🔥I burned my shame over the toilet (and you should too)!

✨ May you nourish your soul, clear your space, and let May matter

Happy Full Moon, Reader!

This one is extra potent. We're sitting right at Beltane — the sacred midway point between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice — and that makes this a powerful 3-day window for ritual.

Here's the magic formula: Whatever you ritualize, you will actualize. ✨

But before anything can come to fruition? You must let go. That's the energy of every full moon — release, shed, make room.

🌊 What I Meditated On This Morning

I sat with this question for myself — and honestly, for the collective too:

What do we need to release to best serve who we're becoming?

Here's what came through. Read this list slowly. If something lands for you, create a ritual around it.

🍃 What I'm Letting Go Of

😔 Guilt — including guilt for "cheating" or thinking I'm not doing enough
🙈 Lying — to myself and to others
🚪 Denial
😞 Victimization
😮‍💨 Martyrdom
🎭 Imposter Syndrome — the feeling of being a fake
🙏 Over-pleasing — needing to be liked
📣 Justification
✨ Shiny Object Syndrome
🪄 Magicalizing — magic without intention creates false hope. The shift: when you intentionalize,you will magicalize
🔁 Self-Sabotage — which is really just misdirected self-love
👉 Blaming
😤 Complaining
👀 Comparison
⏰ Overestimating time — thinking things take don'ts take as longas they do
📱 Distractions
💚 Envy & Jealousy
🙅 Feeling powerless — the belief that I have no control
🌀 Ruminating
🧊 Freezing
😶 Shame

🕯️ How to Ritualize Your Release

You don't need to make a big production of this. Keep it simple, keep it intentional. Here are a few of my favorite ways:

💧 Water Release Write what you're releasing on a piece of water-soluble or rice paper. Before you let it dissolve in a bowl of water, get centered. Breathe. Then say something like:

"Thank you for protecting me with this belief. I'm ready to let it go — it no longer serves who I'm becoming."

🔥 Fire Release Burn it. Options:

Magic Paper (you know I love this 🙌)

A candle over the sink
A fire pit
Honestly? My favorite is burning it over the toilet — zero cleanup, full release 😂

Do whatever feels good and works with what you have. The declaration is what anchors it into the NEW grid. Say it out loud. Mean it.

🌺 A Note on Rituals

What I've learned over the past decade is this: ritualizing makes my life rich. When I nourish my soul first, everything else gets nourished too — and I actually have time for it all.

I'd love to know — what are your rituals? Hit reply and tell me what you're releasing this full moon. 🌕