Tonight (or last night… both, really) is the January full moon - the Cold moon, or the Wolf moon, or whatever you’d like to call it. Tonight, being Wednesday night, not Thursday night. I put a moonstone into a jar of water and set it out in a windowsill to capture the moon, to make moonwater. It’s my third night of doing this - I prefer to get a full three days of the full/nearly full moon’s glory into my bottle of spring water.

I’ll then use this water in my rituals when I need a little extra kick. It’s good, I think, for blessing things, for consecrating them. It took effort to make this water, and that’s good enough for me. I would prefer to do this entirely in the dark, so that the water gets no other rays of light, except perhaps candlelight, but I suspect that’s difficult. There’s still a lot of ambient light around - streetlights, barn lights, and even sunlight during the first rays of dawn while I’m still at work and quite unable to rush home to remove it to a dark, shaded place. However, unpure as it may seem, I haven’t noticed that it’s any less useful to catch a bit of stray non-moonlight here or there.

In any case, this is the first time in months I’ve done this, and I only made a bit. I wish I had twelve bottles, and could capture moonlight for each month. Actually, this year, we have 13 moons - we also have a blue moon in May, and here, I intend to make a much larger batch of water, since this moon is rather more powerful than others.

Anyway. There you go. A bit of moon magic for you, straight from me.

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1. Katie, we’ve had beautiful moon evenings here in the Philadelphia area and I appreciate the magic of it as well. I just wanted to let you know I’d started knitting with the Mountain Colors Bearfoot you sent for Yarn Aboard II and it is fantastic. Thanks again for such a lovely yarn. The colors are also totally apropo my mood lately. You can see the sock in progress on today’s post on my blog, here.

   Comment by Bev — January 4, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

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