CUSP: Climbing Up the Spiral Pathway

I had a friend named Lee with whom I was having a conversation about manifestation through the movement of energy and she mentioned “Rut Now” magic.  I asked her what that was and she said, “That’s magic that you do when you need something ‘rut now.’”  It made me laugh and it stuck with me, so it’s a term I’ve used in my teaching since then, which was actually 13 years or so ago.

The primary focus of this website is to present the CUSP system of life change, which is a process that explores the ancient agricultural year and employs it to create long term, positive change in a person’s life.  You can layer whatever religious or spiritual beliefes you have right on top of it and adapt it as you choose.

While that is wonderful to evolve us forward and make our lives better and better each year, the fact remains that there are often immediate needs that have to be tended to on a regular basis.  If you are hungry now, planting in the Spring is not going to stop your belly from rumbling.  If your electricity is being shut off on Friday, you may not want to wait until harvest time to bring in some juice for the lights and heat.

The CUSP Moon Cycles are a good place to start if you want to work some Rut Now magic to effect change in your life right away.  Tuning into the natural energies around us allows you to step into the concert of magic that is around us all the time and work in harmony with the organic flow of energy around us.  The moon cycles are already set up to bring things to us and move things away from us through the monthly waxing and waning. 

Nearly any goal can be set up around the moon cycles, regardless of the aspect the moon shows at that time.   It’s all in the wording.  If you want to bring in wealth and prosperity but the moon is waning, you would banish poverty.  If you want to move forward in a waning moon, you would banish obstacles.  If you want to lose weight during a waxing moon, you wouuld manifest health and well being.  If you wanted to banish depression during a waxing moon, you would manifest joy.  You can very nearly always turn a goal inside out to suit the current moon cycles.

The moon is not the only place of power you have when working in between the harvest process.  It’s just a place to start to align your goal to the current energy trends.  Finding a place where you can relax and focus your goal into a candle to burn (or as it burns) is another good technique.  Visualize your goal as a completed state of being.  Focus on the accomplisment rather than the process to get to the goal.  Visualize the way you will feel, what you would experience and how your life will be different once the goal has come to fruition.  Clearly bring to mind the sights, the sounds, the emotions and the reactions to the point that it’s “real” to you and imbibe that energy into the candle.  When you are finished, complete the process by saying, “I can do it.  I am doing it.  It is done.”  Trust, then, that The Universe will bring you the equal or better of what you have asked.

Using symbols or tokens of what you wish to manifest is also a potent tool.  As humans, we are stimulated by what we see around us.  Having a physical representation of what you want that you can see from time to time or carry in your pocket is a great energy charge.  Photographs, stones, pictures you have drawn, “Dream Boards” or “Focus Boards” that you have created all add tremendous energy to your endeavor.  Burning incences made of herbs that are sympathetic to your goals is another way of adding a natural boost to your magic. 

Whether you do a work and let it go, trusting The Universe to take your suggestion and run with it or add energy to your magic on an ongoing basis until it is achieved, you can have faith that you have entered into a cooperative process with the natural energies around us to take you to your own greatest good.