. When leaves get older, they also get rounder showing softer temper. the black berries makes from the plant a female symbol.

The Ivy is a plant for people who know who they are but haven't found a way to express it. That is why they rely on a partner and stay in the shadow. It is a plant for high sensitive person who get overstrung in an oppressive relationship until they learn to find a way to be authentic to themselves. Ivy supports in transforming normal in wonderful!

In ancient Greece, was ivy used to color grey hair dark again and also as anti-poison. Dionysus wore ivy as a wreath to protecting him against alcoholic intoxication, to help to think clearly and creatively. Brides and grooms in Greece wore crowns of ivy as a representation of fidelity.

Magic

House protection: Hang at your door an ivy wreath with rose and myrtle

Love: Place Ivy and Holly together around a white candle to harmonise love with your partner.

Femininity: place holly fruits around a white candle to honour your femininity

Vine Moon

.Reading time 2 minutes.

September 2th – September 30th

In the Celtic tradition, the lunar month of the vine offers the opportunity to bring your plan to fruition before the winter.

Summer has brought its abundance, enabling early harvest.

At this time of the year, the grapes are green and still need to grow. They will mature with the support of Nature’s last burst of energy before it enters in the Autumn equinox, when the day and the night are equal length (September 22nd) .

Like the warmth of the earth, the sunlight, the bees and all elements collaborates for the vine to grow and ripe, we need the extra support or cooperation with others to complete the projects we started this year. Indeed, when we follow the rhythm of the Nature, our project feel like unripe grapes who need a little external support. Until the 22th September, it’s time to focus on the last solar energy for our project maturation.

This Month we will concentrate on the valuable input from others, consolidating relations and network. It’s time to make peace, end arguments, pay off existing debts to be aligned in our community where our project has a meaning. Collaborative work made under the Vine Moon may be very valuable for the forthcoming darken months.

In the ancient times, Grapevine was a symbol of fertility as well as bramble or blackberries in the colder areas where Grape didn’t grow.

Hélène Courrier

During this MOONLIGHT MINGLE, we will:

  • Bring peace within
  • Open up to fruitfulness at this time of the year
  • Find ways to complete your project
  • Eat a prosperity pie

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