13 Moons, 13 Lessons: How a Year of Ceremony Changes You
There’s a particular kind of longing that shows up before deep change. And it's not a comfortable feeling. But not the dramatic, “I’m going to run away and become a different person” kind… More the quiet ache of knowing your life is fine — but you are not fully in it.
You might feel it as restlessness. Or emotionally exhausted. Or that strange sense that you’ve done a lot of healing… and yet something still isn’t shifting at the root. Before I discovered shamanism, more specifically the art of shamanic healing, this was how I felt most of the time too.
The modern world gives us a thousand quick fixes for that feeling: Have a bath. Buy a book, or a new crystal. Try a new morning routine, or a herb or mushroom supplement. Do a meditation challenge. Make a vision board. Reinvent yourself by, mmm, Tuesday!
But real transformation rarely arrives like a lightning bolt. More often, it comes like the moon does: in phases. Slow, intelligent, cyclical… and quietly unstoppable.
And this is where the power of The Shaman’s Way: 13 Moons Journey can support your healing journey.
Not as a “course” you complete… but as a year of ceremony — a guided initiatory arc that evolves you month by month, rite by rite, in a way your mind, body and spirit can actually integrate and hold onto.
Over thirteen moons, something changes. Not because you push harder… but because you stop rushing your soul.
You reclaim lost parts of yourself.
You learn protection that feels like peace, not paranoia.
You meet plant teachers as living allies.
You clear ancestral weight and reclaim ancestral gifts.
You awaken your inner sight.
You root into Earthkeeper energy.
And by the end of the year, your life doesn’t look like a “perfect spiritual glow-up”…
It looks like you.
More present. More powerful. More aligned.
Less performative. Less foggy. Less scattered.
And this year? This timing matters.
Because the Year of the Fire Horse is coming — and Fire Horse years don’t whisper politely from the sidelines. They promise profound transformation for the brave and the bold, and those who choose to surf the waves, rather than dive under them, will be rewarded!
And many people are already telling me that they can feel it coming, in the knowledge that the old story isn’t working anymore… and the one you dream of, is ready to manifest if you do the work.
So if you’ve felt that vibe in your bones lately, you’re not imagining it.
And for those who would like to travel on the path of transformation this year with a shamanic guide, let me walk you through the path.
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Here is the 13 moon journey described — Moon by Moon — and how it supports your transformation with ease and grace:
Moon 1 — March: The Dream Door Opens
We begin where all real transformation begins: in the dreaming.
Not “wishful thinking” dreaming … soul remembering dreaming.
This is the month of tribe, Mugwort medicine, your first sacred tools, and Soul Retrieval — calling home the parts of you that got left behind in heartbreak, survival mode, and “getting on with it.”
Moon 2 — April: Your Hands Remember
Now we step into the East — the place of beginnings and illumination.
Calendula arrives like a warm lantern, bringing light to the soul, and you receive the first Munay-Ki initiation: The Healer’s Rite.
This is where your healing ability stops being a nice idea… and becomes a lived experience.
Moon 3 — May: Boundaries Become Sacred
This is the month where your energy gets its own spine.
Nettle sharpens you.
The Bands of Power arrive to protect you.
You learn shielding that isn’t fear-based — it’s self-respect in energetic form. (And yes… we deal with energy vampires. You’ll never “polite-smile” your way through psychic drain again.)
Moon 4 — June: The Plants Start Talking Back
Now the Earth steps forward.
You’ll meet your personal Plant Spirit Ally — not as theory, but as a relationship.
This is where plant medicine shifts from “knowledge” to communion, and you begin creating vibrational essences as spiritual tools.
Moon 5 — July: Balance Becomes Power
Red Clover brings heart coherence, and the West teaches you how to live in alignment, not performance.
You receive the Harmony Rites, explore Mayan archetypes and chakras, and learn Ayni — the sacred practice of reciprocity.
This is where your life begins to rebalance… quietly, profoundly.
Moon 6 — August: Inner Sight Wakes Up
Hawthorn stands beside you like an ancient protector and says: Look again.
You enter the North and receive the Seer’s Rites — third eye awareness, pineal gland magic (with a splash of science), and the grounded art of divination. Not “woo for entertainment”… but real inner guidance you can trust.
Moon 7 — September: Your Feminine Becomes Fierce
Rose arrives, and the Divine Feminine is not soft wallpaper.
She is creative power. She is truth. She is the part of you that refuses to shrink.
You receive the Day Keeper’s Rites, work with symbols and ritual, and remember how manifestation actually works: through alignment, not wishful thinking.
Moon 8 — October: The Ancestors Step Forward
Lemon Balm steadies the heart as you build an ancestor altar and meet a lineage ally.
Here we touch the deep layers — inherited wounds, inherited gifts — and receive The Womb Rites, cleansing the energetic imprinting carried in the body.
This is often where people feel a “before and after” moment.
Moon 9 — November: The Fire of Freedom
Elder clears the air. Smudging becomes an artful healing practice, not just smoke and feathers.
You learn to see energetic cords clearly — and liberate what was never yours to carry.
We journey, we cleanse, we burn what’s ready to be released, and we meet Father Sky as ally and witness.
Moon 10 — December: The Masculine Heals
Peppermint brings sharp truth and clean edges.
You receive the Wisdom Keeper’s Rites, explore ancestral identity through the body, and awaken the Divine Masculine — not as dominance, but as devotion, protection, integrity, and forward motion.
Moon 11 — January: You Become an Earthkeeper
Orange brings warmth, brightness and grounded joy.
You receive the Earth Keeper’s Rite and connect with Mother Earth as a living intelligence — not an idea.
This is where “spirituality” becomes something practical: how you live, what you choose, what you protect, what you build.
Moon 12 — March: You Remember You’re Cosmic
Blue Lotus opens the dream again — but now you’re dreaming from a different level.
You receive the Star Keeper’s Rite, connect with cosmic allies, and begin that luminous upgrade: the path toward Homo Luminous.
Not escape-from-Earth energy… more like: a deeper assignment.
Moon 13 — April: The Creator Returns
We invite in the medicine of Cacao.
Remember our Rainbow Body. Receive the Creator’s Rite and your lineage stone, to complete your Magical Mesa.
This is where the year lands, not just with a certificate…but with new inner energetic architecture.
You close in gratitude — not because it’s over, but because you can feel what you’ve become.
Thirteen moons later, you’re not “fixed.”
You’re back in right relationship with yourself, with spirit and nature.
And that changes everything.
Thirteen moons later, you won’t be “perfect.” Nobody is, even the most advanced and powerful shamans and spiritual teachers still have work to do!
But you will be more confident and spiritually connected, proudly showing up as the real you.
You’ll know what your yes feels like in your body.
You’ll recognise when your energy is leaking — and how to restore it.
You’ll carry protection that feels like softness with boundaries, not armour.
You’ll have a living relationship with spirit and the Earth — not just ideas you believe in.
And perhaps most importantly…
You’ll stop waiting for the right time to become who you are.
Because the truth is: the world doesn’t get quieter.
Life doesn’t magically become less full.
And the deeper calling rarely fades.
It simply waits.
The 13 Moons Journey is for those moments when you realise:
I don’t want to keep circling the edge of my own life.
I want to step in.
With support. With structure. With soul. With sacred practice that actually changes me.
And the timing could not be more potent.
With the Year of the Fire Horse rising on the horizon, this is not the season for spiritual procrastination.
This is the year to become what you were always meant to be… you.
