Full Moon Mandala and Dream Boards
Between every New and Full Moon, please join me in creating your very own Full Moon Mandala or Dream Board. Dream Boards are similar to Vision Boards, Treasure Maps and Goal Maps. We use these visual “maps” to help us focus on what we want to attract into our life and how we want to feel. Click here for a FREE download about vision boards.
On every new moon, I will post an invitation for you to start gathering images and words for your mandala/dream board, then on or close to every full moon, I will post my own mandala and invite you to share yours. Together we will use the power of the full moon to dream bigger, be creative, focus and attract new possibilities into our lives.
Moon phases
Every month, the Moon cycles through its phases:
New Moon -> Waxing Moon -> Full Moon-> Waning Moon -> Dark Moon ->
The New Moon is a time to begin new things, to be spontaneous.
We use this time to gather images and words to create our boards
The Full Moon is a time for fulfillment. It is a point of unveiling and revealing.
We use this time to reveal and share our boards.
Every phase of the Moon creates a certain energy. This energy affects us, and everything on Earth.
Like the moon, we too move through phases and by creating a Full Moon Mandala during the waxing phase of the moon (between the new and full moon), we are using it’s power gather, grown, learn and to reveal our focus for the weeks ahead.
New Moon - New beginnings, fresh starts, optimism, hope and faith,
Waxing Moon – Building, accomplishments, creativity, strength, growth and learning, positive transformation
Full Moon – Abundance, harvest, wish-fulfillment, manifesting desires, sexuality, achieving all dreams, protection
Waning Moon – Letting go, clearing away, cleansing, releasing, shedding old patterns, undoing bindings, opening up problem-knots, making space
Dark Moon – Rest, Peace, deep wisdom, divination, contacting the guru within, letting things die away completely
Source: Wicca-spirituality.com
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Creating a Full Moon Mandala /Dream board is a fun creative way to:
• Be more conscious with what you’d like to invite into your life
• Manifest your dreams and goals
• Express creatively and stretch your intuitive right brain.
• Develop a practice to focus on where you are and where you’d like to be.
Full moon dates and names
We use the schedule in the farmers almanac to guide us and also join in with Jamie Ridler Studio’s to ask questions on every new moon to help us. Below is a schedule {with southern hemisphere dates from Jamie’s blog – thank you}.
* Also refer to the visionboard fact sheet for visioning your dreams, longer term goals and year ahead.
| New Moon | Full Moon | Full moon time {EDT} | Name {Northern Hemisphere} |
Name {Southern Hemisphere}
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| December 24th | January 9th | 2.30am | Full Wolf Moon | Full Buck Moon |
| January 23rd | February 7th | 4.54pm | Full Snow Moon | Full Sturgeon Moon |
| February 21st | March 8th | 4:40 am | Full Worm Moon | Full Corn Moon |
| March 22nd | April 6th | 3:19 pm | Full Pink Moon | Full Harvest Moon |
| April 21st | May 5th | 11:35 pm | Full Flower Moon | Full Frost /Beaver Moon |
| May 20th | June 4th | 7:12 am | Full Strawberry Moon | Full Cold Moon |
| June 19th | July 3rd | 2:52 pm | Full Buck Moon | Full Wolf Moon |
| July 19th | August 1st | 11:28 pm | Full Sturgeon Moon | Full Snow Moon |
| August 17th | August 31st | 9:58 am | Full Blue Moon | Full Blue Moon |
| September 15/16th | September 29th | 11:19 pm | Full Corn Moon | Full Worm Moon |
| October 15th | October 29th | 3:50 pm | Full Harvest Moon | Full Pink Moon |
| November 13th | November 28th | 9:46 am | Full Frost /Beaver Moon | Full Flower Moon |
| December 13th | December 28th | 5:21 am | Full Cold Moon | Full Strawberry Moon |
*Thank you Jamie and her friend Paula from Buenos Aires for the southern hemisphere dates.
Seasons
| 2012 | Northern Hemisphere
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Southern Hemisphere |
| Spring Equinox | March 20th | September 23rd |
| Summer Solstice | June 20th | December 22nd |
| Fall/Autumn Equinox | September 22nd | March 20th |
| Winter Solstice | December 21st | June 21st |
* source: http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2012.html
How to create your full moon mandala/dream board and join in
Photo taken by me at the Your Awesome year Workshop – held January 2012 in Australia.
I know what I want to invite:
1. Gather words and images from magazine, pinterest or other sources based on what you would like to invite into your life.
OR
I am not sure what I want to invite:
1. Browse through magazines, doodle, gather from other sources, images and words that resonate with you. Use your intuition and the monthly prompt to help you collect
2. Then, take a large sheet of cardboard, paper or be creative with other materials. {I have used burlap before}
3. Using a compass or template, draw a circle.
4. Lay your images and words in the circle or on a rectangular sheet
5. Similar to creating our yearly vision boards, you can also place a lovely photo of yourself in the center.
6. When you are happy with your composition, glue everything down.
7. Journal, blog and share what this Full Moon Mandala means to you this particular month.
8. Add your link to the linky section posted each full moon on my blog and visit everyone, using your wishing power to help them manifest their dreams. Also pop over to Jamie Ridler’s site to spread the love wider.
