A Mystical Time at Thirteen Moons Wellness Centre

I’ve been coming to Thirteen Moons Wellness Centre for over 5 years.  It is a rare place in Ontario where women are called in to gather, heal, connect and ground on the Earth.  Louise, who is the founder of the Centre, has consciously created a place that has compostable toilets that don’t smell, eco-friendly beauty care products, nutritious and delicious vegetarian meals (she is a certified holistic nutritionist), a labyrinth and a medicine wheel, along with various serene trails. The trees envelope around the centre, creating a safe space to cry, scream, feel and return to the centre of oneself in retreat.  She has oracle cards in the living room, a warm fireplace for the winter and hammocks outside on the trees for the summer. 

Louise followed her inner guidance to create this centre, allowing for women from all walks of life and backgrounds to come and rest in the gifts of the woman’s spiritual path and find support to be in the mystery of the inner world.

For me, I continually need this reprieve from the world that is all about the yang approach – of doing, achieving, producing, competing, and disconnecting from one’s inner truth.   When I come to Thirteen Moons, I know I’m going to have some really profound insights that lead me to the things that actually really matter in my life. I walk the labyrinth, sit in stillness on the earth, reflect on my dilemmas and issues and sleep in the comfortable beds. One room has huge windows that look out to the big forest and the sky.  At night, it literally feels like you are sleeping with the stars.

I remember one night so clearly when I had a mystical dream at Thirteen Moons.  I tend to be a vivid dreamer in general, but this one felt like it was an otherworldly experience. 

In the dream, I felt I was transported to a whole other region and my body was lifted and laid to rest on the top of a flat mountain-like structure. As I was laying there, I heard a loud voice and felt the presence of spiritual beings who were giving me a healing. The voice said “we invited you here”. The words were comforting and it made me feel that all was well.  The place seemed familiar yet I had never been anywhere like it.  Then immediately I woke up and saw that I was back at Thirteen Moons and the sky was still dark with the bright stars.

In the morning, I googled for flat-topped cliffs. Within a few minutes, I discovered the place I had been to the night before – I was in Sedona, Arizona, which is a well-known spiritual centre where there are mystics, healers, mediums and the home to the Hopi Peoples. I felt I was being called back to this place, for whatever reason, so I could be regenerated. 

My path of healing had opened up since then and showed me gateways where I needed to heal. This dream and place walks with me and I’m reminded of it each time I return to Thirteen Moons.  This is the space and place where I get another layer of healing in my consciousness where I gain deep understanding of my soul path.

On this most recent trip, I discovered my deep need for expression and writing, along with doing more things in my daily life that nourish my soul.  I came face-to-face with my pain of sexual abuse in my life and the women in my family system. It became so clear that I need to resolve it, heal it and release any unconscious shame around it so my womb and body can heal.  I understood, through my meditations, that I am needing the support of other women who can validate, understand and support me with coming into my own, while I support other women to come into their own.  This is the true spirit behind women’s path of relationships and interconnections. And it is the purpose of Thirteen Moons to bring women together so they can heal.

I encourage you, if you are a woman who needs time away to reflect, regenerate and reconnect with yourself to check out Thirteen Moons.

I offer retreat weekends for Child-free Women here and I also do personal mini-getaways for any woman on a soul path who wants to grow in self-discovery.  If you would like more information, please send me an email to: heather@blossomingheart.ca

Here is to happy, centred and healthy women in the world!