The New Moon is an especially potent time to birth anything new into your life. Creating a New Moon Ritual is a powerful way to stimulate new beginnings and bring about change.

Often when you live a life of wellness you get focused on the physical, eating healthy food, getting exercise or avoiding toxins. But the physical body is only the starting place. For good health it is equally important to focus on the other levels in addition to the physical. You need to manifest change on each of the levels of mind, body, emotions and spirit.

New Moon Rituals are a great way to address change in all four aspects of yourself, the mind, body, emotions and spirit. Ritual helps you to clarify needs, to form that need or desire into a goal and to set an intention to achieve it.

Harness New Moon Energy for Manifesting

Once every month I remind my social media followers the New Moon is coming up so they can prepare their Lunar Manifestation List. Some always prepare for the New Moon. But for the many who have never done New Moon ritual the response is often confusion.

For years I’ve held space for nurturing and empowering New Moon Red Tent Circles to coincide with the New Moon. They’re a wonderful supportive space for busy women to take a few hours’ time out just for themselves. They provide space to tune into yourself and identify what’s not working in your life, what’s really p*ssing you off, and most importantly, where you need to make changes and exactly what you want to start in your life.

It all happens within a group of women who offer unconditional support for you to gain understanding and clarity. All in the group can share without comment or advice from others and can even vent if they need. Everyone usually gets amazing insights.

Within the circle you also receive some self-care and sometimes a little creative play. Recently we played with finger paint. I had never done this before, and it was So. Much. Fun.

Why Hold New Moon Circles

The simple answer to why Circles are held at the New Moon is it allows us to harness potent energy brought by the New Moon together with Ancestral tradition.

Throughout history indigenous societies always honoured the time of the New Moon because it is the time when our intuition (those gut feelings you get) are at their strongest, especially for women.

Test this out for yourself. Keep track of what messages your subconscious sends to you in the few days around the New Moon. These messages often come through your dreams. Take notice if you wake up suddenly knowing the answer to something that has been troubling you.

This is also the time when many, especially women, feel extra weary. Your body may feel heavy, feeling overcome by sleepiness in the afternoon, craving early nights or you may feel less like going out and socialising.

This is you telling yourself that it is the best time to slow down and go within. This is the best time to access the intuitive and ancestral knowledge you already hold for a better, happier life.

The time of greater awareness varies from one person to the next but usually is for a few days around the New Moon time. Because the actual time of the New Moon varies from one location to another you need to check for the exact time and date in your area. Remember to set your own location in the search.

Lunar Manifestation Lists

Before closing my New Moon Red Tent Sessions each month, I always invite each person to create their own Lunar Manifestation List.

It’s so easy for us to roll along, one week passing to the next until we suddenly notice that another whole year has passed us by. We develop the habit of non-awareness.

Using the New Moon to set a Lunar Manifestation Intention List is simply a form of getting clear on your wishes for the month, like a monthly goal setting. But it is far more than just ‘goal setting’ as this one really comes from our heart and our highest wisdom.

Lunar Intentions for the Highest Good

It’s important to set your intentions for what you really do need in your life. So before starting our list we spend time going within to connect with our Highest Self for guidance. Whatever you decide to include on your list frame it with the intention of stimulating personal growth.

You may wish to change a bad habit, or release a relationship you have outgrown or invite one you are now ready to welcome in. There may be a material possession you would love. You may need more self-nurturing. Perhaps you would like to undertake some form of service to others or to allow others to be of service to you. It may even be to change the way you view a situation.

Whatever it is you wish to create can be added to your list.

Be Precise

When I look back on my own lists I am struck by how often what I wrote down came about.

For about 18 months I kept adding ‘New Car” to my list. But no new car appeared. Then one month I got precise and I wrote down the make, the model, the extra features and even the colour of the car I wanted. Six weeks later that exact car was sitting in my driveway, and I got it for an awesome price too.

When I got really serious and was more specific about my list, my focus and my energy was directed towards achieving that goal, like an arrow flying towards a target.

Take Your Time

Don’t just dive in. The result will most likely be superficial. This is time you need to get real. Spend time before starting to really tune in to your subconscious, your inner knowing. Allow it to guide you to discover deep insights about how to change for the best.

You can simply sit and write your list but if you spend some time beforehand to really tune in to yourself you receive greater clarity about the deeper issues that are holding you back. Also, you may find something you are ready to receive into your life that you were not yet aware of.

If you meditate this is an awesome way to tune in to your intuition.

If you prefer someone else to guide you through a meditation there are many guided visualisations available on Youtube. (I am creating a series of suitable guided meditations for the New Moon which will be available later this year.)

Keep things Simple

You don’t need to meditate, it’s not essential but it does lift your ritual to a higher level.

Simply taking some time to go somewhere quiet, some place where you won’t be disturbed is enough. It may be a special space in your home or somewhere you love in nature. Wherever you choose just make certain you are somewhere you will not be interrupted. (For busy Mums it may even mean locking yourself in the toilet!) Just find somewhere quiet and peaceful.

New Moon Red Tent Ritual

Make sure you have pen (it can be coloured) and paper with you. Your Lunar Manifestation List needs to be written by hand, don’t add it to your notes on your phone. A journal is perfect for keeping your Lunar Manifestation Lists together if you’d like to keep them to look back at later.

If you wish play some uplifting music, light a candle or do anything that has special meaning for you. But make sure it doesn’t intrude and draw your attention away from listening to your intuition.

When you are seated comfortably take a few moments to relax yourself. Start by loosening your toes and work your way up your body. Finally feel your shoulders drop, your jaw relax and your forehead un-crease.

Now take a few deep belly-breaths. As you breathe in imagine the Indigo Light of Intuition entering your body along with your breath and spreading through every cell of your body. As you breathe out feel the stress of your day and any negative thoughts you are holding leave your body along with your breath.

As you breathe in the Indigo Light on each breath feel yourself connect more deeply with your inner knowledge. Allow your breath to relax into a natural rhythm and sit for a while opening yourself to any thoughts or ideas that flow in.

Be creative and open

If thoughts about what you need to do today are blocking out anything else then maybe what you need to manifest right now are some organisational techniques so you can get all that stuff out of your thoughts. Bringing in techniques such as this will free up lots of brain space for other things in your life. So put it on your list.

What you need may come to you as a picture in your mind-eye, you may hear it or have a clear thought or even just a sudden flash of inspiration. Be open to receive.

Write your list in the present tense, as if it is already happening.

You can’t wish for change in others, that it for them to determine themself. However, you can wish for changes to yourself that may then affect them later or that support you in the situation.

Add up to ten things to your list. More than ten becomes too many and lessens their impact. Less is fine, simply putting greater focus on what you do add, but you do need more than just one or two.

Each New Moon of the year is associated with a different part of your life and your list is more potent when you focus your wishes on that area of your life. This New Moon at the start of Aquarius is about BIG Plans and seeking freedom in your life. This Moon also brings a link with the past and might be the perfect time to discover a new way to renovate, restore or revitalise an old problem or relationship.

Just one more step to do, which is to speak the list out loud. Giving a voice to your intentions empowers them and anchors them in the front of your awareness.

Finishing Your Lunar Ritual

When you have finished, thank your Higher Self, your angels, or simply the universe, blow out the candle and you are done.

Lunar Manifestation Lists are not like affirmations. You don’t have to keep repeating them. Once you have done the ritual you can put the list away.

What you do with your list is up to you. Some women burn their list, others put them under their pillow, some even bury them. I keep my Lunar Manifestation Lists in a journal as later I like to have the reminder of the power of positive intent. Sometimes reading through them refocuses me when I feel I’m getting nowhere.

Benefits of a New Moon Ritual

There is no time frame around when the things on your list manifest. If you find you’re including the same thing for month after month your intention may need to be re-phrased (as I did with my car). Or it may simply not be right for you or not what you need at this time.

Often when your intent is strong and focused you will find changes start to occur about two weeks later around the time of the next Full Moon.

I hope you decide to adopt this wonderful practice into your life. It literally only takes a few minutes and by regularly setting yourself this focus you’ll receive great benefits.

Catherine Bullard trained as a Red tent Facilitator with the Moon Woman at Star Of Ishtar.

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