| Full
Moon Non-italicized text represents spoken words, italicized text represents actions to be taken. Non-italicized text represents spoken words, italicized text represents actions to be taken. |
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| Cast
a circle by mentally projecting protective energy outward
through either an Athame (ritual dagger), a Wand, or simply
your hand as you trace three circles around your working
area, saying:
Triple
Goddess Chant: Mother,
cast Your circle red Old
Crone, cast Your circle black Although
it is called a circle, it is actually a sphere, so make sure
you spend enough time visualizing and feeling a safe,
protective sphere around your working area inside of which no
harm or ill will has power
Invocation
to the Elements & the Seven Directions: Charge of the Goddess: Listen to the words of the Great Goddess, who in ancient times was named Isis, Hathor, Nut, Gaia, Diana, Demeter, Aphrodite, Selene, Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Makosh, Slava, Danu, Freyja, Frigga, Mawu, Kuan Yin, and countless other names. Whenever you have need of My aid, assemble in a secret place at least once a month, especially at the Full Moon. Know that My laws and love shall make you free, for no man can prevent your worship of Me in your mind and heart. Listen well when you come into My presence, and I shall teach you of deep mysteries, ancient and powerful. I require no sacrifices or pain of your bodies, for I am Mother of all things, the Creatress who made you out of My love, and the One who endures through all time. I am the One who is the beauty of the Earth, the green of growing things. I am the white Moon whose light is full among the stars, soft upon the Earth. From Me all things are born, to Me all things, in their season, return. Let My joyous worship be in your hearts, for all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. You see Me in the love of man and woman, the love of parent and child, the love of humans to all My creations. When you create with your hands, I am there. I blow the breath of life into the seeds you plant, whether of plant or child. Always I stand beside you, whispering soft words of wisdom and guidance. All seekers of the Mysteries must come to Me, for I am the True Source, the Keeper of the Cauldron. All your seeking and yearning will avail you nothing unless you know the Mystery: for if what you seek you find not within, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I will gather you to My breast at the end of your earthly existence.5 Hold up the cup of moon water with your left hand and say: Drawing Down the
Moon: See/feel the blessings of the Mother pour into your cup. I tend to see it as flowing from the round opening of a tipped cauldron. Drink the moon water as you would nourishment from the breasts of the Great Goddess and feel the silver light spreading through you Take up the empty cup with your left hand and the Athame (ritual dagger) or Wand with your right hand The Great
Marriage: Lower the Athame or Wand into the cup, symbolically recreating the sexual union of the God and Goddess to ensure continuing fertility and abundance on all levels of existence Spend some time with the Mother, whether meditating, praying/talking, doing divination, or spellwork. As a general rule, divination associated with the Mother is that about the present and magick associated with her is that of fullness and fruition, the wild and powerful energy abounding at this time giving extra oomph to any spell. Any additional rituals can also be done now If you have a wish to make, trade it for a good deed you did today Thank all who you have invited for coming by saying something to the effect of: Thank you for
coming blessed _____
(North/South/East/West/God/Goddess/etc)! Come and go in
peace! Releasing the
Circle: The Circle is open
but never broken! Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet
again. |
NOTES:
The Full Moon ritual was the first ritual I ever did. I
started doing it on my own, before I knew there were such
things as Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca, or any spiritual paths
that still did them. I dressed up in old rags painted with
my own symbols, drew designs on my face with lipstick, put
feathers in my hair, and danced outside around candles,
casting huge shadows on the walls of my house - much to the
fright of my neighbors, I'm sure. I danced until I was out
of breath and could dance no more, and then sat down to
meditate as the thick energy I conjured up crackled around
me.
I did this to honor the moon, who I saw as the most important symbol of a guardian entity named Jida. Eventually I happened upon books of other people who also honor the moon, found things there that I resonated with, and layered this new knowledge on top of my existing ritual. Very little of my original ritual remains in the script you see here. I still practice it, but omitted it because it has to do with my cosmology and most people would simply not be able to relate to it. In my versions, things like the circle casting, the wish-making, and especially the add-on rituals stay true to and expand on my original understanding of the full moon ceremony. LORE: Although there is little consensus on whether the full moon is lucky or unlucky, there is no doubt that it has captured the awe and imagination of every culture graced by her presence. Tales of faeries, werewolves, heightened birthrates, heightened crime rates, and chaotic mood swings abound during this magickal time. The tides come in, the veils between the worlds thin, and nature flowers in all her glory. This is the phase of the Mother aspect of the Goddess, who birthed all the universe into being. Energy is ripe and overflowing at the peak of its power. Because energy is so abundant during the full moon, extra rituals are often attached to the core ceremony. These include things like consecrating ritual tools, empowering amulets, contacting various entities, shapeshifting, culminating previous spellwork, anything that can benefit from the added boost of energy and empowerment. The Great Cosmic Mother is the primal Creatress within her womb grows all potential and possibilities; reality is very malleable under her influence. The "Charge of the Goddess" I feature in the script is one of many, many adaptations of this famous Wiccan text. Although I use it as a kind of invocation for the Mother, it is typically spoken by a ceremonially prepared High Priestess after a mini-ritual designed to draw down the moon - the Goddess - into her. She speaks/channels in first person, with the authority of the Goddess herself. The "Great Marriage" is an act of sympathetic magick designed to symbolically recreate and thereby invoke the sexual union of the God and Goddess which ensures the continuation of fertility, and therefore of life. This is a fertility on all levels: body and spirit, mind and emotion, inner and outer worlds. The second full moon of a month is called the Blue Moon and is considered particularly auspicious. This is a relatively new phenomenon since the majority of the world's first calendars were based on lunar cycles and therefore had strictly one full moon per each of the thirteen months of the lunar year. SUGGESTED
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