Powerful Full Moon Rituals

Written By Cris Harnden

On the evening of January 17, 2022, the full moon will illuminate the night sky. This moon is known as the “wolf moon” and will fall among the constellation and zodiac, Cancer.

Full Moon Meanings

The moon phases have long been followed by humanity. We’ve used it for harvesting purposes, to define date and time, and determine climate. The Sun may set the pace but humans have always instinctually been attracted to and in awe of the mother moon.

Since awakening to our consciousness, we’ve related moon meanings to things beyond earthly definitions.


The Wolf Moon

Native American tribes have labeled full moons for many reasons. This particular full moon is called the Wolf Moon. It is said to be the time wolves howl loudly at the moon. 

They are crying out in hunger as the cold season has left them with fewer prey options. This has also been referred to as the Spirit Moon because it is the first full moon of the year, indicating the importance of setting intentions and goals.


Astrology: Full Moon in Cancer

Whatever has been buried will come to the surface. This can be an incredible time for awakenings, deep healing, and pouring emotional momentum behind manifestations.

The full moon in Cancer will touch on relationships with family, parents, children, our living space, environment, and need for nurturing and security. Your emotional wellbeing will be under a celestial magnifying glass as the full moon in cancer will urge you to process and release emotions and practice not holding things in which blocks your energy.


Full Moon Spiritual Meaning

There is a profound connection between the full moon and our spiritual bodies. The full moon helps us see the fullness of all that we are, especially our divine, creative powers to build a new life, thought, idea, and destroy what holds us back.

The moon is indicative of divine feminine energy which is as chaotic and destructive as it is nurturing and creative. The full moon teaches us that the only way to overcome something is through it. The intense energy of the moon can be harnessed and applied to a multitude of intentions. It is a time of deep feeling and deep knowing. The time for doing rises with the Sun.


The Big Picture

This full moon represents self-control, discipline, resisting urges, and willingness to invest in today for future outcomes. The following Full Moon Rituals are beautiful ceremonial investments in yourself, your psychic abilities, your manifesting momentum, and the healing of parts of you that have been neglected. It’s time to light the candles, pull back the curtains, and howl at the full wolf moon.


Preparing for Your Rituals

Priming yourself for full moon rituals is as important as the rituals themselves. Start by getting into a meditative state. You have to clear your mind and let anxiety, fear, doubt, and negativity slip away.

Sage your body and your environment. It is traditional to be freshly bathed with clean clothes but this isn’t necessary.

Light a white candle and say a prayer or call upon your guardian angels and ancestors. Or, simply imagine inviting a white light over your body and into your space. This purifies all the energy that comes through. 

If you want to be an even stronger vessel for transmuting energy, fast from food the day of the full moon ritual. Note that it is ideal to do a full moon ritual during the full moon but these can still be used up to 48 hrs after the full moon. 


Full Moon Grounding Ritual 

 

Objective: 

Give your energy a point of steadiness, find clarity, balance, and focus. To diminish fears and anxieties. Improve mindfulness and being present. Extinguish worries and insecurities. Make space for manifesting and your shift from a state of surviving to thrive. 

A tree must maintain roots to grow.

What you need:

  • Crystal point or tower (Tourmaline, Obsidian, Hematite, Jasper, or Agate)

  • To be outside or barefoot inside

  • Hand drum or drum music

Instructions:

With your bare feet planted firmly on the earth or the floor, point your crystal south. Begin to feel the corners of your feet, from the tips of your toes to the outer ring of your heel press heavier and heavier into the earth.

To the beat of the drum, start to gently bounce your knees, as if you're trying to push your body into the ground. Imagine excess energy leaving your body and growing roots that connect your feet to the earth. Do this for at least 10-15 minutes without lifting your feet. Let your exhale be audible and in rhythm. With an open mouth breath out saying “ha ah ha ah”, like a quiet chant.

Feel supported by the Earth, knowing anywhere you go, and no matter what’s happening around you, that your roots are planted firmly below you, tying you to grounded energy.

Affirmations:

I am safe in my body

I am supported by the Earth

All excess energy and anxiety is transmuted to bury my roots deeper 

I am secure and protected

I take in grounded, Earth energy

Full Moon Ritual For Psychic Insight and Intuition

 

Objective: 

Receive downloads from the Universe, connect to spirit, receive messages from angels or loved ones on the other side, foresight, insight, and hindsight, predictions, inner connectedness, self-trust

What you need:

  • Journal

  • 4 Candles

  • Mugwort

Instructions:

Place a candle on each node, North, South, East, and West. Invite helpful messages to reach you, passing through the purifying white light of the candles. Enter a state of deep meditation and begin to journal thoughts, feelings, and ideas that come to you.

Remain physically, emotionally, and spiritually open to the experience. Don’t filter your writing, just let the words flow, even if the sequence of words that comes to you doesn’t make sense right away. You can go back later and piece ideas together.

Affirmations:

I am connected to my angels, spirit guides, and ancestors

I am in direct contact with messages from the Universe

There is a running dialogue between source energy and myself

Full Moon Ritual For Trauma Healing & Transmuting Negativity

Objective:

Release the past, invite healing, empower your life, forgive, treat heartache
What you need:

  • White candles

  • Paper and pen

  • Tub

  • Rose Quartz

  • Dried lavender or lavender oil

  • Emotional energy for a potentially powerful release (cry warning if a lot comes up!)


Instructions:

Write a letter to everyone including parts of yourself that you need to forgive. Tell the story of your pain for the last time. Allow the physical manifestation of what you’ve been burying, come to the surface. Let it flow from your eyes, mouth, hands, and release it completely. Empty your emotional vessel entirely.

Now, safely burn the letter using a candle. Line your tub with candles and place rose quartz and lavender into the bath. As you submerge into the water, allow all the space you just created in your heart and mind, to be flooded with love and peace. Spend the rest of the night celebrating yourself and looking forward to living without the sadness you were holding onto.

Affirmations:

I deserve to live without the pain and emotional burden

I do this for me and my happiness

If I am strong enough to hold onto it, I’m strong enough to let it go

Full Moon Ritual to Manifest Money & Abundance

Objective: Attract resources, unexpected cash, bonus, raise, fulfillment, monetary and spiritual gifts, gratitude, miracles

What you need:

  • Glass jar

  • Plant(s) - Swedish Ivy, Money Tree, Lucky Bamboo, and Holy Basil are ideal but any plant that is growing works.

  • Paper and pen

Instructions:

Enter this manifestation ritual with gratitude. Before you set intentions for what you wish to attract, take time sinking into a deep appreciation for all that you currently obtain.

Place a large jar of purified water under the full moon to absorb its energy as you complete the following steps.

Now, write down everything you wish to manifest, in detail (dollar amount, financial freedom, ability to travel comfortably, etc.) Sit with your writings in deep meditation and visualize what it is like to have all that you’ve written. Embody the emotion and vibration of abundance.

Then, offer these manifestations to the full moon and bury or burn them. Finally, collect your full moon water, and with gratitude and understanding that your manifestations are on the way, water your plants.

Affirmations:

Money is attractive to me and we have a healthy, thriving relationship

I am surrounded by resources, nothing is out of reach

The Universe is abundant, and I am a reflection of the Universe

Full Moon Ritual to Attract or Restore Love

Objective: Nourish and repair relationships (can be romantic, platonic, or with yourself), manifest a phone call or text, bring back a love that is meant for you, ask for validation on a recent commitment

What you need:

  • White seven-day candle

  • Dried rose petals

  • Dried cinnamon

  • Honey or Agave

  • Bowl

  • Pen & paper

Instructions:

Sink into your sensual body, opening the root and sacral chakras. Write your love desires and intentions, fold several times, seal with a kiss or perfume, and place under the candle. 

While thinking about and feeling what you’ve written, sprinkle a pinch of cinnamon, dried rose petals, and two drops of honey into the candle, avoiding the wick. 

Put water into a bowl and place the candle into the bowl and light it and place the written intentions under the bowl. You can sit with and meditate in front of the candle or just let it burn out safely.

Full Moon Rituals That Require Nothing But Intention

  • Go for a walk under the full moon

  • Place Tarot cards, crystals, altar items, and anything else you’d like to energetically charge with lunar power

  • Full moon bath

  • Full moon meditation

  • Full moon sex magic

  • Full moon journaling

  • Full moon dancing

  • Full moon letter burning

Full Moon Tarot Spread

Pull a few tarot cards using this Full Moon Tarot Spread

I wish you a fortunate Full Moon Ritual.

It is done. It is done. It is done.

Cris Harnden https://www.goldenlineage.com