release and let go durning the waning moon of early november

right now we are a little more than at the halfway point to the new moon, this means we are in the waning moon phase which is about elimination and letting go.
and with Venus transiting Libra we should look toward holding our balance with grace and beauty in relationships and creativity. right now is a good time to ask yourself what are my obstacles in regards to holding balanced loveships, relationships and our own inner beauty?
the seasonal practice right now is all about going within, and really seeking out the shadow side of yourself, illuminating light into the direction of the darkness we all have within and spending time healing those things inside of ourselves we don't want to show but yet that dark side seems to slip out and seep into our everyday lives once in a while and can wreak havoc when were not feeling entirely balanced, so what we should begin to do now is develop an inward focus and find something we would like to clear up, pick just one thing it could be an attitude, a habit, a thought form, something that we carry around that does not serve our highest good and work at letting go. Sometimes it can take a while if your shadow self has a stubbornness and wont let go, give yourself patience and give it dedication. By dedication I mean creating a daily ritual of concentration and effort. an easy effort would be taking surya namaskar or the sun salutation and dedicating that to your cause, by using energy movement in your body, you are the action and a reaction will occur.

a suggestion of pagan yoga ceremony for this focus:
NOTE: you can find how each days relationship with a planet affects our practice in another blog
meditate on your intention to find the thing that does not serve your highest good
write this on a piece of paper and set it under a candle there are a few different colors of candles that will work good but for all generic purposed we will choose white for purification since that is where were at
step on to your mat, using the sun salutation continue to focus on releasing and letting go, remember your breath is 96% of your poses so really hold your focus.
as you raise your arms up for the first move of the salutation, reach up to the sky for energy and as you lower into forward bend release out into the earth let the earth take your junk away. use your lunges and imagine you are reaching over the hurdles and any obstacles that are in your way from releasing and truly letting go, as you lower into plank feel the balance and steadiness of making a firm commitment to your intention, then in cobra add in the heart energy and see your heart chakra directly aimed at your issue, so aim like an arrow at your target, and your target is letting go of an old habit, thought form, limitation or addiction or anything else you see as part of your dark nature and direct the heart energy right into it respecting and loving yourself and the shadow-self too.
remember this can be done no matter what physical limitations you have, in a worst case scenario someone could be in a hospital bed laying with all sorts of limitations, but if you visualize it- going through the motions in your mind while breathing you will make a change!
I recommend at least 9 or 11 suns, right, left, right alternating legs that start off from the lunge.
this will take around 12 or so minutes of the physical practice, most everyone can find that time during your everyday somewhere, you can make it more extensive once during the week for a full blown ceremony pagan yoga ritual, but 12- 15 minuted per day will add up to a full 90 minutes at the end of the week which is better than just one chunk of time once a week.
let me know how this goes for you and there is another waning moon at the end of this month to continue your work started here if you need more time.
until then i will see you at the new moon practice, which will bring a delightful focus of Scorpio really illuminating all that lies underneath in our dark and murky self that affect our sense of home, family and security, basic first chakra stuff, it will be a challenging one where you might feel stuck in your stuff, but like anything, don't give up and keep going, forewarned is forearmed and its what you make of it and your intention that makes your life a true creation and master piece.