Full Moon in Taurus: Dropping Your Seeds

The Taurus full moon, on the heels of Samhain, helps anchor us in the season of dying and shedding. All year, you have navigated the seasons, opening yourself to new experiences, ways of being, and perhaps unexpected lessons or hardships that have come to pass over the previous year.

Taurus, a fixed earth sign, invites you to pause, be with your body, and notice what's ready to drop from your being. The flowers and trees in the land have been in preparation all year, waiting for this season to drop their seeds. What seeds of wisdom are dropping within you? What wisdom is ready to be handed over to the womb of the earth for incubation?

Each plant, attuned with the wisdom of the earth, feeling in their being when it's the right time to drop. Now too, it is time to feel into the landscape of your body. What is the landscape like, and how does it feel? Are there seeds within you that are ready to drop?

Keep reading for a gentle way to tune into this Taurus full moon and the season.

Full Moon in Taurus Themes

Taurus energy is associated with the bull. While this symbol is often linked to stubbornness, the bull has much more to offer. The bull is stable, sturdy, and calculated in its movement. The bull understands the importance of the pause and is not afraid to spend time firmly rooted on the earth before taking action.

The themes of slowness, sturdiness, and patience are potent medicine as you navigate shifting into the darker half of the year.

Themes: patience, slowness, grounding, sensuality, the body, being with what's arising, the landscape of the body, being present with the earth

Corresponding element: Earth and Water

Corresponding planet: Venus and Earth

Modality: Fixed

Ritual Support for the Taurus Full Moon

This full moon wants to illuminate the wisdom of your body and its ability to sense and feel what seeds of wisdom are dropping from you this season.

For this ritual, I'll guide you to connect with your inner landscape to feel into the lessons you've navigated over the last three seasons, and to notice if there are seeds of wisdom ready to leave you.

The best time for this ritual is on the day of or 2 days after the full moon, on the waning side.

You'll need: 

• 20-60 minutes to be with your body

• A journal or note-taking place and something to write with

• Optional: a candle, any stones or plants that feel supportive, a tarot or oracle card deck, and access to outside space

1. Prepare your space in a way that honors your practice and feels good to you. This could include physically and energetically cleansing your space, lighting a candle, selecting some music, calling on guides or ancestors, casting a circle, and setting out any supportive items nearby.

2. When your space is ready, sitting or standing, begin to notice your breath and stay with it for a few minutes. When you feel settled in, start to imagine traveling inward to your body.

3. As you move inward toward your body, imagine it as a landscape. Let this fill in within your mind's eye intuitively. If visualizing is hard for you, imagine what your inner landscape feels or sounds like. Stay with this for several breaths as it unfolds.

4. As your inner landscape fills in, ask aloud or in your mind, "What seeds have been prepared over the last few seasons?" Notice where you're taken in your inner landscape, what the seeds look like, perhaps what plant they're from or what you feel they're associated with, and be with these seeds.

5. Spend some time moving your body, dancing, and/or singing to honor all of the experiences you have navigated this year to create these seeds.

6. Trusting the wisdom of your body and the seeds, ask whether there's anything you can do to assist them. Perhaps they want to be planted within your inner landscape, or maybe they want to leave your body to be planted in your environment.

7. When you feel ready, begin to move out of your inner landscape the way you came into it, thank your body, the moon, and any guides or ancestors you called upon, and gently return to your space.

8. If you have access to an outdoor space, consider taking a moment to place your hands or feet on the earth to honor the connection between your inner landscape and the outer world.

9. Consider having some food and drink to ground yourself, and write down anything from your experience, or draw some cards to anchor it.

Prompts for the Taurus Full Moon

Work with the following questions as journal prompts or as guidance for tarot or oracle card pulls.

1. What does my inner landscape look like, sound like, and feel like right now?

2. What stands out to me the most in my inner landscape?

3. What parallels do I see between my inner landscape and the outer landscape?

4. What experiences over the last three seasons impacted me the most?

5. What wisdom does my body now carry from experiences over the last three seasons?

6. Does the wisdom my body carries, the seeds I've created, want to remain planted in my inner landscape or be planted somewhere outside of me?

7. What potential do these inner seeds hold?

May the wisdom of the land and your body lead you into the dark of the year with the sturdiness and strength of a bull. So it is. Blessed Taurus full moon.

Full Moon in Capricorn: Owning the Power of Your Shadows

The summer solstice initiates movement towards the darker half of the year. Even though it may be in the heat of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the Capricorn full moon brings an essence of the dark of winter to remind you of the power of your shadows.

While some may view shadow work (the intentional practice of noticing and tending to your unconscious, unhelpful habits, and repressed emotions) as something negative, it holds great power. When you know your shadows well and are aware of how they present, it enables you to move through the world with self-aware, grounded strength. 

As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn signifies a time of deeply rooted action. Capricorn energy paired with a full moon, brings an opportunity to recognize and tend to your shadows and release unhelpful habits around how you relate to them, enabling you to move through the world with an understanding of how your unconscious realms affect your waking life.

The Capricorn full moon encourages you to own the full spectrum of your humanity, even the parts of yourself you might prefer to diminish or disown. Your unconscious realms are endless. There will always be something ready to surface. Each time something new surfaces, you have the opportunity to either avoid it or welcome it into your being and create a more rooted and empowered foundation. 

For this full moon ritual support, you’ll be guided to become aware of something in your unconscious that’s ready to be witnessed, own it fully, and identify anything that needs to be released around your relationship to this part of yourself. 

Full Moon in Capricorn Themes

Themes: Shadow work, unconscious realms, tending to your foundation, power, owning your imperfections and learning from them

Planetary correspondence: Saturn

Element correspondence: Earth

Corresponding tarot cards: The Devil and the Knight of Pentacles

Modality: Cardinal 

Quote: “Before you can slip off the chains you must become conscious of them.” - Rachel Pollack, on The Devil card from Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom

Ritual Support for the Capricorn Full Moon

For this ritual support, you'll be guided to bring to light something from your unconscious realms that desires witnessing.You'll be invited to work with the Devil card from the tarot. You don't need the card to explore this moon. Look up images of it if you don't have it handy. 

As always, change and modify this ritual suggestion to make it work for you. It is ideal to work this ritual over 2-3 days. Be intuitive with it and notice when you feel pulled to move to different steps. 

You'll need: 

• Something to write with

• The devil card from the tarot (any deck) or images of it to look at

• Optional: An outside space to bury paper, books or readings about the tarot and any additional items that make you feel supported, like candles, crystals, herbs, etc. 

1. To begin this ritual, spend time with the devil card from the tarot. Notice what you like about it and what you don't. If anything makes you feel uncomfortable about the card, what stands out to you? 

2. Take a moment to journal about your feelings regarding this card. 

3. Over the next 24hrs, revisit this card. Consider placing it near your bed or under your pillow around the time of the full moon, meditating on it, or reading about the card from tarot authors you enjoy. 

4. Notice what comes up for you as you spend time with this card and what it represents to you. 

5. Journal about anything that's coming up for you on your own or with the prompts provided below. 

6. Identify one theme that is arising for you this lunation as you sit with this card and what it represents to you. 

7. Once you've identified a theme that wants witnessing, create space to be in ritual with this theme. 

8. Allow yourself 15-60 minutes to engage with this theme in a way that feels good to you, such as journaling, moving your body, dancing, making art, or expressing your emotions. Open your ritual space in a way that aligns with your practice. 

9. As you sit with what's arising, ask what this part of yourself wants you to know and how it could be more fully incorporated into your waking life. 

10. Ask if there's anything about this part of yourself that needs to be shed or released. 

11. Bring this ritual to a close in a way that feels good to you. Consider journaling again about this experience. 

12. If you feel guided to release something about this theme or the experience, find time to write down what you'd like to release and bury it on the waning side of the moon. 

Prompts for the Capricorn Full Moon

Use these prompts as a way to reflect on this full moon. They can be used as journaling prompts or as questions for tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What emotion(s) do you avoid feeling? (keep in mind this could be positive feelings)

2. What does this avoidance stem from?

3. How could spending more intentional time with these emotions empower you? 

4. What is a habit you would like to change? 

5. What might this habit have to teach you?

6. Identify a person, place, or activity that you avoid because it makes you feel uncomfortable.

7. What could be at the root of this discomfort?

8. How would it change your life to be more comfortable with the person, place, or activity you identified?

May this full moon inspire you to be with the neglected and wounded parts of yourself that desire witnessing so that you may incorporate or release what's ready to go and walk with more rootedness and power. 

Full Moon in Sagittarius: Tending Your Fire

Are you harboring desires that you know with every ounce of your being are true but feel too big (or scary) to act upon? The truth-seeking Sagittarius full moon provides insight and energy to burn away anything standing in your way and start taking action toward your most authentic self.

Acting in alignment with your most authentic needs isn't always easy, especially when your desires go against social or familial norms. Work with this fiery full moon as a supportive co-conspirator in moving you, and all of us, towards personal and collective liberation. 

If your conviction towards your inner truth has waned or you've been ignoring essential parts of yourself, this Sagittarius full moon could feel like a gut punch. This full moon reminds you to stay true to your deepest desires with conviction–no matter how unrealistic they may seem. Because the moon shines a light on your subconscious realms, this Sagittarius full moon might bring truths to the surface that you weren't expecting or have been deeply buried. 

Working with the energy of this full moon doesn't need to be explosive, but it could be. Sagittarius's energy is honest and direct, and your small daily actions can create a significant impact over time. Allow your internal arrow of truth to guide your way and the fiery energy of this moon to show you what actions to take. 

Find Sagittarius full moon themes, ritual suggestions, and prompts to explore its energy. 

Sagittarius Full Moon Themes

Themes: truth-seeking, justice-oriented movement, taking action towards your most authentic self, burning away anything keeping you from your truth, changes, and movement

Sign: Jupiter

Element: Fire

Modality: Mutable

Sagittarius Full Moon Ritual Support

In this ritual, work with a theme that feels authentic to you and is something you want to expand at this season in your life. 

Because Sagittarius is all about making moves in alignment with your truth, this is an ideal full moon to get into your body. As always, make this work for you and your body. Move as little or as much as you'd like or are able. If you're able to work with a candle to bring in the fiery energy, that can be a great support! 

The best time to perform this ritual is the day before or the day of the full moon. Working with this full moon on the waxing side of the moon is perfect for working with the fiery energy associated with Sagittarius. 

As always, modify this ritual as needed! This is a template for creating meaningful rituals aligned with your practice. 

For this ritual, you'll need:

• 20-40 minutes 

• Space to move around

• Something to write with

• Optional: favorite music to move to, a candle, and any other items that would feel supportive

1. Prepare your area and create a sacred space. This might include lighting a candle for yourself and this practice, clearing your space in a way aligned with your practice, and calling in any supportive guides or allies as you sit with this practice. Have music ready to turn on (if you plan to listen to something), and ensure you have something to write with nearby.

2. Spend a few minutes tuning in with your breath and body. After a few minutes, tune in with your soul and ask what's something true, authentic, and liberatory that you want to bring more of into your life or the world. Spend a few more minutes with this authentic part of yourself, noticing how it feels to be with it. 

3. Holding this truth and a desire to bring more of it into your life and the world, turn on your music and begin moving your body (or move in silence without music). As you start to move, ask aloud or in your mind to be shown steps and actions to take to move you closer to this truth. 

4. Holding your intention, try experimenting with new ways to move your body. Don't worry about how it looks. This doesn't have to be a dance; it can be any movement. Shake, jump, wiggle, roll, slither, move in any way your body feels called to and is accessible. 

5. Stay with your truth and the movement practice for as long as you feel called to, and provide yourself with ample time to gently slow yourself down and return to resting. 

6. When you feel ready to stop, sit or lie down and breathe for a few minutes. 

7. Begin writing down ideas you have to take action to bring more of your authentic self and inner truths to the world. Reflect on how this could be beneficial for yourself and others, and consider including actions that support others. 

8. Consider putting these actions or something that reminds you of them on your altar or in a place where you'll regularly see them.

Sagittarius Full Moon Prompts

Here are some prompts to further support you during this full moon. Use them as journal prompts or questions to work with your tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What inner truths or desires feel most alive in you in this season of your life? 

2. In what ways are you able to express and honor your most authentic self? If you don't feel like you're able to, why not? 

3. What is a personal truth you hold dear that you'd like to see more of out in the world?

4. What are three actions that would be in alignment with or move you in the direction of your most authentic self? 

May you feel the support of this fiery full moon to take action toward a more truthful and liberated inner and outer world. When you honor your truth, you inspire others to honor theirs. May your truth expand in ways that inspire liberation for all.

Blessed full moon,
Cassie

Full Moon in Scorpio: Navigating Your Depths

What themes have been swirling within you that have felt too emotional or challenging to be with? The Scorpio full moon asks you to enter your depths intentionally. Scorpio energy lives in the subconscious, encouraging curiosity about all those emotions and topics you’d rather avoid. This is the beauty of working with the moons: there’s a time and place for everything. 

Working in the subconscious creates fertile ground for profound changes and transformations. For any transformation to occur, something needs to be grieved and let go of. Death is an innate part of transformation. 

Full moons are ideal for working with themes of acceptance, grief, and letting go because they offer energetic support to bring what’s ready to be honored, grieved, and released to the surface. 

Grief and death (big “D” and little “d” deaths) are a natural part of life, and you don’t have to wait until your emotional landscape is at capacity or you’re on the verge of a meltdown to access these parts of yourself. Working with the energy of the moon phases provides natural times to access the depths of your emotional realms and tend to your grief cyclically.

After anchoring into a new season with the Taurus new moon (spring for the Northern hemisphere and autumn for the Southern hemisphere), the watery depths of this Scorpio full moon invite inner transformation. 

Find themes, ritual support, and prompts below to support you during this Scorpio full moon. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Themes

Themes: transformation, grief, death, emotions, the subconscious, sex, shadow work

Corresponding Planet: Pluto

Element: Water

Modality: Fixed

Full Moon in Scorpio Ritual Support

For this ritual, you’ll guide yourself into your watery depths to excavate something that wants to be worked with and possibly grieved this full moon. 

The best time to perform this ritual is the day of or the day after the full moon. Working with this full moon on the waning side is particularly powerful for working with themes of grief, release, letting go, and acceptance. 

As always, modify this ritual as needed! This is a template for creating meaningful rituals aligned with your practice. 

For this ritual, you’ll need:

• 20-40 minutes 

• Quiet and comfortable space

• Something to write with

• Optional: a candle, water or tea, music, and any other items that would feel supportive

1. Prepare your area and create a sacred space. This might include lighting a candle for yourself and this practice, clearing your space aligned with your practice, and calling in any supportive guides or allies as you sit with this practice. 

2. Prepare yourself to journey inwards. You’ll need a quiet and comfortable space for 20-40 minutes. If you want to listen to soft drumming or music while you journey, turn that on now. 

3. Sitting or lying down, begin to turn your attention inwards by closing your eyes and focusing on your body and your breath. 

4. Within your mind’s eye, begin to visualize or imagine what it would feel like to sink into the center of a deep, warm body of water. Imagine what sinking lower and lower into the water would feel like. 

5. Continue with this guided visualization of sinking into the water for as long as feels appropriate for you. Imagine you hit the surface or find a natural place to stop and be. When you do notice what this space looks and feels like. Notice if any light is coming through the water. What sounds are present? How does the water feel on your skin? 

6. In this deep and quiet watery space, invite in your emotions. What’s present in your emotional landscape? What wants to surface? Can you allow it to surface fully with the support of the element of water? If this feels hard, consider asking the element of water to assist you. 

7. Move with what comes up and allow yourself to emote as you can, if it arises. 

8. When you feel complete, slowly imagine yourself rising out of the water. As you move up through the water, visualize yourself releasing and leaving anything in the depths that wants to stay and bringing up anything that wants to return to the surface. 

9. When you return to the surface, thank the water and the moon. Slowly come back to your body from this journey. Have some tea or water to ground yourself. 

10. Consider writing down your experience or moving through some of the prompts below. If it feels better to simply be and rest, do that. 

Full Moon in Scorpio Prompts

Here are some prompts to further support you during this full moon. Use them as journal prompts or questions to work with your tarot or oracle cards. 

1. What emotions wish to be witnessed and honored within me?

2. What topics have I been avoiding that want my attention? 

3. What’s ready to be grieved within me? 

4. How does this full moon want to support me in honoring my emotions and grief?

5. How will honoring my emotional landscape and grief support myself and my community?

May you feel the support of this watery full moon to honor your full range of emotions. Your emotions, even the hardest ones to be with, hold wisdom and purpose. Let them flow.

Blessed full moon!  
Cassie

Full Moon in Pisces: Waking the Subconscious

Our September full moon in Pisces offers an opportunity to explore our dreams, both here in physical and in more liminal spaces. The sign of Pisces calls you to explore your spirituality, dreams, subconscious, and your imagination. This ritual will walk you through a process to navigate your subconscious realms.

Themes For the Pisces Full Moon

Themes: Exploring your subconscious and imagination, connecting with your dreams, and feeling into your spiritual practices.

Element: Water

The ideal time to perform this ritual is anytime the day before, the day of, or the day after the full moon.

You’ll need: 

• 15-30 minutes of quiet and uninterrupted time

• 1 large jar of water 

• Pen or pencil and paper

• Optional: aquamarine or moonstone

1. Before you begin, ensure that your jar of water is close enough that you can pick it up. Optional: hold or place a piece of aquamarine or moonstone on your body as you begin to tune into this space.

2. Create a sacred space by grounding yourself into the present moment and connecting with your breath and body. Sit, and begin connecting with your breath. Allow your breath to flow in a way that feels natural and good to you.

3 As you tune in, ask your higher-self, guides, or Goddesses or Gods you work with aloud or in your mind, “Please, take me on a journey through my subconscious to explore my spiritual path.” (or anything similar that feels in alignment with your path.)

4. Be open and allow the moon’s energy to help deepen this journey. If nothing comes, continue to focus on your breath and how your body feels. Journey and breathe through this liminal space for as long as you’d like.

5. Pick up your jar of water. While holding it in your hands, infuse it with anything that came up for you during your meditation journey, including any feelings, visuals, words, or messages. Tip: The realm of your subconscious often speaks in imagery and illusions. It’s okay if what you experienced doesn’t make sense yet.

6. Take a drink of your water, feeling your experience permeate your body on a deeper level.

7. On your paper, write or draw anything meaningful that came to you. If nothing came to you, write or draw your personal dreams and spiritual desires on your paper.

8. Place the paper and your crystal, if you’re working with one, in your jar of water to leave out for one night under the moonlight. The moon has a special relationship with water and will help to expand your dreams.

9. As you come to a close with your ritual, be sure to thank any guides, Goddesses, Gods, or ancestors who came through to offer guidance.

10. Ritual follow-up suggestions: If you worked with a crystal, place it on your nightstand or under your pillow to help open you up to your dream world. Pour the water into a natural body of water or the earth, thanking it for its wisdom and power. Your paper can be placed on an altar as a reminder or buried in the ground to disperse its energy.

Optional ritual modification: If you have an active dream life, this ritual could be easily modified to occur over the course of the night in your dreams.This full moon ritual can be adapted or used for any full moon in Pisces. As always, take what you like and leave the rest. If you enjoyed this ritual, consider sharing it with someone else. Love & Shadow, Cassie

Full Moon High Priestess Mist

The High Priestess is the archetype in the tarot’s major arcana, who reminds us that we have all the answers we need within us. Ruled by the moon and associated with the triple goddess, divine feminine, and the story of Persephone’s descent into the underworld, the High Priestess, brings us deep within to awaken our connection to our wisdom and intuition.

I love working with tarot archetypes in different ways, and one of those ways is by making mists. In this post, I’ll be sharing how to create a High Priestess mist to connect you to your intuition - a connection that is your birthright. High Priestess card from The Starchild Tarot.

High Priestess card from The Starchild Tarot.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• A spray bottle

• Small tumbled crystal chips of amethyst or another stone you intuitively connect the High Priestess to (note that some stones dissolve or lose their luster in water) 

• Water charged under the full moon

• Witch hazel 

• Essential oils of frankincense, clary sage, and/or sandalwood 

HOW TO MAKE YOUR MIST

The ingredient that may or may not take the longest to get (depending on where the moon is as you’re reading this!) is water charged under the full moon. I recommend charging your water on the night before the moon is technically full - so for example, if the moon is full at 8:30 am on Saturday, charge your water on Friday night, not Saturday night. 

All you need to do to charge your water is to place a bowl or glass of water under the full moon and leave it out overnight. Place some amethyst in your water if you'd like, but it's totally optional. You can drink your excess water or use it in rituals and spells! 

Once you have your full moon water, I recommend creating this spray on the day of the full moon. Here are your steps:

1. Fill half the bottle with witch hazel 

2. Add 25-30 drops of essential oils (if using multiple oils, split up the drops according to whatever scents you prefer!)

3. Add your crystal chips

4. Fill the rest of the bottle with the full moon charged water

5. Close the bottle and shake!

If you’d like, it can be nice to spend a little time meditating with the mist to set intentions for it to connect you with the High Priestess within you. Use the mist before doing divination work to infuse your space with High Priestess Energy, before meditation, and in ritual and spellwork around intuition.

Let your intuition inspire your use and enjoy! Click here to share your mist with us on Instagram.