A Lunar Year ~ Strong Sun Moon

Merry Meet,

Tomorrow is the Full 'Strong Sun' Moon, which also falls on Friday 13th and marks the beginning of Mercury's Retrograde (Has influence over Communication, Travel & Technology).  This post is just an overview of June's Moon:

Strong Sun Moon

A Lunar Year

Full “Strong Sun” Moon

The Strong Sun Moon occurs in June and marks the ending of fertility and beginning of life anew.  Hives are full of honey, bird eggs are hatching, cicadas leave their cocoon and animals are giving birth.  It is now a time of caring, nurturement, transformation and metamorphosis.  This is a perfect opportunity to reinvent our lives, change personal realities and become what we were meant to be.  For that to be done we must offer a change of perception, see life with fresh eyes; whilst the whole world is in a state of transformation we should take a leaf out of its book.

Associations

Also know as:  Mead Moon, Honey Moon, Lover’s Moon, Rose Moon, Strawberry Moon

Magical Workings:  Romance, Sex, Transformation, Self-Improvement, Maintaining, Enhancing, Garden Care

Goddesses: (Animals, Abundance, Nature) Cerridwen, Persephone, Isis, Aphrodite, Artemis, Diana, Flidais, Inanna, Ishtar, Hecaté, Brighid, Rhiannon, Corn Maiden, Asherah, Sirtur

Foods/Herbs:  Skullcap, Meadowsweet, Parsley, Mosses, Mugwort

Trees:  Oak, Maple

Stones:  Topaz, Agate, Alexandrite

Colours:  Yellow, Green, Gold, Yellow-Green, Orange

Element:  Earth

Circle Notes

¶      Wear shades of yellow and amber to honour the honey harvest

¶      Decorate altar with dandelions and natures transformative gifts (shells, cocoons, hatched eggs, feathers)  

¶      Use Yellow & Orange candles and burn Full Moon incense; or Frankincense or Myrrh

¶      Serve lemon cookies or lemon pound cake and honey-sweetened tea or mead

¶      Cast the Circle with a  and mark the boundaries with transformative items (shells etc)

Strong Sun Moon Invocation

“O Mother who brings fertile birth

Infuse me with Your joy & mirth

Bring forth my personal transformation

Without a moment’s hesitation

Let me become who I should be

And live the life that’s meant for me

A fertile life – a verdant one

Laced with love and warmth of Sun”

Transformation Charm

Items required:

¶    1 small cloth bag & a strand of your own hair

¶    Some small altar decorations like shells, cocoons, feathers

Fill the bag with the items, place on the altar and say something like:

“Metamorphical Gifts of Nature, so rare

Quicken my Spirit – lend the courage to dare

To reinvent life into what it should be

To transform my personal reality

To refresh my perception and inspire me anew

Do now, O Gifts, what I ask of You”

Witches Ladder 

Items required:

¶    1 yard of Black, Red & White ribbons

¶    9 different coloured Feathers

This will bring personal good fortune for the next twelve months.

Braid the ribbons and attach a feather equal distance from the rest.

Enchant the feathers with a quality you desire, for example for prosperity you would say something like:

“Money, money, come to me

As I will, so mote it be”

Place the ladder between the altar candles and say something like:

“Ring of feather, braid of three

Bring good fortune unto me”

Leave the ladder on the altar until the candles have burned down and then hang it somewhere in the home

Celebration Activities

¶   Serve upside-down pineapple cake or cookies make with honey

¶   Make a personal transformation charm bag

¶   Go on a nature hunt to collect as many Transformation Gifts of Nature as possible

¶   Gift small beeswax candles or honeycombs to friends & family 

¶   Throw a costume party and ask the attendees to dress as the person they want to become, ask them to act like this person and the one who fulfils this task with the most skill receives a prize

¶   Play a game on ‘What’s my line?” at the costume party to guess what everyone has become

Reference: Dorothy Morrison,

Patti Wigington 

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