So right in the middle of Pisces season, the Full Moon occurs in the sign of Virgo. This lunar event comes as a reminder to be grounded and organised during this emotional time. Even a daily practice that is small can help you to feel grounded and root yourself during the day.
This was an interesting Full Moon for me because my Ascendant or Rising sign is Virgo, my closest friend's Sun is in Virgo and I feel like I'm becoming a bit more Virgo in my day-to-day life while still being true to my Aquarius Sun. I'm actually rather enjoying who I'm becoming and it's definitely giving me the opportunity to look back on the last 5-10 years and see just how much I've grown (while knowing that I still have the potential to grow even more).
For this lunar ritual, I started by connecting to the rhythm of my breath to evoke release and to bring comfort and surrender. The Full Moon is full of a comforting light, illuminating the night-time shadow world.
Then I journeyed through meditation to a warm bed of sand, where I was laying on the ground with the Full Moon above. It was a little chilly as winter was still loosening her grip on the earth but Spring was definitely busy below ground. I could feel this awakening happening below me and I felt the earth was brimming with the lyrics of "Morning has Broken", which is a Christian hymn but I feel like the first verse is all about the promise of Spring.
The silver light of the Full Moon illuminated the world around me as well as withing me, clearing and cleansing away anything that was stagnated. Because of this energy, I asked, "What am I holding onto that is ready to be released or cleared?" I did an energetic body scan and found that my elbows, hands and neck were where I felt I needed clearing. I felt heavy, stuck and out of sync in these areas.
I let the Full Moon light come in through my skin to illuminate these places, focusing the light there with my inhalations and allowing my exhalations to clear the spaces into the earth so that the light could fill them up instead. This left me feeling more energised as I breathed the light of the Full Moon into my whole body so that it was filled, and then some, leaving it feeling cleansed and more open. The light of the Full Moon brought a free-flowing energy, bringing in something to fill the spaces, to reignite my magick.
From this place, I then thought about a mantra, statement or affirmation that I could use to create a sigil but I ended up making three. I went with three because three is a very magickal number but also because I felt like that was the right number for me at this time. I feel like these are really personal so I won't share them here but I will explain how I turned them into sigils.
One of many ways of creating a sigil is to take a statement, remove the vowels, then remove any repeating letters. The letters that are left can be used to create a sigil. It doesn't matter what it looks like or what order you use the letters, because what matters is whether you feel that the sigil feels right to you.
This ritual was done just before the Full Moon so I used the energy of the Full Moon the night before, the night of and the night immediately after to charge up the pieces of paper with the sigils written on them with the Moon's energy. Then I burned the papers so that I could use the ashes to anoint myself daily and bring the sigils into my everyday life.
This was a really powerful experience and I hope that this energy can continue until the New Moon in Virgo in August. I say this because as much as there is a four week lunar cycle from the New Moon to the Full Moon and then back to the New Moon, there is a greater cycle: a year-long cycle that leads from the New Moon to the Full Moon and then back to the next New Moon in any given sign.
I hope this inspires you with how you can work with the energy of Virgo in your own lives, and how you can work with the longer lunar cycles that are in play.
Peace and love to all!!!!
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