The dark side of the moon,  offers a nurturing environment where our ideas & intentions can establish a strong foundation of roots before they  begin to sprout and reach out to the stars, much like when we reach for the stars, right? Moon Ritual for Birthing or Growing Your Wishes and Desires Begin by setting aside a few minutes each month during the new moon phase to focus on your intent for the coming month or the birth of your ideas and intentions. This will help give you clarity of mind and hope for the fresh start or the growth you've been searching for.  When it comes to setting goals or planning ahead for your future there is no better time to get started than during the new moon. Any intentions stated or written down  carries so much power during this time, so please take care in considering those things that you truly want. The saying "Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it." is more than fair warning whenever setting your new moon intentions into motion.  But, nothing to panic over.  The moon has its phases and so do our individual wants and needs at any given time. This is why it's always good to go over your list of intentions each month when another new moon cycle returns for a visit to make sure it's still in alignment with your desires.

• Prep for Upcoming New Moon Manifestation if you like to do a ritual
• Set aside 20-30 minutes or maybe an hour to do the ritual itself. It will get quicker the more you do it.
• Options for supplies:
  • notebooks/diaries/journals
  • pen and colored markers - there's nothing wrong with drawing your intention if you are not good with words.
  • scissors
  • sellotape
  • candle
  • matches
  • incense - any type is fine, it's all about intention, trust and belief after all.
  • smudge sticks
  • meditation CDs/youtube/pandora
• Prepare yourself a sacred space where your will perform the ceremony when the new moon arrives. This could be outside, in a sacred space inside or on the beach if you wish.
  
  Setting your New Moon Intentions in Motion
• Cleanse your sacred area/space with an opening prayer, a good sage smudging of yourself and the area, and/or by burning some incense.
  
  
• Light some candles, I love to smell the burning candles around me but tend to go with something not too sickly sweet as the smudging and or/incense can become quite overpowering.
  
  
• Center yourself, relax, clear your mind and calm yourself in whatever way works for you. Take some deep cleansing breaths (three is good), pop on a meditation CD if you wish and get yourself as comfy as possible.
  
  
• Open your journal etc, and write what comes to you OR write down these words "I accept these intentions into my life now or better opportunities for my highest good and for the highest good of all concerned." whatever feels good to you.  Next comes your affirmation statement, begin by writing down all your desires/intentions/wishes. Your list may be super small or you may have several pages listing loads of different things, there is no limit or minimum. Try not to limit yourself and think BIG.  Imagine you have a magic genie in front of you, what would you ask for?

A second notebook/piece of paper will be used as a Manifestation Board or Dream Board where you can paste in pictures/ clippings/drawings of items that you are wanting to manifest. Creating manifesting vision boards is a fun project to undertake, it's fun to do with the kids too! You will soon be amazed how these things begin to find their way into your life once you start this process. Don't forget to cross each thing that HAS manifested off your list, you may even like to redo the list so as to familiarize yourself again with your intentions and put it out to the universe again.

Each month start a fresh list, you can add some of last months wishes onto it, but always start a new so as not to block yourself with cross-outs and universal pathways being blocked to receiving your most heartfelt wishes.  I tend to write them in a journal so i can look back at how far i've come, the changes in what  I choose to manifest for myself and to write a wee note on the page next to it at the time of the full moon to remind myself how much of the list was manifested that month into reality.  It doesn't have to always be big things that you manifest it could be tickets to the ballet, lunch with a friend you haven't seen in awhile, a day of pampering you, a much-needed sleep, doing this will allow you to see things can manifest a lot quicker than you realize when you hold intent. You may think that smaller things are too trivial to put on your intention list... Wrong! Things that tend to manifest with less effort still deserve to be written down and felt gratitude for.  Write down everything that you desire, no matter how little.  If it is something that adds to your happiness why not write it down. Manifesting smaller items on our lists actually creates a steady flow of fantastic energy giving your list an even bigger boost. These smaller manifestations create forward movement and that in itself is great for the rest of your New Moon Intention List.  .  Sometimes we forget to appreciate the smaller pleasures in our lives while we are waiting for the BIG stuff to come in, this is the perfect opportunity to feel gratitude and to form an understanding of abundance rather than lack which can leave you feeling defeated.  If you only write statements like, "I want to win the big lottery or huge on the horses" in your journal  then you are limiting yourself by not allowing abundance to flow to you from a multitude of avenues, something which is VERY important to remember.

So amazing souls get yourself going on your dream boards and journals and lets create a wave of abundance this New Moon.

Love and Warm Blessings to all
Rebecca Fox R.M.

 At each New Moon, we plant the very seeds of growth for what we want to see manifest, nurture or grow in the next 30 days.  This can be literal and you may find yourself initiating new activities, meetings or important calls/contacts emerge. Or it can be totally symbolic, by creating rituals that help to ground our intentions (whatever they may be).  Through New Moon rituals, we engage with something outside of ourselves.  We harness the energy, the power of the earth, fire, air and water to bring a certain magic to the creation of our lives and what our hearts truly desire.

Have you thought about it? About what it is you really desire from life, what do you want to achieve in the next month?  How do you want to nurture you this New Moon? Part of a New Moon ritual for you may be just sitting down and putting some thought into these very questions for what we hold intent for and belief for can happen through openly expressing our desires to our higher power, or the universe,  or fresh air if that's how you want to do it.  How you do it really doesn't matter, but holding intent, believing in yourself and putting it out there, now that's gold!

Ritual sounds like hard work?

Ritual is as hard or as easy as you personally want to make it, its individual and unique to you and your belief system.  Ritual focuses thought and emotion in a laser-like way to completely harness the creative power of intention.  And, by using scents, music, crystals, candles, lists, quiet time and intent, we engage our sensory nature and subconscious mind (which is like your inner child coming out to play).  Once you've awoken that part of you, it will then go to work to manifest your intentions (this is the important bit, the catch if you will, there must be a belief, a trust and a strong intent that this will happen for you highest good).  A trick i learnt a long time ago, if you don't believe it yourself ask someone else to hold the intent for you, i'm not sure why but it seems to take the fear out of it and it's a lot easier to believe when there are two people working with the universe to help manifest your dreams and desires.

By doing rituals, we also connect to something greater than ourselves.  Some see these forces as angels, guides, God, Goddesses or a Higher Power - but they can also be experienced as non other than your own higher self, Gaia (mother earth) or animal totems.  However, the messages come the key is finding what works and what is believable for you and your faith, whatever that may be.  If you feel pulled to butterflies for instance and the pivotal change they can bring, surround yourself with this animal totem medicine, go to a butterfly park or immerse yourself in nature, there is fantastic guidance to be found from totem animal guides and would have to be my favorite way to receive messages.

So tell me, do you know what you will be manifesting for your gorgeous self this New Moon?

Love and Blessings to all
Rebecca Fox R.M.