#huntersmoon

Waxing Gibbous: Hunter's Moon

This stunning specimen was seen in Portage, Michigan. Sometimes I do some composite work in this situation, but this is a single capture.

🌒✨ Manifest Your Dreams with the Waxing Crescent ✨🌒

The waxing crescent moon is a time for action and manifestation. Historically, this phase has been used for initiating new projects and personal development.

As the moon grows, now especially under the effect of the Lion's Gate Portal, it's the perfect period to focus on growth, attraction, and drawing new opportunities into your life. This phase supports spells and rituals related to increasing prosperity, success, and advancing personal breakthroughs.

🕰️ Phase Duration: 4~5 days

🧙‍♀️ Suggested Traditional Ritual:

Take a cleansing bath with Epsom salt and a few drops of bergamot essential oil to prepare. Write your desires and intentions on a piece of paper, and light a green candle to symbolize growth and abundance. Hold a clear quartz or citrine to amplify your intentions, and chant: “With this flame, desires ignite, bringing forth my dreams tonight. So mote it be,” focusing intently on the feelings of your desires coming true. 🙌

Meditate on those feelings, intensifying them as the candle burns. When the candle is nearly out and you feel ready, safely burn the paper to release attachment from the specific way you imagine your desire - trusting the intelligent universe to manifest the best outcome for you. I suggest carrying the crystal with you to enhance the effects of the ritual, and cleanse it under the full moon.

🌙✨ How are you planning to harness the energy of the waxing crescent together with the Lion's Gate Portal? Share your thoughts and tag a witchy friend who would benefit from this ritual 💜 You’re welcome to save this post for your lunar practices and follow along for more! 🌟🌿

Tonight's full moon is called the Hunters Moon, it was given this name because this is the time of year when hunters would have been most active planning to get in food for the colder months ahead.

This months full moon is also the largest supermoon of 2024. If you manage to catch sight of it tonight you will be in for a treat.

I haven't posted any of my sketchember doodles here, but since we're all hyped for Hunter's Moon I'm feeding the Ghost fandom.