Moon Gatherings
The Moon Gatherings is a temple. It’s not a physical one, but one that travels with us and is available for us to step in when we open it for ‘ceremony’. Held in community, this space has been ignited and will be continuing its fire with the intentions of grounding, listening, communing with the visible and invisible, mending our relations and healing within our pluralities.
Amidst the ever-deepening crises facing humanity and Earth, we sense a deep urgency to keep on holding this much needed communal space. We are a movement rooted in resilience and deep care for Earth. We are here to be in service as doulas in times of profound transformation.
The Moon Gatherings has been evolving for the past five years, sustained by a collective of women that wholeheartedly assists one another in the cultivation of this growing space and community. Made possible by its consistency, visionary simplicity and its Earth-based inspired medicine under the initiative and guidance of medicine woman, artist, and Andean priestess Phaxsi Uma aka Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.
The collective consists of Space Holders: Raquel Haug, Elsa May Averill, Inez Almeida, Teresa Borasino, Shailoh Phillips and Supporting Sisters Ruth Borg, Amber Rijcken, Julie Kurris, Roeli Wilms, Johanna Biesewig, Olga Tsyganova and Katherina Bornefeld.
This collective is deeply rooted in practice. With extensive tools, a diverse and rich training in multiple transformative traditions, we are truly elated to continue this important work with a community of weavers, seed planters, artists, shapeshifters, non-conformists, radical caretakers, listeners and sanctuary creators.
Radical listening
For seven years (since 2020), the Moon Gatherings has been rooted in the practice of listening. We sit in circle. We open sacred space. We acknowledge we are part of the terrestrial, the cosmic, the mystery, and the mundane. The fabric of life.
This kind of ceremony weaves a relational web. It decentralises the self, nurtures community, and honours difference. We practice being fully present in our bodies — in their cycles, intuitions, untold stories, and unfinished business. From this presence, insights begin to pour like the first rainfall on a dry landscape.
By tuning into the medicine of the circle and allowing it to open, every New Moon invites a wide spectrum of connections with self and with others. We hold one another and re-member that we are branches of the same source.
This kind of listeningis an act of resistance in a society that tends to silence vulnerability, erases difference, and imposes one single way of being. Together, in multi-voiced kinship, we release what no longer serves us and we celebrate!
Intentions
Embracing the cracks
Holding ceremony
Creating Sanctuary
Space for transformation
Reciprocity
Re-membering
Sisterhood
Community
The circle is the medicine
You are the medicine