I posted about my full moon reading yesterday, but the ritual itself bears mentioning as well.\u00a0 It was the first in the new home, the last I\u2019ll be able to perform with Aradia until Yule at the soonest, and the only magical rite in which my mother has ever participated.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
In keeping with that last point, and because we were all too overwhelmed and exhausted to do any serious heavy lifting, we kept it simple.\u00a0 Rather than alternating in silence, as Aradia and I usually do, or assigning a call to each of the participants \u2013 as we have historically with larger groups \u2013 I took the lead, calling on the \u201cpowers and spirits\u201d of each element, while Aradia and my mother followed behind.\u00a0 We cast the circle hand-to-hand, and a storm hit exactly as we finished.<\/p>\n
We called upon the moon to help establish the household and to aid in the transition.\u00a0 The three of us then worked together to charge a bottle of water with moon energy.\u00a0 Finally, we closed the circle and went outside to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
The storm was still blowing in, but the tree outside my front door had already dropped a massive load of sticks and twigs.\u00a0 This was where my mother really shone, and proved that with little or no actual instruction in what I do, she already knew enough: she encouraged me to collect a particularly attractive fallen twig to add to my altar.\u00a0 As the storm continued, I set the moon water outside to continue charging, along with my amethyst orb.\u00a0 Both were tingling when I brought them in shortly before dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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