Hello to the inquiring minds of the Inglenook readers. I am bringing you an offering as your Transformation Features Writer.
For this reading, I was discouraged from using my Enochian cards, which are normally the core source of my downloads. I felt this from the cards themselves, because they knew something else wanted my attention.
I turned to my magnetic poetry divination tool. Just as it sounds, it’s a box of a random assortment of words with magnetic backings, popular in the early 2000s. With closed eyes, I run my fingers through the words until I feel an energy build up—like a tingling—in my fingertips. Even though my eyes are closed, I can see where I should bury my fingers to pull the words needed. I sprinkle the words on the top of my box with my eyes closed.
Divination is in the sacredly ordained and in everyday objects. When an everyday object wants to be your divination tool, there is no website or book to guide you on how to use it. It’s complete intuition. I find that where the words land, whether right-side up or not, affects the reading in different ways. With these narrowed-down words, I usually scan them over again to find which words are for the reading. I did not have to do that this time as the word was obvious, radiating. The word that wanted my attention was:
Moon
I was filled with the image of how the moon formed and the message within that process.
Our ancestors found symbols within the observable moon—the phases. Many cultures have moon stories, largely about interpreting the meaning or origin of the moon's shift from dark to light and back again.
Today, we know so much more about the moon, and within that scientific understanding, the moon has so much more to teach us spiritually. Last year, while researching for my sci-fi novel, I came across this article, “10 Changes the Earth Would Suffer If It Had No Moon.”
My divination is not limited to my tools, especially not when I feel the pull of a source so potently. I moved through this article in the same way I scan through the words in my magnet poetry divination. Through this scanning, literally with my fingers down the digital page. I would feel a buzzing again at the tips of my fingers, a ping of energy. After taking the time to read where it pinged, I would ask what the moon is trying to teach us through these new understandings. Each of my divinations below corresponds with scientific facts found in the article. You do not have to read the article to understand this divination.
This download is what the moon had to say.
Under number 6, “Forget about plate tectonics,” we learn about “earth tides.” Not only do we learn that the moon can pull the crust up 12 inches each day, but we also learn that the nature of the Earth’s crust is elastic.
Historical symbolism ties the moon with water, but the moon wants to be known as a force that shifts the land, too, something that seems fixed and eternal. In this, the moon reminds us that nothing is fixed or forever in this life. Nothing is truly permanent, no matter how much it seems that way through your perspective, or the perspective being forced upon you.
You have the ability, the gravity, to impact all things and facilitate shifting and change. Even the tiniest increments matter.
Our current scientific understanding is that, eons ago, the Earth underwent a major interplanetary collision that sent a large portion of the planet’s crust careening into space. However, it didn’t travel far. That crust fused together into the sphere that became our moon. If this devastating collision had not occurred, there would be no moon; perhaps more significantly, there would be no oceans, as there would be no room for an ocean to form. If there were no ocean, there would be no life as we know it.
I was raised in a religion that advocated for suffering, that it was a mark of your holiness and your piousness if you suffered. But I do not think suffering or success is a mark of divine favor. They are simply experiences along your journey that shape your lessons. That felt important for me to say, as the moon wants you to find beauty and creation in the pain and loss that may occur in your life.
“Without destruction, I would not have been born,” I feel the moon say.
In moments of devastation, we might not feel that anything beautiful can be born of it. Such feelings take time. The moon did not form in a day.
Your pain does not have to be as destructive as an interplanetary collision. It could be the loss of a job, the ending of a relationship, or even micro-moments like missing out on the last focaccia at the bakery (trust me, I was devastated). Closed doors are a blessing. Endings are a blessing. They allow energy to churn, making room for new things.
Gravity molded the scattered pieces into the moon. You must be your own gravity, making a conscious choice to reshape loss into new things or to allow absence. In the trust of your absence, an ocean might form. And in that ocean, there might be new life.
The role of the moon is largely that of a magnet. The molten iron core of the Earth churns and creates a “magnetosphere” (sounds so sci-fi), a kind of magnetic field that protects us from lethal levels of cosmic and solar radiation. This churning is called “geodynamo,” and it exists because of the moon’s tidal forces on Earth, kneading the planet's inner layers like dough. Without geodynamo, the core would cool, the magnetosphere would collapse, and the Earth would be irradiated until desolate.
It is good to have personal boundaries. They are necessary for all kinds of healthy relationships. Learning to stick up for yourself and cultivating inner power is exceptionally important, especially if you exist at intersectional layers of societal disempowerment.
But you are not meant to be your own bodyguard all the time. Protection should exist in oscillation between others in your life. We should take turns protecting one another, especially redistributing protection to the most vulnerable, when you receive plenty of protection in other ways.
The message here feels very actionable and tangible—foster protection strategies with your community. Talk about what it means to be protected, what you can offer, and what you need. Find the intersections that balance each other.
These are three messages from the moon, offering understanding beyond phases, wolves, and full moon dances. Though I’m sure such adoration for those symbols is still welcomed.
Learning about our planet should not “demystify” it. The spirit is in science, and science is in the spirit. Intuition and calculation have a place together if we learn to balance them.
Love and Abundance,
The Magick Artist
Malachi Lily, also known as The Magick Artist, is Inglenook's Transformation Features Writer, with over a decade of experience in the art of divination.
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