How to Find Your Intuition With Lunar Magic | The Seven, Episode 17
In Episode 17 of The Seven: Living with the Planets, Lucy Baldwin explores lunar magic, intuition, emotional honesty, distraction, and the quiet inner knowing that becomes easier to hear when we stop abandoning ourselves.
Many people think they need to strengthen their intuition.
But Lucy offers a different possibility:
Your intuition may already be strong.
The problem may be noise.
Distraction.
Stimulation.
Fear.
Avoidance.
Emotional buildup.
The Moon does not shout.
The Moon is of the night, the dark, the quiet, the water, the body, and the inner tides.
Lunar magic helps you create enough stillness to hear what has been there all along.
Watch or listen to Episode 17 of The Seven here:
Key Takeaways
In this episode, Lucy explores:
why intuition may not need strengthening as much as space
how distraction and stimulation interfere with inner knowing
the Moon as the planet of emotion, intuition, rhythm, and inner weather
why avoiding feelings can block intuition
the difference between intuition and fear
how to ask the Moon for clarity when you are unsure
why emotions become overwhelming when they are dammed up
how sensation in the body reveals emotional truth
simple ways to check in with yourself throughout the day
a short lunar ritual for reconnecting with intuition
Your Intuition Is Already There
A lot of people believe they do not have intuition.
Or they believe other people have stronger intuition than they do.
But lunar magic begins with a more generous assumption:
The intuition is already present.
The lunar archetype is already within you.
The problem is not absence.
The problem is interference.
Modern life is full of stimulation. Scrolling, shows, food, noise, obligations, constant inputs, and constant avoidance all make it harder to hear the quieter currents moving underneath.
The Moon is subtle.
If your life is always loud, you may not be able to hear her.
The Moon Is Quiet
The Moon belongs to night.
Darkness.
Water.
Dreams.
Emotion.
Rhythm.
The unseen.
This is not the same kind of magic as Mars, which moves forward with force, heat, courage, and confrontation.
It is not Mercury, which moves quickly through language, messages, and cleverness.
The Moon is softer.
Quieter.
More inward.
Lunar magic asks:
Are you available for your own inner life?
Are you giving yourself any space to feel?
Are you quiet enough to notice what you already know?
Distraction Is Self-Abandonment
One of the clearest teachings in this episode is that constant distraction is a form of self-abandonment.
Not because you are bad for scrolling, watching shows, eating comfort foods, or numbing sometimes.
Everyone does this.
The point is not judgment.
The point is honesty.
When we automatically reach for stimulation every time discomfort appears, we abandon the part of ourselves that is trying to speak.
We lose contact with emotion.
We lose contact with sensation.
We lose contact with truth.
And then we wonder why intuition feels far away.
You Do Not Need Three Hours in the Dark
This practice does not have to be dramatic.
You do not need to sit alone in darkness for half the night, although you certainly can.
The starting point can be one breath.
One pause.
One moment of attention on the body.
A single check-in can interrupt the pattern of self-abandonment.
Instead of immediately reaching for distraction, take one beat and ask:
What am I feeling?
What is happening in my body?
What is here?
This is lunar magic at its simplest.
Intuition vs Fear
One of the hardest questions in intuitive practice is:
Is this my intuition saying no?
Or is this fear?
This distinction matters.
Sometimes a “no” is deep inner wisdom.
Sometimes a “no” is anxiety, avoidance, or fear of discomfort.
The way through is not to think harder.
The way through is to return to the body.
Feel the sensation.
Notice where it lives.
Ask what it is saying.
Then ask the Moon for clarity.
Lunar magic is especially useful when emotion, fear, or uncertainty are involved because the Moon helps us enter the watery current rather than trying to solve everything from the head.
A Simple Lunar Decision Practice
When you are unsure whether something is intuition or fear, try this:
Pause.
Take a breath.
Feel your body.
Scan for sensation.
Then ask:
“Beloved Moon, show me whether this is a yes or a no.”
Or:
“Moon, help me feel my own intuition clearly.”
Then wait.
Not forever.
Just for a beat.
Notice what shifts.
You can also combine this with tarot, journaling, or another divination practice. But the essential move is the same:
Go inward.
Call on the Moon.
Give your inner knowing room to speak.
Working With Fear Directly
Sometimes the answer is not immediately clear because fear is too loud.
In that case, work with the fear.
Ask:
What am I afraid will happen?
And then what?
And then what?
Follow the thread.
Sometimes the fear will unwind and reveal that the imagined catastrophe is not actually catastrophic.
You may discover that failure, embarrassment, disappointment, or rejection would be survivable.
Other times, the fear will reveal something genuinely important.
A real risk.
A real boundary.
A real consequence.
Either way, inquiry helps.
Fear becomes more workable when it is named.
Emotions Are Water
The Moon governs emotional inner weather.
Emotion is watery.
It moves in waves.
It rises and falls.
It comes in and goes out.
But when we refuse to feel, we build a dam.
The emotion does not disappear.
It accumulates.
Then either the dam breaks, and we are flooded by grief, rage, panic, or overwhelm, or the dam leaks sideways through resentment, exhaustion, distortion, reactivity, and disconnection.
Lunar magic teaches us to let the water flow before it has to crash.
Repressed Emotion Blocks Intimacy
When you cannot feel your own emotions, it becomes difficult to connect deeply with other people.
You may still have relationships.
You may still function.
You may still be pleasant, kind, and responsible.
But the depth may be missing.
True intimacy requires emotional availability.
If you cannot be vulnerable with yourself, it is very difficult to be vulnerable with another person.
The Moon teaches emotional contact.
Not as drama.
As flow.
As truth.
As the capacity to be with what is moving inside you.
Feeling Is a Practice
Many people avoid feeling without realizing they are doing it.
This is normal.
Human beings tend toward homeostasis. We prefer the emotional states we already know, even if they are not the ones we consciously want.
If you are used to being distracted, braced, numb, overstimulated, or emotionally compressed, then feeling may take practice.
Start small.
Feel one sensation.
A tightness in the chest.
A lump in the throat.
A prickling in the eyes.
A smile in the cheeks.
A heaviness in the belly.
Emotion can always be brought back to sensation.
Sensation is where the Moon becomes accessible.
You Can Handle Emotion
One of the fears underneath emotional avoidance is:
If I feel this, it will never end.
But emotions move.
They wash through.
They rise, crest, and pass.
The Moon teaches rhythm.
Waves.
Cycles.
Return.
You do not have to feel everything all at once.
In fact, if you have been damming things up for a long time, start slowly.
Let a little water move.
Then a little more.
Build trust with yourself.
Your feelings are not here to destroy you.
They are part of how you know yourself.
A Simple Moon Ritual for Intuition
If you want to begin working with lunar magic, try this simple ritual.
You will need:
a candle, ideally white, but any candle is fine
a quiet dark or dim space
a few uninterrupted minutes
optional: the Orphic Hymn to the Moon or another prayer to the Moon
Light the candle.
Call in the Moon in whatever language feels natural.
You might read a hymn, prayer, or poem.
Then sit quietly in the dark or candlelight.
For three, five, or ten minutes, simply feel your body.
Notice sensation.
Notice emotion.
Notice what is present.
You can ask:
“Moon, help me hear my intuition.”
Or:
“Moon, help me feel what is true.”
When you are complete, thank the Moon.
Blow out the candle.
Say:
“So it is.”
The ritual does not need to be elaborate.
The point is space.
Stillness.
Feeling.
Listening.
Intuition Needs Space
Your intuition is not gone.
It is not weaker than everyone else’s.
It is not missing.
But it may need more room.
Less noise.
Less avoidance.
Less stimulation.
More breath.
More body.
More darkness.
More quiet.
More willingness to feel.
That is what lunar magic offers.
A way back to the inner tide.
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Lucy Baldwin (00:01.016)
Hello, welcome to The Seven Living with the Planets. I'm Lucy Baldwin, and today I'm gonna talk about lunar magic and why you might be struggling to hear your intuition or why you feel like you can't hear your intuition. So a lot of people think that they have, that they need a stronger intuition, there's this, like, that their intuition is something that they need to strengthen.
And what I actually think is what I believe is really going on and what lunar magic and working with the moon will show you is that what you actually need, what will actually help you more than trying to strengthen your intuition is to have less noise, less interference between you and your intuition, less distraction, less stimulation. So,
A lot of times our intuition is just drowned out by our own fear, specifically our fear of discomfort. We use distractions like scrolling and watching shows and eating foods and just like all of those habits that I'm always talking about all the time. I just feel like I spend so much time.
talking about the ways that we avoid feeling, the ways that we avoid feeling ourselves and our emotions. And with that, we lose our ability to perceive our own intuition. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's always here. We always have it. The lunar archetype exists within you. It is powerful within you. And it can be quiet, you know?
The moon is of the night, it's of the darkness, it's of the quiet. And so are you available for it? Are you open to it? Are you giving yourself space and time without distraction and stimulation in order to be able to even have a chance to feel what your truth is and to feel what you're feeling and to...
Lucy Baldwin (02:25.038)
touch base with your own emotional state. A lot of times it's like our emotions have to slap us in the face and overtake us for us to be willing to acknowledge them. Or we feel like we're on an emotional roller coaster all the time. And so it's hard to know what's going on underneath. It's hard to kind of see those rhythms and feel the currents because it just feels like we're on a roller coaster.
So, you know, this is self abandonment. Whenever we are moving, you know, to distract ourselves instead of just being present with ourselves, that is, that's classic self abandonment and we all do it. It's not, I really don't want you to take this and like judge yourself and be like, I'm doing it wrong and I'm bad and this is why I'm having these problems. I just want to encourage you to take that extra beat.
to sit with yourself. something that I talk about a lot, I really want to press upon you here is that it can be very quick. know, checking in with yourself can be a very, it doesn't have to take a long time. You don't have to like sit for three hours in the dark. I mean, you can, and I'm not going to stop you. That sounds like a great idea. But
checking in with yourself, having a practice of just really putting your focus on your body, on yourself.
It could be a breath. It could just be a breath that can make a big difference. And doing that regularly, doing that multiple times throughout a day, just taking that second. And sometimes, and that's a muscle that you can build. You can build doing more of that, just feeling into yourself. We like to overcomplicate things. We like to feel like anything that we do has to require a lot of effort.
Lucy Baldwin (04:31.341)
But, you know, we're not going to like overnight just quit distracting ourselves. We're not just going to quit being overstimulated. We live in an extremely stimulating world with so many amazing things at our fingertips, such incredible media and just, you know, there's so much and I'm not saying that you should step even necessarily.
try to walk away from that because I don't think that's sustainable. That wouldn't set you up for success. But taking that beat to feel into yourself periodically throughout the day instead of just going immediately into numbing or immediately into just avoidance. So there's something that comes up a lot in the topic of intuition that I want to touch on, I think is really important. And that's the difference between
intuition and fear anxiety. So, you know, a lot of times when we feel like we're a no to something, it can be really hard to discern like, is this no, is it my intuition saying no, or is it my fear saying no? And, you know, the sort of also compulsive ways that we just automatically push things away.
And so what I want to say to that, because I've had that conundrum numerous times in my life, especially in our head, we get in our head and then we're like, I don't feel right about this, but I don't know if I'm just afraid or if it's actually what I don't want. And so what I would say to that is this is exactly what I'm talking about.
It's all about getting into feeling the sensations in your body. It's about putting your focus on your body and feeling your body. But also because this is the moon, we're talking about the moon and moon magic, I would always recommend asking the moon for wisdom or guidance or clarity. So you can, what I would recommend, like the simplest thing that you could do is just
Lucy Baldwin (06:51.061)
If you're not sure, you're not clear, you don't know, and you want to make the right decision. And that's the thing is we also put so much weight on these decisions that we make when there is fear involved. And so I would say taking that breath, taking a breath.
Lucy Baldwin (07:10.573)
feeling the body. So that literally means like focusing your attention on the body, like the arrow of your attention instead of thinking your thoughts, thinking about like, okay, what do I feel? You can scan your body, you can just feel into it. And as you do that, you can ask the moon, beloved moon, however you want to, you know, refer to the moon in your mind, show me, show me,
If this is a yes or a no, help me see my own intuition. Help me guide my decision making process. And you can just, it's like a little prayer. It's like a little prayer asking for insight and notice what happens and just give yourself that beat to check in and use the moon. And if you do that and you feel like maybe you didn't get the clarity that you wanted, you can also always like,
Poltero cards or some other way. But I always recommend combining this with some kind of like calling in the archetype, especially of the moon, especially when you're thinking in terms of like, is it my intuition? When there's a lot of emotionality like on the line, when there's fear, anxiety, stress, giving yourself that watery opportunity to just be like,
in the current of the waves because sometimes if you just let yourself feel the fear, it will start to subside. Another thing that you can do is this is a way that I work with fear and this tends to be more like in the realm of Saturn. I do a lot of my fear work with Saturn, but I would think about whatever it is I'm afraid of and just be sort of like go through this process of inquiry of
Okay, what am I afraid is going to happen if I make the wrong choice? And then, okay, and then what's going to happen? And then what would happen? And just take yourself through the process of like, what is it that you're actually afraid of here? Like, what is this like scary scenario that is in your mind that oftentimes we don't fully ignore, like we don't fully go there and like...
Lucy Baldwin (09:34.68)
clarify what it is that we're afraid of and frequently when we do we can then kind of see like that's not that's not rational that's not a rational fear and Sometimes it's like no, that's a very real possibility and this is something I should really consider right It's like if you're gonna rob a bank and you're like afraid of getting caught it's like yeah That's a viable fear like maybe don't do that
But if it's like I want to launch a program and I'm afraid of failure I'm afraid of being humiliated. Well, then it's like, okay. Well, what happens if I get humiliated? Like and then you start to see that actually it would be totally okay, and I would be totally fine It's like well, what if only one person signs up and then I have to cancel well Then I would just email that person and let them know and like it wouldn't it wouldn't be the end of the world it
the risk reward there, as soon as you start to unravel it and follow the thread and see where it leads, you realize that, okay, I feel that fear is true within me because we don't want to diminish it. We don't want to bypass how we're actually feeling. But then we can see that, okay, I feel this way.
And that doesn't mean that I shouldn't still try. And so I'm just gonna bring my fear with me. I'm gonna let it have its space, but I'm still gonna do the thing. And so we can see like, it's not intuition, it's fear here. And we can like make the decision from that point. So I hope this is helpful. I've given you sort of three different ways here. One is to just simply go inward and ask the moon for guidance.
Two, I mentioned working with tarot cards and potentially invoking the moon. Will you do so? And then three is working from the fear and looking at what am I really afraid of and sort of following that thread to see if it unwinds or if it turns into something substantial that's worth really considering. Okay, so, yeah, mean, the thing is that the moon is
Lucy Baldwin (11:50.999)
your emotional inner weather, right? The moon governs your emotional sort of like inner state, those waves of emotion. And emotion is always connected to the element water. so distraction is like, it creates like a dam for the emotion, right? It just, creates this buildup.
where when we don't feel the emotions and we don't let them flow, they get like damned up. And sometimes, it's like we damn up so much of our emotion by trying to distract ourselves, repress the emotions, not face it, not feel it, that the dam breaks, right? And it overtakes us. it can feel like that can lead to burnout. It can lead to...
like just kind of breaking down, can lead to rage and just like, you know, uncontrolled outrage or just like uncontrolled grief. And because like, I guess what I'm saying is that, or maybe the dam stays, maybe you're able to like keep the dam together, but there's going to be these leaks. There's always in order to for that dam to stay dammed up.
Like there has to be places where it's leaking and those leaks end up looking like resentment, things that come out sideways, lack of clarity, lack of energy, distortion, like a distorted sense of yourself and reality, sort of like inability to connect. It totally blocks intimacy. It blocks our capacity for intimacy.
You know, a lot of people, we want to have that perfect, amazing, loving, beautiful relationship, right? We want to have these like really deep relationships with deep, deep love. And if you are not able to be vulnerable with yourself and feel your own emotions, you will, you cannot do that with other people either. So it literally blocks your ability
Lucy Baldwin (14:18.091)
to connect with other people deeply, to have deep emotional intimacy with others, and will create conflict in your relationships. Or you'll have easy relationships, but they'll be lacking that depth of feeling that you're looking for. And so you'll always be yearning for something that you won't quite be able to grasp onto. so what I'm saying is that feeling our emotions
is just it's incredibly crucial like we have to let the water flow We have to let the moon have like the tides come in and go out And feel the ebbs and flows that are just a necessary part of the human experience in order to have a healthy Sense of ourselves to have healthy relationships to have healthy boundaries to have that like healthy happy peaceful
inner experience. So, you know, there's a softness to it. And when we are able to allow our emotions, when we're able, willing to face them, there is a softness to them. They become, you know,
Which isn't to say that certain emotions aren't like painful exactly. It's just that they become much sharper when we dam them up and then they crash into us, you know, when we let them flow. And so working with the moon, it's like, okay, well, how do I do that, Well, the answer is...
A, working with the moon, but it's exactly what I started with talking about, which is checking in with yourself. So we, you know, we really avoid and we don't even know what we're avoiding. It's fascinating. I see this like in myself. I see it in people that I work with. I see it just everywhere all the time. The avoidance of feeling things that we might not objective, like we might not say if asked.
Lucy Baldwin (16:30.38)
Like, yeah, I try not to feel that. Like we don't even realize. We just want to, we just tend towards homeostasis. Humans always tend towards homeostasis. Physically, emotionally, spiritually, we want to kind of like stay in our comfortable bubble of what we're used to experiencing. And so whatever the emotional state is that you're used to experiencing,
That is what you're going to kind of like allow yourself to experience. And so it's a practice. It's an ongoing practice of working with the moon, checking in with your feelings, checking in with... And by your feelings, I even just mean the sensations in your body, putting your focus on the sensations in your body. This is where so much of your power comes from. And that is what emotions are.
Emotions show up as feelings that wash over us. Feelings in our body. It's like a tightness in our chest, a prickling in our eyes. Just like this unending need to smile. Like pain in your cheeks from smiling. know, like lob in your throat. These are just sort of common ways that I would describe the actual sensation.
that we then label with an emotion, right? But it's all can be broken down into sensation. so allowing yourself to feel those things, putting your attention on them, letting them swell up and wash over. And I think a big part of this is like trusting, having faith in yourself that you can handle it because you absolutely can. You absolutely can handle emotion. And...
and having faith that it won't be forever. And so again, the moon takes us into these cycles, these rhythms of, and these waves, right? These watery ocean, like the waves of the ocean, they come over you and they wash over you and then they're gone. So, you you don't have to feel it forever, but you can feel it for a few minutes and then let it wash over you so that it doesn't just damn up.
Lucy Baldwin (18:53.682)
and add on to this constant burden. Because again, when you're damming it up, you're carrying that all the time. And so if you have been damming it up, you can start to slowly release the dam, right? You don't want to like release it all at once. You don't want to just like, and I don't even know, and maybe you could, maybe you couldn't. And most people, it's like if you're so in the habit of damming it up, it's kind of like when you have to pee for a really long time. I don't know if this ever happens to you. This happens to me. It's like,
If I hold my pee for too long, it's hard for me to actually release and like pee. my, it's like, I get so like clenched up that it's hard to relax the muscles to actually be able to pee. So it's kind of like that, right? So we wanna just like slowly feel just a little bit and build the practice of feeling more and more. I hope that this has been helpful.
you know, and I guess what I really want to say is that your intuition, you have it, you have it, it's powerful, it's within you. It's not something that you have less of than some other person. Like all of that is just nonsense. It's really about learning to listen to it and create space for it. Create space for yourself to feel like, and by space, I mean,
you know, that moment in time. And a really great way that you could start implementing what I'm talking about here, if this is speaking to you, I would say, do like a quick moon ritual right now, where you call the moon in, I always say just Google the Orphic hymn to the moon, light a candle. If you have a white candle, that's fantastic. If you don't, it doesn't matter. Just light a candle. Read the poem to the moon, and then sit in the dark
maybe just with your candle for five minutes, 10 minutes, however long you have, three minutes, and just let yourself practice feeling your body in the darkness. And then when you're done, you could just say, thank you, moon, if you can feel gratitude for the moon for helping you process your emotions and feel your intuition and get in touch with yourself.
Lucy Baldwin (21:20.01)
And then, yeah, you can just close the ritual, blow out the candle and say, so it is. And so that's my homework for you. And if you want to join, I do monthly rituals, monthly-ish, semi-monthly maybe I'll start saying, in my free online community inner circles.
If you go to the link in the description, you can join my free community and come to those rituals. And I also do these community connection calls called turn-ons and they're really, really fun and juicy. And I would love to see you there. So with that, I will see you in the next episode. Happy feeling.
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This episode is part of The Seven: Living with the Planets, a podcast exploring planetary magic as a path of self-growth, ritual practice, desire, embodiment, intuition, and spiritual transformation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can lunar magic help me find my intuition?
Lunar magic creates space for quiet, emotion, dreams, sensation, and inner knowing. It helps reduce noise and distraction so intuition can be felt more clearly.
Is intuition something I need to strengthen?
Maybe, but often intuition is already present. The more important practice may be removing interference: distraction, fear, emotional avoidance, and overstimulation.
How do I know if it is intuition or fear?
Return to the body. Feel the sensation, ask what fear is protecting, and ask the Moon for clarity. Intuition often becomes clearer when fear is named instead of ignored.
Why does avoiding emotions block intuition?
Emotion is part of inner knowing. When feelings are repressed, they create noise, distortion, resentment, and disconnection, making intuition harder to perceive.
What is a simple Moon ritual for intuition?
Light a candle, call in the Moon, sit quietly in the dark, feel your body, ask for clarity, then thank the Moon and close the ritual.
Next Steps
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