The Mourning Moon

The next full moon of the year is the Mourning Moon - also called the Beaver or the Frost Moon.

The Mourning Moon falls when the year wanes toward the dark —a time to lay down old burdens and let silence heal what summer could not. This is the final full moon before Yule, the last call to clear one’s inner altar before the light’s return.

It carries a quiet, sacred weight. It’s the moon of release, remembrance, and rest — when the veil has thinned but not yet closed, and winter’s hush begins to settle.

🌙 On this moon, witches can perform divination by candlelight. 
Ask not for answers, but for understanding.

Place a bowl of water beneath the moon’s reflection — by dawn, use it to cleanse your altar and tools. Write your griefs upon bay leaves and burn them to ash; scatter them to the frost, saying: “As the year dies, so dies my sorrow.”