A Full Moon In Olive

BY AMY BELL, FOUNDER, MOIRA BUSH ACADEMY & AMY BELL, WHITE LIGHTNING COMMUNICATIONS

How do I have hope for the future when I’m sitting in the middle of chaos?

How do I tap into creative power when I’m feeling disconnected from my gifts?

How do I participate in a goddess circle when I am not feeling very goddessy?

You feel me? Where are you on the goddessy scale? What’s your current level of chaos? How’s that connection to your gifts thing going? Honestly, this is why I started this magazine in the first place. When shit goes sideways, I turn to the rainbow for answers. The rainbow is my therapist, she is my connection to source and provides all the answers I need. And since you’re reading (or listening) to this right now, colour may be your ticket too.

Unlike the olive tree that takes time to mature this edition came in fast and furious. With the sale of our home only a few days behind us, July first marked a brand new beginning for our family. Given that we had no permanent residence in sight we rented a house on the lake for the summer.

We went from the ‘city’ to hard core lessons in olive, country living. From the swarms of mosquitoes to ridiculously slow Internet to long drives for ‘milk’, we basically had to re-look at how we functioned on a day to day basis. As much as our new lifestyle took a bit to get used to we were incredibly grateful for the experience.

It was a baby step into the environment we want to be in. It prepped us for things to look out for and things we now know we loved. Our new colour retreat centre research at the lake was well worth it.

Olive’s yellow fraction asks us all to step up our game and the green fraction asks us to do it with love.

This is the divine feminine way. The way of the goddess. Olive is the gateway to the green heart chakra. Most of us want to take a giant leap from the yellow solar plexus right into the green heart chakra. I almost made this mistake as well. I didn’t see the importance of olive when next up the ladder was her brighter, more popular sister.

But how can we be ready to fully embrace the immense amount of love held in that green energy centre without first passing through the Olive gateway?

The goddess gateway, the hope for the future gateway, the creative power gateway. Before we can bring balance and harmony into our heart centre we must first do the olive fire-walk. We have to go through a process of rediscovering, reconnecting and recreating what we want for ourselves now and in the future.

Being immersed in all of this olive energy fueled the desire to step up our game and do a full moon, goddess circle colour retreat in August. This would be the first time Brian and I collaborated on a project together. He was the chef and I was the organizer. We both soon realized that we needed a third person to complete the experience. So we brought in United Colours of Design’ Intimacy columnist and olive goddess herself, Jennifer Love, to help with grounding the space and partnering with me to facilitate an amazing experience for our participants.

Before we could open our hearts to the queens that were en route, we had to spend the night in the full moon energizing the space and ourselves. We had to come face to face with our own creative power, our own divine juiciness in order to provide a high frequency container for our ladies.

In doing so we managed to generate an incredible vortex so intense that one of the Colour Mirrors bottles responded by releasing its magic right through the glass! (It’s important to note that these bottles work with the energy of a space or person. Sometimes the change colour, sometimes they leak and sometimes they explode.) The bottle that exploded was called ‘Generosity’ its top fraction is coral and the bottom fraction is pale gold. This bottle is part of our golden Gaia series and her message to us and our participants was this:

Coral is unconditional self-acceptance – I am perfect as I am – and pale gold is your connection to your authentic Divine self. This combination powerfully reconnects you to who you really are, a Divine creation, a magnificent human able to joyously dance your reality into being. If you are already perfect and aligned with your Divine self you can create anything, and this bottle opens you to harvest, abundance, love and joy. Now you can finally see yourself as part of the Divine’s perfection. You deserve everything and more, and as you claim this you can access and generously share all of it. The love that you hold for your precious self is so magnetic that it can attract anything you focus on because you are in alignment with Divine truth. This bottle holds the softly loving power of the Divine feminine and invites you to connect with it as you explore and heal your relationship with the female energies in your life.

This was the magic we had invoked to support us as we started this new beginning. It gave the three of us hope that the divine feminine was present.

The evening with our ladies was incredible. Each of them felt connected to the bottle that had blown up and the message that it brought to the circle. With colour, crystals and the stars guiding us we were able to deeply connect to that feminine energy.

While we were cleaning up the next day we were shocked (but not shocked) when we noticed a second bottle had blown up. The G10 ‘Impeccability’ bottle had cracked and a piece had blown out of the front of the bottle. In this bottle we have blue lilac and pale gold present, it’s message is this:

Impeccability means accepting and honouring every aspect of who you are and being clear and honest about both your shadow and your light. It is not about living up to a false standard of perfection, rather it is about seeing the perfection that already exists in yourself, in others and the world. The colour blue-lilac is about communication (blue) from your spirit (lilac). It asks you to be vigilant with your words and speak with incredible integrity because you hold the power to manifest whatever you say. When you are impeccable, words can no longer be used as weapons or instruments of manipulation. Instead they become vehicles for love and connection. This bottle relates to the masculine side of creation and asks you to make peace with the masculine side of yourself and the males in your life. It takes you into a space of silence, simplicity and deep inner stillness from which you can access the voice of inspiration.

We took this to mean that the divine masculine also wanted to join the party. He closed out the weekend with the same intensity as the divine feminine opened it. We had balance and complete confirmation that we had the full support of all dimensions with us on our new path.

Colour Mirrors bottles G10 and G11 showing us their presence at the Full-Moon, Goddess Circle retreat, August 2022.

Each edition, each colour we work with provides so many insights on how to heal ourselves to remove blocks that stop us from living life full on. While surrounded by olive trees and nature I found the answers to the questions I opened this article with.

How did I participate in a goddess circle when I was not feeling goddessy? I surrounded myself with other goddesses and received confirmation through the explosion of the G11 bottle (above on the left) that I am and we are all joyously dancing our reality into being.

How did I find peace amongst the chaos? I sat still in nature and surrendered to the wonder of not knowing my next move. I surrendered into the belief that the universe has my back and my job is to follow the breadcrumbs and say yes.

How did I reconnect to my creative power? I co-created with others. and listed to the message that G10 ‘Impeccability’ so badly wanted me to hear. I saw the perfection that already existed in myself and in others and let go of trying to control the outcome. This opened the olive gateway and once that happened, the rest was a piece of cake.