Moon Food

La Lune, Mother Moon, Luna, in German: Mond. Mond-ays are sacred to the big rock satellite that makes a 28-days cycle around the Earth. Maybe due to the fact its orbit determines the tides and follows the female menstrual cycle, the Moon is considered the Divine Feminine (paired with the Solar Masculine) and its element is water.

(Just to clarify, masculine/feminine doesn’t denote gender but the yin and yang qualities necessary to keep life in balance. I’ll blog about solar qualities in another post.)

Yin is feminine is receptive is intuitive is passive is living in flow.

We need lunar foods in our lives to remind us to go within and act as a tie from our conscious selves to our subconscious desires. It is my firm belief that Mondays get a bad rep because they should actually be a day spent alone in contemplation of self and instead are spent as Saturn-day’s should be spent: Laying out the tasks for the week ahead, making connections and going to meetings, i.e. doing everything but staying quiet and centered and listening to oneself. (In an ideal world, we’d work Saturday through Wednesday and take Thursday and Friday off for ourselves and our loved ones. Monday would be a half day of work; you choose which half and it’s set up for personal goal-achieving.) I want to reclaim Mondays for the Moon! And we can start by eating her foods.

Already we have a few clues as to what Moon Foods could be. Its element is water, so anything found underwater must be moon food; seafood and seaweed are a sure bet. What does the moon look like? Round and white. So anything round and white is can be sacred to the moon: eggs, cheese potatoes, crackers, coconuts, etc. Dairy foods such as milk, butter, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir, and “gatekeepers” such as mushrooms are highly lunar foods. Anything watery like soup or decaf tea or white wine are considered lunar foods, and it is still debatable as to whether alcohol is solar, lunar, martial, or saturnian (some are even Venusian, such as Chartreuse and Scotch). For the purposes of this article and blog, we’ll leave the alcohol to its own section. Let’s talk about Lunar foods.

With some exceptions, all lunar foods will open your psychic awareness center. Potatoes and Cheese, sacred to the Earth, will ground your psychic senses if they are too open. Some Lunar foods also incorporate other elemental aspects, which can be used as magic rituals in and of themselves. Eggs, as Lunar food encapsulating a Sun, promote physical and emotional healing at their intersection (see my post on Eggs on the importance of sourcing and cooking with intention).

Symptoms of an open psychic field include nervousness and anxiety, upset stomach, irritability at light distractions, dry cuticles, and constant yawning. These foods will help bring your psychic field back within while you strengthen it in the astral (through meditation or tai chi or reiki).

• Potato Salad
• Potato Soup
• Hashbrowns and Cheese (+Solar)
• Potato Curry (+Martial)

These foods should not be eaten right before working in the spiritual, but rather a couple hours prior or thirty minutes after doing any work in the astral.

If your intention is to open, explore, and connect to your psychic abilities, there are several delicious meal options:

• Mushroom Soup
• Sushi
• Seaweed Salad
• Marinated tofu
• Fish Stew
• Lentil Salad
• Lentil Stew
• Cabbage Slaw
• Cucumber Salad

In reclaiming Moon-days, we can’t just limit ourselves to foods. It can permeate throughout every aspect of our lives. This is how I currently live my Moon Days:

SAMPLE MOON DAY SCHEDULE:

6am – Morning Routine and Lemon Water
6:30 – Morning Pages
7am – Lunar Yoga Routine
7:30 – Trancendental Meditation
8am – Tarot Reading
8:30 – Breakfast of Potato Latkes with Sour Cream and Caviar
10am – Mantra and Water the Plants
10:30 – Tea, Journal, and look over Life Goals and Tasks from Saturday. Re-align as needed.
Noon – Fish with Lentil Salad and Cucumber Water
1pm – Mantra Check-in
1:30 – Tidy the House
2pm – Art until 5pm
6pm – Trancendental Meditation
7pm – Reconnect with husband
8pm – Dinner of Pumpkin Coconut Curry
9pm – Bath
10pm – Bedtime tea and Night Routine

Speaking of Moon Foods, It’s time for me to get started on my Potato and Lentil salads for lunch. Tomorrow, let’s talk about spicy foods for Mars’s Tuesday Smackdown!