Full Harvest Moon – Looking Forward Rather Than Behind

This year the Full Harvest Moon might be seen within the evening sky simply two days earlier than Mabon, the autumn equinox.  On Monday, September twentieth, at 5:54 PM (MST), the complete moon will probably be shining at it’s peak.  But earlier than we get into the ritual, the time period Harvest Moon is price a fast dialogue.

Most full moons names stay fixed.  The Snow Moon in February is all the time the Snow Moon.  However the identical course of isn’t all the time the case with the Harvest Moon; there’s a standards that should be met.  The Full Moon that occurs nearest to Mabon, the autumn equinox all the time takes on the identify “Harvest Moon.”  This year the autumn equinox is 1:20 MST on September twenty second, which provides the September Full Moon the Harvest Moon title this year.  If the circumstances would have been completely different, then this month’s Full Moon could be referred to as the Corn Moon.

What You’ll Need For Our 2021 Harvest Moon Ritual

Quarter Candles (yellow, red, blue, green)
Athame or wand
Large White Goddess Candle – Goddess candle
Altar adorned with seasonal herbs, flowers, and foliage
Paper and pencils
Bowl of sacred water

Fire pit – it’s endorsed that everybody be conversant in fireplace security protocol and be cautious to not begin a wildfire

Throughout this ritual, any textual content surrounded by these symbols < > needs to be thought-about tutorial and never spoken aloud however achieved in accordance with the instructions

Ritual Begins

This circle forming throughout, excessive above, throughout the bottom, every part turning into clear, a sacred sphere has gathered right here – cease, look and hear as we at the moment are between the worlds!

Calling The Quarters

First we glance to the East, the course linked to the soul and the breath of life – the place the spirits of Air blows away negativity and damaging influences.  We search knowledge, psychological readability and reassurances that our phrases will probably be heard.  <gentle yellow candle>

Next we flip to the South, the course linked to the strength of mind and pure power – the place the spirits of Fire create, destroy, and provides rise to nice and fantastic issues from the ashes.  We ask for eternal safety, heat, warmth and the important gentle essential for guiding our our bodies and souls via the season of chilly and darkness, that may quickly be upon us.  <gentle red candle>

We now look  to the West, the course of uncooked ardour and emotion – the place the spirits of Water repeatedly refresh and regenerate all that is available in contact with it.  We require fixed contact so our our bodies shall by no means abandon us within the therapeutic, purification, and development processes.  <gentle blue candle>

And to finish our circle, we flip to the North, the course of Mother Earth, the middle of our lives and the supply of all issues.  We ask for a glimpse of the longer term in a single eye and a glimpse of the previous within the different, in order that when mixed we are able to discover stability, grounding, and luxury in all issues and all realms. <gentle green candle>

<Ritual chief ought to Raise their arms excessive>

Great Goddess, it’s you who give life to all issues, each massive and small, you who increase the seeds from the soil, and also you who present the pathway for the enlightened.  We humbly ask in your presence tonight beneath the sunshine of the moon. <Light Goddess candle>

Introduction

The full moon nearest to Mabon is known as the Harvest Moon.  For a number of nights, moonrise comes very near sundown, which gives a number of hours of extra gentle.  In historic occasions, this was an enormous profit to farmers because it allowed them to work later into the evening, bringing within the closing harvest of the year – therefore the identify.  In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon falls in September.  In the third it happens in October.  Before we dive into the cleaning and clearing ritual, we’ll first take a while to get pleasure from a beautiful choice of music.

Musical Interlude

This month’s choice is Moon Chant, from Marie Bruce.  It is a really mesmerizing melody that may stick with you for the remainder of the day.

2021 Full Harvest Moon – Looking Forward Rather Than Behind

This month, our lesson of the session focuses on trying ahead; ahead to the altering season, ahead to the tip of the countless quarantines, lockdowns, and limitations we’ve all be struggling via.  Throughout our historical past, humankind has studied the occasions that came about previously and used that information.  We’ve managed to keep away from most of the repetitive pitfalls previous generations have made and we’re higher off for it.  Yet, if we spend an excessive amount of time trying on the previous, we lose sight of the issues rising proper earlier than our eyes.

On this Full Harvest Moon, I problem everybody to look forward.  Ask yourselves the necessary questions, reminiscent of the place do I see myself sooner or later?  What will I be doing?  Who will I be related to?  Am I nonetheless on the identical path as I’m now, or will I see a life change?  These are just some on the hundreds of thousands of questions every of us may ask ourselves.  This may seem to be an train of pure enjoyable to some as they dream the not possible desires, however there may be good motive to verify in with yourselves on this method every so often; particularly when making ready for a Full Moon cleaning and clearing ritual.  Put some reputable thought into trying forward, even when it’s only for a couple of weeks or months.  Hold these ideas, conditions, and environment in your thoughts and don’t allow them to go for the second.

Now that we’re ahead-considering, I’d once more ask you to go deep into thought once more and ask yourselves what issues in your present life are holding you again or protecting you from reaching a few of any of these future objectives or locations?  Revisit the longer term you and search for roadblocks as to why you won’t be capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient you’re holding in your thoughts.  Look to the fantastic illumination of the Full Harvest Moon for enlightenment and steering.  Is there an individual in your life who all the time holds you again?  Are you in a job which limits your inventive skills?  Do you self-sabotage each good factor that appears to search out you, merely due to and entrenched worry of failure or worse?  Are you in an countless cycle of round references which maintain you from rising?  Do you maintain onto dangerous habits or dangerous reminiscences which aren’t in your highest and greatest self-curiosity?

After some thought, every of us can simply establish some issues which aren’t working for us, and infrequently work towards us.  We name this baggage.  As we transfer via this nice section of existence name humanity, all of us decide up baggage.  Over the years this baggage turns into extra cumbersome and the burden of carrying it turns into practically not possible.  It distracts us from private development to the extent that we’d really feel development is all however not possible.  Well, let me let you know that this baggage must go, to be dumped, dropped and by no means picked up once more.  It is time to wash home, unlock some house in your thoughts, and return to the pathway that you already know you have to be on.

Full Moon Magick – Cleansing and Clearing

We collect every month on the complete moon to launch negativity; to burn that which wants burning, to decide on to stroll away from that which weighs closely on our hearts, and in the end to cut back psychological muddle.   Our earlier train has helped us establish the issues that drag us down, the luggage that we might not present to others round us, however is there nonetheless.  Deep inside we are able to really feel the burden of negativity and the harm attributable to a lot of it.  The harm is actual.  The limitations are actual.  The confusion is actual.   And but, regardless of having the ability to see it, many people cling to those damaging issues, for causes unknown or that we can not clarify.   Sometimes we go for the simple routes in life, generally accepting or settling.  Rather than rising and languishing in a life which meets out religious and emotional wants, we generally discover ourselves stopped or worse, transferring in reverse.

So tonight, earlier than we begin in our month-to-month cleaning via burning session, take time to ask your self if that gentle is seen.  Take time to query you personal motives on why you retain poisonous folks in your lives or why you enable others to make use of you with out reciprocity.  Are you ready to sift via every part and weed your private backyard?  Will you observe via and rid yourselves of something that has no worth?  Also, take into consideration how one can harness the optimistic energies coming out of your harvests and late summer season actions.  Look for methods to maintain that magick alive in your life through the arduous months of winter.  Bring a number of the outdoors into your house so that you’ll have a relentless reminder of the place your life is grounded.  Look for methods to excel reasonably than simply settle.  Seek out these energies and retailer them inside your spirit, so that you just don’t regress when issues are dark.

Remember that cleaning is a private alternative and nobody will decide you for releasing issues, or for holding onto them.  The resolution is 100% private and never transferable.  Remember {that a} life stuffed with negativity will breed extra negativity, however one stuffed with gentle, will probably be a shining beacon that pulls extra gentle.

<Offer members pen & paper to put in writing down something they want to completely banish from their lives>

Once you’re prepared, please strategy the fireplace and burn away that which now not serves you !

<as soon as everyone seems to be completed, take a couple of moments to meditate in silence>

Cleaning and releasing is simply half of the job.  Do not enable damaging power to refill the areas you’ve simply created.  Trade the dangerous for one thing higher; one thing enlightening and pure.  Leave right here with a smile in your face, the understanding that there’s extra to life than simply present, and that change is all the time a part of our lives, but in addition that you just’ve acquired this!  Change gained’t cease you from rising.  Stop sitting on the sidelines and interact with the issues that take existence to residing.  Blessed Be!

Closing the 2021 Harvest Moon Circle

Spirits of the North, we bid you farewell on this superb evening – depart us with the understanding that, what we want will probably be supplied, if solely we open our eyes and our hearts. <extinguish green candle>

Spirits of the West, we thanks for the numerous hundreds of blessings you may have given us – depart us tonight with clear hearts, open minds, and a mild feeling of peace. <extinguish blue candle>

Spirits of the South, we honor you for sharing your energies with us tonight – say farewell on this evening, however depart us with the power to beat adversity and stay true to our chosen path.  <extinguish red candle>

Spirits of the East, depart us in good concord and steadiness – carry all that we select to launch, removed from right here and depart us with optimistic vibrations and ideas to fill our souls.  <extinguish yellow candle>

Great Goddess, with out your gentle, we’d by no means know the sweetness that the world has; with out your encouragement, we’d by no means have developed and grown as a human race; with out your continued steering, we’d have strayed from the trail – for these issues and a lot extra, we humbly thanks and the unconditional love shared with us this evening and each evening.  <extinguish Goddess Candle>

The circle is open however by no means damaged,

Huzzah!

Additional Readings

If you’d wish to browse different Full Moon Rituals obtainable, take a look at the Rites & Rituals Archives on The Gypsy Thread.

 

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