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Pisces season is all about embracing the depths of our emotions, connecting with our intuition, and working with the element of water. This ritual brings all three of those things together for a sacred experience of sitting with your feelings.

Materials Needed: 
Bath or Foot Soak 
​Epsom Salt 
Candles
Essential Oils (optional)
Flowers (optional) 
Crystals (optional)
Notebook (you’ll want to be able to rip out pages)
Pen 
Playlist (explained below)

This ritual will take a little bit of preparation. The intention of this ritual is to spend time connecting with your emotions and intuition through the energy of music and water. To prepare, you’ll need to gather your materials and create a special playlist for yourself.
When curating your playlist, you will want to have: 3 songs that usually make you cry or at least evoke an emotional reaction, 1 short song without lyrics, 1-2 songs that make you feel divine, and 1 song that you find empowering. 

If you'd like to use my playlist, you can find it here: 

Once you have your playlist ready, it’s time to prepare your bath. If a bath isn’t accessible to you, use a large container that you can soak your feet in. If that also isn’t available to you, frequently sip a glass of water throughout the ritual. 
For the bath/soak, fill the tub with a temperature that feels good to you. Add a cup of Epsom salt with a few drops of essential oils (avoid ‘hot’ oils such as cinnamon and add the oils directly to the epsom salt, not the bath water). I recommend using oils such as lavender, rose, and eucalyptus. If you’d like to add any flowers or crystals that are safe around water (learn more about what crystals are not safe in water here: https://consciousitems.com/blogs/practice/water-crystals-what-crystals-can-go-in-water) 
Have a towel nearby to be able to dry your hands as you’ll be writing while you’re in the tub. Grab your pen and notebook (again, you’ll be writing as you sit in the tub, so do whatever you need to prepare for that). 
Once you have everything ready, light your candles, call in your angels and guides, press play on the music, and enter the bath.

This full moon in Leo is an opportunity to let ourselves shine and let go of the parts of us that hold us back from shining. This ritual is an intentional moment of celebration and release. 

• Welcome your angels and guides of the highest truth and compassion to be present with you. 
• You can choose to listen to the full moon in Leo reiki healing meditation here at the start of the ritual or at the very end of the ritual. Let your own intuition guide you here! If you are on my e-mail list, you can find this meditation in your e-mail! If you aren't, it is available for purchase here: Leo Full Moon Reiki Meditation 
• Light your candle and sit in front of it, letting your gaze soften on the flame. 

For this next part, we are going to repeat a process of breathing in a celebration of self and exhaling anything that is not true to the self.  Each chakra will have a prompt that is specific to that energy center. Spend a few moments gazing at the flame before continuing with the next steps. 

• Starting with your root chakra at the base of your spine, gaze into the flame...
  • Inhale, "I celebrate all the abundance within me." 
  • Exhale, "I release any energy that believes I'm not worthy of this abundance." 
• Moving your awareness up to the sacral chakra below your navel, gaze into the flame...
  • Inhale, "I celebrate my creativity." 
  • Exhale, "I release any energy dimming my light." 

Listen to this blog post by hitting the play button below!

Bad days are an inevitable part of the human experience and you should feel confident in knowing how you take care of yourself after one.

Items Needed:
Journal (I highly recommend downloading the journal to end the day with for this specific ritual)
Music 
Tarot/Oracle Cards
Comfortable place to lay down

This is your pity party where you validate your feelings. Put on a song that matches how you feel and let the feelings be there. Cry, scream, etc. 

Grab your journal to end the day with and use the "transmuting page" or copy the prayer offered there on the top of your own journal page. 

Write it all out. Write out all the feelings, all the negativity, all the bad things that happened that day. This energy does not need to live inside you and once it's on paper it no longer FULLY lives within you.  Write knowing that you aren't "manifesting" more negativity, trust that the transmutation prayer is doing it's job. 

Once you are done writing, stand up and shake it out. Literally. Shake your body, move the energy through. 
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Alexa, play "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift. 

This part of the ritual is where you can meet yourself where you are at. If the day wasn't just bad, it was traumatizing, I would recommend moving straight into the compassion portion of this ritual. You can go through the processing steps at another time. If you do feel like processing what happened during the day and why it happened, I recommend starting with the processing and then moving into the compassion part. 

Processing

Grab your journal to end the day with, an oracle/tarot card deck if you have one, and go to the processing pages. Follow the prompts provided to help you break down the day and gain a clearer understanding of your responses to the day. Draw a card for each prompt and note why this card came up for that specific prompt. 

If you only have the time/emotional space for one processing question, grab your deck and ask your spirit team this question: "What did I need to learn today?" 

Compassion

Now that you have honored your emotions, processed what was necessary to, it is time to fill yourself up with compassion. 

We are going to start with a vagus nerve reset. If you already have a favorite way to do this, feel free to do so. I recommend using this technique: 
1. Lay on your back looking up. 
2. Keeping your face looking up, move your eyes to the right and hold them here for 30-45 seconds. You can either set a timer or wait until you feel your body want to sigh, take a deep breath, yawn, etc. This gaze should be gentle and shouldn't feel like  you are straining your eyes to do so. 
3. Repeat the process above, this time moving your gaze to the left. 
4. Bring your eyes back to center, take a few blinks and deep breaths. 

You can watch a video of this exercise: here.

After completing the vagus nerve reset exercise, stretch your body as long as it can get. Wrap your arms around your body and embrace yourself in a big hug. Hold this hug for a minimum of 30 seconds. The harder the day, the longer the hug. 

Repeat this prayer out loud or silently to yourself: 

[Insert preferred term for a higher power here],
​I am offering the heaviness of the day to you. You know better what to do with this than I do and if there is something I am meant to do with it, please clearly guide me. Let me rest and take care of myself tonight so that I may show up as my fullest self tomorrow. Help me to let today be today and tomorrow be tomorrow. 
Thank you. I love you. 
​And so it is.  

Dance. Watch Netflix. Take a warm shower. Color. Call a friend. Do something loving and light to wrap up your bad day ritual.