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Hunter Moon Ritual.

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This Hunter’s Moon candle magic ritual combines the spiritual intentions of preservation, gratitude, and a connection with the afterlife. It allows you to honor and preserve what you cherish, appreciate, and enrich your spiritual journey with the moon.

Gather Your Supplies

  • A small fireproof bowl, cauldron, or whatever you have
  • A white candle (or any candle color of your choice)
  • Matches or a lighter
  • A piece of paper and something to write with
  • A quiet, sacred space (try outdoors beneath the moonlight if possible)

Begin Your Ritual

Begin your ritual by cleansing the area in the method of your choice. Then set up your fireproof bowl on a stable surface where it’s safe to burn a candle.

Light your candle and take a moment to center yourself. Focus on your breath and clear your mind.

Grab your paper, write down what you’d like to preserve in your life, and specify what you’re grateful for (relationships, personal growth, traditions, etc.). Be detailed and vulnerable in these intentions.

Call Upon the Hunter’s Moon

Look up at the moon (if possible) and acknowledge its spiritual energy. Think about its meaning and connection with the season of the hunt, preservation, and the thinning of the veil.

Hold the paper with your intentions and say the following words aloud

Beneath the Hunters Moon’s soft light, I honor preservation on this night.

To the afterlife, a bridge I seek, Thank you for the blessings that I speak.

Protect what’s dear, both near and far, Guided by ancestors, like a shining star

Light Your Intention

Use the lit candle to carefully burn the paper with your intentions. Place it in the bowl or cauldron to let it burn completely. As it burns, visualize your written intentions being released into the universe and forming a connection with the Otherworld. 

Reflect and Close

Sit in silence for a few moments and think about the intentions you burned and what you’re grateful for. Feel the protective energy of your ancestors and passed loved ones.

Let the candle extinguish, and remember to take a moment to thank the moon and your ancestors. Collect the cooled ashes in a small container. Use them to represent the preservation of your intentions and ancestral connection.

Preserve the Ashes

Find a meaningful place to keep your ashes, maybe in a small container or jar. Place it on your altar or in a sacred space in your home.

Revisit the ashes as often as you like! Hold them in your hands and remember everything you’re grateful for. You can also use them to make black salt and use them in future rituals.

A Little Space for Something New.

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A Libra New Moon ritual

Gorgeous Soul, gather a small bowl of water, a fallen leaf, a piece of paper and a pen. Settle somewhere you can have a few quiet minutes to yourself.

Feel the support beneath you and let your breath find its own comfortable rhythm. Ask yourself gently, “What have I been carrying that I’m ready to loosen my grip on?”

Perhaps it’s the need to keep everyone happy, an old expectation, or the habit of judging yourself for something you cannot change.

Hold your leaf and name what you are ready to release. You don’t have to force forgiveness or feel suddenly peaceful. Simply acknowledge what is there, then place the leaf beside the bowl and say:

“I honour what this has taught me. I give myself permission to carry it differently.”

Touch the water with your fingertips. Let this be a small moment of tenderness towards yourself—a reminder that accountability and compassion can sit together.

On your paper, finish this sentence:

“I am making room for…”

Then write one small action you can take this week to support that intention. Perhaps a pause before saying yes, a clear conversation, or asking for the help you need.

Read your words aloud, then close with:

“My needs belong in the balance. I can be loving and honest. I can begin with one small step.”

Keep your intention somewhere you’ll see it. Return the leaf to the earth and pour the water onto the soil.

Then go make yourself a delicious cuppa. You’ve planted something worth tending.

The Glorious Reveal….

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A Playful New Moon Solar Eclipse Ritual

This New Moon Solar Eclipse in Leo invites us to step out from behind the roles, masks and expectations we have collected and remember the glorious, creative being underneath them all.

This is not a ritual for improving yourself.

You are not a renovation project.

It is a ritual for seeing yourself, celebrating what is already alive within you and reclaiming the pieces you may have tucked away because they were too loud, too strange, too playful or simply too much for someone else’s comfort.

And because this is Leo, we are not going to whisper our way through it.

There will be music. There will be a crown. There may be dancing of questionable quality.

Perfect.

You Will Need

  • A small mirror
  • A gold, yellow or orange candle—or whatever you have
  • Paper or lightweight card
  • Scissors, tape and coloured pens
  • Five small slips of paper
  • A bowl
  • Music that makes you feel gloriously alive
  • Something playful to wear

Never look directly at the Sun during an eclipse without certified eclipse glasses. This ritual can be performed indoors and does not require viewing the eclipse.

Create Your Crown

Make yourself a simple paper crown. It does not need to be elegant—a wonky crown made with enthusiasm is far better than a perfect one made with clenched teeth.

On the inside, write:

I do not have to perform to belong.

Decorate the outside with words, colours and symbols representing your aliveness: creativity, courage, humour, joy, wildness or whatever feels true.

This crown is not about being better than anyone else. It represents your willingness to take your rightful place in your own life.

Arrive as You Are

Light your candle and take a few slow breaths.

There is no need to become calm, spiritual or impressively serene. If your socks don’t match or the cat has already sat on your supplies, you are still welcome.

Say:

I arrive as I am.
I release the need to perform.
I welcome all that is alive and true within me.

Reclaim What You Have Hidden

On each slip of paper, complete this sentence:

I am ready to reclaim my…

Perhaps it is your voice, playfulness, creativity, confidence, curiosity, wildness or ability to say no without writing a twelve-page apology.

Fold the slips, place them in the bowl and choose one.

Ask:

What would this part of me like to do?

Let the first simple answer come. Perhaps your playfulness wants to dance, your creativity wants to make something or your voice wants to speak honestly.

Write down one small, real action that will give this part of you room to live again.

Meet Your Own Gaze

Place the crown upon your head. Yes, really.

Look gently into the mirror—not to inspect or criticise, but to witness the person looking back at you.

Say:

I see the self beneath the roles.
I recognise the light that has always lived here.
I forgive the ways I learned to disappear.
I do not need applause to know my worth.
I belong here as myself.

Now offer yourself one genuine compliment that has nothing to do with being useful, productive or pleasing.

Begin with:

Something glorious about me is…

Say it aloud, even if you blush or laugh.

Especially then.

Let Yourself Be Alive

Put on your music and move for the length of one song.

Dance beautifully. Dance badly. Sway, bounce, shimmy or wave your arms like an enthusiastic inflatable tube person.

There is no audience and no performance—only your body remembering joy.

When the song ends, place your hand over your heart and say:

My aliveness is sacred.
My joy matters.
My creativity is an offering.
My voice belongs in the conversation.
My light was never the problem.

Close the Ritual

Place your chosen slip beneath the mirror until you have completed the action it asked of you.

Thank the Eclipse, your heart and the gloriously imperfect person you are becoming more willing to see.

Blow out your candle and say:

I do not shine to be admired.
I shine because I am alive.
I belong without disappearing.
And I am ready to be revealed.

Keep your crown. Wear it whenever you forget who you are—or whenever doing the washing-up requires a little more majesty.

And if you are feeling bold, would love to see an image of your crown!

The Buck Moon: Grow Wild, Take Up Space & Feed What Matters!

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Gorgeous Soul,

Can you feel it? There is something growing in the dark.

The Buck Moon rises on Wednesday, July 29, carrying an energy of nourishment, strength, healthy boundaries and unapologetic expansion. She reaches her fullest at 7:35 a.m. here on the West Coast, so look for her glowing beautifully on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

July’s full moon takes her name from the male deer—the buck—whose new antlers are growing rapidly at this time of year. What begins as something tender, covered in soft velvet, will eventually become strong enough to protect him, establish his place and carry him through the season ahead.

But those antlers cannot grow from nothing.

Their size and strength depend upon what is available to nourish the buck: rain, rich soil, abundant plants and a healthy habitat. If nourishment is scarce, growth is limited.

Nature, as she so often does, makes the lesson gloriously clear:

You cannot continually deprive yourself and still expect yourself to flourish.

You cannot run on crumbs—crumbs of rest, crumbs of affection, crumbs of joy, crumbs of time—and then wonder why you feel depleted. Nor can you pour all your energy into everybody else’s garden while your own quietly wilts in the corner.

The Buck Moon asks you to look honestly at what you are feeding.

Are you nourishing the dreams that make your whole being light up? Are you strengthening the relationships that strengthen you in return? Are you investing time, care and energy in your own gorgeous life—or are your needs forever being shuffled to the bottom of the list?

Because you are not an afterthought.

And taking up space does not mean pushing anyone else out of the way. It means no longer folding yourself into smaller and smaller shapes to make everyone around you comfortable. It means allowing your voice to be heard, your boundaries to be honoured and your gifts to be visible.

It means standing in your own patch of sunlight and saying:

I belong here too.

Growing Into Your Power

There is a lovely difference between forcing yourself to become someone else and allowing yourself to grow more fully into who you already are.

The buck does not spend the summer anxiously comparing his antlers with those of every other deer in the forest. He does not wake at three in the morning convinced that his rack should be bigger, more impressive or further along.

He eats. He rests. He moves through the forest. He trusts the ancient intelligence of his body and the rhythm of the season.

Meanwhile, we humans are often flapping about, attempting to bloom, harvest, heal, launch seventeen new projects and completely reinvent ourselves before lunchtime.

The Buck Moon reminds us that meaningful growth is not built through frantic striving. It is created through nourishment, attention and repeated small choices.

We grow into our power through practice, not perfection.

Every time you honour a boundary, you grow stronger.

Every time you choose what nourishes you rather than what merely distracts you, you grow clearer.

Every time you speak honestly, rest without apologising, learn something new or devote time to what genuinely matters, you strengthen the foundations of your future.

A meaningful life is not created all at once.

It is grown—one choice, one threshold and one season at a time.

What Are You Feeding?

Full moons illuminate. They bring things into view—including the things we have been cheerfully avoiding while hoping they might wander off by themselves.

This moon may reveal where your energy has become scattered. You might notice too many half-fed projects, obligations that no longer belong to you or relationships that continually consume your attention without offering anything nourishing in return.

This is not an invitation to judge yourself or begin hacking wildly at your life with an energetic machete.

It is an invitation to pause.

What matters most now?

What deserves more of your care?

What dream, relationship, skill or part of yourself is ready to be nourished properly?

And what smaller distractions can be released so that your deeper priorities have room to grow?

You do not need to do everything. In fact, trying to do everything is often the fastest route to accomplishing very little—except becoming impressively tired and slightly stabby.

Choose what matters. Feed it well. Give it time.

A Simple Buck Moon Ritual

On Tuesday or Wednesday evening, find a quiet place beneath the moon—or near a window where you can feel connected to her light.

You will need:

  • A candle
  • A small bowl of water
  • A leaf, sprig of rosemary or something gathered respectfully from nature
  • Your journal and a pen

Light your candle and place the bowl of water beside it. Hold your leaf or herb and take several slow breaths.

Imagine yourself standing in a summer forest. Beneath you is rich soil; around you, life is growing in every direction. You do not need to chase your strength. You are already rooted within it.

Ask yourself:

What within me is asking to be nourished?

Where am I ready to take up more space?

What boundary will protect what I am growing?

What distraction or obligation am I willing to release?

What would it look like to live more fully this season?

Write without overthinking or attempting to make your answers sound sensible. Let what is true come forward.

When you are finished, dip your fingers into the water and gently touch your forehead, heart and hands.

You might say:

May my thoughts nourish what matters.
May my heart remember what is true.
May my hands help create the life I am ready to live.

Place the leaf or herb somewhere meaningful for the next few days. When the ritual feels complete, return it to the earth with gratitude.

Want to Go a Little Deeper?

If the Buck Moon has illuminated something within you—and you want to explore it with pen, paper and perhaps a cuppa—I have created a collection of Buck Moon journal prompts for you.

They will help you explore nourishment, boundaries, taking up space and the glorious strength that is already growing within you.

Take your time with them. You do not need to answer everything at once. Choose the question that tugs at your sleeve, pour yourself something lovely and see what wants to be revealed.

And Lughnasadh Is Coming…

Just a few days after the Buck Moon, we reach Lughnasadh on August 1st—the first of the three traditional harvest celebrations on the Wheel of the Year.

It is a threshold of gratitude, abundance, sacrifice and harvest. A time to notice what has ripened, what our labour has created and what must be gathered before the season begins to turn.

But we will sink our hands deeply into that particular magick in a separate post later this week.

For now, let the Buck Moon show you what is still growing.

Let her illuminate the places where you have been surviving on crumbs. Let her remind you that nourishment is not selfish, boundaries are not punishment and taking up space is not something you need to earn.

Your life is growing around you.

Feed what matters.

Protect what is tender.

And allow yourself to become gloriously, visibly, unmistakably more of who you have always been.

Three Glorious Ways to Celebrate Lughnasadh.

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Lughnasadh does not require an elaborate altar, a field of rippling wheat or three uninterrupted hours in which nobody needs anything from you.

It can be celebrated through the ordinary, meaningful things that already connect you to the season: practising your craft, gathering with your community and eating food grown close to home.

These three simple practices honour the heart of Lughnasadh—skill, gratitude, community and the quiet work behind every harvest.

A Candle Ritual for Your Craft

Lugh is remembered by the Old Irish title Samildánach, meaning skilled in many arts. He was not celebrated for possessing one perfect talent, but for his willingness to learn, create and continually develop his abilities.

This ritual honours that same creative spirit.

You will need

  • A candle in a colour that reminds you of the harvest or reflects your intention
  • A safe candleholder
  • The materials or tools used for your chosen craft
  • One uninterrupted hour—or whatever time is realistically available

Choose something you enjoy doing or a skill you would like to develop. You might write a page of your novel, paint outdoors, bake bread, tend your garden, sit at a pottery wheel, knit, carve, practise an instrument or begin learning something completely new.

Light your candle and say:

With this flame, I honour the work no one sees.
With these hands, I practise, learn and grow.
May every small act become part of a harvest
that ripens in its own time.

Then spend the next hour practising your craft.

This is not a test of your talent, and you do not have to create anything dazzling. The magic lives in showing up.

As the candle burns, let it represent all the small and ordinary moments that often go unnoticed. No one applauds the gardener for watering the seeds in May, yet that faithful tending makes the August harvest possible.

Your skills grow in much the same way. Every stitch you sew, every paragraph you write and every lesson you learn becomes part of a future harvest.

When you finish, thank the flame, acknowledge the time and attention you offered your craft, and extinguish the candle safely. Never leave a burning candle unattended.

Visit a Fair or Harvest Festival

If you stepped into an ancient Lughnasadh gathering, you might have encountered competitions, musicians, storytellers, craftspeople, merchants, farmers and neighbours coming together to celebrate the first harvest.

Our modern fairs and harvest festivals may look rather different, but many still carry those same threads: community, craftsmanship, food, play and appreciation for the work that brings the harvest to life.

If you visit one this season, look beyond the rides and food stalls. Cheer for the competitors. Watch local artisans demonstrate their skills. Listen to live music. Admire the prize vegetables—because anyone who manages to grow a courgette the size of a small pony deserves recognition.

Talk with farmers about what they are growing. If it fits your budget, purchase something handmade or locally produced.

Every conversation, word of appreciation and small purchase helps sustain the people whose knowledge, labour and creativity keep local traditions and agriculture alive.

That is a beautiful—and deliciously fun—way to honour the communal spirit of Lughnasadh.

Let the Season Choose Your Meal

For this practice, resist the temptation to plan everything in advance. Instead, visit a farmers’ market, local farm stand or community garden and ask:

What is growing where I live right now?

Wander slowly and notice what late summer has to offer. You might discover fresh blackberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, herbs, peaches, squash or a peculiar-looking vegetable you have never cooked in your life.

Choose one seasonal ingredient that catches your attention and build a meal around it.

Ask the grower how they like to prepare it. Find out where and how it was grown. Try a recipe you have never made before—or simply prepare it in a way that allows its natural flavour to shine.

Before eating, pause and acknowledge everything that brought the food to your table: seed, soil, rain, sunlight, pollinators, human hands, patience and time.

You might say:

With gratitude, I receive this harvest.
May it nourish my body, honour the land
and remind me of the many hands and lives
woven into everything I receive.

Then eat slowly enough to actually taste it.

Eating with the seasons reminds us that food does not simply appear on a grocery-store shelf by magic—although grocery stores are peculiar places of abundance when you really stop to think about them.

Food is planted, tended, protected, ripened and gathered after months of care. By learning what grows where we live, supporting local growers and savouring what the land is offering now, an ordinary meal becomes a small act of seasonal reverence.

That is the heart of Lughnasadh: pausing amid all the striving to recognise the work, receive the harvest and say, with genuine gratitude, Look what has grown.

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