April Aries Silly New Moon

I asked the Witchlings if they wanted to change the names of our New Moons, since it’s been years, and they are much older now. It was a unanimous vote to leave the New Moon names as they were. You can check out this blog post on the names of our Family’s new moons.

March is our Silly Moon.

This month I’m brainstorming some ideas of how to celebrate our Silly Moon in ways that are both fun and simple. The following is some ideas I’ve come up with so far. My Witchlings and I will be doing a few of them tomorrow.

Flower New Moon Activities

• Fun with Silly String (gonna be fun and messy)
• Watch comedy movies
• Tell bad jokes/ have bad joke contest
• Dress up silly
• Let my kids do my make up (Even though they are teens this could get crazy)
• Crazy hair day!
• Hands free pie eating contest
• Play Freeze Dance
• Wear our Clothes backwards
• Speak only in Pig Latin
• Don’t laugh Competition
• Talk in Rhymes (good practice for future spell writing)

Since the April 2021 New Moon is in Aires, I wanted to come up with some simple and fun ideas, the are child and family friendly, for celebrating the energy of Aries. Just in case we choose to add that layer to our New Moon Family activities this month. (Or I need a quick and simple adult ritual!)

Aries New Moon Activities

• Fire Inspired Art
• Finding ways to challenge ourselves in the next month
• Play different sports together
• Physical Activity Competition (complete with Medals)
• Playing Just Dance
• Explore a local Area
• Make LARP Weapons
• Explore Different ways to express ourselves
• Changing our appearance
• Giving Each other Facials
• Practice Relaxation and Mindfulness Techniques

Happy New Moon to you and your family coven, from me and mine. Let me know what you and your children are doing for this new moon, or new moons in general. It’s always good to have a few new ideas and activities in your mind to suit where your life is on your journey. There’s a time for complicated and ornate, and a time for simple and easy. As long as is fills you up and you feel those connections you seek, that’s all that matters.

May these ideas ignite your own inner fire, filling you with excitement and enthusiasm for the coming month. And may you dance with the maiden Goddess and feel her energy building in your own life over the next two weeks.

Blessed Be!

March Pisces Flower New Moon

I asked the Witchlings if they wanted to change the names of our New Moons, since it’s been years, and they are much older now. It was a unanimous vote to leave the New Moon names as they were. You can check out this blog post on the names of our Family’s new moons.

March is our Flower Moon.

I’ve been brainstorming some ideas of how to celebrate the Flower New Moon in ways that are both fun and simple. The following is some ideas I’ve come up with so far. My Witchlings and I will be doing a few of them tomorrow.

Flower New Moon Activities

• Toilet Paper roses
• neighborhood walk to find the blooming flowers (photos optional)
• Flower divination
• Making flowers with yarn or fabric
• planting flower seeds
• painting flowers
• making flower wreaths or displays from silk flowers
• making daisy chain crowns (or other flowers you purchase) and dancing around
• Pressing flowers
• make potpourri from flower petals
• research flower goddesses, and talk about them as a family to share new knowledge

Since the March 2021 New Moon is in Pisces, I wanted to come up with some simple and fun ideas, the are child and family friendly, for celebrating the energy of Pisces. Just in case we choose to add that layer to our New Moon Family activities this month.

Pisces New Moon Activities

• Fish Art
• Devotional Art
• Picking a charity or cause to contribute to as a family
• Going Swimming (if pools in your area are open and safe), or play in the water
• Discuss emotions and the language of emotions (there are so many emotions we have that we don’t know the name of)
• Research and discussion on different psychic types and/or phenomenon
• Take psychic types quizzes
• Use you imagination, create fantasy (this could be telling a story together, watching fantasy movies, or dressing up in cosplay)
• Discuss Pleasure- heathy ways to seek and enjoy pleasure (have you heard of dopamine menus?)

Happy New Moon to you and your family coven, from me and mine. Let me know what you and your children are doing for this new moon, or new moons in general. It’s always good to have a few ideas and activities in your mind to suit where your life is on your journey. There’s a time for complicated an ornate, and a time for simple and easy. As long as is fills you up and you feel those connections you seek, that’s all that matters.

May these ideas give you some direction and spark some personal ideas and traditions of your own. And may you dance with the maiden Goddess and feel her energy building in your own life over the next two weeks.

Blessed Be!

Some Thing About Good Intentions…

Merry meet!
I know there is a phrase out there about good intentions going awry. This always does seem to happen to me. I always mean to keep up my blogging and do so on a regular basis, but can never seem to manage to stick to it. Life gets busy and I get forgetful. Oh well, maybe it’s time to set an alarm on my phone so I can at least remember to try!

So we have had a full moon, a new moon, and a Sabbat since my first post. Whew we’ve been busy here! I’ll start with the October Full moon. We did ritual as a family, my daughters and I. And had a very good time. We didn’t manage to make cookies like we had planned (the recipe is included on the recipe page), but we did make home made apple juice from the apples off the tree in our yard. It was yummy! We all made our goddess wishes and drew our divination cards for the next month. I am still working on finding a deck or other medium that suits our whole family. And I’m starting to think it might be time to consider designing my own family coven deck. If I do, it wont be till winter break starts, so perhaps there will be a post on this in the future. We also read a modified Charge of the Goddess, that I wrote for the kids about 6 months ago. I will try to remember to include it on a new page, incase anyone would like to use it. The girls did well at staying focused and in control of their bodies and behaviour inside the circle, and their books of shadow are coming along. I cast the circle this month, I think next month will be Topaz’s turn. All in all, it was a very successful, and enjoyable, ritual. I hope we can continue to celebrate the full moons together every month.

New moon was a bit more crazy, last month. It was on a Wednesday, which is one of my long days at school. We have named our October new moon pumpkin moon (I will post on this another time!), so we had planned to carve our pumpkins that day. Well that didn’t work out, as I forgot to buy pumpkins and my youngest went to her dads place for her sleepover. We didn’t end up getting to it till Saturday. I should mention that we celebrate our new moons in a very child like fashion, as we are honouring the young goddess. The children and I discuss and come up with activities to do that tie into that months moon name. One new moon we went outside and played hula-hoop in the rain! I used to do a whole serious ritual when I practiced on my own, and with my previous adult coven; now, as a family child-centred coven, new moons are low key and fun at our house.

Samhain! That was a mixed bag for us this year. We dress up in costumes and trick or treat, a well as decorat our house and hand out candy. We don’t do ritual, as we are usually out pretty late (2 hours this year, and quite frozen by the end!), unless Samhain happens to fall on a weekend, which it did not this year. We had a great time, and I tried to talk to the kids about our ancestors and those that have crossed over the veil; I’ll try harder next year! We also have a graveyard close to our place, so next year I’d like to do something in there, if I can manage it. Unfortunately, we also had a child come down with croup. Its ok, she’s doing fine. And was going to go out trick or treating, so we got her all dressed up, and about 5 minutes before we left she coughed so hard she threw up all over her costume. Needless to say she stayed home! Poor thing.

Here is our family, plus a friend who came out with us (who is hiding behind me!). Topaz Primrose went as a witch (I know, I know! But she looked good!) Lily MagickRose was a bat, Kiya Jelly Belly was Tinkerbell(esk!) And I went as a bear. I was tempted to dress up the dogs but thought that might be a bit much. But will probably do it next year anyway! We had lovely weather. No rain, tiny breeze, so it wasn’t wet and cold. Yay! And we got lots of treats, and played no tricks! (That reminds me of a time when I was really young and a lady told us we had to sing a song if we wanted our treats!)

Hope your moons and halloween were fun, and that I’ve given you a few more ideas. Always welcome to comments and questions!
May you always embrace your inner child and celebrate life in joyful abandon.
Blessed Be!