Feb 2024 - Full Moon Ritual

❄️ The Snow Moon ❄️ 

FULL MOON In February  🌕 
NAME: Snow Moon ❄️
ASTRO SIGN: Virgo ♍️
PEAK TIME: Saturday, February 24, 2024, 7:30 PM EST
TYPE: Micro-moon: appears the smallest of the year due to its distance from earth. Final full moon of winter.
THEMES: Organization, self healing, health and wellness, focus, balance
STONES FOR THIS FULL MOON:

•  Blue lace agate : neutralizes anger
• Angelite: inward reflection
• Charoite: enhances feelings of self worth and purpose
• Lepidolite: self appreciation
• Green aventurine: promotes compassion and empathy
• Rose quartz: self love
• Rhodonite: forgiveness and letting go
• Aquamarine: releasing resentment and fear, promotes peacefulness

HERBS FOR THIS FULL MOON:

• Tulsi leaf (holy basil)
• Rosemary
• Frankincense
• Rose
• Lavender

THEMED TEA:
Teas with Tulsi and ginger 


SUPPLIES:

• Loose leaf paper
• Envelopes
• Large cauldron
  

​MEANING: In astrology, a full moon in Virgo often signifies a time for practicality, organization, and attention to detail. It can bring a focus on health, wellness, and routine, encouraging you to analyze and refine your daily habits. This full moon may prompt you to find balance between perfectionism and acceptance, urging you to embrace both the big picture and the finer points of your life. It's a good time for self-improvement efforts and refining your skills or processes.
While you might feel like disconnecting, this astrological event urges you to stay awake and aware.

Virgo is the sign of the goddess. Seemingly perfect unto herself, this archetype carries many gifts, but the most important one is the power to heal and forgive.

Virgo teaches us that we are each here to give our talents in some way. In order to give these gifts, we must first recognize them. And in order to recognize them, we must first heal.


WHAT TO RELEASE: When we try to control the outcome of every situation life presents, we undoubtedly fail at times. Life isn’t meant to be controlled. It’s meant to be lived. It’s not meant to be perfect or follow some schedule that adheres to our efforts. It’s messy, chaotic, and beautiful. It shows us our greatest strengths in our darkest times, and it gives us our greatest gifts in the most unexpected ways.
When we expect ourselves to be perfect, we place pressure on ourselves to know everything at all times and not ask for help. We procrastinate, become indecisive, and hold ourselves back from fear of failure. We expect ourselves to be experts in everything and have control at all times. We forget about our brilliance and we insist on a perfection that can never be obtained. In this frequency, we suffer from anxiety over inconsequential mistakes.

This month releasing the idea of perfectionism and accepting our imperfections, we allow ourselves to show up in the world and show up for others. Yes, we may make mistakes and wrong decisions, and we may fail many times before we succeed. Mistakes are part of the process, and the process is different for everyone.
As you work on releasing perfectionism, you can stop vibrating in anger, resentment, and guilt. The full Moon in Virgo reminds us that when we live in a vibration of love and acceptance of self, we align with our truest gifts.

RITUAL:
Get A Clear Idea Of What Forgiveness Means 
Forgiveness doesn’t mean you approve of what this person did. It doesn’t even have to mean you want them back in your life. 
Forgiveness only requires the letting go of toxic thoughts, such as anger, bitterness, resentment or the desire for vengeance.

Write a Letter
Write a letter to this person. If this person is you write a letter to yourself. This symbolic exercise is a great way to let go of anger and resentment. (take 5 minutes to write your letter, let out anything you’d like to say to this person or to yourself. This letter will be seen by your eyes only so feel free to be vulgar, honest and let go of anything you’ve been holding back.)
Sending light exercise
Close your eyes and put yourself into a meditative state. Imagine you’re stood facing the person who hurt you and surrounded by an abundance of beautiful and glorious healing light. Touch this light and notice how it fills you with love, joy, energy and peace. Let it flow through you.

Now, pass some of this light to them. Your higher self should have no resistance to this. 
Watch as it fills their body, notice the inner peace it brings to them, see how they react as their pain body dissolves and they connect with their higher self. 
Now, imagine them staring at you filled with joy and saying “I’m sorry”. Without their inner anguish, they had no reason to hurt you. Accept their apology. Make peace with them. Give them a hug and wish them a happy life. 

Now, it’s time to come back into your body. Realize how great this forgiveness fantasy made you feel. Bask in this joyous feeling. If you want to experience it again, you know what to do 😉

JOURNAL QUESTIONS

1. What do you need to forgive yourself for?
2. What areas of self healing do you need to work on?