(June 11th 2025)

The Strawberry Moon, rising in full sweetness and summer bloom, is more than just a name — it’s a sacred invitation to return to your body, embrace your cycles, and shed what no longer nourishes you.

When this moon overlaps with your menstruation, it opens a portal of power that few ever speak of: the intersection between blood and moonlight, between release and ripening, between the inner world and the outer sky. This is menstruation magic in its rawest, ripest form.

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🌕 The Strawberry Moon: A Moon of Ripening, Release & Feminine Power

This full moon gets its name from Indigenous North American peoples, marking the season when strawberries were harvested — ripe, red, and ready. It’s a moon that teaches us to honor sweetness, but also to harvest and let go.

When you bleed under this moon, whether by chance or cosmic design, your body is mirroring the moon’s message:

Release. Ripen. Reclaim.

Your blood is not shameful — it’s sacred. It is the spell. It is the story. It is the offering.

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🩸 Menstrual Magic Rituals for the Strawberry Moon

Here are some ways to work deeply with your blood, your energy, and this luscious full moon:

• Moon Blood Offering

Collect your menstrual blood (with a cup or cloth) and return it to the Earth with intention. Pour it at the roots of a flower, berry bush, or sacred tree.

Speak aloud what you are releasing fears, burdens, insecurities and let the Earth transform it.

“I offer this blood as thanks and release. May what no longer serves me be transmuted into beauty.”

• Womb Meditation & Body Anointing

Lie down and place your hands or a crystal (strawberry quartz, moonstone, carnelian) on your womb. Visualize glowing red light swirling through your pelvis.

Then, anoint your lower belly, inner thighs, and heart with oil (rose, mugwort, pomegranate), massaging slowly and reverently.

Affirm: “My womb is a sacred temple. I honor her wisdom, her timing, her power.”

• Menstrual Journaling + Fire Spell

Write a letter to your womb. Let her speak. What does she need you to release? What patterns are you bleeding out this month?

Burn the letter under the full moon and bury the ashes with strawberries, petals, or herbs like yarrow and rose.

• Lunar Blood Tea Ritual

Brew a calming tea blend for your bleed:

- Raspberry leaf (womb support)

- Rose petals (emotional healing)

- Hibiscus (moon & blood energy)

- A splash of pomegranate juice (for sacred sweetness)

Drink it beneath the moonlight with your hands on your belly. Sip slowly. Feel the magic in every drop.

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Why Menstruation Magic Is So Potent

The menstrual cycle is a spiritual compass, and bleeding under a full moon is a call to embrace the wild feminine, the death/rebirth cycle, and your innate psychic power.

In ancient traditions, bleeding during the full moon was seen as a sign of spiritual awakening, a shift from fertility to intuitive power. Your body becomes an altar. Your emotions become a spell.

You are bleeding out illusions. You are shedding timelines. You are returning to yourself.

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Closing Blessing ✨

This Strawberry Moon, whether you are bleeding or not, take a moment to honor your womb — your cycles, your intuition, your power to feel deeply and create wildly.

If you are menstruating, this is your lunar altar.

Your pain, your blood, your softness — none of it makes you weak.

It makes you divine.

It makes you limitless.

It makes you a vessel of moonlight and wild roses.

Guess who started their motherfucking period agaaaaaain-

Anyway, in light of that, I'm gonna share my very simple tea recipe that I love.

This post is very much trans-inclusive, your local agender is suffering today and I am passing on my wisdom to future generations.

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Ingredients

1 cup hot water

1 teabag honey vanilla chamomile herbal tea

honey: energy, healing, health, peace, sweetening (especially of one's own disposition)

chamomile: calming, energy, healing, health, peace

vanilla: calming, energy, peace

herbal tea: comfort, healing, warmth

1+ tablespoons sugar: sweetening (especially of one's own disposition)

alternative sweeteners: sweetening

Safety Warnings

I get irritated when edible spells or potions list off their ingredients but don't mention any safety or health risks whatsoever, so...despite these being generally safe and these side effects being unlikely, let's talk about some health risks!

Chamomile is an emmenagogue (my dyslexia despises that word) but is otherwise considered relatively safe, but it can cause vomiting in large (and I mean LARGE) doses. You should also avoid it if you're allergic to it, ragweed, daisies, marigolds, or chrysanthemums. Chamomile herbal tea is also known to interact with blood thinners and makes a great Potion of Shit Yourself.

Honey is generally safe, except for honey produced from rhododendron nectar - it contains a toxin that may cause heart problems, low blood pressure, and chest pain.

Vanilla may cause headaches or sleep problems if you're allergic to it, but otherwise it's safe.

How-To

Microwave the water however you'd like (I can hear many of my friends groaning as we speak). You can boil it in a pot or kettle if you're scared of your microwave. Our ideal temperature is around 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).

In your cup, prepare it by dropping in the tea bag or loose ingredients (if you're not using a teabag, adjust it to taste) and the sugar (or another sweetener, I ain't judging). We want to put in so much sugar that we achieve launch.

When your water is hot enough, pour it into the cup and stir thoroughly to make sure that the sugar or other sweetener is completely incorporated.

Steep 3-5 minutes, then remove tea bag/loose leaves.

Wait for it to cool, then drink.

Materials:

red or white candle

strand of hair or thread

Carnelian

crystal corresponding with the moon

Time:

Night of the first signs of your period

Spell:

Light your candle

Place your moon crystal (moonstone, selenite, etc.) North of the candle

Place your carnelian South of the candle

Pull a single hair from your head or substitute 3 inches of thread. Place the hair or thread high above the candle’s flame

Focus your intentions on having a short period this cycle lasting only 3 days. If this seems unrealistic for your body, pick the next lowest number that still seems reasonable

Slowly lower your hair or thread until the flame “cuts” it in half

State “end upon 3, so mote it be.”

Extinguish the flame

Discard your pieces of thread or hair however you see fit

Carry your carnelian and moon crystal with you (if possible) for the duration of your period

Here’s a spell Jar I made to ease the symptoms of my period. Perfect for all you uterus owners!

✨ layer Rose petals, Cinnamon, Rose Quartz Sage, Lemon verbena, Chamomile, Bay leaf, White willow bark, Yarrow, and Rose hips in your jar

✨ Mark or carve a sigil into the cork. I used one I made on the spot for pain relief.

✨ seal with red wax

✨ spend some time being still while holding the jar and dully channelling the aches and pains and stresses your period may cause you.

✨ charge under the full or new moon each month to promote a regular period!

✨ keep close by during your cycle, especially while you sleep.

Guess who’s on their period again, lads and lasses and lays? Yup, it’s me. So in honor of the crimson flood roiling forth, I’m writing down some tips I use to make the periods more bearable. Some are witchy, others are not, and they’re all here to make this more bearable.

Tip #1: Can’t take Midol because you’re allergic to some of the ingredients? Look into Pamprin! My mom wasn’t able to take Midol because of allergies, but she didn’t have a reaction to Pamprin, so now she finally has a pain reliever for her period!

Tip #2: Got your relief medicine? Great, now charge it up with hematite, amethyst, and bloodstone! All three of these crystals helped me with my own period, for different reasons - hematite helps with cramps and aches, as does amethyst, and bloodstone is a well-known period supplement.

Tip #3: GET YOURSELF A HEATING PAD. This thing will save you from many cramps that pass under the radar of the medicine you take. Enchant or charge it if you want!

Tip #4: Chamomile and cinnamon both help (magically) with period pains, so make yourself a nice hot beverage! Make sure you put sugar in, because pure chamomile tea doesn’t always taste the best. Personally, I drink honey vanilla chamomile tea - honey also helps with menstrual cramps, and vanilla just wraps it all together in a little bow. There are other kinds of natural remedies you can use for this problem, but make sure you do research into the ones you want to use!

Tip #5: Get yourself a good and sturdy bra. If you’re like me and have chest dysphoria, wear your favorite non-form-fitting clothes. Trust me, the support is great for painful boobs.

Tip #6: On the note of dysphoria, that’s another thing amethyst is good for! As listed in my Dysphoria-Relieving Crystal Masterpost, amethyst is a common recommendation due to its ability to calm and relieve stress. So if you suffer from dysphoria through your period, this stone and others on the list can help you!

Tip #7: Eat a lot of meat. You’re losing a lot of blood, so you need to eat a lot to make up for it. Meat is one of the best choices for this purpose, but I’m sure other foods could work as well.

It’s like... balancing the abundance of feminine energies with the masculine properties of the sun.