This is a ritual to do during this month’s Full Moon, which is also as I’m sure you know, an eclipse. What you will need for this ritual:

• An open heart
• An open mind
• Faith
• Paper and a pencil/pen to write with
• Either a computer or paper and drawing materials (for a vision board)
• A candle
• A bowl
• Incense (optional)

Start by lighting your candle and incense also if you would like. And start with prayer. Feel free to pray in the way that feels right for you but here is an example I might use:

I want to welcome in my guides and healed ancestors. I want to call in the four directions, north, south, east, and west, and the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. I want to thank all of these beings and forces for supporting me and the collective in our growth. May this ritual be in the service of all that is good and may all that is not good or not supportive leave now. And so it is…

Now the energies we will be working with are fear but also hope, faith, and possibility. When it comes to fear, I want to give special attention to any fear of change, any fear of upheaval, or any uncertainty when it comes to social changes. As you are sitting in front of your candle (and altar I assume, though it is not required), and as you have your paper and pen nearby, feel into any fear that comes up.

Sit with it for a moment, don’t try to make it go away or “fix it”.

After you have sat for several moments, pay attention to your breath and your body. Ask: what body part is needing attention right now? Feel that body part.

Now ask that body part what message it has for you.

Releasing

Now related to the fears that have come up, and related to the message you received, feel into what false ideas about yourself or about your possibilities or the world’s possibilities do you need to release.

For example, in my ritual, these included things like:

• I am unworthy.
• I am incapable of navigating change. I don’t have the skills required.
• There will be no place for me if things change.
• I won’t be able to find the love I need now or in the future.

The thing is: we are inherently worthy and we are inherently capable. You are inherently worthy, you are inherently lovable, and you are inherently capable. You are here for a reason and there is a place for you. You will be able to do what you need to do, change in the ways you need to change, and find peace as you do so.

Now write these false ideas on your paper, tear or cut it into slips, then light these slips in the flame of your candle. Place these burning slips into your bowl to not make too much of a mess. Personally I like to make sure that the paper is THOROUGHLY burned! No shreds of these false beliefs must remain!

Enjoy the flames and enjoy the release of this negative, false self ideas that you have held in the past.

Now repeat to yourself the opposite of what you just released. For example, I am worthy. I am capable. I am lovable. I am love itself. I am joy. If it helps, you can speak to a younger version of yourself, and you can speak as the wise, mature adult that you are.

Calling In

Now we will switch gears a little bit. We will be making a vision board as a way of calling in what we envision for our life and for the world. We are not going to consciously think of what makes sense. We are going to let our unconscious or subconscious knowing, wanting, and believing to come to the surface.

We will make a vision board. Personally, I just find images on the internet and put them together in a slide. If you prefer you can draw or paint or craft something.

Just follow the impulses that come to your and put all the images together into a nice arrangement. You can add quotes or phrases too if you’d like. You can add colors. It can be abstract or more literal. Whatever feels right. 

Here is my example:

I won’t try to explain what all of this is or is about. (Some of it I’m not entirely sure.) But it is all meaningful to me. I hope yours comes out just as is right for you.

Sharing!

Now if you do this ritual (either now or perhaps at a future time—you can modify it for future Full Moons, though is it really using the energy of Pisces), you can feel free to share below in the comments. Or just share how the experience was for you, what came up.

Eclipses are an excellent time to build new habits and mindsets. Here is an interesting video by the great astrologer, Ernst Wilhelm, on why that is.

Gratitude

Also after you have finished, don’t forget to end with gratitude. Thank your guides and ancestors. Thank the Moon! Since she has supported us and enabled this whole journey. Thank yourself and thank this moment.

Hope you have an excellent week. Hope this ritual works well for you, and helps you to move forward or to return, in the ways that you need. Blessings.