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Esbat Ideas

For full moons 

Write your full moon wishes on a bay leaf with a silver marker and burn it in your candle. 

Gather your crystals or anything else you need to charge and say a prayer or blessing over it. Leave it in a safe place in the moon light for the whole night.

 Release Ceremony: On a piece of paper write down any fears & worries, stagnant energy, habits you would like to let go of then burn that piece of paper in a sacred ritual by lighting a candle. As you burn away what no longer serves you, know that you are support and guided by the moon as you create room in your life for new energy to enter

Meditate under the full moon to connect with the goddess. 

  Do a full moon Tarot spread to help you define what the coming month holds. 

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Ideas for Food and drink

Here are two simple recipes you can use to make sabbat cakes - the first recipes comes out a bit like a shortbread cookie:

SIMPLE SABBAT CAKES:

  • 3/4 C. soft butter

  • 2 C. brown sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 1 Tbsp. lemon juice

  • 2 tsp. grated lemon rind

  • 2 C. flour

  • 1 C. finely chopped walnuts (optional)

  • Powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar

Cream the butter in a large mixing bowl. Gradually add the brown sugar and mix well. Add eggs, lemon juice and rind. Mix until well-blended.

Stir in flour and walnuts.

Cover and refrigerate overnight. When chilled, shape dough into crescent moons and place 3" apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 8 -10 minutes. Allow to cool before serving. If you like, sprinkle them with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar as they cool.

MOON COOKIES

Make these crescent-shaped cookies to celebrate during an Esbat rite, or for your Cakes and Ale ceremony. You can dip them in chocolate or decorate them with frosting and silver sprinkles for an added bonus!

  • 2 1/2 Cups all purpose flour

  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda

  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

  • 2 Sticks of butter (1 Cup), softened

  • 2 1/2 Cups sugar

  • 1 egg

  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Blend flour, baking soda, and baking powder together. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add the egg to the butter and sugar and mix well. Add vanilla extract. One cup at a time, add the flour mix into the wet ingredients. Mix until it's nice and doughy.

Flour your hands, and roll dough into pieces about the size of a golf ball. Squash it down and shape it into a crescent, and then flatten it down. Another option is to roll the dough out and cut it with crescent cookie cutters -- be sure to flour your cookie cutters before you use them, or the dough won't come out as well.

Bake on an ungreased baking sheet at 350 for about ten minutes, until the sides begin to brown.

Make icing with the following ingredients:

  • 1 8-oz block of cream cheese, softened

  • 1 stick butter, softened

  • 4 Cups powdered sugar

  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

  • 1 tsp. milk

Blend the cream cheese and butter together, and then gradually add in the powdered sugar. Add the vanilla and mix well. Blend in the milk (add a little more if your icing doesn't seem creamy enough). After your moon cookies have cooled, use this to frost them.

Optional: add silver sprinkles to your cookies while the frosting is still wet, or dip half the cookie in chocolate and frost the other half in white.

Other fun things to do

Make a moons eye

You make a moons eye the same way you make a gods eye just use colurs of the moon phases. 

Make a Moon Candle

To make a moon candle take any type of white candle and decorate it for the moon.

Make a Moon braid

under the moon chose the colours that most represent the moon to you and braid them together. You can use yarn, ribbon, cord , any thing you feel like using. 

For the Dark Moon

The dark moon is a good time to preform a banishing ritual to remove negativity in your life. 

The dark moon is also a good time to start new projects because the moon will start to grow and the project will as well. 

The dark moon is also a good to release old pain and hurt. 

Dark Moon Food

You can use the same cookies for a dark moon you use for full moon and can complement them with a dark drink such as coffee, tea or dark ale. 

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The Bright Moon Coven

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