Our Full Harvest Moon | | This Full Moon is very special and we hope you will plan to join us as we work the magick within our Circle. During this Harvest Moon, we will be focusing the harvests in our lives and preperations for our inward time and the coming season. Create your alter with this in mind. Plan to set up your alter and the area around your computer for a very special Circle. * Remember to have all clutter gone from your computer area as this is Sacred Space during any ritual. I ask you to smudge yourself and this area before entering the Sacred Circle. Prepare yourself for being in the Presence of the Lady of the Moon and the Lord of the Harvest. ~ Items Needed for this ritual: ~ -
God and Goddess Candles (This can be Gold/Silver or White/Black or a color that brings you feel honors your Deities) -
Parchment Paper -
A Pen -
A Candle (your color choice) --(dressed and ready for energy work. -
\Incense of your choice -
A Drink of Wine or juice and Mooncakes. This special Circle will be held in the Sacred Circle Ritual Room *Please follow the rules of etiquette before entering our Sacred Circle.* Date: September 15, 2008 Time: 6:00 p.m. (pacific) ~ 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) (Time Zone Conversion here) | | | | | | | | | | |
September according to Cunningham
Since wine was, and is, such a sacred fluid, the Pagans of old naturally named this Lunar month the Wine Moon. As you celebrate the night of the Full Wine Moon and dance the magickal round in the moonlit Circle, pour some white wine in a silver cup. Before the rite is ended, if possible, catch Her reflection in the liquid, then take a sip. As the Moon-blessed wine casts its inner glow, sit quietly and feel your own spirit, of which the wine is a symbol. As the body is stilled and the spirit soars, feel on this night of magick a sence of the kind of transformation that takes place during true spiritual initiation.
Today the term Harvest Moon is applied to the Full Moon nearest to the Autumnal Equinox. This is because, it is said, in other times when harvesting was done by hand, as the days grew shorter farmers were able
to work into the night in the brightness of Her light.
Names this Harvest Moon is known as:
- Wine Moon
- Singing Moon
- Sturgeon Moon
- Haligmonath (Holy Month)
- Witumanoth (Wood Month)
- Moon When Deer Paw the Earth