PHOTO: ANNE SYMONS
*WHY*
A New Moon marks the beginning of a new cycle, a fresh start in it’s cycle of waxing and waning. During this time the Moon is empty and receptive and full of potential. This is an optimum time to plant seeds of intentions for what you wish to manifest in your life.
Most of us, live our lives so disconnected from the Earth, and devoid of any kind of ritual that creates the space for us to connect. So the New Moon provides us with an opportunity to take the time to create SACRED SPACE for ourselves. It’s essential.
There is something so powerful when women come together to support each other on their journey, in the hopes and dreams. We are healed, we are nurtured, we feel comforted and understood. Moreover, when you share sacred space together you magnify the power of your intentions and you energetically create a web of support for not only your circle of women friends but with women everywhere.
*WHAT*
The culture of women gatherings has been going on for eons, and when you gather with your lady friends on the new moon you join millions of other women around the world doing the same. It’s time to gather ourselves ladies…
May this be an inspiration to you to gather at least a friend or two and create a circle of connection. It doesn’t matter really what you do, have fun creating your own ritual and do what feels good to you! Below I will create and outline for a basic ritual that you can follow, but feel free to improvise and if you have any ideas please share your inspiration in the comments!
*HOW*
BRING~ Ask your lady friends to bring a favorite essential oil, and some flowers or herbs for bath salts you will create together and a vessel to carry them home with. If you wish to have dinner before, have everyone bring a dish to share. Otherwise to have more time for the ritual, opt for having dinner separately before and then just gather have the ladies bring something sweet to share afterwards together.
CREATE SACRED SPACE~The day of the gathering, clean and beautify your home and buy some flowers to put all around. Find somewhere where you can gather in a circle. You could put a tapestry on the floor and put pillows all around. In the center place a big bowl filled with unscented bath salt crystals. Put candles around it and extra oils that you can share in case someone forgot to bring one.
BEGIN~ While waiting for everyone to arrive, it’s a good time to chat and catch up! Then when we you ready to begin, I would light some sage and “sage” everyone before entering the circle. Sage is a wonderful purifier and helps to cleanse the energy and create the space for the ritual to begin.
1. Purify~ “Sage” everyone before entering the circle.
2. Open~Ringing bells or chimes is a nice way to begin. With eyes closed, you can all take some deep breaths together, or Aum 3 times.
3. Bless~ I always like the idea of everybody contributing so I would hand everyone a little piece of paper each with an invocation or blessing to Mother Earth.
Opening Blessing (Adapted from Chinook Blessing)
~We call upon the Earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring heights, its vitality and abundance of life…
~We call upon the mountains…the high green valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the summits of intense silence…
~We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields…
~We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir, the pine and the cedar…
~We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin, the beautiful Orca and the salmon…
~We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends, who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are built…
~And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the universe, to be with us to Teach us, and show us the way.”
PHOTO: AELA LABBE
4. Inspire~Here you can recite a poem or sing a song, something to arouse the muse and set the mood…
“Let us fall in love again
and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Let us become a new spring
and feel the breeze drift in heaven’s scent.
Let us dress the earth in green
and like the sap of a young tree
let the grace from within us sustain us.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts
and let them light our path to Love.
The glance of Love is crystal clear
and we are blessed by its light.”
~Rumi
5. Share what’s happening with the Moon astrologically, what energy it’s bringing in~ For this you can check the ASTRAL INSIGHTS and print out the readings to share with your friends. This part is always insightful and it’s amazing how many resonate with the energy that is happening at the time.
6. Set your Intentions for what you wish to manifest in this new cycle, this new beginning marked by the New Moon…
Make sure everyone has a little piece of sage which they will burn when it’s their time to share and as long as they are speaking. As you state what you wish to bring in, put a drop of oil in the bath salt with your intention. You might say something like, “I’m putting in lavender to bring in more nurturance and remind myself to take better care of myself” etc…
Put as many intentions as you feel moved and with every intention, do an action, like put some oil, flower or herb in.
This way, you are making it symbolic through the ritual, the action. When you are done, put out your sage in the salts. Then proceed with the lady next to you until everyone has spoken.
7. Bless intentions~ Have everyone lay their hands on the salts and say a Blessing like: “May all our intentions be sealed, and realized!”
8. Mix the salts~ this is fun! Have everyone get their hands in the bowl and mix up the wonderful bath salts you have created. By this point, their are infused with your intentions and filled with oils, flowers and herbs!
9. Song or Invocation~ The mood is happy, the ritual is almost over, everyone has shared and all are loving the herbal bath crystals you have created! Perhaps you can all sing a song or chant. I would print out a simple chant and have everyone follow. Or recite another poem like this:
“If you never searched for truth
come with us
and you will become a seeker.
If you were never a musician
come with us
and you will find your voice…
In our gathering one candle lights hundreds,
we will light your path and give you courage
so you will open like a flower
and join in joyous laughter.
Plant the seed of truth and watch it grow
when it spreads its branches
come with us and sit under the blossoms.
Your eyes will open to the secret of the truth.
~Rumi
Photo: Ruth St. Denis 1919
10. Close circle~ You could join hands, give thanks, say it is done! Ring bells, clap and celebrate.
11. Fill your vessels with your bath salts~ You should try to wait two weeks until the FULL MOON to take your bath. This is a half-way point in the Moon’s cycle and a perfect time to soak in a hot bath and check in with yourself to see where you are at and remember your intentions!
***TIP~ There are two ways to take your glorious FULL MOON bath:
One just drop the whole thing into your bath. It will look enchanting with flowers and herbs and you will feel like a goddess indeed! If you do it this way, mark this tip: Let the bath drain out and leave it! Do not attempt to try and clean the bathtub afterwards to remove all the flowers, herbs etc. This will not only spoil your mood but it’s harder to clean when it’s wet. Just let it be! The next morning it will have dried and you can easily dust it off and sweep it out of your bath with a dust pan. Trust me on this one!
Otherwise, put your salts in a cheese cloth and that way it can be contained with no mess! Don’t forget to share the tip with your girls! Enjoy!
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Back when I had a tub I used to surround the tub in candles, turn all the lights out, smudge myself, pour in essential oils, epson salts, and sometimes clay and basically create a sauna in my bath room. Of course drinking plenty of water before hand. Also putting crystals and stones in the water with me and I’d chant and meditate on what new beginnings I would like to manifest in my life, what intentions I have with the new beginnings and then on the full moon take a detox bath and meditate on where I’m at. I love your ritual. Very fun and easy for novices to understand!
Thank you so much for sharing your ritual. I am so enjoying going through this whole site.
Blessings,
Mira
I think I love it! Sounds ever so familiar! Thanks for sharing our ritual with others Mij!
Sounds like a amazing thing to do. I can’t wait ti get my friends together to state such a wonderful ritual. Thank for sharing.
Blessings,
Ellie
OM! Love
As a black shaman (slavic wind whisperer) grandmother, I have been holding Sacred Moon Circles for all Mothers and Wisewoman since ’96 and it has been a wonderful, sometimes very intense karmic journey with both Light and Dark Goddess medicines from around the world. For the past 9 years i only have worked with dedicated female apprentices who are also very advanced dreamers.
I dont know why, but i want to come in Contact With you. Can you please write your email?
Truth, Anna
My email is pixie_kelly82@yahoo.co.uk
I would like to get in contact with you! Where are you situated?
I have been doing rituals with a group of women and am interested in any shared ceremonies or ideas you may have used. How wonderful that this work is being done all over the world! In support of the dreamers and the Great Goddess.
Phoenix, do you have a website where I can see more about your work and where you can be reached? :-)
I would love to try out this ritual but I’m curious as to why it is limited to just women?
Hi Alisha~ To answer your question, I encourage you to create whatever ritual you feel led to do and with whomever you feel should be a part of it, man or woman. But this particular one is about reclaiming the power of women/goddess circles. There is an inherent power in the mere act of a group of solely women coming together in sacred space to support and empower one another. We connect as sisters in a context that is not usually embodied in our society. Sacred woman space is truly healing and we need it as we move into bringing the feminine back into balance. Brothers need it too, and sometimes on the FULL MOON is a nice time to include all the community in ritual that perhaps includes drumming and dance! Blessings~~~
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So deeply happy to stumble across this. I’ve always loved your site, but somehow missed this post! I’m a huge believer in staying connected with the cycles of the moon, particularly the full moon, and generally have my own ritual practice. However, this is just divine. I will plan for this new moon coming.
Thanks, and much love. xx
Beautiful! I plan to hold Goddess Circles this Summer…and will incorporate your ritual. I especially like the participation with the bath salts, flowers and essential oils. The pictures too, are wonderful! I have 10 acres of old growth trees, magnificent views and waterfront on Lasqueti Island, BC ~ where I have always wanted to hold Goddess Circles. this is the year. Thank you Mystic Mama ~ I love your site!,
This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing, these are lovely ways to celebrate the goddess within as we open to receive the new moon’s blessing. I will be sharing this ritual with a few amazing women at my home then the beach at Fairlight, NSW, where we will have a refreshing swim afterwards. Namaste!
sweet. i have been leading womens goddess circles for 25 years, and i can say all my girls, maidens, mothers and wise women have grown because of it, when i moved to the northwest, as a wind whisperer, it had to shift to dreamtime circles for more advanced women. thanks for your post, everyone female on earth should part take in such endeavors to grow, and grow and grow
I love celebrating and working with new moon energy. Thank you for all the beautiful images and information.
i have fallen so deeply in love with mystic mamma……thank you thank you thank you thank you! infinite love, divine gratitude and inspiration fills my beating heart…….swimming in the sea of oceanic unconditioned love! what a gift this journey is! what an honor as feminine rises into masculine! the time is now. its all been an illusion but what beauty lives inside the death! what light emerges from the dark moist canal! yes!
I really like this! I am going to have to start something like this for my friends and I. Thanks for sharing Mystic Mamma!
I deeply, truly appreciate what mysticmamma shares with the world. The diverse insights and perspectives that you consistently provide are simultaneously thorough and minimalistic, giving me inspiration and focus. The astral insights section is the topic that I find most relevant and practical.
I am a male Indigo child, a White Overtone Mirror, who in this lifetime takes pride in continuously dissolving any preconceived notions of physical gender boundaries… naturally embracing this transition we humans are evolving through towards honouring and utilizing the feminine side that is within all of us, without ignoring existence of the masculine. To represent this balance of masculine and feminine within a single humanoid, I wear the symbol of the Sri Yantra over my heart. I am a revolutionary rebellious free thinker and effectively live as a ‘freeman’ of the land and guardian of Truth.
As I have come to rely on your site as my primary astrological resource, I am a bit concerned by how there are entire pages and articles where your target audience is exclusively female (without a warning or explanation of this at the beginning). Am I missing something, or in the wrong place? Will you please recommend other sources of guidance and wisdom that would be directed towards my gender?
-Daxxis Cobra
Dear Daxxis~
Welcome and thank you for your beautiful sharing! So grateful for your words and your bright *reflection*
The inspiration gathered here is truly for all of us~~~ There are though designated sections like Woman Moon Lodge and Mammahood that were created to hold specific teachings that are part of women’s wisdom and the unique experience of being a woman. I created this from my heart, feeling there needed to be place to hold these teachings so we women could remember our unique cycles, gifts and the unique experiences that come with being a woman.
This is not to exclude our beautiful men! I just bring forth what is closest to my nature and I have a strong calling to help women become empowered through their feminine gifts. It is also a calling forth for a new sisterhood which is a concept that is not so prevalent in our society, where women embrace each other, empower each other and resurrect a bond and a connection that is primal.
You mentioned feeling like there was no warning, but I do try to contain these specific teachings within the sections mentioned. I do realize this Moon Gathering Post, which is a Woman Moon Lodge one, was linked in the Astral Insights section and I see how that was confusing! I have decided to move it off that section.
The WISDOM section, TUNING IN, ASTRAL INSIGHTS, READ THE SIGNS, and CONSCIOUSNESS VIDEOS sections are for intended for all of us, the entire tribe! They speak of our universal experience of being Human and Spirit BEings as well as the necessary balancing of both the sacred feminine and sacred masculine that exist within us. They also focus on a re-connection to the Earth.
Thank you again for your beautiful reflection, your openness and the love in your heart!
Infinite Blessings to you~~~
~mm
Beautiful article and beautiful shared ideas, only had the chance to experience one gathering of this sort but hope to have the chance to do so for the rest of my life ! Love everything and all the knowledge you share on this site, much love and light <3
Thank you so much for popping up in my search for moon circles. I host women’s circle of many kinds, normally full moon, with drumming, etc., but am moved to create New Moon Circles. I will use this beautiful one that you have so nicely created for us. Thank you so much for Northeast Florida. We are slow to create space for women here that doesn’t involve church – this is perfect.
Hi, I feel really drawn to the new moon gatherings, this really appeals to me,the problem is I live in
The uk, a small town called, Bath, do you no if there are any in my area please
Or like minded women who would like to start one up, ? I would be deeply grateful for your guidance,
Love and peace to you all, Tink xx
Sarah just check out facebook – also look under red tent temples there is quite a lot going on in the south west
I just wanted to let you know that since being inspired by things I’d read and your website I’ve started my own new moon group and here’s a link to the ritual we follow :)
I hope more people in the UK catch on.
I’m not sure you can see the link :( http://www.nr-herbalist.com/?p=1546
I have spent quite a while looking for a page just like this, such beautiful inspiring information. Blessings!
This is sooo awesome I’m so excited to do this !
I’m curious to know if anyone else has overwhelming anxiety as days draw closer to the full moon I’m usually a very stable person emotionally speaking any advice would be greatly appreciated thanx
Of course…and in fact, i can’t sleep well (dream a lot), i usually feel anxous and very sensitive…
Yes I get it all too. I am more emotional and anxious tHan usual. I read on this site how full moons can bring about unpleasant feelings in order for us to open up wounds and grow from them. Pay attention to your thoughts and what old wounds come up so you may feel the entirety of it and pray for peace and forgiveness or whatever comes to you. I tried it and hope to grow Burning something would be a nice symbol of release.
I am part of a New Moon Women’s circle and have participated in many women’s gatherings over the years. I like your suggestion here about including men in the Full Moon ceremonies. Their drumming and chanting can be very powerful for the circle. The importance of women only gatherings cannot be underestimated. Women around the world are reclaiming something that has been lost and I am so very grateful. Thank you for all of your ideas and tips in staying true to the sacred meaning and powerful potential of feminine rituals.
god info, i go to try some rituals.
i mean good
GODDESS POWER…XXX…
PRINCESS
If any goddesses would like to have a gathering or know of any like this please let me know! I live in the Los Angeles area <3
I just came across this looking for a women’s circle in Los Angeles! I know you posted this years ago but if you’re still interested please let me know! <3
Thank you so much, for so long ive dreamt of holding a sacred womens circle and ive finally begun planning one for the 6th of december which is actually a full moon. Is there any rituals you recommend for full moon circle. thanks again
For those who do not consider themselves in a purely dichotomized gender framework (e.g. man OR woman)… Unfortunately, our society has yet to create commonly used language to express the spectrum of gender identity.
I would invite you to share in the awesome information and insights here to whatever your heart desires. In the past, those who identify more femininely (whatever that means to YOU!) had to create special places to share wisdom. This website appears to be such a place, with the intent meant to be positive and inclusive.
I love this idea, thank you for sharing the steps!
Gracias Mystic Mamma, como siempre precioso….cuanto amor hay en esta bella enceñanza….Que ese amor te sea debuelto multiplicado……!!!
Would rendering the ritual individual defeat its purpose?
Most definitely not. Taking time to create sacred space, and engage in ritual is necessary and something our souls long for. When we align with the cycles of the Moon, we harmonize with the greater cycles of the universe. I always says it does not matter so much what you do, it is all about your presence and the intention in your heart. So if you find yourself alone, take time to honor yourself and align with All that is. Blessings!
So-Hum! Blessings to you, and thanks. M
Is there something else I could use instead of Sage? I’m in a location where it’s extremely difficult to find/buy.
Also, I intend to perform this for the equinox + new moon on the 20th May. Would you have any other suggestions or changes to the above for this particularly special time?
Thanks!
Thank You
I have only found your site today in search of a New Moon speciality . The ritual you presented is quite lovely. Thank you so much for sharing . I am practicing solitarily at present and would love to enjoy the company and wisdom of other women of like spirit . So …putting that out to the universe for manifestation . Bright Blessings to you and all who bring love to this site !
Hello Starrywalker.
Seems we are on the same Quest to find our Tribe. Where do you live? I’m in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Love and Light, Sooz
September 13, 2015 Serene giddiness as I flit about the house gathering sacred materials and herbs and crystals and candles and essential oils. Setting intentions, letting in the light and releasing that which does not benefit me. All the while remembering – I can sit under a tree and a crow will come in and that’s still sufficient to this day. Many thanks and many blessings!
What a wonderful website with great knowledge and love. I am peaceful that my Intentions will come to fruition. This is my first journey into the New Moon rituals with Witch Camp…..one of my Intentions is that I find my Women’s Tribe.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always hopes, always perseveres…
Such a Beautiful,and enchanting Ritual.There is heart in what is said and being done and shared,I so enjoyed the idea of how this was done.Sisters yes,as women we ARE.We need to realize how much we can accomplish if we put aside,the competitive,narcissistic,and silliness of judgement of others and ourselves,the gossip the shame of being who we are,of not caring for our sisters around the world.There are many ways to Communicate even if it is just posting a flower,or a heart,to listen and ask questions of what they,women in other countries are dealing with.I just think WOMEN could do so much if we try…..
i have fallen so deeply in love with mystic mamma……thank you thank you thank you thank you! infinite love, divine gratitude and inspiration fills my beating heart…….
Brillant! Totally doing this! Thank you! <3
I am short of words, you really takeout time in transmitting this power, anyone who is of the same homogeneous species will be attracted to you, it is the fulfillment of the divine laws of the universe that I found you today, birds of the same species will always flocks together. I love your spiritual energy and the radiation of you pure love, you have planted and mother nature will water it. I am blessed that we could still found spiritual Mather like you, all this had keept me worried all this years. Am a Cross bearers of the truth, I will love to learn more from you.a male from Nigeria
Hello Love, I have tried to contact you through instagram but it is hard I assume with the traffic you may have. I am Juliet @authorjulietdiaz I was born extrasensory and now write poetry and own @novembersage an apothecary. I would love to connect, I am pulled towards writing for you. Anything I can do to contribute and be apart of this community would be amazing.
THANKS FOR YOU BEAUTIFUL MESSAGES ..ANN EMERSON
I would love to try out this ritual but I have no lady friends to speak of :(
Thanks for sharing your wisdom. I have recently been moved to start a womyns full moon gathering of my own. I have just moved, and I’ve never had a supportive group of womyn in my life, so I thought what better way to start. However, after stumbling upon your article, I am now wondering whether we should gather instead during new moon? Could you shed some light on this for me? What are the key differences of gatherings on either moon cycles?
Thank you kindly,
Xitlalli
Thank you so much for sharing this, it is magical when one is able to have a group or coven to perform this with. Usually it’s my daughter and I smudging and cleansing and lighting candles and all. I will use your honoring prayer – I love the ideas and I hope I get to host a few new moon Goddesses circles in the future xxx Thank you!
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Thank you so much for this powerful web site that inspired me on a daily basis! Can someone email me regarding the contribution of Goddess Empowerment and Embodiment photos I would love to share with all of you, please?
Blessed Be~
Carmen Garcia
I’m so delighted to have found this well of positive, mind-widening information. thank you for your work and sharing it with us xx
I feel like the most important thing before opening circle is to honour the traditional custodians of the land the circle is taking place on
I want to try this ritual..but dont hv any friends who are interested in this. So searching for the groups where i can join. Can u suggest any such group!! I live in Arunachal Pradesh ,India!!
Can post-menopausal women attend a New Moon Gathering?
Absolutely!
Greetings beautiful peace indeed, anyone here residing in Dubai , where can one get a mentor?
I find this very Intriguing what do need to join? I felt a sudden connection as I was viewing your page.
I have been leading New Moon Circle, once a month for women since the Summer of 1995. They are wonderful ways to grow, support and move into ones deeper sense of a maiden or mother or wise elder and I encourage all women to attend or facilitate one. My circles evolved from the New Moon, then into Goddess Circles the next ten years and the last ten years they evolved into Dream Circles. Blessings to all the Women. We are located in the southern PACIFIC NORTHWEST
This is so funny. Reading all the comments. Women by nature are full of chaos and disorder. This is a weird pseudo science that allows women to not be held accountable for all the bad/ “dark” decisions they have made in their life. Rocks, salts, lavender or otherwise do nothing to you spiritually. Dreamer is the right word. Feminism
Has ran rampant through our western world and women are more promiscuous than ever and are doing a good job at ruining their own happiness. It’s sad but laughable at how tattooed, banged out, overweight and depressed women as a whole have become in the western world. Have some accountability and understand that you can live in the light without gathering to have a seance.
greetings to you
please l am glad to see your site, in which I am interested, to have you as a spiritual mother, in other to help me in back on my spiritual journey, to learned, and practice, and gained this powers, l make this decision based on what I am passing through, please show me a way to served my spiritual mother earth, lead’s, me with love, and make me your, thank and blessed
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Where can i find a gathering in my area
I would love to share my fire with the valkerie and share the maguc of the moon womb and the beauty within, i need to connect with other beautiful goddesses to share the power and magic