46: Flourishing with the Cycles of the Moon with Dr. Ezzie Spencer

Welcome to today's episode of Unclassified Woman and today we
have a special episode for moon lovers! It seems very apt with
today's full moon.


If you'd like to understand more about how the phases of the moon
can affect your mood, mind, body and soul, join Michelle and her
guest, Dr. Ezzie Spencer, with today's show. 


Today we're going to be talking about Ezzie's new book, An
Abundant Life, Flourishing With The Cycles Of The Moon, which is
her concept of Lunar Abundance and also her personal practice.
This practice partners intellect with intuition and it has helped
many women throughout the world, through one to one coaching
sessions and through the support of Ezzie's flourishing online
community at Lunar Abundance.com


Ezzie has trained as a lawyer, worked in government non-profit
and research sectors and earned a Ph.D in Women's Wellbeing and
Justice After Violence. As a result of feeling that something
elemental was missing in the intellectual world of law, Ezzie
began to explore the correlation that she noticed between her
feelings and the phases of the moon. Listen in... I know that
you're going to love this magical topic!


On today's show, Ezzie and Michelle discuss:


Ezzie's book- Ezzie starts out by giving a summary of the
subject at hand, as in her book. 

She says: “It's a step-by-step guide to working with the moon
cycles, to be able to create your best version of your life - and
it's really practical.”

How it stood out for Ezzie in her cultural research, that
different cultures, in their beliefs about the moon, would view
it as either a Goddess or as a God.        As
she says: “Often times we think about the moon as feminine and
indeed it is Goddess-related in many cultures, but in other
cultures, it may viewed as masculine.

Ezzie's favourite phase within these cycles, with the
understanding that things are constantly moving within the
different stages and cycles of the moon, going between the yin
and the yang.  She says: “I would find that those yin phases
would really be welcome and really my favourite phases throughout
the month- although they had their own sets of challenges.”

Michelle and Ezzie discuss a particular time that people tend
to struggle with the most during the cycle. People are familiar
with the obvious setting of intentions at the new moon and the
dramatic and visible impact of the full moon, but there's a lot
more to working with the moon!          
                 
    Ezzie says: “I would say that the number one phase
which women tend to struggle with in the practice, is the Gibbous
moon phase- a few days before the full moon.”

The daily practice which is necessary to develop the
awareness within you to assist you through the transitory phases,
which may be really intense.        Ezzie
says: “Just following that constant practice over time will
render really great results and change.”

Whether this is yet another example of how we have become
disconnected from the cycles of nature. Ezzie says: “You're hear
anecdotally all the time, even from people you wouldn't expect
about the impact of the full moon...”

The original meaning of lunacy, according to the Greek Triple
Moon Goddess. Ezzie says: “Hecate was a very powerful
Goddess and she was one of the very senior priestesses (or patron
of priestesses, or patron of witches in Ancient Greece) and she
represented wealth and magical powers.” 

Whether Ezzie has found, in her working with women with
her Lunar Abundance Practice, that they have become more in touch
with their menstrual cycle. Ezzie says: “I would say that it's
one of the things that women are most interested in with the moon
work.”

What is the best approach when working to deadlines, when one
feels that the current moon phase is counter productive to what
needs to be done?            
  “It's about working with these two principles (yin and
yang) in tandem and harmony.”

Working with non-negotiable principles and values during the
moon cycles. Ezzie says: “To find those pockets of agency you
have to be able to be very intentional about how it is that you
live your life.”

Ezzie shares some wonderful advice for those women who are
still challenged with learning to receive.      
                 
                 
                 
                 
 “There is a whole chapter in the book on receiving and it
is correlated in the Abundance Practice with the sixth of the
eight lunar phases.”

How working with the lunar cycles can have a really positive
effect on your level of productivity.        
                 
                 
                 
                 
      Ezzie says: “The yin cycle is key to being,
I feel, highly productive, highly effective, but doing it in a
way where you're really able to take care of yourself.”

The greatest gift that Ezzie feels she's received in
practising Lunar Abundance. She says: “I feel like...this sense
of relaxing and being able to enjoy life a bit more has been
central to my life now, vs my life before this practice.”  



I hope you love this episode. Find out more about Dr Ezzie
Spencer's work and her book at www.lunarabundance.com and
for more episodes of Unclassified Woman with Michelle, please see
www.michellemariemcgrath.com

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