Hello, there, my friends! How are you navigating the three days of the full moon? We move from Leo into Virgo today, from standing in the spotlight to focusing on the small details.
I see a lot of material making the rounds about how the full moon is to release what you no longer need. If you’re doing that and it works for you, well done! Magic is energy in motion, and we each build our own relationship to it.
My training is slightly different, and I will share how I was trained and how it works in my practice. If it resonates, feel free to try it yourself. If it doesn’t, feel free to keep doing what you’re doing that resonates with you.
In our training circle, and in circles after initiation, we worked with moon cycles in terms of waxing, fulfillment, and waning. We’d choose something to work on at the new moon and do the increase work as the moon waxed. The increase work is often a mix of visualization, attraction work, and physical actions to bring us closer to the intent.
On the full moon, we would release the energy we raised so that what we worked on could MANIFEST. We found that building up the energy, and then sending it out into the world without micromanaging it worked best for our manifestations.
During the waning moon, we focused on removing obstacles.
The dark moon was, for us, releasing what we no longer needed. Which then freed us, on the new moon, to begin again.
Some workings take more than a month. Again, it’s more about working on the energy and the physical actions to bring it into being and then letting go without micromanaging. We were told that once we released the spell to manifest, we had to stop thinking or obsessing about it. It can’t grow if you hold it too tightly. Think about the negative aspects of the 4 of Pentacles, when you hoard. If you hoard the energy, it doesn’t have the room to grow and manifest. Energy needs to stay in flow, in motion. I have made mistakes trying to micromanage the universe, mostly out of fear, and did not get the hoped-for results.
I have tried both ways of working with the full moon. In my own work, I find releasing to manifest on the full moon, and releasing to remove on the dark moon work better for me.
Have you tried different ways of working with the full moon? What have you found best, or do you change the way you work depending on need? I’d love to hear from you in the comments.