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Ritual·Full moon

The Moon Bath

A bath can be a sanctuary. At full moon you bathe yourself home to your body.

You will need
  • A tub or a foot basin, coarse salt, optional rose petals or lavender, a candle.
How to
  1. Light the candle and switch off everything else.
  2. Pour the salt into the water and stir with your hand while saying: Water, cleanse. Salt, protect. Moon, fill me up.
  3. Lie in the water, or place your feet in the basin, and close your eyes.
  4. Imagine the moonlight running through the water and into your skin, up through your body, all the way behind your eyes.
  5. Stay until the water cools. Finally say: I am washed clean. I am my own again. Let the water drain while you watch the old run with it.