Elemental Earth - Who is She?

Written by Aster

Earth energy is the Divine Mother. She is the whisper of duty in the ears of every animal in the ecosystem, the mycelium in the dirt, and the fascia of our bodies. She is connection, the heartbeat of the planet, the container where all elements mix to create this beautiful natural world we live in. She is the drum. She is gravity. She is a long, slow exhale.

She is the void we descend into when we embrace silence. She is the loosening of the vagus nerve. She is the grounding of flight, fight, and freeze. She is the medicines in dried flowers, leaves, and roots. She is the nourishment your body craves, and the tree that gives you shade.

Earth element is the Root Chakra. The foundation of the spirit body. While our culture prioritizes mind, enlightenment, and ascension, she patiently waits for you in the body, in the darkness, in the dive into the void. She waits in the coiled base of the spine, waiting for you to say, “I trust you.”

If you grew up in the West, your relationship with Earth Energy is likely severed, or unbalanced. Besides the fact that many of us have no physical land ties due to colonization and capitalism, we are taught that Her frequency is a waste of time, not understanding that She is the temporal CONTAINER. Without Earth, there is no vessel for ANY of this lived experience.

We are taught to reject Her. We are not allowed to stop; we are not allowed to rest. We are taught to constantly seek outside of ourselves: chasing God, chasing the answer, running the mind ragged attempting to solve the Great Riddle—not realizing that if we slow down, all the way down, and turn down the noise, that She speaks through the body. Half of the answer you’ve been seeking has been repeating on her tongue since you were the child forced to forget Nature: “Remember Me.”

She wants to hold you, to comfort you, to tell you that it’s ok to stop running.

Earth is associated with the inner child. Recall the wonder and experience of being a child in Nature. Now, too many children are given iPads before they even get to experience Her majesty.

Earth is ancestral as well. It is DNA. It is the feeling of pouring coffee for the thousand ancestors it took for you to be here—they don’t need much and it’s one of the most powerful things you can do to say, “Thank you.”

Neptune has been in Pisces since 2011. It taught us all about the power of spirituality, the unconscious, trauma, astrology, tarot, psychology, etc. Neptune goes into Aries as of March 30 (it will dip back into Pisces later this year). In this new era of Spirituality, we will take all that we have learned in the spirit world and bring it back into the body. The body is ready to integrate this knowledge. Neptune in Aries will ask: Can you lean into the silence and let Her show you how all you have longed for outside of you actually dwells within? Can you make your body a temple and cater to it the way you would to, say, a friend, a love interest, or a child? Now is the time to strengthen your relationship with the spiritual body.

If you are chasing enlightenment and higher consciousness but ignoring the body, you are abandoning half of the essential parts of Alchemy. An ascended mind with no body to absorb it is a waste of time, effort, and study.

It is important on your spiritual journey to learn from Earth first, as without safety, how can one create with the water element? Without security, how can one feel the flame of one’s authenticity? Without grounding, how can one use discernment to stay attached to this world when working with air and ether? If Love and Light is the power of the higher realms of Sky and Solar Energy, Depth and Discernment is the realm of the Earth, Lunar Energy, and the Root. The time for resting into your power is now. The time for balance is now. In April, we want to help you find your grounding.

Stress is the antithesis to the Earth Element. You must find a way to ground. For me, it has been meditation. I cannot emphasize enough the positive effects meditation has had for me. Finding the sacred silence in the gravitational downward pull within the body has been life changing. It provides me with the foundation to feel what I need to feel, process mentally, and over time has led to clearer communication with my guides and nature spirits.

Earth speaks through Nature. Pay attention. What animals do you see? How many birds just flew by? What plants smell amazing today? What is the body craving? These are all ways She communicates with you. Study biology, study land, study herbs and flowers. Without them, what would potions even consist of? When you drink tea, send gratitude to the greenery or flower that is helping you as you drink. Plug in to your local ecosystem.

Keep in mind too much Earth Energy may be a hindering thing. When you become lethargic, over-eat frequently, have no energy, or become too still, the body stagnates and dis-ease settles. We become sick. What does balance look like for you and how can you find deeper balance daily? Balance, with every Element, is the key to sustainability. Too much or too little comes with side effects.

She doesn’t judge, but she’s been waiting. You can hear Her excitement in the chattering of birds or the rustling of leaves. Before the heat of summer comes, will you dedicate time to go visit Her? To enter Her world either outside or within the self? Both? I know you feel Her call. We all do. We’re one of the animals I mentioned in the first line of this section. Don’t forget She birthed us, and is asking for help. Nature works in reciprocity; when you ask for abundance, what are you offering?

Coming soon on our Patreon and my Instagram: @astersoluna: 5 MORE WAYS to Connect with Elemental Earth.

As technological advancement continues to outpace the container that Nature can provide, we become more and more off balance. The overuse of AI and the amount of material and energy it requires is pulling us toward a future where the Earth can no longer sustain us. On top of that, corporations are destroying our soil with actual poisons, and our waters are at risk of annihilation. We must remember the Feminine energies of Earth and Water and sanctify them—we are to be Their warriors. The ancestral memory in your DNA is waiting for you to feel this remembrance. If you feel this calling, book a reading. There is likely a message for you.

Collective Tarot Energies for April

Four of Pentacles Inverted and The Moon Inverted
Questioning Value, The Collective Unconscious of Security

Four of Pentacles Inverted. When the Four of Pentacles is inverted, the character in the card has held on so tightly to his possessions that the force of the gripping has caused everything to fall apart. Once this material worldview is shattered, there is a reckoning of his values. What is valuable? What inherently contains worth? When this card appears It can be an indication that it is time to stop focusing on cash and possessions, and analyze the word “value.”

The Moon Inverted. When the Moon appears inverted, it is a signal to the querent to pause and reflect on their personal inner journey vs taking information from external sources. The Inverted Moon is connected to the collective unconscious, the realm of symbolism, and the inner most being. In this inner most world, many illusions or fears are revealed—what those are depends on the surrounding cards. In this case, the four of pentacles indicates a need to analyze and FEEL through your patterns and unconscious relationship with money, possessions, and values.

Together. When the Four of Pentacles is paired with the Moon, the unconscious, we must ask: What have we been programmed to value? What have the systems in place taught us to value? How can we dive into our lived experience and seek answers to understand our traumas around worth, abundance, finances, and safety?

I truly believe these cards jumped out of the deck due to the tight financial constrictions we are experiencing as a Nation. This reading is why the theme of this newsletter is Elemental Earth. As we watch the economy tank, as rents rise, as the price of food continues to increase regardless of promises made, our baseline self-preservation animal instinct starts hoarding energetic resources. This is functional freeze. Our entire being becomes trapped in the root chakra. Sure, we can wake up and go to work, resisting the fact that we need deep rest and reset, but after work we don’t have the energy to create, to interact, to dive deep in our lived experiences—because we are simply surviving.

That’s where working with the Earth Element comes in. That’s where reframing wealth comes in. Read the next article written by Niko for a viewpoint on this topic. By slowing down (the signature move of the Earth Element), we gain perspective. Gratitude is a medicine here.

April Journal Prompts:

• What are you grateful for?

• Start listing all of the ways your body is AMAZING, and if there is resistance, interview it and say “ok, I hear you, but also these are the ways I AM amazing:”

• What do you value today? How does this differ from things you used to value when you were 6? 12? 16? 18? 21? 25? 27? 30? 35?…..

• How do you feel about money? Were you aware of the lack of it a little too young? How might you nurture your inner child and comfort them to let them know how things have changed? If things haven’t changed much, let them know what you’re going to do to help them.

Understanding Earth Element is about discovering what you need to feel safe, secure, and unmovable. It is embracing trust and embracing the moment. If you zoom in, right to now, right to this very moment, odds are for the next five minutes, ten minutes, or more, you truly have everything you need to drop into safety. Give yourself a breath and a long sloooooooow exhale. Close your eyes, tell your smart device to set a three minute timer and feel how long that can be while focusing on your breath. Feel the effects of gravity on the top of the head and work your way down your body, like melting honey. Feel everything sink a little with gravity.

Do it. Seriously. I’ll be here when you get back.

Open your eyes now. Doesn’t that feel better?

Stay Blessed,

Aster
Want a reading? Maybe even asking what is blocking you from the Earth Element and Abundance? Book Here. @astersoluna on Instagram and TikTok

Reframing Wealth:
Abundance Isn’t a Bank Balance

Written by Niko

Manifestation magic, calling the money to you, raising your vibration—blah blah blah.

The reformulated “prosperity gospel” of modern metaphysical wealth manifestation works decently for people who already have a leg up, but fails to take into account the system in which we’re living—or barely surviving. For witches, and spiritualists it’s a dance between working on your worthiness to allow abundance into your life, and realizing that the energetic rivers that would bring you that abundance are maliciously dammed up by forces beyond you, and you’re only receiving a fraction of your due at all times.

The hidden message behind so much law of attraction style teaching is that if you’re practicing wealth attraction and you’re still poor, it’s because you’re doing something wrong. You’re not surrendering enough, or devout enough, or you don’t love yourself enough.

Wrong. Energy is magical but capitalism is exploitative to a fault, and it is entrenched into every aspect of our existence. As the Internet is fond of saying: We live in a society.

If speaking purely of earthly resources, we could easily be living in a post-scarcity society. “Luxury Space Communism” a la Star Trek, as Vesper likes to say. However, in order to maintain itself in a world bursting with resources, capitalism engineers scarcity to convince us of the continued importance of coin. If you’ve ever seen the stories about Nike purposefully ripping and maiming unsold shoes to make them unwearable before disposal, we’re sorry to report that it’s a common practice in fashion. God forbid someone possess a status symbol they didn’t pay market value for.

This brings us to today and our focus on the Earth element, which is often represented by pentacles or “coins” in the tarot suits. We have been trained from birth to only recognize the glint of coin as wealth. This month, we encourage you to invert the expectations of the pentacles, to discover and appreciate silent sources of wealth in your lives.

Food is wealth. Obviously, we exchange coin for food, and this has been more stressful than usual thanks to price hikes. Vegetables and carbs and fats and proteins are gifts from the Earth. Take a moment to look at your cabinets, and know that your ancestors would be beside themselves at the sight of your spice rack and the overflowing produce stalls at the grocery store. The level of access we have to life-giving fruits and vegetables and meats in our era is unheard of in human history.

Safety is wealth. Do you have an insulated home to sleep in? A door to close? This is wealth.

Time is wealth. Everyone knows someone who works two or more jobs in order to stay afloat, and the 5-day work week leaves us all time poor. No one can create a fulfilling life in 2 days out of every 7, and the fact that most full-time jobs do not provide living wages is double-think level heresy. And yet, this imbalance is the norm, and plays out over several levels of our lives. We are not meant to live this way.

My father always said when you’re young, you have all the time in the world and no money, and when you’re old, you have all the money and no time. This encapsulates a particular kind of theft, a devil’s deal where we are forced to work our “golden” years away with the assurance that we can enjoy ourselves when we’re old (meanwhile the current US administration is threatening SS, so we can all quit playing along, right?).

Recently, a coworker of ours confided in us that his brother had suddenly passed of a heart condition. He had been weeks away from retirement, and had worked his entire life away for a promise of rest and enjoyment that he will never experience. His family was heartbroken, both for the loss and the cruel timing. Especially with the increased incidence of cardiac events from COVID-19 fallout, this is not unusual. Western humans ruin our health and put our entire existence on standby to earn enough money, save enough leave or earn enough degrees to “make it”, toiling for a promised day when we are free to travel and use our time as we please.

Love is wealth. Love—of all types, not just alloromantic—is the wealth that squeezes blood from a stone, that makes something out of nothing, that transmutes the everyday into an experience.

All of these things are wealth and enrich our lives. Indeed, money is just a crude metaphor for energy spent. It follows that purposeful energy can call in wealth, but we still must contend with our financial reality: that the current exchange rate has been shattered by exploitative parasites like Musk and Bezos.

We say “this is wealth” not to frame basic necessities as a luxury, or shame you for being unaware of your abundance. This is not a condescending “you should be grateful for what you have and ask for no more”. We frame these things as wealth—vital abundance, life-giving, life-ALLOWING wealth—in order to help you understand what is being stolen from us to ensure that capitalism breathes and thieves another day.

Do not blame yourself for failing to thrive in a system designed to alienate you from your human condition, from your connection to Earth, from your bodily and spiritual needs. We cannot individually manifest our way out of a broken system designed to fail; we have to come together to change the system.

In Solidarity,

Niko

Activity - Earth Based Gratitude: Veggie Tales

As there is no holiday in April (besides Inara’s debut), so we don’t have any holiday activities for you. Instead, let’s focus on gratitude as an Earth-based practice. Gratitude is awareness and focus, and can connect us to the whole of an item or experience and its place in our life.

Due to the focus on food and nutrition, those with eating disorders may choose to skip or modify this practice. Take away only what serves and know not every practice is for every person.

After preparing a meal, take a look at everything on your plate. Follow the story of each vegetable, fruit, legume, or any other item (and for those of us raised in the south, please do your best to suppress your thoughts of Larry the Cucumber. He cannot help you here).

Ask yourself: Where did the food on your plate come from? How many trucks did it ride to get to your plate? Go back further. Think of the hands that grew it, that picked it, and the conditions they worked in. How long did it grow on the branch of a tree, or snuggled under a tarp, before it was ready to be plucked? Was it actually plucked while ripe or too early, in order to survive transportation?

What season do they grow best in? What season are you enjoying them in?

Look up how long it takes an orange to ripen, or an avocado to grow. Those piles of avocado at the grocery store carry a slightly different weight now, don’t they? They might even be a miracle, honestly. We stand in the midst of many modern miracles, some of which are beneficial, some costly and extractive to global communities.

Look up the major vitamins and minerals found in your vegetables. Consider the soil that nurtured them, and thank the metals and irons and salts that were present in such perfect balance, and the sun and the rain and the fertilizer and the passage of time.

Similarly, consider your body. We don’t often think about food after we eat it, unless it gives us a stomach ache or gas. When do we appreciate our bodies’ incredible methods of digestion? What makes our stomach growl? No, actually, what makes that noise? We’re asking.

Ironically, Vesper is currently suffering from pancreatitis, the very organ that allows our bodies to turn food into life via chemistry. As such, her diet is limited and nothing is easy, and even though she follows the “rules,” she never feels full or happy or comfortable. (Pancreatitis is repping capitalism here.) She misses not thinking about food in a torturously analytic, best-of-bad-options way, and it made the two of us really consider what a privilege we have in just … eating. Wish us luck for her GI appointment. Niko has fingers crossed for Creon access, even short-term. Until then, Reiki and slow and steady, with an understanding of what she can and cannot eat.

Back to the practice. In short, follow the stories in front of you. It doesn’t have to be food. 

Everything in your life took a journey to join you: your clothes, your keepsakes, your kitchen utensils, the water in your pipes. The cotton in your shirt began as tiny seeds, and the polyester as dinosaur flesh. Can you appreciate yourself and your lifestyle as the convergence of many small miracles? Can you appreciate what you have while reckoning with the very real stranglehold that “the world” (capitalism) has on every resource you have ever needed to live? 

Can you imagine a different system and the life it would allow? Spoilers: our Indigenous brothers and sisters had the right idea.

“...(T)he most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.” – Alanis Obomsawin, 1972

Astrology - Important Dates in April

It is difficult to predict how these transits will effect you without looking at your specific birth chart, so keep these dates in mind and look at the House it is occurring in for you as well as any significant aspects. To help you understand these energies, we paired them with possible overarching themes.

April 7 - Mercury Stations Direct - Bye Bye Retrograde. Meditate with your guides to gain clarity this day.
April 12 - Venus Stations Direct - Last Month’s Emotional Struggles Start to Make Sense. Do a clearing through a scrub or sound. (Soundbath anyone? 😉)
April 12 - Full Moon in Libra - Ask your Mental Self and Emotional Self to come into balance as Mercury and Venus are no longer Retrograde—go within this night and do some housekeeping and GROUNDING.
April 16 - Mercury Enters Aries - Quick Speech and Urgency. Be mindful of moving too quick but use this energy to propel you. Especially after Mars enters Leo.
April 18 - Mars Enters Leo - Celebrate that Mars is no longer in Cancer. This is a much more comfortable place for this planet. Hoping to get more energy here.
April 19 - Sun Enters Taurus - Moooooo-ove Over Aries Season. 🐄 We are Luxuriating today. I am feeling a face mask and maybe a massage on this day. If you’re in the DMV we’ll see you at the soundbath! Come set your spiritual boundaries and invoke protection.
April 27 - New Moon in Taurus - Abundance Magic! I will likely be resetting my money bowl.
April 30 - Venus Enters Aries - Vibe: What’s Love Got to Do With It by Tina Turner. This isn’t a comfy season for Venus, but you know, it can be fun with the right mindset.

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Ask Aster - Do you have an Abundance Spell? -Nay

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Now that we have talked more about what abundance is, I want to start this section out by stating that any magic on abundance, just like any other magic, is a marriage between the strength of your emotional body, the will of the mental body, and the actions of the motivational body. Magic is the harnessing of the ability to self to actualize. Half of the power is in creating the ritual space to open the doorway, and the other half is changing behavior and outlook until it becomes subconscious.

Yes, there is magic in emotional manifestation, and we will talk about that with the water element next month. There is that unexplainable magic that I have been witness to and been the source of that science cannot explain. Ritual works. But not always how we expect.

Tip: When calling in abundance, don’t choose what it looks like, or you may clog your flow. Maybe it comes in the form of something you needed, so now you don’t have to spend the money on it, which is great! In a way you loosened up some cash, but it didn’t come as cash. Hopefully, at this point in the newsletter we’re looking at abundance in a whole new light.

It’s also important to remember that equally important to calling it in and receiving is outlook and action.

Example: You can do all of the abundance incantations in the books, but if you don’t take action or accountability in overspending every loose penny you have, then we end up in the same place but with more (often useless) things.

That being said, I have a practice where I refresh my money bowl every earth sign new moon; how amazing you asked this right before a Taurus new moon. The universe truly knows no accidents.

My money bowl is in a place where I can see it. There is a pond of coins and in the center a small frog statue. Frogs are magical little creatures that sync well with abundance for me. When I see him, he reminds me to be grateful for what I have and also that if I want a flourishing pond, I have to take actions to make it that way. He reminds me I am creative potential.

Join us on Patreon to learn exactly what I do, step by step on the New Moon. For now, here is a small charm:

“Wealth and fortune, grow and stay,

Blessings come in every way.”

Thanks for reading! We hope your April is grounding and restful!

As always, please share with any loved ones who may need these messages. We grow together.

Much Love,

Thank you for being a part of Three Cups Circle. 💗 

Listening to: This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

I’ll let this article speak for itself, but something that I’ve been thinking about is the fact that it’s past time to discuss who are actually the stewards of this land. As Environmental Protections are being rolled back and threatened, let’s not forget this is not a new battle, but we are this generation of Warriors. Follow your local Indigenous Tribes, and lead charges in your community if you can. Nothing is more witchy that fighting for Mother Earth. This land was made for you and me, not corporations.

Reading: Emergent Strategy

Themes on trust and community? Check. Looking toward Nature for answers? Check. Ancestral Root healing? Check. Little changes lead to big changes? CHECK. This book holds the energy of the Earth Element in multiple layers. Meditation, Seeking Depth, Food Accountability, Vulnerability, Inclusion, Connection. It’s all Earth Element. Her site here.

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