Purifying Foot Bath Ritual
UPDATE 11/15/22
UPDATE 11/4/22
Hope you are managing well midway through this eclipse season. How has the foot bath been?
Just wanted to drop this here, some practical tips for this week before the lunar eclipse on Nov 8.
As we are getting ready for a pretty rough eclipse, a reminder to work with your nervous system and find ways to remain embodied and grounded. There are likely some emotional and mental narratives that can be growing in intensity through this weekend. If you haven’t already done your second bath it may be a good time!
Trust that all emotional suffering is within proximity to love
Pain, anxiety, depression are a direct cry for love.
Our work is to decipher the workings of suffering, finding the bridge that brings ease to the disparate.
Acknowledging that love is at the base of all emotions, even suffering. Aggression, violence and ill intent show the lack of love. Our work is to accept where there is love and to identify where love is devoid - while this does not guarantee we will not be hurt, it does mean that we can be more aware, less resentful less likely to further perpetuate our own suffering.
(video uploaded Oct 14)
This foot bath was designed for use during the periods of Oct 17-November 23.
The suggestions made about the time to initiate your foot bath ritual is astrologically based and focuses on the eclipse cycle. For magical practitioners, feel free to use your own intuition as these are suggestive.
My only request is to refrain from doing any ritual on the day of the eclipse solar eclipse October 25 & lunar eclipse November 7. If you wish to do some form of magical workings just cast protection over yourself and your space.
Additional items needed in preparation for your foot bath:
Basin for foot bath
Additional sea salt for foot bath (Optional)
Candle for setting intention (optional)
Journal or paper/pen
A sanctioned space for your ritual, either on an beside your altar or a meditative and peaceful space
Ideal times for initiating your ritual:
**Conceptually, the time of initiation is important for ensuring the result that you would like to achieve. Choosing the ‘right time’ to do something astrologically is always a challenge as the planets are continually in motion and relation to one another. Its kind of like gathering the perfect ingredients for a recipe, except the store you are getting your ingredients always has rotating suppliers always with varying quality - So we try to get the best ingredients that are available to make the recipe. LOL a sad, but hopefully helpful metaphor to explain planetary elections.
If we were to go by a rating system for ensuring effectiveness of achieving release, doing things on the waning phase of a monthly lunar cycle is 2 points. Closing out stale and stagnant energies during a scorpio eclipse cycle is like 8 points.
Additional suggestions of times to refine your ritual time can be an added 5 points:
Between the evening of October 17 and the evening of October 22 are ideal times to begin your ritual.
By the evening of October 17, we will be with the darkening of the moon, after its 3rd quarter, which is an ideal time for reflection and supporting the process of release.
Tuesday Oct 18 around 10:30pm - (If you have an astrology program the chart should show a Cancer Ascendant) Moon sextile to mercury and trine Chiron. Moon further applies to Uranus and Saturn. Will suggest revelation in ways that are both exciting and sobering. Seems to mirror the upcoming Mars rX cycle with Netpune and Jupiter above head. Good for a kick in the butt if you’re ready for that, although the overall energetics of this eclipse cycle are already that way.
Weds Oct 19 around 10:30pm - (If you have an astrology program it should show a Cancer Ascendant) Friendly-ish aspects of the moon to Mars Venus and Sun. Although Sun is exactly square Pluto, will be a great time for clarity around setting an intention. If you couldn’t think of an intention it may show up this day as Sun/Pluto contacts offer intense reveals. No malefics on angles and Jupiter Neptune above head. Healing vibes and will highlight communications and mindset.
Friday Oct 21 between 6:13pm-6:21pm (if you have an astrology program try to get a Taurus rising) - Moon trine Uranus in first house. Sun Venus conjunction (cazimi) setting in the sky. An ideal time to reflect on yourself and all that is birthing through you. Developing a stronger sense of self and reimagining/reframing relational patterns.
Sat Oct 22 approx 7:42pm-7:48pm - (if you have an astrology program try to get the time closest to a Gemini Ascendant @ 00’) Moon oppose Jupiter, Mercury trine Saturn. Moon is in the balsamic phase, the very last moments of light before the eclipse. This is a moment where the eclipse energy will start to intensify and more of the information will start to come in in regards to what is clearing and processing during the upcoming eclipse period. The Mercury/Saturn and Moon/Jupiter contact feels stabilizing and inspiring.
Sunday Oct 23 evening - The last day before it gets eclipsy, There are no aspects (no activity, no result) this evening until the Moon is trine Saturn at approximately 4am sounds unappealing but just articulating that this would be the last suggested time to initiate your ritual kit
Setting up your space:
-Feel free to work with a candle to hold your intentions
-Bring in your sacred items or work with your altar
-Get comfy
-Have a towel ready to wipe your feet or any spills
-Also have hot water handy if you want to continue to keep the footbath going
Getting ready to define an intention:
As there are 3 servings of the foot bath and 3 charcoal tablets it will be nice to continue your prayers and your intentions throughout the eclipse cycle which closes out on November 23 at the Sagittarius New Moon.
We may already know what we are processing internally right now, and it may also feel difficult to think as clearly prior to the eclipse. If you do not have an intention when you start your footbath, ask your guides to support you with showing you what will be most helpful to you at this time.
Here is a prayer that you can use to support your intention process as you initiate your ritual. If this feels aligned for you, please use. You’re welcome to add or subract from this template, and also don’t be shy to create your own.
I honor and thank the original caretakers of the lands that I am on (name of lands),
I lovingly acknowledge all the steps taken to be here in this present moment, honor my past and honoring my journey.
I ask my most healed and benevolent ancestors to support me as I continue on the path of being rooted in my heart.
May this medicine help to ground me in my body and clear stagnancy in ways that are gentle and easeful. May this medicine allow me to be fully present to myself and what is in front of me.
I ask my most healed and benevolent ancestors to support me in moving through heaviness, sadness, worry and pain.
I ask my ancestors and benevolent guides to reveal answers and truths in ways that I can understand- In my dreams, in meditation and in subtle knowings.
I allow myself to be in a state of acknowledgement so that I can be in full presence to my life.
This I declare, to my guides, my angels, my ancestors, to the heavens and to my human: I connect with purity, the intention of my life.
About the footbath:
Sea salt, Chapparal, Juniper, Bentonite Clay, Eucalyptus essential oil, Wormwood essential oil, baking soda, ocotillo flower essence, orange blossom water
Feel free to wash your feet with clean water after the footbath and then applying oil with light massage. It is recommended to do before bed, or making sure that your environment after the bath is low key, not hectic and if possible meditative. I like the idea of doing the bath and going straight to bed.
The energetics of this upcoming month are very ungrounding on many levels, with the air and water element very active. A foot bath brings the energy downward and also promotes detoxification (which is a function that is synonymous with Scorpio).
These footbaths bring an opportunity to draw energy downwards from the active mind and heart to a more grounded state. It is likely that you will be more present with your feelings and during this time & that may look like sadness/grief/anxiety/hurt/anger. In my experience, the emotional effects of the footbath are strong the next day - and so, understand that ritual is not only the moment of initiation, but it is a continual effort (and often unconscious workings) to be with your intentions that you define.
10/3/22
The foot baths have been sent out. More info to come in the next few days.