Full Moon Greetings!

The August 2016 Full Moon has many names: Corn Moon, Sturgeon Moon, and Bear Moon among others. Traditionally, it marks a time of abundance before the seasons change, and the Wheel of the Year turns.

Here in the desert, the moon is bright orange, perhaps because of the raging fire in the San Bernadino Mountains. The air is warm and tinged with smoke.

What has this Aquarius Moon illuminated for you? Did you discover anything new? Is your life swift like the sturgeon's? Has your magic ripened like the corn? Or are you like the bear, grounded and readying for winter?

Full Moons are a time of completion. Staring down the deadline for completing my next book, I imagine standing in the paw prints of a great black bear and being grounded, and focused on my work. Alas, with the high temperatures outside, I am more inclined to hibernate.

May the fires (and floods) end their destructive cycles. May your August Full Moon be filled with magic and bright blessings.

~Ariella Moon

I first noticed that schizophrenics appeared to be open channels - mediums unable to block or control messages bombarding them from other realms - when I worked as an assistant manager in a store on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. Telegraph had a large homeless population in the early eighties (and may still to this day), and on my lunch hour I would often encounter muttering or yelling street people.

I thought of those tormented souls when when my mother returned from Africa after three years running a nursing school and bush hospital on the Uganda/Kenya border. Upon her return, and the culture shock that followed, she left her pre-Africa career as an emergency room charge nurse, and became a nurse at a private psychiatric hospital.

When I explained to Mom how psychics often receive messages in the language of symbols and metaphors, she began to look for these clues. Her conversations with patients took on new meaning and understanding.

My mother's nursing experiences in the the mental hospital came back to me when I read this well-written article, "What a Shaman Sees in a Mental Hospital" posted by Sunshyne.

Psychic abilities, if not understood and controlled, can be frightening. No wonder so many people who experience the paranormal self-medicate with alcohol and drugs to dull the voices and visions.

What if we could change the narrative?

Mental health experts have long advocated a multiple treatment approach to mental illness, usually a combination of drugs and talk therapy. What if therapists incorporated psychic shielding and energy protection into the conversation? What if they were trained in psychic/paranormal sensitivity, and the language of mediums? How many bright minds might we save?

Let us not be afraid to look for answers beyond our own culture and realm of understanding.



Copyright 2016 by Ariella Moon