Full Harvest Moon Ritual 2022 - Back to Basics

The 2022 Full Harvest Moon will likely be at its peak at 3:58 AM, MST on September tenth. Unfortunately for moon watchers, it should peak with only a brief viewing window earlier than the rising solar arrives to spoil the view. Remember that we name this moon the complete harvest moon, due to it being the closest full moon to the autumn equinox, higher referred to as Mabon. Harvest moon’s often happen in September, however each three years it’s in October. With a 28 day moon cycle and a 30/31 day calendar cycle, its straightforward to see how this will happen. In the off year, the September full moon known as the Corn Moon.

Our 2022, full moon development collection is nearing an finish. Our Full Harvest Moon ritual for 2022 is solely titled, again to fundamentals. In August we mentioned navigating by troublesome waters. There was no July lesson this year. The focus in June our focus was about development and creating a community of like-minded folks to socialize with. May was about danger and the way taking possibilities impacted our lives. In April we reviewed how to preserve the ability of emotion from controlling our actions. In March our ceremony was about focusing our consideration on embracing the lunar vitality in all facets of our lives. In February we checked out methods to creatively plan and in January our focus was getting ready ourselves for the projected chaos of 2022. I’m blissful to see so many individuals taking this year-long journey with me. I really feel that I’ve grown spiritually in writing them and I hope these collaborating really feel the identical.

Preparing For The 2022 Harvest Moon Ritual

This ritual ought to be preformed outdoors below the sunshine of the complete moon. If you possibly can accomplish it, place your circle round a bonfire.

What gadgets you’ll want to acquire for this ritual (as written)

Quarter Candles (yellow, red, blue, green)
Large White Goddess Candle
Paper and pencil for every participant
Fire pit or cauldron appropriate for safely burning small objects and paper
Athame or Wand
Altar – adorn with seasonal fall foliage and flowers
Bowl of Sacred Water

If you might be having a bunch session, inform everybody prematurely that they’ll convey their stones, crystals, wands, or different magical instruments to be charged on the communal altar throughout the ritual.

Any portion of the ritual that’s bracketed by <> symbols ought to be understood as educational notes and never to be spoken aloud.

The Full Harvest Moon Ritual Begins

<Using your Wand or Athame, level in every cardinal instructions whereas conjuring your circle, ask all individuals to flip within the path, following your lead>

With breath and life and the magick of my ancestors, I name upon the ability of the universe to collect in a surrounding sphere of safety from the sky above to the earth beneath. I conjure this house of sunshine and darkness, misplaced within the sands of time, free from all encumbrance, open to all who share in its lifeforce.

Calling the Quarters

East
Travelers, come one and are available all, flip with me to face the East. Together we will open our arms and welcome the nice spirits of the Air to enter our circle. May they encompass us with a comforting breeze, interact our senses with a swirling wind, and remind us that there’s energy in motion, whether or not air, physique, or spirit. <mild yellow candle>

South
Now look to the South. We stretch the very fringe of our imaginative and prescient to achieve the primary glimpse of the spirits of Fire as they transfer in our path. We are lucky for the numerous classes of duality, dependence, and destruction. For the flame has no human grasp. It is however a present that we borrow from past. Our selections decide whether or not or not it’s pal or foe. <mild red candle>

West
Turn once more and repair your gaze into the West. Give thanks to the spirits of Water because the cascade throughout the lands. One nice physique exists however spreads itself in lots of types and in lots of places. Frozen, liquid, or vaporous and from river, ocean, or sky above we see water in all places. The nice connection is purposeful, to heal, to purify, and to quench. <mild blue candle>

North
Finally convey your sight to the North. Here we discover the spirits of the Earth. To those that aren’t prepared to see, issues are stagnant and boresome. Yet these with eyes can wander the forests and hills, catching glimpse of the hidey holes and cubbies of the Fae. Mutual respect brings a wider visual field, second sight, and whispered secrets and techniques of nature. It is our pleasure to welcome any and all who want to attend. <mild green candle>

Goddess
<Ritual chief ought to Raise their arms excessive, close to the circle middle>
Great Goddess, it’s you who give life to all issues, each massive and small. It is you that pulls life ever-upward from the land. Is is you that gives the non secular steerage we search. As we interact on this harvest moon ritual, we ask on your comforting firm, so that every might really feel protected as they purge their destructive energies. <Light Goddess candle>

Welcome!

Introduction

Each turning of the wheel assigns the nights of the complete moons. In most months, the names stay the identical, apart from the complete moon’s in September and October. Depending on how the calendar aligns with the moon cycle, the Harvest Moon may happen in both month. Long in the past our ancestors, racing to end the harvest earlier than the chilly climate hit, would work late into the night time. For a number of nights, moonrise comes very shut to sundown, which offers a number of hours of extra mild. The world has modified over time and harvesting can go into November, with the fitting situations.

We give thanks to the Goddess for offering by many various harvests all through the summer time. The grain, fruits, herbs, berries, roots and flowers are all gathered and saved for winter. Soon Mabon will likely be upon us, once we rejoice the second of the three nice harvest festivals. At Lammas, we celebrated the grain. At Mabon we rejoice the normal storage crops which offer the majority of winter shops; potatoes, apples, squash, pears, corn, and onions. We additionally see hay lower and baled for animal feed. Finally on Samhain, we rejoice the third and ultimate harvest once we collect the nuts, roots, herbs, and in addition livestock.

It can also be the final full moon of the sunshine half of the year. As summer time ends many people discover ourselves keen to ‘get back into things’ that feed our non secular life. We search rituals and gatherings on chilly nights to share tales and keep in mind our ancestors. This final full moon is the proper time to cleanse and clear away the muddle of on a regular basis life. It’s an ideal time to get again to fundamentals, however earlier than we dive it, we should elevate the vitality with somewhat music.

Musical Interlude

Choosing the suitable music for a ritual usually takes extra time than writing it. I’m excited to convey this brief piece on your listening enjoyment tonight. It known as “Song of the Moon”, by Ariana Silver. It has an exquisite tempo and reaches again into historical instances to transport the echoes of our ancestors into the current voice.

Back to Basics

Our harvest moon ritual subject for this month is again to fundamentals. And no, earlier than you even assume it, this isn’t for newcomers. In truth, its simply the other. Most of us have spent the final three months operating right here and visiting there. We’ve stayed up late making an attempt to squeeze in each final second of summer time. During these three superb months, we’ve indulged in too many sensual pleasures, consumed means an excessive amount of meals, drink, and all that different stuff that makes us really feel good. We’ve danced like nobody was watching, sang, drummed, hooted and hollered ourselves into exhaustion. All that is nice, however I have to ask, did we do any shadow work? How about training our magickal workings? Did we uncover any new skills? Find any new areas of examine? By now you most likely have gotten the purpose.

Maybe you might be pondering, that sure, you probably did copious quantities of non secular growth and development over the summer time. Maybe you have been fortunate sufficient to have that type of time. I love those that by no means get diverted from their path and regularly progress of their quest to attain a state of enlightenment. So if that’s you, then simply smile and hear anyway. For all the remainder of you, the Harvest Moon is an effective time to recommit to your chosen path. It’s additionally a superb time to take inventory of your life and what you could have skilled this year. Focus on the ups and downs and the key occasions. Evaluate your actions, phrases, and actions. Were you holding true to your beliefs or have been you enjoying the sport? Did you attempt to cover your beliefs, possibly cowl up that pendant or skip attending a circle? Why?

Is somebody or one thing holding you from reaching your non secular targets? Are these targets on the identical degree as different targets you set? I think about that many deliberate holidays this summer time. Bet nobody cancelled them both. That objective was achieved. Goals within the bodily world appear to get achieved, so why not non secular ones? There are many causes. It’s straightforward to push them off since there aren’t any penalties. People will perceive if I don’t come to a ritual, its trip in any case. It’s too sizzling to sit inside and observe the issues I already know. There’s this new collection on-line that I simply have to watch. We act like they’re one thing much less vital than all these different issues. In actuality, it’s a very powerful factor. Our spirit is what makes us who we’re, act the way in which we do, and commune with the pure world.

Don’t abruptly fall right into a state of despair or undergo any grief due to a missed alternative. It’s straightforward to get again to fundamentals. You can begin at this time; the moon is full and the lunar vitality will cascade alongside of you as you journey into the recesses of your thoughts. Reach down deep and reconnect with the concepts you’ve been sitting on, and the spells partially completed. Resume meditating, cease procrastinating, take off your footwear and reconnect with nature. Forge forward along with your theories and written works. Fill your Book of Shadows with the teachings of herbs, crystals, and the ability of the universe. Make time for household and associates, but additionally find time for your self.

Do not be concerned, for we don’t decide. Centuries of persecution present worthwhile classes. No one will ridicule you for procrastinating. There’s no disgrace derived from placing a bodily pleasure forward of a non secular journey. History is not going to keep in mind your absence and time gained’t be involved. And in closing, do not forget that getting again to fundamentals will stir loads of feelings; enjoyable being the commonest. Dust off these brooms everybody, it’s nearly driving time!

Full Harvest Moon Ritual – Cleansing and Clearing

Our month-to-month full moon rituals in 2022 are targeted on private and group development, taking management of our personal lives, and being true to who we’re. We collect below the limitless mild, drawing within the lunar vitality to recharge and replenish. And we collect to share in an excellent cleaning ceremony. We shall clear away the negativity in our lives and completely baggage from the previous. Away with poisonous folks, poisonous locations and sucking pits of want. We search to rid our minds of negativity, concern, darkness and emotional ache. We shall exile those that search to achieve or keep affect over our lives.

As we go from the sunshine half of the year into the dark half, change will encompass us. We have to be vigilant and we have to be targeted. We will need to have a transparent thoughts and command over your physique. There isn’t any unhealthy conduct that can’t be modified. Nor are there unhealthy folks that we merely can’t dwell with. Negative vitality serves no goal besides to destroy our will and erode our self-worth. Let me remind you that you’re in management. This circle is a protected house and supercharged by lunar vitality. It’s time to make a selection: select to run your life from this level ahead or let another person use you as their pawn ceaselessly. Drop the heavy burdens of others earlier than they develop into your property. Focus on cleansing out that which not serves you in your biggest and highest good.

We are about to enter the awakening stage of this ritual, so get snug and put together to obtain. It is advisable that you’re barefoot so that you might be grounded to the earth. You are about to interact in a guided meditation which is able to convey you to a state of relaxed readability…simply go together with it.

Close you eyes. Relax your physique. Take a number of deep breaths. Feel your flesh swaying with the night time winds. You are mild as a feather. Weightlessness. Neutral and balanced. Free your thoughts of mundane actions. Forget the longer term and overlook the previous. Enter a state of merely being. Allow the spirits of your ancestors and spirits of air, earth, fireplace and water to information you. Envision the nice expanse of nothingness. You are coming into right into a state of calm rational pondering. Right and Wrong are evident right here. Freedom and servitude are seen. Darkness is clearly separate from the sunshine. The partitions are unfolding and unfolding once more. Breathe deeply and stay targeted. The threads of the universe are uncovered for you to observe. Where are your connections? What is bringing you to a better state of being? What is pulling you down or round? Why are you permitting these bearing heavy ropes and chains to affect you? Are your behaviors serving others, relatively than your self. Are there beings who’re utilizing you or placing you down or making an attempt to preserve you down. Are you visiting locations which appear to draw you however give you nothing however negativity. Do you see the darkness and the injury it’s bringing. Keep respiration deeply and stay targeted. There is far to consider and perceive. Do not rush by this process. Examine every part. If you search happiness, what’s stopping you from reaching it. Are you being tricked into believing that happiness comes from exterior elements. True happiness comes from inside. Breathe slowly. Find the energy to name out that which isn’t serving you. Your personal internal imaginative and prescient can see the reality. Prepare to shed your self of that which doesn’t serve your greatest and highest good. Breathe. Trust in your self. Trust within the highly effective lunar vitality. Be your personal spirit information. Lead your self ahead into victory. Now slowly open your eyes. Remain targeted. Prepare to step into the sunshine.

Stepping out of your darkness is usually terrifying. It takes nice energy to overcome forces that don’t want to give up so simply. You will want to attain deep and permit your warrior spirit to empower you. Feel the vitality of the earth because it programs by your physique. You are one along with your ancestors. You are one with the weather. You are one along with your group. Your household is right here to help you. It is time to step out of the darkness. Use your pure intention to shed your self from the particles and destructive forces that hang-out you. Now, write down every part that’s working towards you. Decide that on this second, you might be releasing these factor which maintain energy over you. Pledge to your self that you’re reducing these cords ceaselessly. This is the second to burn away that which causes you ache. This is the second to free yourselves from concern and anxiousness. This is the second to take again the you from those that need to management you. Stop collaborating in unhealthy relationships. Stop getting used. Shake away the false emotions of safety. Break free from the abuses. Your future relies on your strength of will. Believe your warrior-self that this can be a combat you possibly can and can win. Believe it with all of your coronary heart. Allow the highly effective vitality of the complete moon to strengthen your resolve. As you command it, then it shall be!

When you might be prepared, strategy the hearth with conviction and commit your record to the flames – saying out loud, “I release that which no longer serves me”

<Provide ample time for everybody to burn and meditate over what was launched>

Steady yourselves, for an excellent weight has been lifted out of your non secular being. I congratulate you at taking this superb step into self-therapeutic and self-reliance. Before we shut, this full Harvest Moon ritual, there are some things to keep in mind. Many of you will want help whenever you depart the circle. Negativity doesn’t quit simply. Your thoughts has been purged of many unhealthy issues and there are areas that may be crammed. Do not permit different destructive forces to occupy them. Find your tribe, observe your path, fill these areas with that which serves you to develop into a greater model of your self. Immerse your self in being a beacon of sunshine to ward away the darkness. Bring your personal happiness and from this level ahead, benefit from the peace and concord that you just deserve. So mote or not it’s!

Closing the Circle for our Full Harvest Moon Ritual

North
Begin within the North as we bid farewell to the spirits of Earth. With sole on soil we’ve felt the nice grounding vitality that binds the bodily world collectively. We’ve listened to the whispers and laughs of the forest creatures watching from a distance. The rocks and bushes are aglow with the highly effective lunar vitality. Awestruck with the splendor of present, are we! <extinguish green candle>

West
Now look West as we are saying thanks to the nice spirits of Water for his or her council tonight. As fireplace burns away the destructive and dark, so shall water cleanse the empty areas and put together them for invited company. As we enterprise, we will not overlook the lesson of the three states of water, energy doesn’t lie with how one can change, however the way you adapt to change. <extinguish blue candle>

South
Again we will gaze upon the South and provide our highest reward and most humble and full message of gratitude to the spirits of Fire. For the flames did devour the darkness and the iron grip of the controlling lots, from the trustworthy right here gathered. The smoke rising to peak distant and past the sight of all, earlier than leaving this land for a spot far past. <extinguish red candle>

East
And lastly look to the East and interact with the spirits Air as they make their means to the heavens. Let all ears be open to listening to the messages of our ancestors carried on the breeze, for we’re stronger once we be taught from those that have walked these lands earlier than us. <extinguish yellow candle>

Goddess
<Ritual chief ought to Raise their arms excessive, close to the circle middle>
Great Goddess, she who provides with out reluctance, creates with out boundaries, and forgives with no reminiscence. We are humbled in your presence and provide highest praises, nice prayers, and a lifetime of devotion to your service. We humbly thanks for the love and encouragement to assist us transfer into a better state of vibration. <extinguish Goddess Candle>

The Circle is Open !

Huzzah!

Additional Reading

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