Megan Baceda, Energy Management Mentor

{Part Four} The Lunar Template Series: The Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Full Moon prep stage. We’ve all heard that the Full Moon brings out all the emotional crazy in us. Have you also heard that there’s a very practical way to work with intense emotions, and it’s built right into the lunar phase calendar?

The Waxing Gibbous Moon phase is that time.

As well as being an amplifying time to generate more momentum and take action towards intentions, goals and getting things done in general, this phase also acts as a gatekeeper, or bouncer, for what will be brought up from the surface during the Full Moon.

Here are 3 prompts to recognize and work with the Waxing Gibbous energy, in real time or in your own personal energy cycle.

1. Notice when thoughts, emotions or physical sensations start to bubble up to the surface. What feels tender, sensitive or reactive, and isn’t so easily maintained or managed?

2. Look for upcoming experiences, interactions or events that may be activating these thoughts, emotions or physical sensations. Is there a connection between the anticipated experience and what’s going on for you internally? This connection might not be related or relevant, but it’s there for some reason. Best to acknowledge it, even if there is no rhyme or reason for it. The way our subconscious and/or body interprets anticipated experiences may not make sense to our logical, rational mind.

3. Address things before the Full Moon to soften and mitigate the intensity of the Full Moon’s energy. What might you need now, before the Full Moon or upcoming event, to understand what you’re experiencing more fully, from your Higher Self or Soul?

By creating some open awareness and space around internal mental, emotional and physical energy, you’ll be prepared to work with the deeper root cause as it’s revealed, illuminated and experienced during the Full Moon phase, maybe even gaining the expansive, transcendent or ascended experience because you’re handled the surface level tension, tightness or resistance.

Keep in mind that this a practice, it’s never perfect. If you have accumulated or chronic emotional stress and overwhelm, reactions are sometimes the most familiar for life to get our attention so we can remember that we have a process.

The bounce-back rate is a great place to start. See if you can bounce-back from an autopilot mode reaction to intentional awareness in a shorter amount of time, with more depth, and then move through the prompts above.

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