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Mead Moon Safety Net Ritual

(@garnetandsnow and myself wrote this together for our servers and wanted to share it with any of y’all who might need inspiration for a full moon ritual)

Good evening! Welcome to Mead Moon Ritual. Tonight we will be coming together as a community to protect our friends fighting for our future together, encourage leadership, and have a bite to eat to enjoy this safe moment with each other.

You will need:

• something to eat: bread, crackers, something baked, chips, berries, nuts (it helps if you can portion it out)
• Something to drink: mead, tea, water with lemon and honey. Any drink will do, but honey fits with the theme.
• Something to weave: this is optional- it can be entirely visualized or you can braid some strands along with the meditation.

For this moment you are here and you are safe. Close your eyes and breathe slowly. We open ourselves to the energy of the moon. She watches over us tonight, her silver light shines brightly, her quiet strength moving us as she does the sea. Bring that light within yourself, feel her cold touch soothe away your worries. Your shoulders relax, your jaw unclenches. We are peacefully filled with the moon’s energy.

Take a deep breath and feel your connection to the moon and the energy within you. Let it drip like honey and connect to the ground below, that connection ties us to the earth and lets us feed that energy into the world. The energy returns back to us as a ring of light around us on the ground. We will slowly draw it up and around us in a protective sphere. You notice that this sphere keeps outside influence out but lets us choose what to share from within. This sphere is for us alone and will be our companion for tonight to keep us safe while sharing with others.

You pack your food and drink into your satchel and walk to the new mead house. People have been coming together near and far for tonight’s feast. You pass the old mead house of the current king, with his evil decrees and crooked advisors. It’s rotten with stench and decay, a dirty fog envelops it. It mirrors his leadership and it’s coming down tonight.

The trail past the old mead hall goes into the forest, rich with new growth and almost heavy in anticipation of summer. The smell of wild strawberries fills the air and bees flitter between each flower, hurrying to finish before it gets too dark for them. You step lightly, but quickly to the opening in the trees.

The new mead hall has been built in secret and tonight is its first meeting. The people will meet to make plans and find new leadership. Everyone is welcome and has a skill to help as a community. This is our time to come together and rise up. Look within yourself now for the strength you possess and the talent unique to you. You can listen to friends, you can share messages, you can help build roads between people who need each other, you can be the brightness in somebody’s day, you can be the voice that says what someone else can’t and so much more.

You see strands of rope at your place at the hall’s table. Touch them with your hands and feel their texture. They are soft to the touch but you can feel their strength. Their color and material is unique to you. This is not something easily broken. Place them down on the table in a grid shape and start to weave them together to create a net in whatever shape feels right to you. This will be your own design, you do not need to be an expert net weaver. If you are using a physical counterpart or are more comfortable with the motions, braiding is absolutely okay too.

Feel the moon’s energy melding into the weaving and fusing the bonds, tempering the strength. This net is for the people of this hall- far and wide. Those who are here tonight and those who will be joining in their own ways, now and in the future. All with justice and love in their hearts may be safely covered, protected, and supported by this net.

Raise it up when you are done. Feel how it will catch, filter, and burn out intolerance, bigotry, violence, hate. How it will lend energy and barriers to those of us fighting and striving for change and justice. The Moon kisses it with light. Imbues it with that silver energy- diamond strong yet soft like the arms of a loved one.

Now reach out to the net beside you. Join it with yours so that we fashion a large single net that reaches around the hall. Somehow the Moon has filled in any missing portions, extending it so it covers the whole room. Perhaps these portions are woven by others, perhaps by the Moon herself.

We lift up this combined tapestry of protection. Lift it up…up…up. It rises to the ceiling of our mead hall and attaches itself there- a focus of our intent. Notice all the different styles, colors, materials, and textures of all the net. Despite all this variation, it shimmers with power and focus.

It is time to bring out the refreshment! Set your food and drink before you. Take your snack and divide it in some manner to share with everyone. Set the sharing potion to your left to be rotated around the table. We go clockwise to boost our energies and vitality. Think about this time coming together, sharing, building, and sheltering those in need. Sharing food is often one of the simplest ways to accomplish this.

Savor your snack and feel it fill you with the power of the Earth it grew from, the Water that quenched it, the Fire that fed it, and the Air that sang to it. The hall holds this power as well; like the grains of your snack it combines small parts together delectably. The whole is greater than the sum of our parts.

Bring your cup close to you now. Wrap your hands firmly around it, holding it, treasuring it. Lift it up to the Moon and feel it fill with additional protection and soothing cleansing. It is a balm on a sore muscle. A cool pillow to rest on after a long hot day. That toasty towel or blanket fresh out of the dryer wrapped around you on a chilly evening. Drink of this healing cup and feel refreshed.

May all our plates and cups be full and our doors ready to open to help.

With our feast in our bellies and warm with friendship, we look to the future. We identified the things we do well and now we’re committing to using those skills to help our community. We will be leaders by example, doing everything we can to raise each other up. We will protect each other and listen to each others needs. We will also enact a change in leadership around the world. We will make our voices heard, the message dripping like honey into ears, inspiring change to those who hear it. The moon lends her power to our words, golden honey smooth but everlasting.

Visualize the change you want to make in near future, imagine every facet of it. Imagine our best lives, the best result in an ideal world. Include everyone fighting now and if any of their wants are not already in that plan, bring that into your vision too. We’re building an inclusive ideal to aim for. Feel it so hard it feels real. This is what we’re working towards.

Take a deep breath and settle yourself, loosen up your shoulders, unclench your jaw. Give any extra energy you have now into the net and slowly disconnect. Say a word of hope for the safety of all in the days to come.

Look to the moon and thank her for her attention and the affection given to all of us, slowly disconnect your energy from her.

Lower your sphere of energy from from around you and let yourself ground your own energy at the same time, the light falling slowly and dripping into the ground. Your own energy balances out, either dripping to the ground or rising back up from the earth below you. You feel at peace but ready to busy yourself in the days to come with good energy.

If you wove anything physically, know that though it is imbued with the soul of the mead hall, it is wholly safe and of your own energy to wear, display, place in your car or home. It does not act as a taglock in any fashion due to the protections we put up. It is a piece of armor crafted and honed amongst friends and allies.

Please feel free to share any feelings you’ve had or goals you’d like to strive towards. Thank you for attending with us tonight!