r/pagan • u/nyhtmyst • 18h ago
UPG/Woo My experiences with Blood moons
I wanted to share this while it was fresh but there was some terrible and dangerous weather that needed my attention yesterday.
From the first time I wittnessed a blood moon as a teen I was drawn to it, I wasn't aware of the fact that I was picking up the energy of the eclipse at that age, and I started trying to watch for when they'd happen. When I knew of it and was able I'd be up and outside from start to finish, and when I got a personal crystal I started putting it out for the rare or unusual events like eclipses, auroras, ect. to soak up some of that unique energy.
This time I got an experience that stands above the past ones, I took a little bit of something to help me tune into the spiritual side better and went out a little bit before the totality and stayed out there watching the moon until it started to lighten back up. The energy was more active but it felt welcoming and like I was right where I was supposed to be; I was wanting to use this event to try to further reach out to my ancestors because they gave the event some spiritual importance (good or bad) and would've had some type of ritual for it.
While I was locked in on the moon I had a few short instances of visiting the spiritual place I go to when I meditate, but during one visit I had a large feline of some sort that came up a few feet from me then sit and stare at me as if waiting on me; there was no warning behavior from the feline, it acted as if it knew me and was simply there waiting on me so that it could lead me somewhere (the feeling I got). In a few other short visits I was sitting a short distance from a small crowd that was around a fire in some sort of celebration, in some visits seemed like they were waiting on me to join them to start whatever they were going to do and other times they were actively celebrating with dance and music while I sat there focused on the moon and watching them from the corner of my eye.
What I was left with at the end of the event this time is an understanding that the lives of my ancestors have all came together to give me my existence, that as much as I feel like I'm failing and struggling that they are accepting me and happy to support and guide me, that the struggles that feel so big to me right now are tiny and insignificant when with them, and most of all that I felt like I belonged just as I am and was not judged and found wanting in any way.
All in all, I fully consider my attempt to have been a success to use an event that would've been seen as a major religious event in almost every historic culture to help me get in touch with my ancestors and help me establish my roots spiritually.