December Full Moon

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The December Full Moon, often called the Cold Moon or Long Night Moon, carries a deeply restorative and introspective spiritual energy. It arrives during the darkest nights of the year, acting as a lantern of clarity, truth, and emotional purification.


🌕This moon is especially powerful for closure, cleansing, forgiveness, and inner alignment. Its energy helps us understand what must be released before stepping into the new year.


✨ Overall Spiritual Themes of This Full Moon


1. Illumination of Truth
This moon exposes what has been avoided, suppressed, or tolerated for too long.
You may experience:emotional clarity, sudden insightsintuitive “knowing”realizations about relationships, habits, or boundaries
It reveals what is no longer compatible with our growth.



2. Deep Release & Emotional Shedding
Of all full moons, the December Cold Moon is one of the strongest for releasing:
old grief, guilt, resentment, self-blame,survival patterns, attachments to past versions of ourselves.
It signifies the final emotional purge of the year. ✨


3. Rest, Recovery, and Spiritual Reset
Spiritually, this moon asks us to:slow down, prioritize, rest,protect your energy reconnect with self, honor your body’s rhythms

It encourages a transition from “doing” to simply being.

4. Ending Cycles & Closing Chapters
This is the moon of: completion
-resolution -karmic closure -ending repeating patterns


You may naturally feel a desire to bring things to a close so they can start the new year aligned and unburdened. 🕊️

5. Heightened Intuition & Spirit Connection

Energetically, the veil is thin. You may experience:vivid dreamsancestral messagesintuitive downloadssynchronicitiesstronger spiritual sensitivity
This moon pulls spiritual truth to the surface gently but unmistakably.❄️


🌕 Healing Messages:

Say aloud or quietly to yourself 🕊️

“I forgive myself for what I didn’t know before.”
“I am allowed to release the heaviness I’ve carried all year—especially what was never mine to hold.”
“What is ending now is creating sacred space for what is meant for me next.”
“My rest is not a delay—it is a spiritual recalibration.”
“I do not need to force change. Under this moon, release  becomes renewal.”

🌙 Suggested Rituals & Practices
1. Full Moon Release Ritual
Write down what you are ready to release.Breathe deeply.Tear or burn safely.Visualize a weight lifting off the chest.



2. Energy Clearing
-Smoke cleanse -Sound healing
-Cord-cutting visualization -Decluttering small spaces
This moon supports clearing stagnant energy more than manifesting.


3. Restorative Practices
Long bath with intentionGentle stretchingMeditationGrounding walks in cold air

Emphasize: rest is the ritual.


4. Journaling Prompts
What am I done carrying emotionally?What truth has this year shown me?What am I ready to forgive—within myself or others?Who am I becoming as this cycle ends?

5. Ancestral or Spirit Connection
Light a candleOffer gratitudeAsk for guidance for the coming year

This moon deepens ancestral support and intuitive clarity.


💫 Cold Moon in Summary 
This December Full Moon acts as a spiritual winter cleanse.
It illuminates the truth, softens old wounds, and encourages deep rest.
It is a bridge between what has ended and what is about to begin.
It helps us enter the new year unburdened, aligned, and mentally lighter.

🌕 If you want to work with this moon’s energy, you can:

🌫️ Let something go
Write down what you’re releasing, burn or tear it (safely).

🌬️ Cleanse your environment
Open windows, declutter something small, or light incense.

✍️ Journal on questions like:
“What do I no longer want to carry into next year?”
“What truth needs acknowledging?”
“Where do I need rest or space?”


💧 Take a release bath or shower
Visualize stress washing away.
This moon is a beautiful invitation to soften, release, and reconnect with yourself. Allow its light to guide you into clarity, closure, and peace as we prepare to enter a new year.

If you’d like personalized guidance, a moon reading, or a release ritual created specially for you, feel free to reach out anytime.

Wishing you deep healing and gentle illumination this full moon.
🌕✨Ruthie

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