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Full Moon in Willow and Taurus / Cow ~ April 19, 2019

This Full Moon is also called the Moon of Awakening or Resurrection. Everything in Nature is awakening and rising. Greenery has come back everywhere, young animals, birds. Butterflies are back again. Bees are flying from here to there for their pollen. Everything breathes activeness and energy and business.

Keeping the balance between the pushy Aries and the playful Lamb remains a challenge for me

Spring time!

So happy! I love this time. The huzzbuzz gives me energy and everything cannot go fast enough for me. As a true Aries I sometimes really have to restrain myself not to go too fast and that is not easy, at times a real challenge. I become cranky and feel rushed, because it is not going the way I like it. My flow and focus are interrupted and yes, that really does something to me. By focusing mainly on and trusting the natural processes, the Aries in me becomes the Lamb again and I start playing instead of pushing;) Easy? Anything but! Fortunately there is Willow and Taurus / Cow who will help me with that this month.

Grande Dame The Willow; Under her branches you will find a sheltered place where you can sit and can fully regain yourself

The Willow

This beautiful Grande Dame stands for intuition and feelings. She asks you to make contact with your intuition and your feelings, because that will give you new insights and empowerment. If you find this difficult, take a look around how Nature works at the moment. If you notice something, ask yourself why you notice that at that specific moment, what does it mean to you, what were you thinking when you spotted it and whether you can make a link to something that you are currently working on in your life. The Willow also asks you to stand firmly with both feet on Mother Earth, so you won’t be overwhelmed by emotions, feelings or by a current, so that you become unbalanced. Just look at the Willow, she is standing on the waterline, her long branches reach to the water and sometimes lie in the water. But no matter what the flow of the water is, she stays firmly in place. When you put a branch of the Willow in the ground, it grows into a new tree. As a result, the Willow also symbolizes death and rebirth. Willow energy gives you the power to live with confidence, to trust your own abilities and your own talents and qualities.

Taurus and Cow, two beautiful Spirit Animals that will guide you through this Full Moon and Moon Period until May 18, 2019

Taurus and Cow

The Cow with its beautiful print that sometimes resembles a world map is traditionally honoured, because it takes care of, reinforces, guides and carries people. Cow asks you this Moon Period to go back to the source within yourself that feeds and cares for you. When you reconnect yourself to that source within, you will heal yourself, put an end to what you are missing and you will become happy in the here and now. Go to your inner meadow, rest, ruminate, feed and recharge yourself. You have creative potential, express your creativity and show the world your ideas. Cow asks if she can guide you during this Moon Period to return to your own nature, so that you can regain the power within yourself and grow into the next phase of your spiral of life.

Taurus stands next to Cow. Female and male energy or Yin and Yang side by side. Bull is a symbol of fertility and virility, prosperity and abundance, potential and prosperity. He points out that that true wealth can only be found in the heart and soul. He also wants to tell you that it sometimes takes some time to reap the rewards of your hard work. Trust in the natural processes. If you have to work long-term in difficult circumstances to reach your goals, Taurus will help you to do this without becoming exhausted or becoming depressed.

What thoughts could keep you occupied this Full Moon:

  • Do I focus on what I want?
  • Where do I want to grow? Or what do I want to grow?
  • What do I have to let go in order to grow?
  • Do I have faith in my plans?
  • What can I do to make my plans a success?

In response to this, the Willow asks you this Moon Period: “What would you like to hang in the Willows?” What would you like to let go? What is keeping you from realising your plans? Maintaining your focus, growing or trusting your self-wisdom and self-worth? What emotions may be released so that they can be processed and released?


Let go what’s holding you back and release your wishes in a Full Moon Ritual

Your own Moon Ritual

Go outside this Full Moon and sit under the Full Moon Light. Make a fire in a safe way, for example in a fire bowl or a patio fireplace. Grab a pen and paper and write down what no longer serves you, what holds you back or what does not work anymor. When your list is complete in your opinion, throw it in the fire and see everything you want to let go, go literally up in smoke. You got rid of it. Feel that liberating feeling and enjoy it. Then take a new paper and write down for yourself where you would like your focus to be, what you would like to grow, what plans you would like to realize and what you could do to make those plans succeed. When your list is complete in your opinion, throw it in the fire. Look at how your wishes are taken away by the smoke and the wind, so that they can land in places where it can to help you.

Do you have questions about the Moon Ritual? Or would you like some insights or answers to the questions you are dealing with? Don’t keep walking around with them, but make an appointment with me. I will gladly help you further.

That you may have a beautiful Full Moon of awakening and empowerment!

With love,

Elke )O( The Alder Scrolls © 2019

My own Journey this Moon in Alder and Fox


This Moon period was an intense and profound journey with the Alder Tree, my birth tree, and the Fox, my Totem Animal. But I am so grateful that I was allowed to make this journey. It all started with …

Rite of the Womb

It started during the Full Moon on March 2. I received the Rite of the Womb via Ursula Aerts from Definest. After I found this Rite 3 times on my path, I knew I had to do something with it. And wow what an experience! I have been thinking lately about solving karma, but couldn’t figure out how. Sometimes you have unsolved issues from your Women’s line or Father line or past lives or this life that hinders you from moving forward. Or that you can’t be completely yourself. I had that too and the Rite was a very appropriate and recommendable ritual to let go of unresolved issues from my Women’s line and myself. What a beautiful evening with beautiful women. Thanks to sharing we could heal again. And grateful for Ursula and her loving guidance. After this evening I am liberated, free from what stuck to me and what stopped me. So happy!

Are you curious about what a Rite of the Womb is or can mean for you? Then contact me and I will be happy to tell you everything about it.

Spring Forest Qigong Healing

On March 26 Sylvia came to make a Smudge stick in my workshop. Then she treated me to a Qi Gong Healing. I had never experienced anything like this before and I was very curious. I was seated in the middle of my living room, so that Sylvia could walk well around me. With closed eyes I surrendered to the energetic healing of Spring Forest Qigong by Sylvia. And what a powerful form of healing that is! I could feel exactly where what was being done and where blockages were being removed. What a special and beautiful feeling. If you feel energetically blocked and want to get rid of that, I can really recommend this form of healing.

Trance Journey with the Leela Cards

After this my journey continued. The Rite gave me a wonderfully liberated feeling, but I was not there yet. Something else gnawed and deep down I knew what that was. I had to make a choice. The choice to be who I truly am. That caused fear, doubt and not acting. I was so fed up with that, that I went looking for that fear to look it right into the eye. Thanks to the Tarot of Wild Wood and Shadowscapes, the insights and answers were clearly on the table. But, where the source of that fear lied or came from, no idea! During a networking evening, a friend was looking for testers for a certain type of insight cards. I really like to be that and do that, so I said yes to that. No idea what awaited me. I told my friend what I was dealing with and she answered me that the trance journey I would make with the cards might help.

And well, they did! What an intense experience! And Natasia knows how to proceed. She is also a hypnotherapist and asked beforehand if she could continue if she felt it wasn’t going deep enough. And it didn’t go deep enough. The trance journey with the Leela cards turned into a hypnotherapy session and I was thrown back in time. And there I found the source of my fear of being my true self. The rest of the day I was very impressed and happy and grateful that I had found the source and solved it. That same evening I celebrated my birthday with friends and it really felt like the Era of Elke has started, free from ballast and being who I truly am 😀

Day with the new Bards of OBOD on a magical island

On Saturday, April 6, I celebrated my birthday in a very special way, with the new Bards from Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids from the Netherlands. We were invited by 2 Druids and yes, I gladly accepted that. We had such a lovely time and I have enjoyed myself very much. The location was beautiful. An island surrounded by water and trees. we were picked up by a boat and yes, that made the Avalon feeling complete. We got to know each other around the fire and shared our stories with each other. It is so special that all of our stories from childhood to the introduction to the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids were so similar. We enjoyed a magical day full of recognition and delicious food.

Fossil Wood from a magical place

This made me completely silent. I received this beautiful stone from one of the Druids which she brought back from Glastonbury as a gift, because it was my birthday. So beautiful, so symbolic and so suitable for my own journey this month! Fossil wood connects you with your Higher Self and helps you see as you are. It also helps you to connect yourself to past lives, to understand these, to remember the lessons or experiences and to give them a place in this life. This beautiful stone also supports to understand the messages from Nature. All this helps you to heal, to connect with Mother Earth, to restore your self-confidence and to feel energized again. And then this beauty is also in the shape of a heart ♥ A wonderful gift for which I am very grateful.

Aries and Leo give me an empowering and loving push in the right direction

During this day we also drew Tarot Cards. The first card answered the question ‘What do I need now’ and the second card tells how I can take care of it. How nice that I get the card with Start on my birthday including Aries coming jumping out of the card! I want and can take a new step. And the consequences of that new step make it clear to me that I have to leave old beliefs about myself and life behind to move on. How wonderful! That is exactly what I want and what my journey with Alder and Fox is all about.

The second card brings me the message that this new step can be taken when I fully accept myself and live with self-confidence. Controlled and yet fully express everything that is present in me. And in this way keeping the directness of the Magician and the subtlety of the Priestess balanced. Wow! One of my fellow Bards said it very nicely. the Universe carries you and gives you every help. And yes, that’s how it feels ♥

New year, new step

What a wonderful, intense and oh so grateful journey I have been able to make this Moon Period with Alder and Fox. I can recommend it to everyone to connect yourself with the Ogham and the Power Animal of the Moon Period of your birth tree.

Thank you Alder and Fox, thank you dear friends and loved ones that I have been able to make this journey with you♥

With self-confidence and acceptance I have taken my new step. It feels awkward, it feels exciting, but it feels so good!

Do you have questions about this message or would you like to connect in this way? Please do ask, I will gladly help you further.

With love and warm greetings,

Elke )O( The Alder Scrolls