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Illumination

The Full Moon ceremony

At the Full Moon the night is at its brightest, and we gather for illumination and integration: revelation, and harvesting insight into embodied wisdom.

The bright of the moon

At the Full Moon the Moon stands opposite the Sun and is lit completely. What was hidden can be seen. In ceremony it is a time of revelation: clarity about a question, a relationship, or the shape of a life.

Conjunction

Every retreat moves through three stages: calcination, dissolution and conjunction. Under the Full Moon the work leans into the third: the joining of what was separated. Insight meets daily life, spirit meets body, and what was learned becomes who we are.

Harvesting insight

What was planted is gathered. The Full Moon is a ceremony of integration and gratitude, of receiving what has ripened and carrying it home as embodied wisdom.

“In the twinkling of an eye, all things were opened to me, and I see a Vision limitless, all things turned into Light.”

Corpus Hermeticum I, Poemandres, 4. Translated by G.R.S. Mead

This ceremony may call to you when

  • You are seeking clarity on a question you have carried for a long time.
  • You want to give thanks for what has grown in your life.
  • You are integrating an earlier ceremony and ready to see it whole.

Sit with these before you arrive

  • What do I need to see clearly?
  • What has ripened in my life that I can receive?
  • What will I carry home and live?

Bring your answers to your cohort's preparation circle. See your journey.

Full Moon ceremonies

Eclipses fall on these moons too: a solar eclipse on a New Moon, a lunar eclipse on a Full Moon.

The next Full Moon cohort is forming. Dates go to members first. Apply and we will invite you.

Past Full Moon ceremonies (14)
The other pathThe New Moon ceremony: turning inward