Ceremony, Tools, and Astrology for August’s Aquarian Full Moon

Happy full moon in forward thinking, rebellious, radical, realized Aquarius, my love. 

Think about the sign Aquarius, all about change, breaking away from institutions, dated ways of doing things, and old social paradigms that need to go. This is an opportunity to do your personal part to help the world evolve. The full moon is all about celebration and release — so use this as your chance to see where you fit in with the way the world is growing. What are your ideals? What do you believe in? What is your natural given talent and how can you use it to benefit the people around you? Is there a part of you that is clinging on to what you think you should be based on old societal standards of familial conditioning? 

Well, my love, it is time to come home to you. It is time to step into your own freedom and sovereignty and get clear on what your version of freedom is — for yourself and for your community.

You are being called to be a part of the change, where we can create a world of better empathy, understanding, and universal love. How do you want to show up?

Tonight, we get clear, we integrate, celebrate, and honor ourselves. We claim ourselves and gently shed conditioning and the past. Are you ready? 

Here are some tools for tonight:

Tarot Card: Ace of Pentacles 
When you see an ace in a tarot deck, you can expect to be in a new beginning. With lunar Lammas , and an Aquarius full moon, new beginnings are meant to be had.The ace of pentacles is all about the physical manifestation of what you desire. It indicates an opportunity. The most important takeaway is that this night is an opportunity, but it is up to you to receive it and own it and decide if it is right for you. This is your invitation to get clear on what you want in life, why you want it, asses if it is in your truth, and then know that it will come your way and you can rock it.

By sitting with this card you’re saying ready to create a solid trust in yourself and to wholly merge with yourself in order to receive what you want/need. This is your tangible symbol to say to the divine “I’m ready.”

Stone: Azurite

Azurite is an excellent tool for removing emotional blockages to tune into truth. It brings about clarity, intuition, and helps guide you to your most authentic self and incorruptible truth. Azurite helps you to connect with the higher realm for guidance, and helps tune into love, while also being very logical, clear, and calm. Receive the perfect messages, guidance, and stability for this new moon magic. 

Essential Oil: Peppermint

Peppermint is known to promote clarity and calmness, while also being amazing for focus, creativity, dreams, luck, and prosperity. This is perfect for tonight’s theme of getting clear, focused, creative, dreamy, and prosperous. You can put this oil in a diffuser, blend it with a carrier oil and anoint yourself on your forehead, or simply put it on a cloth or cotton pad and inhale the aroma. Always check in with your own intuition and doctor before working with herbs and oils.

Herb: Peppermint

Peppermint is perfect for gaining clarity, and most importantly inspiration. This helps to get creative in achieving what you want, and she also 

This healing herb can be steeped in tea, held, burned, or whichever way feels good to you. You can harvest her yourself or get her from your local herb shop. Check with your doctor and use your intuition before ingesting any herb. 

Song — I Remember — Yaeysayer 

I remember making out on the airplane

Still afraid of flying, but with you I'd die today

One time my best friend said this song sounded like a bunch of Unicorns throwing up and I thought to myself… what a perfect Aquarian ritual song. And since we’ll be moving, and this moon has some intense energy with Venus, and we’re having some fun tonight — here you have it ;) 

Color — Purple

Purple is both calming and fierce, and can evoke the mystery of creation and creativity. Perfect for tonight’s dark and promising sky. Let your candle, clothes, cloths, or flowers be purple.

Environment and Pose

Get ready to move around tonight, and if you’re up for it, be prepared to go outside. But start off in a comfortable position in a cozy crafted environment.

Here’s my ritual for tonight:

Step one:

Get sensual. Put on a beautiful scent, wear something that feels nice on your skin, put on your music, get in a comfortable position, make a nourishing cup of tea. Unwind. Breathe. Feel into it. You’re here, alive, present, and about to make some magic happen for yourself. Welcome.

Step Two:
It’s time to ground out. Have you been feeling a little spacey this week? How about a little irritable? Maybe even a little unsure of yourself, your direction, your purpose and a lack of faith? Anxiety can be a little high, as there is a lot of planetary energy that can cause some cosmic chaos in your mind, but now is the time to hone in on that fire in your heart. Plant your feet on the ground. Take a deep, and I mean deep, breath. This will help to consciously transform the confusion into creativity. This is not the time to turn to any sort of negative coping mechanism or substance — this is a time to be present. To be present means to be here, now, as your are and not worry about fixing or altering anything. 

Step Three:

Connect with your higher force. Get really clear on who or what you answer to. Maybe it is love. Maybe it is God. Maybe it is the Goddess. Maybe it is Truth. Maybe it is a goddess or a god. Who or whatever it is, sit with that force after you feel everything you need to feel. Connect with them. Get clear on your connection. What does it feel like? Is it warm and comforting? Drop in with this force for as long as you’d like.

Step Four

Now breathe into your being. Honor your desires, impulses, frustrations, and fears that come up by welcoming them to the table. They are worthy of being here! And we’re going to work with them tonight in the most fun way I know how…. are you ready?

Step Four:
Start to tune into your intention. What do you want clarity on? What are you ready to release? What are you ready to step into? What are you ready to shed and claim and celebrate? I recommend writing them all out, to be extra clear. 

Step Five

Tonight, we’re going to give expression to our truest, deepest self. Aquarian energy is all about letting our authenticity shine, doing things a little differently, and tonight we are going to release the fear and shame that can come with stepping into radical self expression and authenticity — we’re going to freakin’ dance honey!!

Full moons are all about celebration as well, and dance is the ultimate celebration of the body and impulse. 

Move your body in any way that feels good. Blast your music of choice. Let it be as weird and wonderful as you are. 

You may want to start off with shaking out your body, getting rid of all that stagnation, all that stress, just jumping up and down if you can and shaking it all off in any way that feels good. Shake off what your ready to shed. Clear it out of your bones. 

Step Six

Now, step into what you’re claiming. The person you’re becoming. How would this version of you move? How would they smile? What music would they listen to? Move like them, dance like them. Because honey — it is you. You’re already blossoming into what you’re claiming every day. Get lost in it and have fun with it and let it all pour out of you. 

When we allow our intentions to move into our bones and bodies, we can fully begin the embodiment process. We anchor it into ourselves in ways that most things cannot. Celebrate all versions of yourself and your sacred body tonight. 

In Conclusion

Make tonight beautiful, make it yours. This is your night.  Full moons allow me to go deep inside myself and let my truth surface. Sometimes that comes up through emotions, through ideas, or through desires… listen to them all. Moon cycles are opportunities. Harness this power to do the work that you’d need to do anyway, but now you are held and supported and turning it into ritual and magic. I love using this energy to gain self-awareness, strength, aInd sheer determination and clarity. 

Feel free to share your experiences, truth, and perspectives by commenting below or shooting me an email and I may feature it in the next e-zine — ani@kozmicryder.com. 

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