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Shamelessly using my beautiful Mama to promote her beautiful candle

Mother's Day is just around the corner and now is the perfect time to order candles for mom -- or YOU -- and save big before this weekend's price increase at zena moon. (My Mom not included with purchase. :))

'tis the season for candles and saving and giving

Happy December, everyone!

Our gorgeous holiday candles are now available! From silent night to hanukkah to happy new year, they're sure to delight. Plus save a holly jolly 20% OFF with coupon code HOHOHO now through 12/31 at zenamoon.com!

NaNoWriMo Special for November 2011

In celebration of National Novel Writing Month, we're offering 20% OFF with coupon code NANOWRIMO during the entire month of November!

Fan your creative flames and keep yourself company with a candle for writing, calling the muses, just do it, the creative fire and more. (Offer ends 11/30/11.)

Special props to zena moon workerbee and NaNoWriMo participant Colleen, who came up with the idea for us to offer a special promotion to her fellow writers.

Stock up on fall candles & get free shipping over $50 (3 days only)

Now is the perfect time to order your autumn, Halloween and Thanksgiving candles! Especially through 8/26 when you can enjoy FREE SHIPPING with orders over $50 using coupon code FULLMOON at zenamoon.com. Plus, receive a free self-nurture candle ($10 value) with orders over $75.

About This Full Moon in Pisces
This Full Moon is a peak time for healing energies, slowing down and tuning in. If magic landed on your shoulder, would you see it? Mystical Pisces and the physically changeable Virgo show us how to surrender to changes we need to make. Release habits, attitudes, contacts, activities that don't serve your growth any longer. These two faithful signs can help us fall apart, if we have to, from the loss, so the real healing can begin.

It's a Full Moon of heightened contact with the divine. Seek out cloistered places that feel sacred to you. It could be your armchair in a private corner, your bath, a favorite nature trail, church, dance floor, museum, theater, in a tree...anywhere that is hallowed ground for your spirit.

If you're missing this in your life, you might set up an altar in your home, with inspiring images, candles, books, pictures, stones, feathers or prayer cards. Maybe the stress of life has kept you from your sacred space, making this Full Moon a time for re-dedicating yourself to spending time there. Read the full article here.

(Photo by ErinDora.)

New Moon Special: 20% Off Storewide

Now through 8/12, enjoy 20% off with coupon code NEWMOON at zenamoon.com. Plus, it's that magical time of year -- our fall candles are available!

• autumn
• halloween
• thanksgiving

About This New Moon in Leo

Something magical is happening, as more people open their hearts and see life in a new way. We stop trying to figure it all out and just experience it through the heart. Step back, go within, and ask for guidance on your part in this great cosmic moment.

Express what's in your soul. What raw artistry is there, waiting to be cultivated? What stories are inside your heart, dying to be told? What life in you has gone unlived? Dare to shine. Read the full article here.

Doggielove extravaganza: Save 30% on all candles & gift sets (4 days only)

Twenty years ago today, the love of my life Elliott -- aka Fuzzy Bear, Fred, Punkinhead Fred, Popo, Punk-ass Po, Ellinku, Blažková and DOG -- was born. The above photo was taken the day I brought him home. In honor of his birthday -- and Lucy's 10th birthday, which is tomorrow -- we're offering an unprecedented 30% OFF all candles & gift sets (misfits excluded) at zenamoon.com with coupon code BIRTHDAY10 now through 6/13/10.

About this New Moon in Gemini
Here's a chance to go beyond crazymaking spin and distractions to the Source of wisdom. It's a New Moon that spirals us into the void to straddle two worlds, just like Gemini's archetype, the Magician. You get to juggle it all yourself -- both external noise and the wisdom coming out of that mysterious void. Read the full article here.

Themes and related candles include:

• a candle for writing : If you've got creative blocks, try writing under a pen name.
• be bodacious : Question everything -- it's liberating!
• claim your power : Shake off tired old opinions you no longer believe in.
• dolphin : Diffuse a tense situation with humor.
• embrace your confusion : Let it be OK that you don't know.
• rest and wisdom : Give yourself some space to hear what's coming through your higher channels by cutting out distractions and resting if you need to.

Mother's Day is coming -- let us take care of the shipping!

Now through 4/30, enjoy Free Shipping over $50 with coupon code FULLMOON at zenamoon.com.

About This Full Moon
Feeling intense and shadowy? Me too. Here's a snippet of what this Full Moon has going on:

This is a Full Moon to have faith in the process, and allow intensity to Be without repressing it. There are heaps of squares and oppositions that may turn a mild discomfort into an urgent drive to act. To witness Scorpio in its highest expression is to see both surrender to the soul mixing process, and the execution of well-timed actions. In this high stakes moment, Mercury retro in sure-footed Taurus reminds us that slow and steady wins the race. It's an ideal time to consider how to ground intensity, and fix those energies on your creative goals.

Read the full article here.

Quadruple Whammy of a New Moon

 

Today marks 3 years since I moved to Spokane. April 14 used to mark a very different kind of anniversary for my ex-husband and me -- our first date was April 14, 1994. Today is also the New Moon in Aries, and my cycle began, so I'm crampy and hormonal. Happily I picked up the Dobies this morning—Bryon and I share custody—and spent time cavorting in and along the Columbia River. Maybe some or most of this explains why I feel crummy, accentuated by the fact that I compulsively wolfed down 8 cookies today.

As Liz Lemon says, "Blerg." Wish I hadn't eaten them. Sugar is kicking (and expanding!) my ass.

Because today is the New Moon, I should have written and sent out a newsletter offering 15% OFF at zenamoon.com using coupon code NEWMOON, but the newsletter can wait 'til tomorrow. The offer is valid now, though. Good through 4/17/10.

P.S. Just remembered I saw a beaver swimming in the Columbia River this morning and thought to look up its meaning. What I read knocked my socks off! In particular...

Beaver's medicine brings you the wisdom of creativity, maintaining the ability to be productive in all ways by not limiting your options, being persistent, using available resources, finding and using alternate ways of doing tasks, master builder of all things, not damming the flow of experiences in life, achievement through completion of tasks, understanding the dynamics of group work, protecting, cooperation, fertility and new promise.

None of which I'm presently doing.

Beavers are good at teamwork, and work together cooperatively to construct their homes.

For a good solid year I've had a strong desire to be part of a team again.

The Beaver reminds us that we have to act on our dreams to bring them alive—it is time for action. If beaver has entered your life, it may be wise to ask yourself whether you have been neglecting your dreams? Are you lost in your dreams and not acting upon them?

Yes and yes. Action is my touchstone word for 2011. Also what this New Moon in Aries is about!

Beavers are also fabulous swimmers

YAY! I am too and am joining the Y this week to start swimming, one of the things I love most.

Beaver people often find they must work hard to fulfill their goals. Don’t forget to be kind and loving to yourself.

OK. :)

Full Moon Free Shipping Over $50 (3 Days Only)

Tonight's Full Moon in Libra shines a strong moonbeam on balance. It can illuminate what's needed to stay composed and aligned with your moral values, in a time of societal breakdown. Be courageous and true to your own sense of destiny! What's burning inside of you is a key to what needs to emerge. Now is the time to start acting on those heart-led longings!

Here are the candles I recommend:

• authenticity
• be bodacious
• beyond fear
• claim your power
• courage
• follow your bliss
• inspiration
• just do it
• radiance
• speak my truth
• take a risk

Now through April 1, get Free Shipping over $50 at zenamoon.com with coupon code FULLMOON. Plus, receive a free self-nurture candle with orders over $100. (Valid only for retail customers in the continental U.S.)

For more enlightenment about this full moon, read the full article here.

Let's shine our light, people!

A New Year, A New Moon, A New Website

After 9+ years, we have a new store! Here's why. You may notice cosmetic changes, but most importantly everything works better. We'll be finessing and adding more features for months to come.

In honor of today's New Moon, we're offering 15% off your entire order at zenamoon.com now through 1/17 with coupon code NEWMOON.

There is tremendous freedom and hope this time of year, even as our world shudders and shakes. We are invited to get real with who we are, to live more honestly and simply. This month is ideal for:

• Reflection about career moves (abundance, prosperity, success)
• Deep rest (i accept, let go and let god, rest)
• Making tough decisions (clarity, courage, eagle)
• Shoring up the foundation (ease & enjoyment, i trust, life purpose)
• Tending to body structures (care of the body, listening to body & soul, new beginnings)

About This New Moon
Every New Moon is a time of beginnings. You are ancient. Go d e e p. Break up concrete. Personal quakes and crustal shifts change everything. Find your kindred spirits in the rubble. Settle into your authenticity. Catch the hand of your future self. Be amazed. Trust. Read the full article here.

All of us at zena moon wish you a healthy, meaningful, happy, spirit-filled 2010!