January bear moon: Dive into silence
Dear One!
As I promised, in 2025 I would like to introduce you to the teachings of the 13 moons. I’ve received the teachings about the names of the moon from a healing woman who keeps the ancient wisdom codes of the Canadian aboriginal population.
I’m grateful for it, because I was only aware of a few moon names myself (such as the May’s strawberry moon) and because you can find all kinds of things on the Internet, I feel it makes an enermous difference when you can sit at the feet of a teacher and receive from her!
“The period of the full moon offers wonderful opportunities to celebrate one’s achievements.” – I usually bring this up to my students, in connection with the teachings of the moon, when we are building the Toolbox of Emotional Alchemy.
Being the middle of January, however, this full moon, in accordance with its name, invites you to slow down and pause. The secret teaching of the bear moon is deep self-reflection.
“Who am I (in body, mind, soul level)? Who do I want to be? What steps should I take for become my next best version of myself? Which of my personality traits are waiting to be strenghtened and which ones should I let go of?
I journal with these questions regularly this month – spending several days uncovering one layer at a time: Who am I in my body? (What is my body like? What is it suitable for and what is it not? What kind of foods can I support it with?) Who am I in my mind? (What is my mindset? What interests me? What makes me inspired?) Who am I in my soul? (What is my emotional world? How do I relate?)
My goal with these questions is to penetrate deeper into the true essence of myself, and not a sophisticated form of self-criticism!
In addition to regular journaling, I try to optimize my daily habits every year. As part of this, I promise myself every year that I will slow down during these winter months and really stay true to my resolution to turn off my phone and digital devices when the sun goes down.
On the days when I manage to do this, I have noticed how much calmer my evenings are. Somehow there “IS” time for everything. I’m not in a hurry, I’m not hasty, my movements lack the compulsive delusion that “I have to live up to the imagined ideal mother image. On those evenings, when I put down my devices, my “inhalations” are finally accompanied by “exhalations”. I am able to stop, to rest after completing an activity and not just focus on ticking off another to-do on my list. I am able to flexibly shape my evenings according to the natural needs arising in me instead of rigidly following ingrained habits.
I haven’t watched TV for more than 20 years, but I can can fully immerse myself in my “projects” (such as learning a language, processing the material of my current trainings and nurturing my own creative processes), which I use my digital devices to follow and by this I disappear behind my digital devicecs for hours and hours.
I’m always “trying to get somewhere” (to learn or search for something) and that’s why it gives me a great sense of freedom when I allow myself to “return” to REALITY. When I allow things to appear in their natural state and not regulated by an algorithm.
I wonder how you feel about this? How are the first weeks of the new year going for you?
When I turn off my digital devices in time in the evenings, I give the urgent feeling in me a chance to quiet down and give way to a playful curiosity.
I like to pick up physical books instead of audiobooks. I figure out my meditation and my yoga on my own, and not by listening or watching someone. I draw a picture or write in my diary by hand and these activities itself give me so much. I feel by them that all I have IS ENOUGH. That I am ENOUGH.
This full moon is a good the occasion for me to remember to play the so-called “STOP Game” (I wrote an article about this in 2016 in my hungarian blog). When I play the “STOP Game”, I consciously switch off/stop the activities that are part of my daily routines and immerse myself in the exploration of the urges arising from my own feminine wisdom!
When I live in a way that respects the changes in my personal/lunar cycles and be aware of my importance in the greater whole, I feel that my life is filled with so many blessings!
What also helps me during the winter months is the nurturing of the community in which I am surrounded by people who cherish similar values and the use of the resource library that I have built up in recent years. Since I have been regularly care about to support my Nervous System and specifically my Female Nervous System, I have found myself to be much more balanced and resorcefull!
Therefore, I warmly recommend the cycle harmonization work and attunement to cosmic energies to you too! Start with connecting to the energies of the moon!
The need to connect with the full moon is the first desire in the heart that begins to lead back to the feminine wisdom that is there in every woman.
If you are interested in the teachings of women’s wisdom and if you want to know better the special needs of the Female Nervous System (which is significantly different from that of men), you will certainly like the teachings of the 13 moons, which you will find here in every full moon!
Be blessed on the day of the bear moon!
With love and care,
Viki
February Sugar Moon: Self-care
Dear One!
It seems to me that this year will be a year of integration in many ways. Beautiful syncronicities and endings placed at the end of started stories. Closures and new levels of understanding in countless areas. One of these is Western Astrology.
Following the lead of interesting coincidences, I found it again and began to refresh my ability of being able to interprete my birth horoscope. I started learning this wonderful science from Jenő Kaló at the beginning of the 2000s in Budapest, Hungary. At that time we were still drawing our birth formula with a circle and a ruler. Later, I was very happy to buy the program, which drew a chart and collected the positions of the planets in seconds! But just imagine! I still have a chunky Ephemeridia on my bookshelf, which contains everything needed to make a horoscope from 1915 to 2015, ready for the day. (It is a great fun to do things in “the old ways”!)
This came to mind now in the light of the fact that you can better understand my enthusiasm when I share with you that during last weekend of 2025 Januray in a training, Marcela Lobos and Alberto Villoldo drew our attention to the fact that we are at the gate of a special planetary union that happens very rarely! The conjunction of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on January 21, 2025 will be joined by Mercury on February 28!
I wonder if you like to follow the changes of the constellations in the sky?
I have loved to marvel the sky since I was a child, and when we lived in New Zealand I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy the breathtaking view of the Milky Way for years. And in response to this inner call, I began to study Astrology and have now returned to it again.
I found it in connection with my trainings with the Four Winds Society and I have been using the Star Walk2 application for a year now with great pleasure to observe the starry sky and to determine the position of the planets. If you live in a place where the star lit sky is rarely visible, the StarWalk2 application is also very good for using it to look up at the sky above you while lying in bed at night and “see” what the star forces are at work above you. (In fact, we really like to study together with my 6 years old daughter!)
So I invite you on these February full moon days (days around February 12, 2025) to feel the special power that the sight of the sky brings!
The meaning and message of February’s full moon is to start anchoring practices and routines in your daily life that are about self-care. Learn to be kinder to yourself.
This is a special challenge for me, since I grew up without a working example of how to take care of myself. I learned from the example of my mother and grandmothers how to treat my environment and those around me well and how to take care of and fulfill my tasks in the most efficient way. That is why I have created a program called “Emotional Alchemy” in which I share my essential somatic exercises which allows me to slow down, ground myself and create space and time to appreciate the beauty of the moment. Emotional Alchemy brought me back so much soul elixir to my daily life as I have been redefining the founational practices of my Nervous System Support year after year.
“The emotions moving through us may feel like our own because of the repetition, but the frustration, anger and fear we experience on a regular basis actually show the State of our Nervous System.” This is one of the most important and valuable information I received in my Nervous System Healing Trainings. In the light of the awareness of this fact, it is much easier to let go of the shame and guilt that one feels over one’s own fallibility.
Exercises that help me a lot in supporting the balanced functioning of my Nervous System:
- lighting a candle/fire ceremony
- creating my own little sanctuary/seasonal table
- gratitude journal/success journal/”Carpe Diem” journaling process
- joy exercises (e.g. dance, art activities: drawing, painting, playing music)
- somatic exercises: fire breath-, sound + breath excercises / e.g. woo breathing, HA breathing/, EFT, cranio sacral quantum touch exercises: e.g. /forehead&back of the head posture/)
In addition to these, I am also kinder to myself by allowing myself activities that apparently “get me nowhere” like the wonder of the starry sky, making moon water (at full moon) or immersing myself in analyzing my Horoscope.
Regarding the Sugar Moon, I would like to bring to your attention to the work of Dr. Kristin Neff, from whom I also learned a lot about self-compassion. I warmly recommend the 3-hour long audio book “The Yin and Yang of Self-Compassion”. In it, Kristin explains the difference between soft and firm compassion.
Did you know that compassion is not a passive process? That it has a fierce side also?
Yin compassion is necessary when we are experiencing pain, it is a kind. However, in certain situations it is necessary to mobilize Yang compassion. This masculine, fiery strength is needed to boldly and firmly draw a line in situations in which we need to stand up for ourselves or protect ourselves. (I note that this is something that many women need to learn!)
So this full moon (February 12, 2025) I invite you to learn and use the full spectrum of compassion! Get to know it, use it, and become richer in resources thanks to it!
With appreciation and more kindness,
Viki
viktoria maczo 