I propose here some ideas to align you with the energy of the full moon and integrate it into your life, but of course, let your own creativity flow and ideas to celebrate and honor this moment of expansion in the lunar cycle.
Take a time, the day of the full moon, to stop and create a simple ritual that connects to you with the forces of the moon, just at its most radiant and round point, reflecting all the sunlight that is now directly opposite to it in the sky. If you can do it outdoors, in the moonlight, even better!
Preparation
If you are inside, this can be as simple as closing the door, or a little more elaborate as cleaning the room, burning white sage, holy stick or incense, lighting a candle, using a space cleaning spray. Do what you need to create a special and sacred space.
Creation of an altar
Infinite possibilities to create a special space where to gather elements and symbols to celebrate the moon. For example, with a white, gold or red candle. Put a full moon image. Flowers if you have them at your fingertips … round fruits or vegetables … a round mirror … silver coins like the moon … sea shells … the representation of something you want to nourish and bless.
Center
Prepare for the ritual focusing and rooting your energy. There are different ways to do this, one of them consists in visualizing that you are a tree and you have roots that lower the earth deeply. For this, you can listen to the visualization of the tree women and make a shorter version.
Meditation
Take time to connect with the moon and feel your energy of expansion and maturation.
Connect with your uterus (or with this area if you do not have a physical uterus) and imagine all the light of this moon filling your matrix.
Feel all the capacity for gestation and creation of your matrix, creatures or ideas and projects, which for about forty years of your life does, or did, that same cycle of growth and expansion, preparing for fertilization (of a creature, or an idea or project) and reaching its maximum point of fertility.
Connect with everything you want to nurture and bless you, with the power of realization and manifestation. Imagine that you welcome it in your hands, and bathe it in the light of this moon.
Creative Activity: Feeling my creative abilities through mud
Take advantage of this moment and this ritual to do a creative activity that is in tune with the full moon. Its energy connects us with all our ability to welcome, to gestate, to nourish … I propose to explore and feel the relationship with your creativity through a small sensory experience with mud.
Materials:
- A piece of mud
- A bowl with water, to wet the mud and clean your hands
- A rag
- Newspaper or plastic paper if you have to protect the work surface
Music: Listen to music that helps you enter an inner and creative space, for example Premal Deva: Jai Radha Madhava
Take the mud in your hands, connecting with the earth element, with your uterus, with water …
Close your eyes and start touching it, feel its texture, enjoy your senses, look at your breathing, your thoughts … and your them.
Let any form arise with what your hands mold, without thinking about the final result.
Focus all your attention on the experience of creating and what moves in you.
Look at the emotions and thoughts that emerge while you touch the mud. They are a small mirror, under the light of this moon, to recognize the relationship you have with the creation process at this time.
When you have finished, welcome in your hands what has come out of you, whatever it is … and see what emotion it evokes you … if the mud could talk, what would you say? Place your creation on your altar to the full moon.
Complete
To finish the ritual, connect with thanks: name everything you want to thank and recognize of this moment of the moon and your life cycle …
Happy full moon!
TExte: , from the online course the four moons in me, week 2, the archetype of the mother.