Immerse yourself in the mystical energy of the Pisces Full Moon with a sacred ritual to honor emotional and intuitional guidance.
In this blog post you will find:
Pisces Full Moon Ritual
Clarify your intentions
Moon Blessing or Prayer
What You Need to Know about the Pisces Full Moon
The Full Moon in Pisces is one of the more mystical Full Moons of the year. As a water sign, Pisces represents flowing streams and rivers— the arteries of Earth. Pisces is the thread that ties the Universe together. This Full Moon invites you to ride the shifting currents of your inner being. As daylight hours decrease, and we move ever closer toward Autumn, our hearts can feel full and tender. It's necessary to take time to be with all that's emotionally present in your heart. Together, let’s drop into the emotional, intuitive and dreamy currents guiding us home.
Pisces Full Moon Themes
Emotion, dream, intuition
Fluidity, adaptability, flexibility
Meandering, wandering
Surrender to the unknown
Receive the present moment
Release expectation of outcome
Pisces Chart
Symbol | Fish | Pisceans often feel like they are being pulled in different directions, making it difficult to make concrete decisions. The symbol of the fish is also associated with christ consciousness. |
Modality | Mutable | represents the changing nature of life through shifting adaptable forces. |
Ruling planet | Neptune | God of the sea; Planet of inspiration, psychic receptivity, sensitivity, dreams, imagination, illusion, escapism, compassion, transcendent |
Element | Water | sensitive, highly intuitive, feeler, imaginative, emotional, receptive, dream world, adaptability, fertility, fluidity |
House | 12th | dreams, subconscious mind, mysteries, inheritance of past lives, return, intuition, union, reflection, confinement, sacrifice, collective unconscious, faith, totality, mortality, unlimited nature |
Physiology | Feet & Toes / Lymphatic System | Staying grounded and connected to earth supports containment / Movement is key to prevent emotions from becoming stagnant which can sometimes result in illness. |
Flowers | Water Lillies | Rising from murky waters, Water lilies are a symbol of grace, faith, spiritual truth and integrity- divinity and the beauty of the natural world. |
Metal | Platinum / Tin | A metal of transformation & intuition. Allows one to break preconceived boundaries and achieve success / Represents the idea that the whole is stronger than the sum of its parts. |
Gems | Aquamarine | Aquamarine is a blue gemstone with the healing properties of emotional clarity. |
Herbs | Fennel | High in anti-oxidants and inflammatory | historically used to ease hunger pangs for those fasting |
Colors | Light Green | As the color of life, light green represents renewal and inspiration, encouraging the healing and rejuvenating energies that Pisces is known for |
Ritual Preparations
1. RIGHT RELATIONSHIP:
Being in right relationship with your spiritual practice means approaching each aspect with humility, curiosity and reverence. This includes checking yourself on the nature of how you relate to "objects" as things and the process itself.
For example, if you feel called to stones as part of your ritual, consider WHY first. Then contemplate the impact of whatever action comes next. For example, instead of mindlessly purchasing cheap precious stones from somewhere like amazon (which have more than likely been harmfully mined/extracted and then shipped across the world as part of the consumer machine that's destroying our planet), perhaps part of your spiritual practice is to resist such an impulse, and instead take the time to go for a mindful walk in your backyard, or a nearby stream and see if the right stone presents itself to you.
2. CLEANSE YOUR BODY-MIND-SPACE:
Cleansing is the practice of clearing out and releasing negative energy from your space, as well as energy that’s just old, stale, stagnant, or no longer serving you.
Here are a few different methods:
Physical cleaning: dusting, vacuuming, opening windows for fresh air
Salt: a common element used for purification and protection in many different cultures. To use, simply sprinkle salt along doorways and windowsills to protect them from negative energy entering or just keep a small bowl of salt on your altar or nearby surface.
Smoke Cleansing: light incense or burn a bundle of dried herbs such as rosemary, cedar, or mugwort. Choose plants that you have grown yourself or that grow abundantly wild nearby, plants that you have ancestral tied to or just those that have been grown and harvested ethically.
Bathe: Take a shower our bath; visualize any negative energy that has accumulated in your auric field to be washed away as the water goes down the drain.
Meditate: take some time to center, still your mind and ground into presence.
A NOTE ON SMOKE CLEANSING:
If you do not have meaningful/authentic relationships to Indigenous culture and customs, "smudging" with white sage cultural appropriation and is dishonoring to Indigenous nations across Turtle island. It is important to understand that smudging is not just about burning sage to purify the negative energy from your space but is a sacred ritual that is culturally specific to tribes such as the Lakota Sioux, Comanche, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Navajo. If you have been gifted sage by an Indigenous friend, use to your discretion in how to engage with this medicine. This sacred plant is being abused, exploited and mass-harvested for commercial and consumer use which perpetuates the violence of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Take some time to locate yourself within a settler-colonial context interwoven with the land you currently occupy. Check out Native Land to learn the name and more about the territories you occupy.
“Rivers are the veins, the movement of blood, of life and the vitality that meanders through every valley and mountain top across our earth body. There are many shapes, depths, currents, and river spirits and each one is interconnected to the other.
Rivers flow, circulate, transfer and carry the memory from one place of earth's body to another, gathering a collection of information from place to place.
Rivers invite you into the collective spirit of place, the passage of time from where you come from, to right now, and to where you dream of going. When you sit with a river, the space-time continuum enfolds into a single wave.
Rivers invite you to be with the horizontal movement from then to now to ahead and the vertical movement from above to below to the in-between.
Rivers are inherently relational, moving with the rhythms of the sky, the wind spirit and and the rains from the clouds. Their constant change in movement invites us to sense into the fleetingness of one wave to another.
Rivers are one form of expression to the emotional body, allowing you to sense the edge of the ever-changing experience of emotion, while simultaneously witnessing, observing the wave with distance. This invites you to notice and experience the wave while watching the wave pass by.
Rivers are teachers, guides, healers, and you’ll sense, notice and receive your medicine from the river during your wander.”
- Michelle Rozek
Pisces Full Moon Ritual
Altar Tending
Your altar is a portal of spiritual communion; a doorway to your own sacred heart.
Altar tending is optional though it is a powerful practice, especially if you have a designated area in your home that you can tend over the course of the year to honor lunar and seasonal thresholds.
Altar tending grounds your spiritual practice and holds your prayers and intentions.
To create an altar, draw upon the Pisces Ritual Elements above and consider what you might want to bring to your. Start simple. There is absolutely no need to "buy" altar items. This is something that we encourage you to unlearn. Everything we need is within us and can be found around us. A simple bowl of water will do since you're working with the water element.
Let your altar reflect the place you live and weave in any ancestral cultural traditions.
Explore different practices to engage in as a way to develop your spiritual practice. Explore verbal and non-vernal communication. Let every gesture facing your altar be a prayer.
NOTE ON CULTURAL APPROPRIATION:
There is no right or wrong way to go about creating, tending or being with your altar, however we do not condone cultural appropriation or theft of any kind.
Clarify Your Intentions
An intention is a way to bring heart and mind into alignment. There is power in naming that which you are calling in.
When we speak to God/Spirit/Source/Allah, gods & goddesses, deities, ancestors, and forces of love, we acknowledge that we are not alone and that support and guidance is available to us as multidimensional beings who are interdependently woven into the fabric of existence. When we give voice to our intentions, we are speaking to the larger Self that encompasses the intelligence of the universe.
The intentions we give voice to now will stay with us and ripple through the unfolding of the seasons.
Moon Blessing or Prayer
A blessing, invocation or prayer can be done in silence, but there is power in speaking words that come from your hearts deepest longing. A prayer is spoken to the animating, loving force of the universe - that which gives us life and is the source of love. How you call this permeating, loving presence is unique to each of us, but here are some words that you may have resonance with: Ancestors, place-based spirits and dieties, god(s), goddesses, Allah, Source, Buddha, Creator, Spirit, Tao etc. It's important to remember that Spirit is not outside of you, but also within you... so when you pray, you're also praying to the deepest, divine aspect of your nature.
I humbly offer my breath to the Holy Mystery,
whose invisible hands weave our dreams.
I humbly bow to the lands who hold me,
whose 10,000 faces reflect our nature.
Bless this journey down the river of life,
May we learn how to walk together in a good way.
Pisces Eco-Somatic Practice: River Wander
For this Full Moon eco-somatic practice we will be drawing upon the polarity between Pisces WATER and Virgo's EARTH energy who sit opposite to each other on the Mutable Cross. This axis is all about dissolving separation between physical/tangible reality and spiritual reality: infusing form with spirit and giving spirit form. The fish is the symbol of Pisces, and the swim patterns of fish are meandering and wandering as they navigate the fluid medium of water. In the practice we will combine the intuitive swimming patterns of fish with the dreamy, meandering river. To wander is to surrender to the unknown and receive the present moment. To wander is to release expectation of outcome, and to fully let go with trust. Invite your feet to wander, invite your spirit to dream, and invite your mind to imagine as you wander like a river.
CONTEXT:
Ideally for this practice, find a clean creek, stream or shallow river that you can walk in, or a trail that traces a river. If neither of those are accessible, you can do this anywhere with the power of Pisces imagination!
If you are able to walk a stream, creek or river consider if you’d like to walk barefoot or with water shoes.
ACCESSIBILITY:
All of our practices can be adapted to suit your needs. One option is to treat this as an imaginal practice, in which case you don't even have to leave your home. Read through the steps and then close your eyes and have an interior experience... let your dreamscape guide you. Alternatively, you may feel called to art-making as a way to engage the content. Earth is within us. Here is a beautiful video of a river flowing which you may feel inspired to draw upon.
GUIDED PRACTICE:
GROUND & CENTER
Begin by finding a stream/river/creek or a river trail nearby or a location where you can easily wander and meander.
Take 5 minutes to breathe and connect with the aliveness of the present moment. Sense the air or atmosphere around you.
Notice any sounds or aromas. Look around and observe movement, color, light and shadow.
Anchor into your breath as you do this; sense the rise and fall of your belly or chest.
Attune to your earth connection as you make contact with the ground, settling into gravity's embrace.
Sense your current mood noting any sensations or feelings that are present for you.
Invite your feet to wander, invite your spirit to dream and invite your mind to imagine as you wander like a river.
WALKING / TAKING STEPS
If you chose a stream/creek/river to walk...
find an area to enter and soften into the slow, meandering walk of listening to the river. Pause to feel the flow move through you, and the spirit of the river touch you.
explore along the river’s edge near a trail head and start to notice the shape, curves and wave-like movement of the river, walking slowly, sensing the sound of the river penetrate all through you, and listening to the teachings and guidance of the river as you wander.
No matter where you find yourself, simply imagine a meandering river. You might listen to the sound of moving water over rocks.
Let yourself wander in a spontaneous, dreamy-like pattern. Stay and wander for as long as you’d like!
INTEGRATE
When you reach the end of your practice, take some time to digest the experience by sitting or lying on the ground in complete stillness. Additionally:
Invite your breath to be soft and slow as you elongate each exhale.
Sense the base of your posture from head to toe as you make contact with the ground.
Soften your muscles by scanning your body from head to.
Pisces Full Moon Journal Prompts
What came up for you during the eco-somatic practice? Take some time to reflect on anything you'd like to hold onto.
You may also wish to reflect on any or all of the following questions:
In what ways do you listen to and nurture the call of your inner spirit?
What collective dreams or visions are you currently tending?
What form and cadence does that tending take?
What area of your life needs the medicine of water?
Finish the following sentences:
Dreaming is an act of...
My spirit comes alive when....
I know my intuition is speaking when....
Something I am grateful for in the last 2 weeks is...
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