Intuition and the Moon

Intuition as I am going to be talking about it, is a deeply felt sense of knowing. It lives in the body, which is why it's important to be connected to the earth and to the body's experience - otherwise the intuition is not going to be available for access. It just won't be heard.

It is hard to hear because it does not "compute" so to speak. It's the voice that is most comfortable in the watery realms of our being, in the creative, juicy heart of our existence. It only looks ridiculous when it sits, moonlike, in your office chair next to all those filing cabinets, technological machinery and efficient human beings involved in multitasking.

The intuition is the voice of the moon. It is the chaotic creative voice calling you to listen - to assure that you hear what you are "knowing" in the deepest parts of your being. It's a knowing of the body, not the mind. It's voice is sometimes accompanied by physical phenomena such as buzzing, ticking, pain, warmth, pressure etc. in different parts of the body. It's a deeper more organic way of "knowing" than left brain reasoning. It is your birthright as a human being to have access to this way of knowing, but it is discouraged in our culture because our culture mostly trusts left brain reasoning. The reasoning of the pure light of the sun. Left brain understanding.

To be fully human and to fully understand our place on the earth, we need to have access to all ways of knowing. We need to, within ourselves, honor and encourage the voice of the moon so we can know and understand in a deeper, more connected way. This voice helps us connect our hearts, our minds, our souls, our bodies, with the earth, the moon, the sun, the stars - with all that is. Having access to this voice makes us whole.

It also makes it very difficult for us to do horrible things. Because it connects us with our hearts and souls, it makes it possible for us to feel into what we are doing and know viscerally whether it is right or wrong. It's the voice that leaves us when we participate in violence, in dishonesty, in subterfuge. It's the voice we have to crush under our heel when we walk into that which is wrong.

To hear the voice of the moon takes practice. I would recommend reading the Clarissa Pinkola Estes version of the folktale "Vasalisa" which she recounts in her book Women Who Run with the Wolves. Learn to use an intuitive tool such as tarot or runes. Or just sit and listen to yourself, to your inner workings - learn to hear and trust that inner knowing. This can result in finding lost pieces of yourself. Sometimes listening in this way will wake you up to just how deeply you have not been listening to your inner knowing, and how far your life has drifted off course because of this. Listening to the voice of the moon can be a call to action, to course correction.

Ultimately, listening to the voice of the moon will result in living a life more clearly in tune with the heart and soul of who you are. The world is waiting for you to do just that. The world needs you to learn the language of the moon, and to take your place with the wise ones who will guide us home. Heed the call.