In preparation for the full moon tomorrow night, I looked in my copy of Circle, Coven, Grove to get ideas for what my family could do.
The book suggests for the January Full Moon to perform a group dedication ritual. Its a fitting idea for my family to in a formal way dedicate our family to our observance and celebration of the Wheel of the Year. I expect that I will follow the ritual described in the book in a loose fashion, reword it to reflect our beliefs and values and simplify it for the young minds in my household. I'll post afterwards so we can see what we did!
The ritual will basically be a statement of intent that we as a family plan to observe the Wheel of the Year and give thanks for the cycles of life as we seek to find spiritual learning and joy from our shared experience. I guess I've got tomorrow to plan and assemble materials!
Jenni here on Mother Wheel as a rule prepares a feast for the Full Moon celebrating the fullness and richness of the earth's bounty. Depending on how on it I am, I like the idea of incorporating this idea as well.
The book Circle, Coven, Grove is designed to be used starting January and going through the year which is how we happen to be using it. If someone were to start their Wheel of the Year observance in another time of year, it makes sense to me to perform the group dedication early in their observance rather than waiting for January to come around to do it.
I don't know if I'd say that we have a full moon feast 'as a rule,' particularly since we've never actually observed the full moons till this year! However I reached the decision to make the new moon a time of fasting, so it only made sense to make the full moon a time of feasting.
ReplyDelete(We're all sick here this week, so here's hoping that we feel better...otherwise we may not feast on much besides jello and chicken broth this month!)
Hi! I am so glad to have found you guys early in the year! Excited for inspiration about how to "pray always" and revere all creation :-)
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