Huracan Kati (hurricane Moon)

Huracan Kati / Hurricane Moon



image by Abstract Angel Artist Stephen K Art
The full moon for June is the Huracan Kati on June 3rd.

In the Caribbean June 1st Marks the beginning of Hurricane Season, the word Hurricane derives from our ancestral word Huracan which literally translates as Wind Center. This time marks Guinep fruit season, and the Cigua (Whelks) breeding season in the Caribbean one of our ancestral staple sea foods which was also a symbolic adornment for the Leaders of Yamaye Tainos.

Spiritual Significance

According the superstition dictionary: It has been suggested that hurricanes represent the Mother Goddess in life that has been associated with rebirth due to the “spiral” shape. 

The eye of the storm has been interpreted as symbolic, and the key to rebirth as well as spiritual enlightenment. In the wake of a hurricane we tend to see mass destruction.

For us the Huracan is connected to Guabancex, I will share from Ramon Pane's writings what he had learned from our ancestors:

Of another Cemi called Guabancex. This Cemi Guabancex was in the country of a great Cacique, one of the chief ones, named Aumatex. This Cemi is a woman and they say there are two others in her company. One is a crier, the other the gatherer or governor of the waters. And when Guabancex is angry, they say, that she raises the wind and brings rain, and throws down houses and shakes the trees. This cemi they say is a woman and was made of stone of that country. The other two cemis that are with her are named, the one Guatauba, and is a crier or proclaimer and by order of Guabancex makes proclamation that all the other cemis of that province shall help raise a high wind and bring a heavy rain. The other is named koatriske who, they relate, gathers the water into the valleys between the mountains and then lets them loose to destroy the country This they are positive about.

We know Guabancex clears and creates paths for new life, transformation, rebirth and before her goes Guatauba the Thunder bringer, proclaiming her presence, Finally there is Koatriske that overwhelms by bringing the heavy waters.

Now this time is also for us fruitfulness, reaping from the work we had done prior for the sprouts from Spring are now bearing fruit and we can attest to the beauty and magnificence in creation.

The Summer Solstice (Longest day of the year) will be upon us and for some represents the completion of a cycle.

CEREMONY
This Full Moon is about transformation, rebirth, completion, clearing, reaping. I encourage practicing a simple ceremony below to help connect with this moment:

1. Create Sacred Space - Call on your ancestors, your guides, the ways your ancestors would have. Ask them to help focus your mind and heart to the task at hand, so you may be prepared to show yourself worthy for all that you seek, to attract the energy necessary to manifest your desire with the coming seasons.

2. With your eyes closed while standing or sitting on a chair, Take 7 deep inhales and exhales to clear your mind.

3. Visualise a pin hole in-front of you and with your eyes closed air draw with your finger from this pinhole a spiral going anti clock wise and continually expanding. Drawing bigger and bigger until you have reached your physical limit air drawing with your finger.
Ask Guabancex to clear away all that doesn't serve at this point and feel it all moving out from the pin holes in spirals out of you and disappearing in thin air.

4. Give thanks , and now visualise and air draw from along this spiral moving inward to the central pin hole. When completed  visualise the gifts / medicine that most suite you moving forward being planted within that pinhole... within you. (Now is a good time to ask for guidance from your spiritual guides)

5.When you feel in your heart it is time give them thanks for their guidance and the energy given to you. 

Energy is present 2 days before and 2 days after the Full moon so you have time to practice.

Huya kishibu Kati (Rain Full Moon)

The Full Moon of May 5th for us is Huya Kati (Rain Moon).
In Jamaica traditionally the rainy season begins in May or June and extends through to November or December. The coming of the rainy season and end of the dry season for our ancestors was the start of the new year. This period would result in increase yield on crops and fishing.

This time in May is when the Humming Bird (Guani / Kolibri/Zum zum) breeding season ends.

Influence of Astronomy on Taino People

The repetitive movement of the “heavens” and long periods of observations allowed the Tainos to note their regularities and make record of time. They were said to have recorded and developed these measurements into an astronomical calendar using the megaliths. It is speculated they used the stars at night to navigate on the seas during their journey to the Caribbean and Fishing.

Research shows that the rising and setting of Pleiades signified the beginning and end of the harvest season, and when it was time to bring out their flocks.

Orion another celestial body is located on the celestial equator which means it sits at the center of the tropical sky. Due to its cyclical path across the sky , ancient cultures observed the constellation and was able to determine the seasons. Orion acts as a marker for the beginning and end of the rainy season which was important for tropical farmers. It also indicated the hurricane season which would also indicate periods of good and bad fishing.

 The rising of the Pleiades Star Cluster during May indicated heavy rainfall, the sunrise during the Autumn Equinox could be associated with the final phase of the hurricane season and the rise of the Constellation of Ursa Major in January after sunset coincides with a decrease in rainfall. As a result, the Taino people could use the astronomical events as celestial markers to select the most favorable season in which to farm, fish and exploit different resources of the ecosystem.

Spiritual Significance

For our Ancestors this would be the first Moon of the Rainy Season, of the New Year.
This ushers in a time of birth, transformation , along with the ending of old cycles.
The energy of this period and this moon is symbolic of the heroes journey, heading out into the brave unknown in search of truth and your true self.

CEREMONY
This Full Moon is about transformation, rebirth, nourishment , abundance.
I encourage practicing a simple ceremony below to help connect with this moment:

1. Create Sacred Space - Call on your ancestors, your guides, the ways your ancestors would have. Ask them to help focus your mind and heart to the task at hand, so you may be prepared to show yourself worthy for all that you seek, to attract the energy necessary to manifest your desire with the coming seasons of abundance.

2. With your eyes close while standing or sitting on a chair, clasp your hands together before your heart in a prayer pose.

3. Take a deep inhale and visualise energy you seek entering your body and moving towards your heart, entering through the top of your head and soul of your feet.
With your exhale face your palms out in front of you and release all that does not serve from your being.

4. Return your hands to prayer pose as your inhale filling your self with this moon medicine, continue for at least 7 repetitions.You can literally name the things you want to receive and think of them with each inhale, and think on what you would like to release with each exhale.

5.When you feel in your heart it is time give them thanks for their guidance and the energy given to you. 

energy is present 2 days before and 2 days after the Full moon so you have time to practice.