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Full Moon Ritual: Release What Weighs You Down

The full moon lights everything up, including what you carry. This ritual helps you lay it down.

You will need
  • A candle, paper and pen, a fireproof bowl.
How to
  1. Find a place where you can see the moon, or simply feel that she is there. Light the candle.
  2. Write on the paper what you are ready to release. A worry, a habit, a voice in your head that is not your own.
  3. Fold the paper, hold it between your hands and say the words aloud or silently.
  4. Burn the paper in the bowl and watch it become ash. Take three deep breaths.
  5. Let the candle burn down while you write in your journal about what there is now room for.

Full moon, you who see all, see this too. I have carried it long enough. I lay it down now, and I walk lighter from here.