Hunter’s Moon 2021 – Looking Toward the Future

The final full moon earlier than Samhain is upon us, Huzzah!  The Hunter’s Moon will attain peak illumination at 8:57 A.M. MST on Wednesday, October 20.  Like September’s full moon, it is going to be beneath the horizon at the moment, so we’ll have to attend till sundown to see it.

What You’ll Need For Our 2021 Hunter’s Moon Ritual

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

Fire pit

Throughout this ritual, any textual content surrounded by these symbols < > needs to be thought of educational and never spoken aloud however performed in accordance with the instructions

Full Hunter’s Moon Ritual Begins

This circle forming throughout, excessive above, throughout the floor, a sacred sphere has gathered right here – we are actually between the worlds!

Calling The Quarters

Look to the East, calling upon the nice and noble spirits of AIR.  Join us on this night time as the clear skies glow with magick.  Teach us the classes of persistence, simplicity, courtesy, and customary sense.  Whisper encouraging phrases as you slip previous us, unnoticed.  <gentle yellow candle>

Turn to the South, calling upon the nice and noble spirits of FIRE.  Join us on this night time and have fun the full moon.  Bring your mesmerizing flames to burn away that which have to be burned. Point us in the proper course for higher issues and higher locations.  <gentle red candle>

Look to the West, calling upon the nice and noble spirits of WATER.  Join us on this night time of celestial vitality and fulfill our wants as we seek for the solutions in the stars.  Tend to our wants and quench each our thirst for all times and our thirst for data. <gentle blue candle>

At final we flip to the North, calling upon the nice and noble spirits of EARTH.  Join us on this night time and maintain the recollections recent in our minds of the ancestors who walked upon these lands way back.  Open our eyes, our ears, and our hearts to the knowledge of the plow, the vegetation, and the soil.  As we nurture the land, educate us in methods to nurture each other. <gentle green candle>

<Ritual chief ought to elevate their arms excessive above their head>

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

Introduction and Full Moon History

Of all the completely different moon names, the Full Hunter’s Moon is certainly one of solely two not tied to a selected month.  The month assigned to the Hunter’s Moon is solely depending on the Harvest Moon.  It’s as a result of the Harvest Moon is related to the autumnal equinox, and never a selected month.  It’s the title given to the closet full moon to that date every year.  The first full moon occurring after the Harvest Moon known as the Hunter’s Moon.  The Hunter’s Moon is also referred to as the Sanguine Moon, the Blood Moon, the Dying Grass Moon and generally the Travel Moon.

If you didn’t comprehend it, full moon names originate from the Native American tribes of North America.  Most individuals agree that the origin of the title, Hunter’s Moon, comes from historic practices.  With the harvests completed, individuals would take to the forests, attempting to find meat to dry and protect for the winter as a complement to meals shops already gathered.  Hunters had the benefit of posting subsequent to fields the place animals would come to feed what didn’t get picked by the farmers.

Musical Interlude

Music is a key half to all our rituals, and we spend quite a lot of time searching for that excellent melody to go with the night time.  Every from time to time, the job is simple and the track simply jumps out at you.  Our choice tonight is certainly one of the latter kind – Moondance by Van Morrison simply appears completely acceptable.

2021 Full Hunter’s Moon – Looking Forward

This month, we glance towards the future.  Toward the uncertainty of what tomorrow may convey.  Toward a world that appears to be falling into spoil beneath its personal weight.  Toward the prospects of constructing exhausting choices and what the penalties of these choices may be.  But additionally what the prospects and nice non secular modifications that would occur.  And the hope that humankind may lastly determine to come back collectively, relatively than proceed to splinter aside.  It’s a good time to be alive; watching historical past unfold proper earlier than our eyes, whereas concurrently being on the precipice of ‘who knows what’.

Now that the dramatic entrance dialogue is over, let’s get all the way down to enterprise and speak about a few of the issues we must always pay attention to on this nice interval of wanting ahead.  First and foremost is evaluating our non secular path and the way the previous couple of years have been influencing it.  It’s a tricky topic, however a essential one, for now greater than ever do we have to look inside to verify we aren’t straying from our chosen path.  Some of us could also be in a state of change on account of components outdoors of our management; job loss, isolation, well being points, or any of a lot of different prospects.  We could have put all of those worldly issues able of precedence over our non secular objectives, and due to it, we seemingly have discovered ourselves burdened with an even bigger pile of non secular baggage than regular.

Times like these are once we may have some non secular steering or just a push in the proper course.  Someone to remind us that issues are all the time altering and we aren’t dwelling in a state of concern.  Just as a result of there are a lot of modifications occurring proper on prime of each other, isn’t a purpose to overlook the actual explanation why we’re right here on this earth. Just as a result of our world is getting extra restrictive isn’t a purpose to cease loving each other and serving to each time you may.  It’s a tough time, little question, however not an unattainable time.  We’ve been by means of powerful instances earlier than and but we nonetheless stroll the earth.

The stress of dwelling is weighing upon all of us, however tonight we are able to launch it, together with different emotional baggage we’ve been hoarding unnecessarily.  Remove the weight of this baggage an you’ll end up with a transparent head and pleasure in your coronary heart.  Take that point to cease, sit or meditate, and bear in mind the smallest particulars of your non secular path.  Ask your self if you’re being true to your self, and if not, how one can get issues again on monitor.  Why are you carrying the burdens of others?  Why are you anxious about whether or not different individuals suppose or imagine the identical method as you do; you’re not like anybody else and that’s price celebrating.  Are there individuals who have made your life tough?  Why are you permitting poisonous individuals to affect you?  And on and on till you’ve analyzed all that wants analyzing.

Take benefit of the therapeutic vitality of the full moon to recharge your self and renew your relationship along with your Gods and Goddesses, your ancestors, your spirit guides, and all of the different creatures of the realm which have made your acquaintance.  Free your self from guilt, from disgrace, and from and emotions of negativity towards your fellow particular person.  Cast off the phrases and beliefs of one other and comply with your coronary heart with all the zest and zeal you would probably muster.  It’s time to retake cost of your life and stroll your personal stroll.

Cleansing and Clearing

As all the time, on the full moon we come right here to launch negativity; to burn that which wants burning, to decide on to stroll away from that which weighs closely on our hearts, and finally to cut back psychological litter.   We all carry weights which are simply jettisoned, if solely we put some effort into the course of.  Examining what’s weighing you down, after which figuring out whether it is actually your drawback or another person’s drawback that simply appeared to stay to you.  This could give you readability for the first time in your life, particularly should you’ve by no means performed the sort of deep self-evaluation.  Take a couple of minutes and replicate.

<take a number of moments, or extra, to permit for the group to self-replicate>

Remember that cleaning is a private alternative and nobody will choose you for releasing issues, or for holding onto them.  We’ve simply mentioned how the problems with these round us can drag us down, however a few of it’s possible you’ll want extra time to replicate on that matter, and it’s extremely steered that should you really feel that method, you must meditate on the topic.  The choice cleanse is 100% private and never transferable.  Remember {that a} life full of negativity will breed extra negativity, however one full of gentle, will likely be a shining beacon that pulls further gentle.

<Offer individuals pen & paper to write down down something they want to completely banish from their lives>

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

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

Cleaning and releasing are the first steps to bettering your non secular workings.  Once you’ve selected to discard the undesirable issues, don’t permit new or several types of unfavorable vitality to refill the areas you’ve simply created.  Trade the dangerous for one thing higher; one thing enlightening and pure, however don’t look ahead to it; time could be a vicious grasp should you permit it to.  Leave right here with a smile in your face, the understanding that there’s extra to life than simply current, and that change is all the time a part of our lives, but in addition that you just’ve bought this!  Change received’t cease you from rising.  Stop sitting on the sidelines and interact with the issues that take existence to dwelling.  Blessed Be!

Closing the 2021 Hunter’s Moon Circle

Spirits of the North, we bid you farewell on this wonderful full moon night time – we understand that not all the pieces is what it seems to be on the floor and that even in fear, deep down we all know what we want will likely be offered, what we search shall be found, and what we want, could not all the time be what we have to develop spiritually. <extinguish green candle>

Spirits of the West, we thanks in so some ways – as you permit us tonight, please depart us with open minds, open hearts and a renewed feeling of peace and the willingness to assist others, however assist with out taking over their issues as our personal. <extinguish blue candle>

Spirits of the South, we honor you for sharing your energies with us tonight – as we are saying farewell, we solely ask that you just depart us with clear imaginative and prescient to see by means of the noise of the world we live in and the psychological readability to rise above it and follow the path we now have chosen; the path which serves our personal private development.  <extinguish red candle>

Spirits of the East, depart us in excellent concord and steadiness – as the night time winds carry away our emotional releases, we search to stroll away with a renewed sense of gratitude, caring, and humbleness.  <extinguish yellow candle>

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

The circle is open however by no means damaged,

Merry Meet, Merry Part, And Merry Meet Again!

Huzzah!

Additional Readings

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

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