There’s something deliciously rebellious about being sixty-four and finally understanding that howling at the moon isn’t crazy, it’s perfect for letting it all go. I wouldn’t dare howl on the terrace with the dogs – could you imagine the neighbours? But I can do it at the top of the world – a place that I walk behind my village.
I was gazing at the hills this morning, brushing my teeth, feeling the Lions Gate energy settle. I felt that familiar stirring. Not the frantic “I must manifest now” energy that the Cosmic Content Factory loves to sell, but something that feels less like a cosmic assignment and more like an old friend saying, “Ready for this new cycle and remember who you really are?”
Today, the dust is settling from 8/8, isn’t it? Your social feeds are probably still buzzing with portal activation reports and cosmic upgrade testimonials. I did attend a lovely Lions Gate Activation last night, but I don’t feel any need to announce it.
But here’s what I want to know: How do you feel in your actual body today? Not your spiritual body or your energetic field – your tired, wise, beautifully human flesh and bones that’s been carrying you through this messy, magnificent life?
Because that’s where the real portal work happens. Not in the downloads, the light language or the crystal grids. Though I do love all of these. The real magic is in what you do with all that stirred-up energy now that the cosmic dust has settled.
Tonight’s Full Moon in Aquarius – our Sturgeon Moon – arrives not as another spiritual performance, but as an invitation to integrate yesterday’s fire into something sustainable and grounded. Something that doesn’t require explaining to anyone who wasn’t there when your wild heart first remembered her desires.
But first, let me answer how I feel in my body. I went to the doctors on Friday to review my latest blood results. One new one stood out; my immune system is attacking my thyroid. After going through my results, he put me on watch and wait. And while it’s brilliant to be told that even with MGUS and this thyroid thing, I still feel tired and bloated, and did I say tired? But I am a take responsibility for your health kinda gal, so I will research and make changes, because I do love a challenge and getting these numbers down in 6 months is mine.
The Significance of This Full Moon
August 9, 2025, sits in that delicious space between cosmic activation and practical, down-to-Earth integration. The Lions Gate Portal opened us to possibility – all that Sirius starlight and Leo’s fire asking us to remember our creative sovereignty, step into our authentic self-expression, and stop dimming ourselves for other people’s comfort.
But portals, I’ve learned, are a lot like your spine fracturing. The opening part gets all the attention, but the real work happens in what you birth afterwards.
This Full Moon lands in Aquarius – I see this as asking ” How do you honour your unique wild heart while serving something larger than yourself?”
This isn’t a philosophical question for women who’ve earned their wisdom through decades of living – it’s deeply personal. We’ve spent years learning when to roar and when to rest, when to fight and when to flow. This Sturgeon Moon whispers: Trust your wisdom.
The timing feels significant in another way, too. In numerology, we’re moving from the infinity energy of 8/8 to the completion energy of 9 – a number that speaks to endings, wisdom, and preparing for new cycles. This is a new 8-year cycle for when I chose to become Dale and not Jacqui. It’s the perfect lunar moment to ask, “What did yesterday’s portal show me, and how do I live it now?”
The Season We’re In & Its Meaning
Late summer holds a particular medicine for those of us who’ve lived long enough to understand her gifts. This is the season that speaks to women who’ve learned the difference between productivity and purpose, between being busy and being useful, between performing wellness and living it. The Cosmic Content Factory loves to rush us toward the next thing – the next portal, the next activation, the next level of consciousness. But late summer whispers: “What if you’re already enough? What if the work is simply tending what you’ve grown?“
In traditional Chinese medicine, late summer is associated with the Earth element – grounding, nurturing, the belly-deep knowing that comes from being rooted in your truth and beingness.
How This Full Moon Relates to Women
Something about this Sturgeon Moon calls specifically to those of us who’ve moved beyond seeking external validation for our choices. We are the Wise Women who’ve learned that our sensitivity isn’t a character flaw but a superpower earned through practice. We carry healing stories that would heal the world if we were brave enough to tell them without sanitising the difficult parts.
This resonates so much with me, as I have just discovered early-stage Hashimoto’s. I need to speak up and out.
Our relationship with lunar energy has evolved, hasn’t it? Where once we might have felt moon phases as dramatic tides pulling at our reproductive cycles, now we feel them as deeper callings – to our creativity, truth-telling, and right to take up space without justification. The Sturgeon Moon speaks to women who’ve learned to read their rhythms, who understand that their wildness isn’t something to be tamed but something to be trusted.
This is the moon of the woman who finally stops apologising for her intensity, opinions, and refusal to pretend that age has made her smaller rather than fiercer. She’s the one who honours her ancestral lineage not by repeating their patterns of self-sacrifice, but by being the woman they dreamed of becoming but weren’t allowed to be. This makes me cry thinking of the women that came before me who couldn’t follow their dreams and trust their wild hearts.
Rituals & Practices
These practices emerge from the understanding that real transformation happens not in performance but in honest encounters with ourselves – the messy, magnificent, wonderfully weird and perfectly imperfect selves we are.
Water Truth-Telling: The Flow of What’s Real
Find moving water – a stream, river, ocean waves, your kitchen tap flowing into a bowl or sit by a running shower. Sit with the water and ask yourself this Sturgeon Moon question: “What truth have I been avoiding that’s ready to surface now?” Not the spiritual truth you think you should have, but the honest, human, sometimes inconvenient truth that’s been swirling around like an angry fish – not that I know what an angry fish looks like. These words came to me…
Consider your truths. Maybe it’s “I’m tired of pretending I’m not tired.” Perhaps it’s “There’s something I’m afraid to name.” Let each truth be exactly what it is – no editing for palatability.
When you are finished, close your journal and wash your hands.
Stone Marking: Claiming Your Territory
Find a stone that is smooth enough to write on. Under tonight’s moonlight, write a word that represents the part of you that refuses to be tamed anymore. It might be “No,” “Enough,” “Mine,” “Finally,” or “Yes” – whatever vibrates in your bones when you imagine living without apology.
Hold this stone while you speak aloud what you’re claiming. Not what you think you should claim, but what your belly-deep wisdom knows is yours to inhabit. Then place it somewhere meaningful – your garden, altar, bedside table – as a daily reminder that you’ve marked this territory as your own for this moon cycle.
Ancestral Honouring: Letters to the Ones Before You
Light a candle and call to mind a woman from your lineage – biological or spiritual. Maybe she’s your grandmother who kept her real dreams locked in her diary, or a historical figure whose courage made your current freedom possible.
Write her a letter sharing where you are now in your journey. Tell her about your decision to trust who you are and your choices, even when others can’t understand it. Thank her for the courage that lives in your DNA, for the wildness she protected so you could finally express it.
You can burn this letter, sending your gratitude as a smoke signal to the Universe. Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is acknowledge that our freedom stands on the shoulders of women who weren’t allowed to be free.
Moon Journaling: The Deep Dive
Under tonight’s Sturgeon Moon light (or candlelight if clouds obscure her), begin writing with this prompt: “The truth I’m finally ready to surface is…”
But here’s the twist that makes this more than spiritual journaling: don’t write what you think sounds evolved, wise, or appropriate. Write what your gut knows, what your bones remember, and what your tired and magnificent heart has been trying to tell you when you’re quiet enough to listen. Let your blood flow with the words that have to come.
Write until you surprise yourself. Write until you tell a truth that makes you slightly uncomfortable with its honesty. Write until you feel that deep sigh of recognition – the sound of something ancient and patient finally being allowed to breathe.
This isn’t about creating beautiful prose or spiritual insights for your Instagram. This is about creating space for your wild voice to surface from whatever depths it’s been swimming in, waiting for the right conditions to finally speak.
Join the Lunarium: Sacred Space for Wild Women
If these words resonate in your bones, if you’re tired of swimming alone in waters that feel too deep for solitary navigation, I want to invite you to something I’m creating – a Lunarium. It’s not another program promising to fix or upgrade you, but a sacred space where women gather to honour their cycles, their wisdom, their right to swim upstream without explanation and roar at the moon if they want to.
In our Lunarium, we meet monthly in the days surrounding each full moon. We share writing practices that cut through spiritual bypassing to the raw truth underneath. We witness each other’s becoming without trying to solve, improve, or optimise anyone. We remember that the most radical thing women can do is gather in their solar plexus power and refuse to make themselves smaller.
This isn’t therapy, though healing happens; of course, it will. It’s not coaching, though transformation occurs naturally when women stop performing and start being real with each other. It’s a return to something ancient – women gathering under moonlight to remember who they are when they’re not managing anyone else’s comfort.
You Are Already Whole
Tomorrow morning, when the Sturgeon Moon has set and the ordinary world tries to convince you that last night’s truths were just lunar fantasy, remember this: the sturgeon doesn’t surface to prove anything. She appears because the conditions are right, because her deep wisdom is needed, because she trusts her own timing completely.
You don’t need to be activated, upgraded, or downloaded into. You need to be witnessed, honoured, and reminded that your upstream journey is your wisdom rising. Your wild heart is precisely what the world needs, even when the world doesn’t understand that yet.
The Lions Gate opened yesterday, but you are the portal. The Sturgeon Moon rises tonight, but you carry her ancient wisdom in your bones. The water is deep enough for whatever wants to surface through you. Trust your depth. Trust your timing. Trust that you are exactly who you’re meant to be, swimming exactly where your soul calls you to swim.