Full Moon Night

Tonight is the January Full Moon. It is called the Winter Moon or Wolf Moon because in ancient times the wolves could be heard at the edge of the villages, cold and hungry, their howling echoing in the cold still air. Last night the coyotes here were howling so I may as well call this The Coyote Moon. I'll be doing my ritual outside tonight so I'll see if the Coyotes participate.

The Moon was the first Universal measurer of time. it's 28 1/2 day cycle symbolizes time, fate, spinning, wheels weaving, cauldrons and of course The Divine Feminine or Great Mother.

I love the Moon rituals, I guess it's the Goddess connection. Many Years ago we had a group that got together every full moon for a drumming circle and every New Moon to state our intentions.
Now I perform my rituals alone and I can say that they are even more meaningful. Also, they are more personal and because you may change the ceremony to your own creative needs.

The Full Moon is a time for action, for giving thanks, for harvesting the fruits of our labors, for manifesting that which we began at the beginning of the last cycle, for releasing things that are no longer serve our highest good.

Here's something new I just discovered and will incorporate into my own ceremony tonight...

Choose a night of the Full Moon and light a silver or white candle at Gabriel's hour (9pm). Sit where you can observe the Moon and begin to breathe quietly and deeply, inhaling the mystic light of Her silvery rays in your imagination so that, as you breathe out, you exhale a beautiful outpouring of white magical radiance. See yourself and your surroundings as suffused with this light. Say to the Moon:

Moon-Goddess, Enchantress and Mistress of the night, I pray that I might be blessed with the grace and the strength of your majesty and beauty and enchantment of your magnetism. I experience the bliss of your peace, tranquility and power. I hail you as Queen of Wisdom and the Receptive Soul. All my life I shall walk in the charmed circle of your wisdom, beauty, power, serenity and mystery. I am filled with the heavenly peace of your motherly love, which enfolds me tenderly within the great white wings of Isis, whose radiant presence is with me in every life situation.

Sit for a few minutes contemplating the Moon's mysteries, then bow to Her and blow out your candle.

Jai Mata Di