Balsamic Moon Group Reiki

Yesterday, we did our first group reiki experiment — Balsamic Moon Release + Reset.

And like, WOW. 

The session itself was SO exciting. It was my first time facilitating Nine Centered Reiki for a group, and I wasn’t super sure how it would go or what I would see…and it’s also the beginning of a larger experiment I’m running around shared cognition and what I’m calling casual telepathy.

Actually, let me back it up a bit. Let’s talk about casual telepathy.

When the Telepathy Tapes came out, I got SO many messages from friends about how amazing it was. So I listened. And it was excellent. 

But…

The way my mind works, I kinda felt like, this isn’t all that different from the casual telepathy I experience with my family all the time. I was telling a friend about it and they were like, CASUAL TELEPATHY WHAT DO YOU MEAN? And I was like, there’s a level of mind-reading in my family that happens all the time, but it’s so baked into the way our family operates that I never really thought about it until now…stuff like:

It’s 2pm on a random Wednesday and I’m craving corned beef, and then my dad texts to say they’re having corned beef and cabbage for dinner, and would I like to join?

Or like, I’m doing yard work and thinking about whether a French drain would solve the water problem in the side yard and then my contractor brother just shows up because he was in the neighborhood and I just randomly popped into his head.

And of course, the one we ALL experience — the “omg I was just thinking about you!” thing when your friend messages you and you were LITERALLY just thinking about them…

Casual telepathy. It’s not glamorous or particularly woo-woo. The casual telepathy in my family is almost always about food, which is so mundane that it’s easy to write off, but still…is this evidence of something larger? Is it really mostly about food or is that the only part I’ve ever really noticed and thought about?

So that’s what I mean when I say casual telepathy — the stuff that’s easy to write off as coincidence. 

BUT WHAT IF IT’S NOT COINCIDENCE?

This is my big question, the one I’m exploring in this yearlong experiment of doing monthly group reiki:

If casual telepathy is just happening all the time, what would happen if we got really intentional about it? Could we pool our cognitive resources toward shared collective goals? Could this be like, a psychic workout? Pilates for our superpowers? 

So that’s what I was thinking about yesterday when I went into the meditation. Actually, it was like a mental checklist as I was dropping into my altered state: “ok, so there’s the release part of Balsamic Moon energy, and then I’m also recharging these auras with energy, and then also I wanna see if there’s a shared experience / casual telepathy thing.”

So I drop in. I’m in my virtual reiki space, the mountain A-frame that’s been my energetic home base for the last six years. I open the door and see everyone who signed up and welcome them in. We sit in a circle together and I ask everyone to close their eyes. As I hook into the energy, a vision appears in my mind’s eye. I’m floating in space, halfway between the Moon and Earth, and I’m pulling golden threads from the points on the globe where the participants live. There’s a moment where it looks like I’m stringing a loom as I gather up these golden strands, and the voice in my head says, “oh, I’m like Captain Marvel out here.” Hilarious, but apt. I’m floating in space, and as I look down at myself I can see that I’m wearing some kind of badass superhero outfit and evidently I have no problems breathing out here because I’m not wearing a helmet…and then I think, “this is so mountains-coded.” FUN.

So I’ve gathered these energetic strands, and I fly to the Moon with them. I get there, and then I have a whole conversation with the Moon (!!!) where she says, “silly girl, you’re not bringing the offerings to me, everyone’s composting this stuff.” And I realize, “oh right, that happens on Earth, the Moon is just facilitating the release. Ok, got it.”

So I go back to where I started — floating midway between the Moon and the Earth, and I direct my attention to the energy of composting, and then I realize that I’m sending infra-red light through my hands instead of my usual golden light, and then I hear this:

There are multiple ways to compost. You can do the whole hard work thing of turning, tracking brown and green, watering, monitoring the temperature…but you can also just leave everything alone and let things break down in their own time.

And the rest of the session was just me directing this infra-red light toward the recipients, and thinking about how infra-red light reduces inflammation. And inflammation always makes me think about anger, and anger is almost always rooted in grief. And then thinking about grief in the context of composting, something about that just felt so solid and true. Grief has been a huge theme in my work over the last few weeks, so it all felt connected, like some kind of recap of what the Moon’s been up to in this particular cycle. At the end of the session, I did a little completion ceremony for all recipients, and as I was coming out of the meditation, the feeling in my body was that I was grounded, centered, and calm.

And then the feedback started coming in, and I’m still waiting to hear back from everybody, but a few things stand out that I wanted to share.

Before the session, I had pulled some tarot cards, and the first card I pulled was the Empress. The deck I used is called “Botanica: A Tarot Deck About the Language of Flowers.” And in this deck, the Empress card is a magnolia flower.

And the first bit of recipient feedback I got was this: “right when I laid down and closed my eyes and took a few breaths, I saw like a pink flower…the pink was really pink and they were white kind of edges.” I texted them a picture of a magnolia tree and they responded, “omg literally this.” So, a little bit of evidence for something, right? A little shared visual experience is VERY EXCITING TO ME.

Another recipient texted this morning to say that she had a crazy dream last night about flying through space “like something out of a Marvel movie.” Ummm, OK, another little bit of evidence. COOL!

All in all, I feel like yesterday was a total success, and I’m very excited to see what happens next month when we do it again. Thank you to everyone who joined me for this first experiment in group cognition, and I hope to see more of you for the next one in April.