Moon Thoughts
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:15 pm
“I see the moon, and the moon sees me.”
It's something my mom used to say every so often when the moon was full and bright in the sky. I don't know where she picked it up from, and I know that she with her intensely devout Christian inner compass wouldn't mean anything by it, but the little phrase really stuck with me, and it always comes to mind when I meet eyes with the moon, especially when it's full.
The full moon of April is tonight. To my thinking, there's three nights of fullness per month, just like there's three nights of the dark moon, with the middle night being the lunar phase zenith of each, so to speak. Usually, I'd use this time for works of healing and health maintenance if I've got no other more specific project at hand, and considering the events ongoing right now, it seems like a pretty obvious choice.
I find power in the dew. Little droplets soaked in moonglow are more holy than a priest's little vial of stale water. Before the sun's up, I go out and cut a few branches of old growth wet with dew, and I use this to asperge the front door, the kitchen counters, the bed...wherever I feel a vulnerability trying to creep in. I keep the branches, and usually they feed fires for dark moon banishing rites two weeks later.
Anyone else have lunar traditions they don't mind sharing?
It's something my mom used to say every so often when the moon was full and bright in the sky. I don't know where she picked it up from, and I know that she with her intensely devout Christian inner compass wouldn't mean anything by it, but the little phrase really stuck with me, and it always comes to mind when I meet eyes with the moon, especially when it's full.
The full moon of April is tonight. To my thinking, there's three nights of fullness per month, just like there's three nights of the dark moon, with the middle night being the lunar phase zenith of each, so to speak. Usually, I'd use this time for works of healing and health maintenance if I've got no other more specific project at hand, and considering the events ongoing right now, it seems like a pretty obvious choice.
I find power in the dew. Little droplets soaked in moonglow are more holy than a priest's little vial of stale water. Before the sun's up, I go out and cut a few branches of old growth wet with dew, and I use this to asperge the front door, the kitchen counters, the bed...wherever I feel a vulnerability trying to creep in. I keep the branches, and usually they feed fires for dark moon banishing rites two weeks later.
Anyone else have lunar traditions they don't mind sharing?