The Last Full Moon of 2023…Guided Full Moon prompts
I love working with the moon - I love using the new moons for intention setting and full moons as a cathartic check-in and release. The Full Moon is the perfect time to reflect on anything you’d like to release – whether that’s:
· limiting beliefs & thought patterns – anything unhelpful you’ve been telling yourself
· what others have told you
· memories
· unhelpful /toxic dynamics / relationships
· unhealthy habits / ways you could be self-sabotaging
The Full Moon energy on December 26th is the perfect time to start to think about what we can help shift and release from 2023 – dusting away these cobwebs – so we can begin 2024 feeling spiritually and emotionally lighter.
When we undo our limiting beliefs, we can really start to step into our deservingness - it’s then we truly begin to believe we are capable and worthy of all our intentions and desires. We don’t manifest from our thoughts, but from our subconscious beliefs.
Christmas-time can be challenging for many reasons, and I think this full moon release can be really helpful to check-in with yourself, during a time where we typically have to give a lot of our time and energy to others.
I love shadow work and strongly believe we shouldn’t put pressure on ourselves to expel everything that may be considered a ‘negative’ emotion – it’s the awareness and understanding that helps us achieve breakthroughs and growth. Please navigate this period with compassion and I hope the grounding exercise below can help you know that it’s not about fighting or denying any feelings/emotions/ memories – but letting them gently pass through.
The energy of the full moon can often leave us feeling very ungrounded, overwhelmed & exhausted. This full moon is the day after Christmas, so I can imagine this energy will feel even more potent. We may not just be releasing feelings from 2023, but feelings from our childhood – Christmas time can bring up lots of memories, and people may literally be stepping back into their childhood homes. The good news is that we can harness this Full Moon energy to really help us release – but before we complete the written exercises, I love to complete a grounding exercise – anything which may come up for us, can be processed ‘through us’ with compassion, we won’t be holding onto any heaviness
- Place both feet firmly on the ground
- Be very conscious of your physical body and your breath (deep inhales in the nose, strong exhales out the mouth)
- Now become extra conscious of the weight of your feet, feel them become heavier and heavier and they weight down into the ground
- Now visualise the soles of your feet growing physical roots that go through the ground and earth
- These roots are shooting down and expanding / branching off, further and further down, further than we can even comprehend
- Now imagine that the roots are almost now pulling at the soles of your feet, as if you could be pulled through the floor
- Now imagine a bright white light entering the crown of your head, this light travels between the eyes, through the third eye chakra space, down the neck into the throat chakra, down both shoulders into the arms and hands, up the arms back to the shoulders and down the torso into the heart chakra space, solar plexus space, down to the sacral and root, down both respective legs and into the roots
- When we inhale deeply through our nose we visualise all this bright while light entering our body this way
- When we deep exhale out the mouth, we imagine this energy going down through our roots into the earth
- Congratulations – you are now grounded! You can repeat as often as you need – but remember the intention and visualisation is the most potent element, even 10 seconds is enough if you’ve made the connection with breath and your body
There are other ways you can ground too - if you walk bare feet on the earth and even hugging / placing your palms on a tree. Sometimes I pretend I’m adjusting a shoe, or stretching when I’m in the park and I’m visualising my hand connecting to the tree and its roots
26th December - Full Moon Release – Guided prompts
If I were to describe my mood today it would be…
If I were to describe / name the ‘’theme” of my 2023, if would be…
What is a boundary I have compromised recently / in 2023
What is a limiting belief I would like to leave in 2023
This December Full-moon is in Cancer, and the theme of Capricorn / Cancer axis is about creating balance between the masculine (Capricorn) and the feminine (Cancer). It’s about how we can balance both energies for our intentions for 2024 – so they’re from our authenticity - and how we can release any unbalances of 2023.
Why have you nurtured yourself in 2023 and where did you potentially need to give yourself more compassion / time / space / healing
Who has held space for you and your needs in 2023, and where have you potentially been disappointed
Where have I allowed myself to be led by the heart in 2023…
What was my greatest challenge of 2023 – looking back, how did both your masculine (action) and feminine (feeling/intuition) show up / help work through this challenge
Repeat this affirmation / re-write it:
I thank both my feminine and masculine for how they’ve helped me during 2023. I trust my divine feminine and trust that the action I take will be from my Highest Self. I trust myself and love myself
To lean into the energy of cancer, the next exercise will be a free-journal prompt – the above questions are almost written in a way which will stimulate our inner-masculine (question and answer response etc) whereas here, I’d love you to just allow yourself to free-journal for 5/10 minutes – or however long you need – reflecting on 2023. Allow anything to come up, and it does not need to make grammatical sense. When we free journal, we really allow our intuition (the feminine) to kick-in, rather than the ‘action / efficiency’ of the masculine.
Repeat / rewrite this affirmation – but changing / adding to anything that applies to your feeling now
I thank the full moon for reminding me of my Divine Feminine and my expansion from all the challenges of 2023.