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September Full Moon: The Full Corn Moon

Sep 1, 2020 | Blog

We now enter September, time flies when you’ve been in lockdown I guess! As we start to slowly wind down, I thought we could take a look at September’s full moon, the Corn Moon.

We all know how much I love a bit of moon magic and after the last few weeks of trying to get Tarot For Beginners up and running, I’m in need of a serious full moon ritual to boost my energy.

What is the Corn Moon?

I tend to follow the Native American names of the moons, as they’re the most well known here in the Northern Hemisphere and the Corn Moon reflects the period of time where indigenous people would start to collect their first full harvest.

We’re coming up to Mabon which is the autumn equinox, so this full moon marks the point where the earth is getting ready to sleep for a few months and humans need to stock up on essentials ready for the winter. It’s also the perfect time to give thanks to the earth for all it’s provided up to now, and that it has provided enough to get us through the harsher months.

With all this in mind, the Corn Moon is a great time to feel grateful for all that you have and everything that you feel blessed to have in your life. This doesn’t just have to be food, it can be friends, family or even a particular mindset you now have.

How to celebrate the Corn Moon?

Gratitude, that’s the main theme of the Corn Moon. When planning your full moon ritual this month, make gratitude the pivot point of all that you choose to do.

It may be that you write down all you feel grateful for or things that make you feel blessed in life. You can also be grateful for how you’ve turned up for yourself or others. Remember, that when we do any sort of full moon ritual, everything we do during the ritual needs to be done with intention. Make your intention this full moon to be grateful for every little thing, especially the things you overlook day to day.

The Corn Moon is best for…

Like I mentioned above, the Full Corn Moon is for gratitude, so gratitude lists and anything that helps you to feel grateful is an ideal way to celebrate the energy of this full moon. Some activities you could do are:

Gratitude lists
Gratitude mood boards – Creating a collage of your favourite pictures from this year
Gratitude bath – Listing all the things you’re grateful for when it comes to your bath. These will be things like warm water, bubble bath or bath salts etc. Really think about all the things that go into your bath and be grateful that you have them
Cook a harvest meal – Using corn, beans, wheat or bread, squashes, basically anything that you can harvest at this time of the year
Banishing negativity – We’re entering a new stage in the wheel of the year, so now is a great time to shed any unwanted, or stagnant energy before moving into the next few months.

July Full Moon: The Buck Moon

Jun 30, 2020 | Soul Purpose

July Is nearly here and that means one very important thing, it’s nearly time for the Buck Moon!

On the 5th July GMT, we will welcome the full energy of July’s full moon and a chance to do some serious soul searching, and shedding some old, stale energy. This is one of my favourite moons of the year, as it is the perfect time to really cleanse and renew yourself.

Why is it called the Buck Moon?

It’s around this time of year that the young bucks start to shed their antlers and settle down into the summer months. For us Witches and spirit junkies, we can collect these antlers to remind us that we can shed the old to make way for the new. If you have an altar, this is a great way to decorate for the full moon!

We take this natural occurrence and apply it symbolically to our own lives. As humans, we don’t have antlers to shed, but we can shed other parts of ourselves.

Think about all the bad habits or patterns you’ve developed, whether that’s over a few months or a few years. How have they impacted you? This is a time to recognise these things, so we can finally do something about them.

Activities for the Buck Moon

One of the best things you can do for this Buck Moon is a cleansing ritual. For this, you can use a bath or sage smoke as a cleansing tool. The idea is to get rid of all the negativity and the unnecessary weight holding you back from moving forward. This might be things like procrastination, boredom eating, self-destructive behaviour in love (cough, me, cough). Whatever it is that stops you from taking that all-important step forwards, address it and let it go.

This is also an amazing time to give yourself a full tarot reading, or to get a reading done for you. You can use the energy of the full moon to identify what it is that’s holding you back and start to put things in place to shed them and become a more enlightened person. I’ve put together a little Buck Moon tarot spread for you to try below!

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Ritual bath for the Buck Moon

Like I said, the Buck Moon is an amazing time for a cleansing ritual bath, or you can do this in the shower if you’re not a bath person or simply don’t have one. What you’ll need is:

Himalayan Quartz – For cleansing
Moonstone – For Manifestation
Bloodstone – For Purity

Sage or Sage incense
Epsom salts
Small Bowl
Dried Lavender
Dried Rosemary
3 Bay Leaves
An organza or muslin bag*
2 White candles

Instructions for your bath ritual

Start by lighting the candles, opening a window and running your bath.
In your bowl, add 3 cups of Epsom Salts, 2 tbsps of dried lavender, 2 tbsps of dried rosemary and 2 tbsps of dried basil, mix it all together.
You can then burn your sage or sage incense and imagine the smoke mingling with the steam and escaping through an open window. We are cleansing the room of any negativity and ensuring we can be completely cleansed once we get out.
Add your Epsom Salt mixture to your bath and let it dissolve and the herbs sit for a few minutes. If you don’t want to deal with the mess of the herbs after, put the herbs into an organza or muslin bag and place in the water, adding the Epsom Salts straight into the bath. If you’re having a shower, halve the amount and use the Epsom Salt mixture as a light body scrub.
Once your bath is run and your incense is burning, place your crystals as close to the bath or shower as possible and immerse yourself in the water. I like to play meditation music to relax me and centre my thoughts.
Think about what you want to be rid of, what is no longer serving you and what you want to let go of in order to move forward.
Once you’ve finished in your bath, let the water out and imagine that thing you want to be rid of, going down the drain with the bathwater.
Make sure to blow out your candles and take a moment once you’ve got out the bath, to just assess how you feel. Then, continue with the rest of your full moon ritual!