Transmuting the Tide: A Last Quarter Moon Letter

A Waning Moon Ritual for Heavy Feelings

Hi friends,

We’re in the last quarter moon in Gemini and I’m feeling it deeply. This letter is a window into my own process this week—the ways I’ve been sitting with big feelings, leaning on ritual, and letting the ocean, the trees, and cacao guide me back to myself. If you’re moving through something tender too, maybe this reflection and the ritual I share below will offer you a little space, breath, or inspiration.

September 14, 2025

Last Quarter Moon in Gemini

Learning to navigate and expand the heart sometimes triggers the nervous system. This week, I’ve been heeding the call to stop, assess, and allow myself to rest while feelings pour through my body. My mind can’t keep up with the story or justify any of it, so I go to color. I move the sensations with sound and shaking. I breathe deeply every morning, calling all my pieces back to the present.

I cry. I rage and stomp my feet. I laugh out loud and lean into my tree friends, feeling their steady hold and seemingly endless breath.I rest. I sleep in. I cry for those in distress and desperately wish for a magic wand.I pet my cats and linger a little longer. I settle.

“It will all be okay,” I hear the whispers as I sit at my altar, bathing in sage smoke and candlelight. Then I get up and paint. Then I sleep again.

This has been the rhythm of a week I cannot quite make sense of.

I know the moon wanes, and on the shore of the Pacific in the late summer sun, I listen for truth. I hear only the waves crashing onto the shore. I hear the joy of a new surfer finding their first grounding stance on the board. I remember that life is full of endless learning curves and crazy obstacles that challenge our becoming. I want to meet them with lightness in my step and an understanding of my soul’s desire.

I continue to appreciate the elixir of cacao I get to enjoy and share, feeling my heart settle as I sit with the mother of stimulating plants. I choose joy and curve my mouth into a smile, even as tears of insecurity and dread pour down my face. I smile to remind myself that even though it all matters so deeply, it’s just not that serious. This will all pass sooner than we know.

There are gifts in every moment—every feeling felt and allowed to be expressed. We do not have to attach or create a justification. Much of it is what we eat and don’t eat, how we move and don’t move, how much we honor soul or spirit or not. It’s all movable.

Right now feels like a perfect time for a Transmutation Ritual. I love my Moon App because it reminds me of the many ways we can use ritual to move through what might otherwise keep us stuck in trauma.

The Transmutation Ritual

This ritual takes a base energy that’s causing you pain or discomfort and transforms it into positive energy.

1. Get clear. Decide what you want to transmute and what you’d like it to become.Example: anger → peace, loneliness → connectedness, low self-worth → self-love, scarcity → abundance.

2. Set the space. Center and ground yourself. Burn loose incense over a charcoal disc set in a fireproof container. Choose herbs and resins that align with your intention. Watch the incense smoke while contemplating the negative energy or emotion you wish to transmute. Understand that this painful feeling is shared by many others.

3. Visualize. When the incense has finished burning, sit comfortably. Close your eyes and visualize violet light filling you from the crown of your head and surrounding you.

4. Transform. Bring your attention to the base energy. Breathe it in, visualizing it as smoke or haze. As you hold it in your lungs, allow it to be transformed into positive energy—perhaps burning in a violet flame or dissolving and reforming.

5. Release. Breathe the positive, healing energy out into the world—not only for yourself, but for everyone sharing the same pain.

Repeat until you feel the energy shift and lighten.

Always in love,

Quinne

a little peak into my journal

Poem for Now

I feel a deep sense of loss.

My heart cracks open;

Sadness rises, unnamed sensations bloom.

Tears gather at the edges of my eyes.

My heart aches

with no story to attach to it.

Above me, the sky is a clear blue.

Strangers smile.

My home is filled with love and color.

My body is strong.

Cacao waits for me in the cupboard.

I sit inside this moment, baffled.

I sit with this feeling, just feeling.

Breath moves through me,

a tide returning to shore.

And slowlyI find my equilibrium.

May whatever you’re carrying today soften in your hands, may your breath guide you back to yourself, and may you remember — you are not alone in this tide.