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Worm Moon and Home Protection Ritual

The third Full Moon of 2021 is due to arrive this weekend, just before March ends, with it being at it’s fullest on Monday 29th March.

Taken from the app Moon

This Full Moon is traditionally known as the Worm Moon (as this is the time of year the ground thaws and the worms can be seen appearing above the surface), although it can be known by different names in different parts of the world. You may also know this Moon as the Sugar Moon, the Paschal Moon or, if you had a Catholic upbringing (like me), the Lenten Moon, because it appears during Lent.

The astrological sign the Worm Moon will be in is Libra. This is the perfect time to undertake spells and rituals relating to heightening romantic desire, rationally discuss feelings, stay impartial and objective, make a promise (to yourself or others) and work to put harmonious energy in your home.

Libra

I will be undertaking a Home Protection Ritual, in conjunction with a good old fashioned Spring Clean, which uses the four elements of air, fire, water and earth.

If you wanted to do one too, here are the items you will need:

•  Incense and holder – Any scent of incense you desire, but something suitable for protecting and cleansing your home, such as Cedar Sage (prosperity, protection, harmony) or Sweet Grass (home blessings, healing, positivity);
•  Sea salt – for purification, cleansing and dispelling negativity;
•  Full Moon Water – for deep energetic cleansing;
•  Bowl – to make salt water mixture; and
•  Fan (or a feather, or your hand, if you don’t have a fan).

My awesome mermaid fan my husband bought me at Disney World

METHOD

Light the incense, which represents the elements of air and fire.

Put the full moon water in bowl and add a pinch of the salt to represent water and earth elements.

Use the fan to gently disperse incense smoke around your home.

Sprinkle the salt water on walls, floors and ceiling.

Draw a pentacle in salt water over every door, window and any other opening to the outside.

Pentacle

I will say this blessing as I travel through our house.

Bless this house,
May peace dwell within.
Protect all that enter,
Whether friend or kin.
Bless every door, window, ceiling and wall, Bless each room, closet, attic, bless it all.
Bless this house with love and light,
Hold us safe here, day and night.
As above and so below,
So mote it be.

Sources:
The Little Book of Moon Magic – Sarah Bartlett

Travel Altar

Following on from my post yesterday about my Altar, I wanted to show you a way you can still have an Altar, but for it to be a bit more discreet. So this will be perfect if you’re in the Broom Closet, don’t have the room, travel frequently, not allowed by your parents or, like me, enjoy taking your practice out into nature.

I found this cute oblong metal tin (I think it’s supposed to be a pencil case) in IKEA a while back, which is decorated to look like a little snake!!

On the inside, I personalised it with some stickers on the bottom part of the tin (from the top down):

• Triple Moon Fertility Goddess to represent my lifelong struggle with infertility;

• A beautiful and colourfull beetle to represent my love for nature; and

• A Mandala to represent my spiritual journey.

Inside the lid, I have three metal flower of life Metatron’s cube stickers, to represent the journey of energy throughout the universe, and of balance within the universe, to aid with meditation. (I am a bit annoyed I put them on a bit wonky, as they’re so thin, I can’t get them off again without ruining them). The contents of my travel altar are as follows:

• Mini besom to symbolically cleanse and purify wherever I decide to do any work;

• A lighter for my candles and incense;

• Mini green, yellow, white, orange, red and black rolled beeswax candles, for any spells, rituals or to signify the fire element when casting my circle;

• A metal disc incense holder;

• The tiniest bottle of Himalayan pink salt to represent the earth element when setting up a protective working space;

• Small glass jar of Samhain Blue Moon water to signify the water element when circle casting;

• ‘Meditation’ scent incense cones to represent the element of air;

• Clear quartz teardrop, to use as a substitute for any other crystal I may need;

• Rosemary essential oil, as Rosemary can be a substitute for any other herb/essential oil I may need;

• Pine cone to signify health and prosperity, healing and protection; and

• Chamomile tea bags, because they’re just lovely.

I just love how cute and organised it is (and that it all fits!) and I can’t wait for the warmer months to use it outside!