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This 3 step Full Moon Ceremony will help you prepare before the Full Moon, explain what to do on the Full Moon, and even has an after the Full Moon section. We got you covered!

Table Of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• 1. PREP WORK
• 2. THE CEREMONY
  • Setting The Mood
  • Questions
  • Release
  • Reading: Forgiveness & Karma Release
• 3. AFTER THE FULL MOON

Introduction

We have a full moon on Sunday in Aquarius, peaking at 2pm South African time. It’s also a blue moon. This is the name given to the third of four full moons in a season. Our favourite astrologers, Pam Gregory (The Next Step) and Yasmin Boland (Moonology) advise that this is a BIG release moon with a lot of power to create a huge shift in your life if you are ready!

We have taken wisdom shared by both of them to create a three phase Full Moon Ceremony you can do at home in your own time. And don’t worry if you missed the date – you can use this Full Moon Ceremony for any full moon.

With the full moon energy pushing us to RELEASE and LET GO, so too does the energy come in to refocus, and head in a new exciting direction that we’ve been wanting quietly to go for some time. Your soul is calling and the universe is aligning!

1: Prep Work

Before the full moon, you need to get in touch with your intuition and inner voice. What is it that you need to be releasing? What is no longer serving your highest good? What is holding you back from your soul path? We’ve listed some questions below that you can sit with to help you figure out what needs releasing at this time.

Ahead of the Full Moon, do some important prep work by grabbing a pen and paper, and meditating over the questions below.

Jot down your answers, ideas, images and feelings while doing this.

You might want to do this two or three times in separate sessions, coming back to go over the questions again and adding more notes if new information comes up.

Tip: Use any of these crystals to help boost your insight and inner voice:

Crystals to boost insight: Labradorite, Lapis Lazuli, Amethyst, Fluorite

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU FOCUS ON WHAT TO RELEASE:

• Have my values changed? What is really important to me now? What have I been letting go of that I used to value linked to the material world?
• Has my friend list been subtly shifting? Am I surrounding myself with people who are focused on love, who are visualising and manifesting a better world? Or am I/my friend group stuck on fear, us vs ‘them’ rhetoric, anger, conflict, and other old world energy?
• Has what I do for a living changed, or have I been thinking about making a change? What does that look like?
• Have I been receiving visions, ideas or inspiration of an exciting future that may involve collaboration with other like minded people? 

A full moon brings clarity, speed and fresh new energy – all of this helps accelerate changes. Be open and aware of what is coming forward and appearing for you, and what is falling away, or needs to be released to make space for the new.

RELATED:

Read our article “12 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR INTUITION” to help you strengthen your inner voice and trust your internal guidance system

2: The Ceremony

On the day of the ceremony, tap into full moon energy to help you shift and let go of that which you’ve been struggling to release in your life.

Take some quiet time with a pen and paper, and meditate on the questions below.

Have a big glass of water to sip on to help you flush as you do this exercise.

SETTING THE MOOD

• Light some candles
• Get some of your favourite crystals around you
• Burn some incense that supports the release theme – like Dragon’s Blood, White Sage, Sweetgrass or any ‘cleansing’ themed fragrance
• Play soft music in the background

Crystals for releasing past pain & trauma: Aquamarine, Smoky Quartz, Obsidian, Clear Quartz (“Rock Crystal”)

QUESTIONS

These questions are tough, and can bring up a lot of emotion. Allow it to flow freely rather than restricting or pushing back down. This is the day you let it go, release, and heal.

If you are feeling overwhelmed, sit back and do some gentle breathing exercises. Wiggle your toes, and move that wiggle all the way up your body, ending in a nice, loose neck roll.

Feel yourself grounded and surrounded by your guardians. You’ve got this.

Drink lots of water to help the body flush. We store memory in the body. Dancing, walking, rocking, moving can all help to push old negatives up and out of storage to be washed away!

• Have I been feeling resistance to something in my life? 
• Where am I not achieving my goals? What emotions come up when I think about these?
• Am I carrying resentment? Can I feel heat, cold or heaviness in the body at this word? Where is this coming from?
• Am I carrying guilt? Can I feel heat, cold or tightness in the body at this word? Where is this coming from?
• Who or what do I need to forgive in the world?
• Where in my life am I carrying anger or shame towards myself? Where do I feel I failed? Where do I feel ‘not good enough’?
• How can I detach from my biggest fear and worry?
• What am I refusing to let go?

Write down on a loose piece of paper what you need to forgive, and what you need to let go.

RELEASE!

Ok – congratulations! You’ve made it through the hard part! It’s all sparkles from here!

Once you’ve completed all the questions and you feel the session has closed, stand up and jump, move and wiggle your body, shake out your hands and feet, roll and shake your head! Put on your favourite song and dance! Or use a sacred sound instrument! Really get your blood flowing and your lungs open wide. If you can’t do any of these things, close your eyes and imagine it in as much detail as you can manage. 

Make sure you’re sipping on that water!

When you are ready, you can move on to the most important exercise of this full moon. RELEASE. FORGIVE. LET GO.

You may find it hard to imagine forgiving something, but remember: Forgiveness is everything to do with you, and NOTHING to do with them. Carrying resentment and anger hurts YOU not them. Carrying shame and guilt DOES NOT fix past mistakes, only learning from them can move us past it.

This night is your night. You are ready to move up a level and the Universe is pushing!

Crystals for forgiveness & compassion: Rose Quartz, Rhodonite, Blue Lace Agate, Morganite

When you feel ready, read out the Forgiveness and Release passage below (based on the work of Catherine Ponder and Yasmin Boland).

READING: FORGIVENESS AND KARMA RELEASE

“In the light and energy of this Full Moon, I am surrounded by my team. My spirit guides, guardians and ancestors are with me, protecting me, guiding me, supporting me. My roots grow down deep into Mother Earth, I am wrapped around her crystal jewels buried deep in her burrows. 

In the light and energy of this Full Moon, I hereby forgive everything. I forgive everyone. Every experience. Every memory. From the past to this present, all that needs forgiveness I forgive. 

In the light and energy of this Full Moon, I hereby forgive myself. Every past mistake. Every experience I regret. From the past to this present, all within me that needs forgiveness I forgive.

The Universe is love, and I am forgiven and governed by Love. Love is realigning my life. I acknowledge the power of Universal Love, I abide in its peace. I welcome in love and healing to my life. I send love to myself and everyone. I send love into the world wide web of healing.

I call on my soul fragments, I call on my sister souls, my brother souls, across dimensions and timelines. Be cleansed with me. Rejoin with me. We are whole. We are Love. I am healed, my life is healed. I am ready for the bright future I am called to.

By the power of three times three, as I will it, so mote it be.”

Now take your forgiveness list and burn it, releasing it finally and forever.

You Are Free.

Ever wondered where the line “by the power of three times three comes from”, and what exactly it means? Read our article, “THREE TIMES THREE” to find out.

3. After the Full Moon

Your ceremony is complete and you have done the hard work to release what needs to be released in your life to move forwards!

Allow yourself a day or two to rest and let the energies settle. When you feel ready, grab your journal, light a candle and turn your thoughts towards the future.

Meditate on what you want to bring in now. What new commitments are you ready to make with love and abundance to achieve your vision of the future?

If you like, set some intentions around this in your journal or on a loose piece of paper you can keep somewhere you can revisit it.