Embrace the Beaver Moon: Set Intentions with the New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios
By Dennis Bluthardt at Namaste Studios
The Beaver Moon, usually in November, is named when beavers are most actively getting ready for winter. This full Moon marks a time where intention-setting and goal creation come in as they did today, the Beaver Moon is a time for us to look inward/reflect, and as it’s the last full Moon before the winter solstice, set some goals with intention. We can use a tool, such as Namaste Studios’ New Moon Journal, to think, set goals, and clarify new focuses.
The New Moon Journal has “Get Clear” guiding questions and prompts to help manifest, set, and create our SMART goals (i.e., Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and time-bound). That way, we’re waging it forward by creating our structures to keep on making! It is an old and tried-and-true recipe that takes time and works; this way, we can also look back and see our progress and assess where we are being too hard on ourselves.
Affirmations also massively affect our energy and levels of doing good and/or staying on the positive side of things when it comes to manifesting. The last thing I want is for you to think that it doesn’t work; it does! Stay on the bright side with your affirmation(s); they will become a predefined typed string in your brain. Let’s make it in the “I AM” style, not “I AM NOT!!!”
As always, we continue to allow and resonate with this Beaver Moon energy through intention-setting and goal creation. We embrace the magical details of our moon/cards and manifest our realities, shifting our perspectives of custom feature logic and our progress under the Moon’s phases.
What is the Beaver Moon?
The Beaver Moon is November’s full Moon and has historically been the ideal time of the year for, you guessed it, beavers, to prepare for winter. This timing of the season is significant, of course, not only for beavers but for central animal agriculture practices as well. Indigenous tribes and early humanoid civilizations relied on cycles like these to determine their trappings schedules, which led to the Beaver Moon’s name being established after it was time to harvest one’s catch of the season, the catch being all the beavers trapped before the favorite swampland areas froze over to prepare to be used for the coldest parts of the winter. Extensive beaver pellet extractions were essential for these civilizations’ power in the winter.
The Beaver Moon is a significant reflection on life, okay? With this moon landing at the end of November, it is typically the last full Moon of the fall. When’s a better time to reflect on your accomplishments of the year than when you’re preparing for the “lasts”? The last fall semester’s finals. The previous chapters of a book. Maybe even the last few cross-country trips. The Beaver Moon helps to symbolically and psychologically deepen the doorway between your mind and the current environment in which you live, helping to magnify a connection between both you and your input and output of resources. As this occurs, of course, our little helpful beavers are simultaneously preparing their lodges, symbolizing the primal forward movement of all of us.
Well, this is fun, state the obvious here. At the end of November, we get the earth’s lovely promise of “it’s time to…slowww…down.”. That’s right, the completion of old promises/the creation of new ones, and a way to tone down mentally or emotionally experience life and settle into the energy of our latest experiences. Until the end of November, I hope you say hello to your inner beaver and allow him to guide you through the last bit of transition this fall. Stay warm and connected to your ideas as the days are getting shorter and the skies are getting colder.
The Power of the New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios
The New Moon Journal is a tool meant to take you from the story you live now and into the one YOU CHOOSE for yourself. It is a time to reflect on your future self by using the energy of the New Moon, a time associated with new beginnings, growth, manifestation, setting intentions, and increased energy, to write and speak new intentions into existence. It is filled with prompts to help you explore your thoughts and feelings about yourself and your life. Put, you will ring in that “HELL YES” life one New Moon phase at a time.
Creating SMART Goals Aligned with the Beaver Moon
SMART is an acronym for S-Specific, M-Measurable, A-Achievable, R-Relevant, and T-Time-bound. Each goal should be:
- Specific: If you want to be better at pushups, say ‘I want to be able to do 100 pushups!’
- Measurable: How else will you know you’re better at them unless you track how many you can do over time?
- Achievable: Let’s be honest, if you can only do one pushup right now, 100 will take some time.
- Relevant: If you want to be a master yogi, being able to do 100 pushups might not align with this broader life goal.
- Time-bound: When do you want to be able to achieve your goal by? Later today? (Good luck.)
Ensuring your stretch with Adriene goals are SMART will keep you on track and motivated to get back on your board day after day.
The Role of Affirmations in Your Journey
A powerful tool in personal development is affirmations, which can help overcome negative thoughts and self-sabotage.
They can reshape our beliefs and attitudes about the world more positively and optimistically.
Repeating these daily affirmations can help reinforce your self-worth and confidence and create an “I can do” mindset that allows you to approach any situation with a new purpose.
Aligning affirmations with retrieved energies where the Moon represents productivity, creativity, and a secure start. Makes these ideals more effective.
When you make them, affirmations should be SPECIFIC, POSITIVE, and PRESENT TENSED.
So instead of the affirmation of being “I will be successful”, try doing “I am successful because of my present-focused, state of mind that allows me to exercise full mental capacity.”
Affirmation with clear intentions paired with the Beaver Moon’s productive and initiative energy will get you up and running so you can start taking actionable steps toward achieving your dreams.
Affirmations should be led by imagery and feeling. Spending the time to fully imagine yourself (and to feel the emotions of what it would be like to be) successful. These feelings of positivity help individuals anchor suggestions in themselves that deepen their connection to the affirmations and allow them to resonate more with the subconscious mind.
Affirmations should be done daily. Especially during these cycles of the Beaver Month, affirmations should be repeated often. A good idea is to have these down on paper.
Leave them around the house or in frequently visited spaces. Seeing these cards around the house repeatedly allows children to perceive them as more interesting images and symbols.
Affirmations like those that say, ‘I am beautiful the way I am,’ and ‘I can be successful in achieving greatness,’ anchor individuals’ hearts and minds to love, care, and trust. This will give you a sense of passion behind achieving these ideals of fulfillment. Having them resonate in the subconscious allows the mind to harness the Beaver Moon’s creative, flowing energy that transmutes all into the positive state of growth.
Releasing What No Longer Serves You
The Beaver Moon in November is a time of reflection, encouraging you to prepare for the winter months ahead. During this phase, it’s essential to try to let go of anything that essentially sucks, negative thoughts, people, and situations that serve as obstacles on your evolutionary path. If you can, respect yourself enough to create (emotional) space only for that which invites you to feel renewed again, like the Moon itself.
A straightforward way to prepare for the effective release of the November Beaver Moon’s energy is to journal what you wish to be released from. Scratch that, take some time to write out the “story” that translates your desire to release what you’re releasing.
Using the same journaling/releasing techniques repeatedly can seem stale and toxic. If you’re feeling stuck, try a different method that excites you. Use a notepad or online journaling software, or build your story for release using a custom PDF printable on some customized stationery.
Consider which problems, situations, or relationships you’re feeling vexed by. Write about them:
- Who is involved? (You, for one!)
- What is pissing you off?
- When did you reach your breaking point?
- Where did your breaking point (seems to have) happen?
- Why do you want to release this story?
- How do you want to release this story?
Find your power; find a way to release what no longer serves you. We are the artists of our own lives, and it’s not easy to remember or acknowledge when you might be feeling ‘stuck.’
Mindfulness can be easy to forget about, right? As an artist, you may face constant loss in not being understood by others, trying to meet deadlines, etc. If you’re a mama, the loss is personal and generally habitual. So, find your power here and now.
There are plenty of ways to regain your power, sister! Meditation is one of them. Releasing what no longer serves you doesn’t always have to look like a formal assembly for “destruction,” though. The ceremonial process can take on a more personal kind of ritual.
For example, you used journaling as a meditation and combined it into your mindfulness practice. In that case, consider burning the paper (that has your story) and releasing it into the universe that way. If “returning to the light” resonates more with you, you might consider burying the paper in the ground instead. Releasing your story will, of course, be empowering; that’s the point. Why is that you ponder? It’s not just about getting punched in the heart (expecting it to hurt) – it’s part of getting you from point A to point B in preparation for your beautiful, intentional process of moving forward.
Grounding Exercises and Meditation Practices
Our energy can feel different depending on where we are in the Moon’s cycle. It may feel extra high, or we may feel out of balance due to other events, which is why these grounding exercises can come in handy.
Deep breathing, walking barefoot in nature, and sitting quietly under a tree are grounding techniques that can help us feel more connected to the earth. This connection allows us to let go of anything that does not serve us and feel more present to ourselves and life.
Try this simple Full Moon Guided Meditation:
- Find a comfortable and safe space.
- Visualize yourself surrounded by a bright white light.
- Inhale and speak your intentions.
- Exhale and see yourself releasing and letting go of any illusions and ego.
‘Speak’ your intentions into existence with clarity, focus, and purpose. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until your core and heart feel fully connected and open with the universe.
We are preparing our minds, bodies, and all that makes us powerful during the new Moon. We go through all this work so that when the full Moon is overhead, we unleash ourselves to the universe in the divine moment it happens. It feels so amazing. To be right there on the sands is fantastic. That is why our grounding exercises are so important. We create this bond with the sands because the sight of the sands and the Full Moon is beyond words.
Energy Healing Rituals for the Beaver Moon
Energy healing is a holistic lifestyle practice that essentially uses your energy to fix you through a variety of techniques, including, but not limited to, Reiki (the laying on of hands), acupuncture (needles ahoy!), and crystal healing (soothing rocks). We all use energy daily, likely without realizing it, as we have physical, emotional, and mental experiences.
The Beaver Moon, which takes place in November, is a time for us to hold fast and knock out some complex plans before we head into the heart of the month. This can be as simple as something you started, followed through with, and are now wrapping up for the end of the year.
How can you use this to further sprinkle your life with your very own brand of magic? Bonus points for personal transformation, aka the witch’s only constant.
Practicing Gratitude and Reflection
Gratitude can change your attitude. Seeing what is going well versus what is going wrong or what you’re afraid will go wrong instantly changes our mindset. It puts us in a default mindset.
The Beaver Moon is the Full Moon in November. And it helps you set the stage for the upcoming winter season. As life-changing as it can be, this is a time to gather in a harvest of intentions you set earlier and show gratitude for whatever the summer manifested for you.
The New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios was created to help you on that journey. It features reflective exercises and prompts in a structured format that will allow you to benefit from this practice entirely.
Journaling will help you bring into your life whatever you call for and whatever you desire. It enriches the process because, in addition to being written down, this method develops a positive and resilient mindset and is an opportunity for self-growth.
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