Three Simple Moon Rituals

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Simple Moon Rituals You Can Do Every Day

3 Easy, Simple Daily Rituals

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Moon Phases for this Week: Third Quarter Moon & Waning Crescent Moon

Third Quarter Moon & Waning Crescent Moon

This week, the moon is heading back toward darkness during the third quarter moon and waning crescent moon phases.

“The waning moon, when it is shrinking back down towards the dark moon, is the best time for cleansing, banishing and completion. If you want to bring something into your life at this time, focus on banishing its opposite, as that is supported by this moon phase.” –Lucy Cavendish

The Third Quarter Moon Phase

(photo credit: jb.man.ac.uk)

This phase is ideal for actually creating a letting go ritual or release ceremony. When you think about the intention you hope to bring to life, and the healing work you've done this month to empower it, is there anything you need to say a final goodbye to?

Anything that needs to be released in order to pave the way for your intention to be actualized?

Write that down, whatever it is, and put it on your windowsill tonight.

And this is the phase that completes the work of your moon month, so once you are done with letting go, you can spend the next few days celebrating the work you’ve done and anticipating all the good that will come your way as a result.

During the waning crescent moon phase, which starts this Thursday, you can begin to think about the next month's work.

And then, rest. This part of the moon cycle lasts five days and offers built-in hibernation before gearing up for the next big thing you will do. Though you can choose your next goal, it’s not time yet to do anything about it. You still have time for rest and renewal before creating the next transformation.

Have a great day!

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Moon Phases for this Week: First Quarter Moon & Waxing Gibbous Moon

First Quarter Moon & Waxing Gibbous Moon

This is a week for healing. For identifying whatever is in the way of making your intention come true and kicking it to the curb once and for all. Or, at least, getting a really good start at it!

(photo credit: pa.msu.edu)

The first quarter moon phase starts today and during this moon phase, you identify the fears and blocks that might be holding you back or that might get in the way of manifesting your intention.

What are the fears, the limiting beliefs, and the unhealed memories that, so far, have blocked you from creating this intention and bringing it to life? What's in your way?

Once you have identified what's in the way, you can use a healing technique or create a ritual to help heal it, so that when the full moon phase gets here, you can empower your intention without any blocks or baggage.

Toward the end of the week, on Thursday, you can use the waxing gibbous moon phase as a sort of self-test to see if you've healed what you needed to this week. Do an intuitive reading or pay close attention to your dreams to see if you missed anything or if you're ready for the full moon extravaganza!

Have a great day!

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Moon Phases for this Week: New Moon & Waxing Crescent Moon

New Moon & Waxing Crescent Moon 

Welcome to the new moon!

This week, starting today, you have the new moon energy available to you. Yesterday, the dark of the moon, was a great day to utter your intention for this new month and plan an intention ritual for today.

This is the time to begin to identify, create and solidify your new intention. When you feel clear about it, create a brief ritual to solidify it and declare it. This ritual can be as simple as writing it on a piece of paper, taking a moment to imagine your moon wish coming true, and placing it on your windowsill.

Then, during the rest of the week, especially toward week's end, be open to ideas that might come about how to bring your moon wish to life. As the waxing crescent moon phase greets you on Thursday, it's a good time to think about what it will take to make this dream come true.

This moon phase can be used for research and planning. Or for brainstorming and generating a list of possibilities.

What would it take to actualize your intention?

Have a great day!

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Moon Magic Monday on Tuesday: Reflecting and Letting Go

The Waning Gibbous & Third Quarter Moon

(photo credit: Getting a Foothold)

 

This is a great week for reflecting on the moon work you have done already and checking in with yourself about what happened inside.

What were you able to heal or shift or change? Did you lay a foundation for creating something new or was your work about shifting something old? Either way, this is the week to examine it all and decide if there is anything left that needs some moon attention.

Is there any lingering grief or release that's needed from the work you did earlier in the month? If so, then this is the time to identify those issues and prepare for letting them go during the next moon phase, the third quarter moon, on Friday.

Have a great day!

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Moon Magic Monday: Building Up to the Full Moon

The Waxing Gibbous Moon & the Full Moon, baby!

This week is heading straight for the full moon, which will bless us with its power on Saturday.

During the waxing gibbous moon phase, the moon is half full. This is a great time to access intuitive guidance about what else needs to be a part of your work this month.

What are the issues you forgot that could get in your way? Or that you are, as yet, unaware of, that intuitive guidance could reveal?

Are there any memories that need to be healed so you can completely let them go? Pay attention to your dreams and keep your journal handy.

And then, this weekend, give it all you've got!! Use all that wonderful full moon energy to create exactly what you want.

The full moon phase is the most magical and powerful moon phase for creating, for healing, and for manifesting your intentions. So this is the moment to give it all you've got. And because you have dealt with whatever was blocking you, all of your energy can be directed at this intention.

Have a powerful week!

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Moon Magic Monday: Are You Getting in Your Own Way?

The Waxing Crescent Moon & the First Quarter Moon

During this week, the energy is beginning to build for whatever you have chosen as your intention this month.

Now that you have created an intention ritual for the new moon , and followed that up with a couple of days of sharing your crystals with the moonlight, this phase is a good time to gather ideas to identify what is needed to bring the intention to fruition. What will it take to make this dream come true?

And what is most likely to get in your way? This is a great time to get out your journal and really be as honest as you can about your own limitations.

During the first quarter moon phase, which occurs this week on Saturday, you identify the fears and blocks that might be holding you back or that might get in the way of manifesting your intention.

What are the fears, the limiting beliefs, and the unhealed memories that, so far, have blocked you from creating this intention and bringing it to life? What's in your way?

Once you are clear about what's in the way, you can create a ritual, and/or use healing techniques, prayer, crystal elixirs or crystal layouts and other resources to help you resolve these blocks while this moon energy is available to do so.

Have a great day!

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Moon Magic Monday: Getting Ready for the New Moon

 The Waning Crescent Moon & The New Moon

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This week, we are still making use of the energy of the waning crescent moon, but toward the end of the week, will get to utter our intention for this new month to the dark of the moon and create an intention ritual when the new moon appears this weekend.

This is the time to begin to identify, create and solidify your new intention. When you feel clear about it, utter that intention to the dark of the moon. 

And then, rest. This part of the moon cycle lasts five days and offers built-in hibernation before gearing up for the next big thing you will do. Though you can choose your next goal, it’s not time yet to do anything about it. You still have time for rest and renewal before creating the next transformation.

Have a great day!

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The Waning Gibbous Moon

The Waning Gibbous Moon

This moon phase is a great time for reflecting on what you've done this month. Now that you have raised the energy for creating the changes you want or manifesting the intention you chose, is there anything you need to let go of in order to fully integrate that change?

Is there any lingering grief or release that's needed from the work you did earlier in the month? If so, then this is the time to identify those issues and prepare for letting them go during the next moon phase, the third quarter moon, later this week

Have a great day!

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Using a Magic Wand to Supercharge Your Full Moon Ritual

Using a Magic Wand During Your Full Moon Ritual

Five things you can do with a crystal or wooden wand for a full moon ritual or any healing or magical purpose…

(1) Point it at yourself, or others, for healing.

(2) Create a circle of power and protection around yourself before beginning your moon rituals.

(3) Draw circles, spirals or other symbols into the air in your energy field to raise energy before beginning your moon ritual.

(4) Point it at the ground to reduce and ground the energy you raised during the moon ritual.

(5) Point it at your crystal elixirs and crystal layouts to supercharge them.

The wooden wand and the faerie wands above are wands I made and/or embellished and you’ll see that they actually have crystals glued to them, including a crystal labradorite wand glued to the wooden wand.

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How to Create Exactly What You Want Using the Full Moon

The Full Moon

(photo credit: Magickal Graphics)

Welcome to the full moon!

This phase is the most magical and powerful moon phase for creating, for healing, and for manifesting your intentions. So this is the moment to give it all you've got. And because you have dealt with whatever was blocking you, all of your energy can be directed at this intention.

"The three days of the full moon -- the day of, the day before and the day after -- can be used to boost any intention or project. This phase represents achievement, culmination and abundance. The world is filled with energy and potential, and it's a great time for healing work and manifestation." ~~Lucy Cavendish and Serene Conneeley

These steps, minus the addition to follow the moon phases, are the steps you can use during this full moon to manifest what you want...

(1) Get clear about your intention: I've got helpful ways to do that here and here.

(2) Create ritual: using the process I have suggested here and here and here.

(3) Use magical tools: whatever you have or can acquire quickly will do.

Crystals: in crystal elixirs or crystal layouts

Essential oils: in smudge sprays or healing sprays for use during ritual

Whatever else you've got

(4) Heal everything you can think of that might be in the way: if you haven't done this already, during the first quarter moon phase, then fold it in to your full moon work

(5) During the ritual and for the next day or so: visualize the results you want.

What are your plans for this powerful full moon?

Have a great day!

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The Waxing Gibbous Moon

The Waxing Gibbous Moon

Today is a good day to continue doing First Quarter Moon work, so if you created a crystal layout, keep it going. And I often split my first quarter work into two days of ritual, so I lessen the intensity for each day but still am actively involved in the healing work for both days.

Tomorrow is the day to begin doing the work of the waxing gibbous moon phase, but since I am taking weekends off, I thought I'd share it with you today.

During the Waxing Gibbous Moon Phase, the moon is half full. And so is the energy available to us. This is a great time to access intuitive guidance about what else needs to be a part of your work this month.

Are there any issues you forgot that could get in your way? Or that you are, as yet, unaware of, that intuitive guidance could reveal? Any memories that need to be healed so you can completely let them go? Pay attention to your dreams and keep your journal handy.

Have a great weekend!

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The First Quarter Moon

The First Quarter Moon

Today is this moon cycle's First Quarter Moon...

During this moon phase, you identify the fears and blocks that might be holding you back or that might get in the way of manifesting your intention.

What are the fears, the limiting beliefs, and the unhealed memories that, so far, have blocked you from creating this intention and bringing it to life? What's in your way?

Now is the time to deal with it!

The steps are simple. The process ~ maybe not so much...

(1) Identify the Blocks: use journaling, reflection, meditation or intuitive guidance to identify the fears and blocks that are in your way.

(2) Resolve Them: create a ritual, and/or use healing techniques, prayer, crystal elixirs or crystal layouts and other resources to help you resolve these blocks while this moon energy is available to do so.

Crystals you might use for letting go of fear and replacing it with safety and security:

smoky quartz
garnet
bloodstone

Essential oils you could use: lavender, sandalwood or patchouli.

I have a vanilla-and-patchouli blend I got from Sage Goddess that I used today and it felt wonderful as soon as I put it on the bottom of my feet.

Your healing process will clear the way for a more powerful full moon experience because your energy and focus will be undiluted.

Have you already begun to identify possible blocks as you read this post? Wishing you the best as you work to resolve them.

Have a great day!

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Using Moon Phases for Health & Tranquility: A Reader Request

Moon Phases for Health & Tranquility

In a comment on yesterday's post, Eyenie Schultz from LucidMusing, asked for advice about working with the moon phases for health and tranquility.

Health

With any focus on health or illness, your goal is to target the underlying issues whenever possible. What has the illness meant in your life? What might be the payoff in keeping it?

If the moon is waxing, work on creating better health; if it is waning, banish illness. For instance, during the first quarter moon, coming up this week on Thursday, you can identify what might be keeping you stuck where a health problem is concerned and create a ritual designed to help you break through those blocks.

Clear quartz crystal is a good all-purpose intensifier and a great choice in general for any intention you want to use it for, and other crystals could be chosen based on the specific health issue you're targeting.

Tranquility 

What a great goal to take through each moon phase!

Starting with setting your intention during the new moon phase, nurturing it during the waxing crescent moon phase, taking a look at what might be in the way during the first quarter moon phase and then dedicating it to the full moon and the phases that follow. You could create a ritual at each phase, or do journaling and crystal layouts, saving the ritual for the full moon.

Crystals you might use: amethyst, angelite, rose quartz, moonstone, blue calcite, selenite, desert jasper, blue lace agate, blue chalcedony and there are plenty of others.

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Facing Down a Mountain of Resistance

So, in yesterday's post, I admitted that when the time came to gear up for this month's new moon work, I just did not feel like doing it. But today, I can happily report that I am back in the game for this month.

Climbing Resistance Mountain 

(1) First, I ate an impressive amount of white cheddar popcorn. There may have been a few cookies,too. (Don't judge)

(2) Then I grabbed my "take back your power" elixir and my "find your voice" elixir, and after using them, I put them on the windowsill, surrounded by a circle of carnelian, which, itself, was surrounded by double-terminated clear quartz crystal.

(I have rough ones, too, but I used large tumbled ones, like these)

(3) I did a quick ritual that included prayer, my wand, my desert jasper and a lot of compassion for myself. I realized that I had had a dream recently that foreshadowed this resistance.

And I remembered feeling so intimidated by what I understood of its meaning, that I just sort of left it for later. Looked like later had turned into now, LOL! It was one of my driving the car dreams, and was about all sorts of things going wrong after I got behind the wheel.

For me, in addition to whatever else makes the particular dream unique, it comes down to trusting myself and feeling safe.

(4) I decided to make 2 crystal elixirs, one I would call Safe and another for the actual moon wish I am going to work on this month. I would work on trust and safety first and then, create the 2nd elixir.

(5) I also did an intuitive reading to get some extra insight into the problem, and a healing ritual and meditation.

(6) It all worked, and really helped. But the work will continue this month, and I will see how it goes. At each phase, I'll check in with myself and see which adjustments I might need to make to keep things on course.

But meanwhile, have a look at the crystal layout I finally created!

Dealing with Resistance

My encouragement for anyone dealing with resistance is to lean into it, and try to figure out what your inner child needs, or what the inner fear is about, and then, address that in your ritual or moon work. Put the other work on hold, if you need to, until you're ready. You've got nothing but time, right?

How do you usually handle resistance after you've set a goal or intention?

See you tomorrow!

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Creating a Crystal Layout

Using Your Crystal Elixir

This post is a sort of part two, connected to my post about creating a new moon ritual. In that post, I tell you how to create a crystal elixir to use as part of your new moon ritual.

Once you've created it, for the next couple of days in the new moon phase, continue to use the moon-and-crystal-charged elixir you created. Splash it on your self, anoint your wrists, heart space, third eye.

Crystal elixirs are very powerful, so you should notice a difference in the way you feel each time you use it.

Should you drink it? Some people do, and if you are planning to do that, I would keep it in the refrigerator. But I also would have run the crystals in hot water before using them to create the crystal elixir. I, personally, don't drink them. But that's up to you!

Creating a Crystal Grid or Crystal Layout

And, if you want, use those charged crystals (from the elixir) in a layout that also will empower your intention. If you can place it near a window (or outside?), where it will catch the moonlight for the next few days, even better.

(An abundance layout I created)

How you create the layout might depend on what your intention is. A circle, with a clear quartz crystal in the middle is always good. But if your intention was to attract love into your life, you might create a heart, instead. If it’s money, maybe a dollar sign or an infinity sign.

Once you’ve created the layout, you can place your written intention under the center crystal or keep it on your windowsill if you’d prefer.

Have a wonderful day!

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Enchanted Ritual: The Power of Music

"Song is life itself. Our voice carries the breath, and song carries the pure note of the spirit, a message from the soul, uniting the outer world with all that dwells within us. Song carries story, tale and meaning, and notes that can literally part the walls between worlds, and heal broken hearts and torn spirits." Lucy Cavendish and Serene Conneeley

The Power of Music in Healing Ritual

I am always most drawn to using music during the letting go moon phase, but it could be used during any moon phase and bring story and power, enchantment and magic to your ritual.

One month, I needed to let go of something I didn't even remember. It was intuitively guided information, a soul story about grief and loss during two possible alternate lives.

I say possible because it doesn't really matter to me if they happened just as I am uncovering in the soul story or not. What matters is that my soul served up this story to me and asked me to respond. So I do. I trust myself.

Letting Go of Grief

So I had two stories of grief and loss and wanted to release them during ritual, and I did feel a little sadness. Kind of like an echo rather than the sound, itself. But it was hard to connect deeply without fully remembering.

So I used this song, and it worked beautifully...

How might you use music in your own rituals?

Later tonight, I'll tell you how to use meditation as part of your new moon ritual. And tomorrow, I'll talk about how to continue the new moon work with a crystal layout.

Have a wonderful day!

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Getting Crystal Clear about Your Intention

Getting Crystal Clear about Your Intention

So, you’ve identified this next thing that’s raising its hand in your life, asking to take center stage. And you’ve uttered it to the dark of the moon. 

Your next step is to get crystal clear about your intention.

Journal Exploration or Quiet Reflection

(1) What is this intention, once manifested, going to look like? And feel like? 

(2) How do you want it to show up for you and what changes will it make? 

Take some time today to actively visualize this change and describe it to yourself by creating the dream-come-true inside your head. One you have done this visualization and reflection, see if that changes the way you would describe the intention.

Get clear about how you are naming this new thing you want to do. And then write it down.

I suggest writing it in your journal and on a slip of paper you will use either on your windowsill or in some other form.

(A full moon collage I created a few years ago)

Some people create collages each month at the new moon and full moon. This would be a great way to create pictures of your intention. But it also can be as simple as putting the slip of paper on your windowsill under the moonlight for a few days.

Do that tonight, and tomorrow, I'll tell you how to make a crystal elixir and use it in an intention ritual for the new moon.

See you then!

Have a wonderful day!