The Moon of Purification Called Me to Clean House
On My Chronic Dis-ease, Lunar Symbolism, and Wild Thyme — Blog 1 of 6 in my Moon of Purification Series
Sometimes I find myself in the spiral of one of my old patterns, swirling a familiar drain.
I've been going through so many life changes and transitions lately that I have, admittedly, been overwhelmed. My fibromyalgia and hEDS has already been flared from an actual physical effort of moving furniture and belongings from one house to the other. But—we've also been going to my first owned home three to four times a week to clean there.
Park House, as we call it for its close location to a community park, is more than our Millennial household—each of us with our own invisible disabilities or in gamer terms, disadvantages.
For weeks now, we've been working away at Park House to get it ready to list on the market.
As I scrub and paint, I think—as one does. I've been wandering over the history of this house—the significance of it all and the rapid timelines.
This was one of my favorite rooms — one we put a lot of love into.
A Brief History of Park House
Using my inheritance from my late father, I put a down payment on Park House at the end of 2021. I thoroughly enjoyed the perks and beauty of living there through all of 2022, getting it painted, decorating it for the seasons, throwing a few parties, and hosting game nights.
In July 2023, I took a hiatus from my therapy career and tried to focus on my own recovery. I moved out of Park House and in with Justin in what we call Meadow House—where I garden and take my Snaps!
As such, I haven't lived in Park House for over two years, though I visited nearly every weekend, and then more again in 2025 after a subsequent roommate situation changed.
Being away and distancing myself from seeing it as home made it easier to hold with nostalgic fondness, but I was able to avoid the worst of the pain. The ache of dreams deferred.
But now, preparing to hand it off to someone else—an incredible artistic family, a couple who work from home and enjoy walks around the park, or perhaps someone hoping to spruce it up and make it a rental property or Airbnb—feels bittersweet and painful in multiple ways.
And booyyyy, I've been hurting. Facing that is hard. Pushing through my physical limits is painful, too.
How it’s been going… My knees have been alternating which one acts up worse!
The Moon Knows What It’s Doing
Over the past year, I've been on an intuitive journey through the lunar cycle, connecting with a different herb each month as I've worked through Jhenah Telyndru's The Mythic Moons of Avalon. This practice has guided me through twelve moons since around Samhain of 2024, each lunation holding its own mythology, energy, and medicine.
The lunar eclipse in early September represented the Moon of Purification which falls when the sun is in Virgo and the full moon is in Pisces. It's a time when our commitment to our growth is challenged, when painful lessons can yield great harvest if we bring patience, inner peace, and understanding. It's the moon of perseverance and dedication to right action, giving us the strength to see what is ours to do through.
And getting this house on the market is mine to do—but I also need to have patience with myself so I don’t destroy my body.
The timing feels like more than coincidence, doesn't it?
The Medicine of Wild Thyme
For the Moon of Purification, I connected with Thymus serpyllum, or wild thyme.
It's a cleansing herb said to lift depression, bring courage, and give strength.
As a shadow-working herb, it can help the heart and mind work through healing trauma and subconscious issues, helping us with our energy and concentration, as well as seasonal transitions.
As we move into the season of Samhain, I'm reflecting on literally cleaning house while my body rebels against the pace I’m trying to force. Wild thyme has supported those reflections, as connecting with it consciously in tincture form is an invitation each time to tune into what I am purifying.
I'm looking at the cobwebs—there are almost enough in some corners to qualify the house as haunted—and seeing my own resistance to letting go.
This moon certainly asked me: What am I holding onto?
Then it asked me to purify my spirit of the weight I’m carrying unnecessarily.
As I scrub this house in ways I haven't scrubbed in years, the act of cleansing brings up so much—literally. The dirt, the grime, the stuff stuck gunky in the shadows, like the top of the fridge covered in dust and dead bugs.
And if I look deeper, I know this act of cleaning symbolically reveals what needs to be cleansed within.
But that's a story for the next post in this series. For now, I’m taking a few moments to rest, recollect myself, and remember I’m doing my best.
What have you been clearing away these past weeks?
All My Love,
A Very Sore Safrianna Lughna
This is part 1 of a 6-part series on the Moon of Purification. Stay tuned as I continue to unpack what's really being cleaned here.
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