The Full Snow Moon’s Sacrifice of Love
Greetings Beloved Kin,
The effects of the Full Snow Moon carry on to the first Quarter (03/03/2024). The Moon was so named by the Native Americans as the month with the heaviest snows of winter. The Cherokee called it the Bone Moon, when provisions were in scarce supply, and people had to gnaw on bones and cook bone marrow soup to survive. (The Kalapuya tribe called it the “Out of Food Moon.) 03/03 is 12 Dog/OC, the Understanding of Unconditional Love.
However, not all cultures associate February’s full moon with extreme cold and death. The Hopi tribe calls it the Moon of Purification and Renewal, which is very fitting because the Full Snow Moon is usually the very first full moon of the year according to the lunar calendar. Cultures that follow the lunar calendar, especially East Asian cultures, tend to associate the Full Snow Moon with new beginnings for this very reason. The ancient Chinese, for example, called it the Budding Moon.
As a matter of fact, celebrations of February’s full moon are the climax of Lunar New Year festivities in various East Asian countries. In China, the Full Snow Moon is celebrated during the Lantern Festival, also known as the Yuanxiao Festival, which is the 15th day of the Lunar New Year. During this festival, the Chinese release kongming lanterns into the sky as they admire the full moon and eat tangyuan, glutinous rice balls that are usually filled with sweet paste. The round shape of the balls symbolize family togetherness and bring good luck to the whole family.
Tonight, I stepped out to see it in clear skies and the pleasant temperatures of 61F/16C. Though, it might as well have been freezing for the shadow that crossed the heart. I imagined days gone by, when rations were all but gone and the old ones knew they wouldn’t carry on. There had to be more than one that chose to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Beautiful Painted Arrow, Joseph Rael’s Vision of the Sun/Moon Dance is a 4-day ceremony of “living on Air” with the only Sound as the Drums and the measured footsteps back and forth to the Center Pole as the Offering to Mother Earth. The ceremony lives on as a memory of Light that keeps on revealing the Divine Mystery of the experience. The Elders shared a Divine way to go, if the only other choice was to take up arms against another Human Being.
The Full Snow Moon is bound to trigger morbid thoughts from our cellular memories, and the Truth that Life leads to an inevitable end. In the realm of Human’s experience, the hardest sacrifice is to let the Love of Life go, and to carry on to the Silent end of Forgiveness with a Dancing Heart as Light as a Feather. Time is ordered to remember the Grandfathers and Grandmothers who chose to make the ultimate sacrifice.
On Earth, the offering of Death is transformed into the fertile soils for tomorrow, where a new generation of Life can draw Love from the Roots to the Crown for a tomorrow, where the Sun shines to gather in the Abundance of a new harvest of Love.
May we gather one last time around the Fire and remember the Grandfathers and Grandmothers that made the choice so Our Life could carry on to the future. Life isn’t the matter we cling to, when our Life becomes a burden. All things deserve the Time to be clearly Seen and Acknowledged for every offering of Love.
A Time always comes when we are only waiting for someone else’s life to end. Finally, our Ego can rest in peace, for all the ways we were expected to follow the “hard road” that was learned from the Wisdom of their experience. “Now, we can live by the Truth of who we are,” beyond the expectations of an Old Way that is no longer relevant to our Time and Place. Only after, do we remember a presence of Love without a second chance to share the Truth from the Wisdom of the Experience.
Surely, a Divine Creator has a provision for dark times such as this. The Sun at Solar Maximum can balance the Light Above and the Darkness Below.
A Life that was Sacrificed to save us was our Divine inheritance, that passed on a Divine Meaning and Purpose for every life that follows. May we gather together around the Fire as One with the Spirits Above and the Spirits Below, and Give Thanks for the Consciousness to Remember.
The Creator’s Hand will pull us through by a Light too bright for us to see, that casts no Human shadows, only the Truth of Love. May we gather around the “last fire” and the Eternal Flame we share as One to Remember and give thanks for every sacrifice of Love.
love, in lak’ech, i am another you
Debra, 9 Eagle/MEN
TRECENA OF STORM/CAUAC: A BLESSING OF LIVING WATER
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
7 Serpent/CHICCHAN (chi ‘kahn), Cherokee, Serpent/DO’TSI, Destiny Kin 85
February 27, 2024 (02/27/2024)
TRECENA OF STORM/CAUAC: THE RENEWAL AND REGENERATION OF OUR SPIRIT
Visit the 13-Day Trecena Guide for a daily aspects of the current trecena.
My gift for the Tzolk’in round is the “Tzolk’in Field Guide: A Daily Practice for Personal Discernment.” Volume 1 covers the first two seasons of the Tzolk’in round. The “Field Guide” is available to download from a link on the 13-day Trecena Guide Page.
The Storm/CAUAC trecena is part of Season 2, found in Volume 1.
7 Serpent/CHICCHAN (Cherokee, Serpent/DO’TSI) – Day 7 of 13 of the 1 Storm/CAUAC Trecena
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 7: Reflective. Seven stands as a mirror to divide light and dark and to reflect all that is and is not. Seven is associated with the source of creation and the flow of Divine Will. With a keen sense of ethics, Seven establishes purpose to current and future goals.
Serpent/CHICCHAN: Movement and the creation of time. Sensual and dramatic, this sun sign embodies intense instinctual wisdom and creates a connection from Earth bound, to Heavenly aspirations. By sincere service to others, Serpent opens and expands its heart. Serpent aligns authority and the truth to bring justice that is quick and sure. Serpents are very adaptable, even fluid until trapped in a corner, and then they explode. Serpents, venomous temper poisons itself as well as others by creating resentful, suppressive and even destructive attitudes.
A GOOD DAY TO: Ask for flexibility and fluidity.
Cherokee, Serpent/DO’TSI: Serpent’s symbol is Constellation Serpens. Serpent people are Sky people who come to earth periodically as Educators. As above-So below, on Earth the Serpent is the roots of the tree of knowledge. Serpent power is vital energy, the moving force, the instinct and desire for creativity, the trigger that sets off the action. It lights the fuse that magnifies and explodes the life force itself. Knowledge, combining science, technology and psychology, plus spirituality are seeded on the planet.
[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. ~Debra]
