Full Moon Rituals: The full moon appears in the night sky once every month, glowing with brilliant energy that spiritual practitioners have honored for thousands of years.
This powerful lunar phase offers a unique opportunity to release what no longer serves you, manifest your desires, and connect deeply with your inner self through intentional ritual practice.
Today, I’m sharing 15 full moon rituals specifically designed for beginners. These rituals are simple to perform, require minimal materials, and create powerful shifts in your energy and life.
By the end of this guide, you’ll understand what full moon rituals are, how they work, who should use them, and exactly how to perform each ritual for maximum benefit.
What Are Full Moon Rituals?
Full moon rituals are intentional spiritual practices performed during the full moon phase to harness the moon’s peak energy.
These practices range from simple meditation and journaling to more elaborate ceremonies involving candles, crystals, and ceremonial bathing.
A ritual is any action performed with conscious intention and symbolic meaning. During the full moon, rituals become containers for your desires, fears, gratitude, and transformation. The power comes from your intention, not from complexity.
How Full Moon Rituals Work
Full moon rituals work by aligning your personal energy with the natural peak of lunar energy.
The moon affects Earth through gravitational pull that creates ocean tides. This same force influences the water in your body, your emotional state, and your energetic field.
During the full moon, the sun and moon sit opposite each other with Earth between them. This creates maximum illumination and peak energy. Your intentions carry further, your prayers reach higher, and your releases become more complete during this phase.
Who Should Practice Full Moon Rituals
Anyone can practice full moon rituals. You don’t need special training, spiritual gifts, or particular religious beliefs. These practices are accessible to complete beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Full moon rituals work especially well for people who feel emotionally sensitive during the full moon, those seeking regular spiritual practice without daily commitment, and anyone wanting to release negative patterns or manifest desires into their lives.
When to Perform Full Moon Rituals
The full moon phase remains powerful for three days – the day before, the day of, and the day after the full moon peaks. You can perform rituals any time during these three days and still access strong lunar energy.
Evening of the full moon after sunset is the most traditional time. Midnight creates the most intense magical energy. Morning rituals the day after work perfectly if nighttime doesn’t suit your schedule.
Benefits of Full Moon Rituals
Regular full moon ritual practice creates emotional release and clarity, heightened intuition, and completion of cycles in your life.
Rituals provide a safe container to feel, process, and release emotions rather than holding them inside, where they create stress.
Full moon energy also accelerates manifestation, reduces stress, deepens spiritual connection, and links you to thousands of years of human tradition across all cultures who have honored the lunar cycle.
15 Full Moon Rituals for Beginners
These are the 15 full moon rituals for beginners to perform during the full moon phase
Ritual 1: Full Moon Journaling for Release
Journaling under the full moon releases emotions, thoughts, and patterns that hold you back. This ritual transforms what’s stuck inside into words on paper, then releases those words symbolically.
Light a candle and write at the top of your page: “What I release under this full moon.” Let your hand move freely without editing. Write everything you want to let go of – limiting beliefs, fears, resentments, toxic relationships, bad habits, negative self-talk.
Read what you’ve written out loud, tear the pages from your journal, and burn them safely. As the paper turns to ash, visualize these things leaving your life permanently.
Ritual 2: Moon Water Creation
Moon water is water charged under full moon light. This versatile ritual tool can be used for drinking, bathing, watering plants, or adding to other rituals.
Fill a glass jar with clean water. Hold the jar between your hands and set your intention: “I charge this water with full moon energy for healing and purification.” Place the jar outside where moonlight will touch it directly or on a windowsill.
Leave overnight and retrieve in the morning. Use moon water to wash your face for clarity, add to bath water for spiritual cleansing, or sprinkle around your home for protection.
Ritual 3: Full Moon Love Ritual
Full moon energy magnifies love magic and draws romantic connections to you. This ritual opens your heart and sends powerful attraction energy into the universe.
Light a pink or red candle and place rose quartz crystal beside it. Write your love intention on pink paper: “I attract true love into my life” or if manifesting a specific person, write both names. Anoint the paper with rose oil or honey for sweetness.
Fold the paper toward you three times and place it under the candle. Let the candle burn completely while visualizing yourself in a loving relationship. Keep the paper under your pillow for the next month to continue attracting love.
Ritual 4: Full Moon Money Ritual
The full moon brings financial blessings and manifests abundance. This ritual attracts money, opportunities, and prosperity into your life.
Place a green or gold candle on a plate surrounded by coins. Write on paper: “Money flows to me easily and abundantly. I am financially blessed.” Place the paper under the plate.
Light the candle and visualize money coming to you from multiple sources. Sprinkle cinnamon around the candle for fast manifestation.
Let the candle burn completely. Carry one of the coins in your wallet as a prosperity charm and keep the paper where you handle money.
Ritual 5: Honoring Your Ancestors
Full moon energy opens the veil between worlds, making it powerful time to connect with ancestors and receive their guidance and blessings.
Create an ancestor altar with photos of deceased loved ones, a white candle, fresh flowers, and a glass of water. Light the candle and say: “I honor my ancestors who came before me. I thank you for your sacrifices, wisdom, and love.
Guide me and bless me under this full moon.” Speak to your ancestors about your life, ask for their help with specific situations, and sit quietly to receive any messages or feelings.
Leave offerings of their favorite foods or drinks. Thank them and extinguish the candle.
Ritual 6: Crystal Charging Under the Full Moon
Crystals absorb and hold energy. Charging them under the full moon cleanses accumulated energy and fills them with fresh lunar power.
After cleansing your crystals with running water or salt water, arrange them outdoors or on a windowsill where moonlight will reach them. As you set each crystal down, speak one thing you want to release.
Leave crystals in moonlight overnight. In the morning, hold each charged crystal and set a new intention for it. The crystal now holds both releasing and attracting power.
Ritual 7: Full Moon Meditation
Meditation during the full moon quiets mental chatter and opens intuitive channels. This ritual creates deep inner peace and often brings sudden insights or answers to questions.
Sit where you can see the moon and close your eyes. Breathe slowly and visualize silver moonlight streaming down from above, entering through the crown of your head and filling your entire body.
As you breathe, notice what thoughts, feelings, or images arise without judgment. If you have a question, hold it gently in your mind and ask the moon for guidance, then release and remain open. Continue for 10 to 15 minutes and journal any insights immediately after.
Ritual 8: Gratitude Ceremony
Full moon energy magnifies gratitude and attracts more of what you appreciate into your life. This ritual celebrates what’s working and invites abundance.
Light a candle and write a gratitude list starting each line with “I am grateful for…” Include everything from major blessings to tiny daily joys. Read your list out loud with genuine feeling.
Let yourself actually feel the warmth of appreciation as you voice each blessing. Fold the paper and place it somewhere you’ll see daily. Close the ceremony saying: “Thank you for all I have received. Thank you for all that is coming.”
Ritual 9: Full Moon Bath Ritual
Bathing during the full moon combines water’s cleansing properties with lunar energy for deep spiritual purification and relaxation.
Fill your tub with warm water and add two cups of Epsom salt, 5 to 10 drops of lavender essential oil, and rose petals if desired.
Light candles around the bathroom. Before entering, hold your hands over the water and say: “This bath cleanses me of all that no longer serves.” Soak for at least 20 minutes, visualizing the full moon’s silver light pouring into the water and filling your body.
When finished, pull the plug and watch everything you’re releasing drain away with the water.
Ritual 10: Burning Ceremony
Fire transforms matter and energy. Burning rituals use flame to release what you’re ready to let go of permanently.
Write on separate pieces of paper everything you want to release. Be specific about fears, attachments, and old patterns. Light each paper over a fireproof bowl and say: “I release this completely.
It has no more power over me.” Watch each paper burn to ash and feel the weight lift from your energy. Pour the cooled ashes into running water, bury them at a crossroads, or scatter them to the wind away from your home.
Ritual 11: Full Moon Altar Creation
Creating a full moon altar gives you a physical focal point for lunar energy and provides space to place intentions, gratitude, and ritual tools.
Cover a small table or shelf with white or silver cloth. Place a candle at the center, moonstone or clear quartz crystal, and items representing your intentions.
Add fresh white flowers and photos or objects symbolizing what you’re releasing or attracting. Light the candle and say: “This space is sacred.
This altar honors the full moon and holds my intentions.” Visit your altar daily, light the candle, and reconnect with your intentions.
Ritual 12: Full Moon Walking Meditation
Movement meditation under the full moon combines physical activity with spiritual practice. This ritual grounds excess lunar energy that might otherwise cause restlessness or insomnia.
Go outside when the moon is visible and take three deep breaths while looking at it.
Begin walking slowly and deliberately, paying attention to each step and the cool night air on your skin. Let your mind wander naturally and imagine worries floating up to the moon and dissolving in its light.
Walk for 15 to 20 minutes. This ritual helps people who feel too energized to sleep during the full moon.
Ritual 13: Sound Healing and Chanting
Sound vibration moves stuck energy and raises spiritual frequency. Chanting during full moon amplifies the power of your voice and intentions.
Sit comfortably under moonlight and begin chanting “Om” 108 times or for 10 to 15 minutes. Other powerful full moon chants include “I release, I release, I release” for letting go, or “Thank you, thank you, thank you” for gratitude.
Feel the vibration in your chest and throat as sound waves ripple out from your body. If you have singing bowls, bells, or drums, play them during your chant to create layered vibrations.
Ritual 14: Divination and Oracle Reading
Full moon heightens intuitive abilities, making it powerful time for tarot, oracle cards, pendulum work, or other divination practices.
Cleanse your deck by holding it in moonlight or passing it through sage smoke.
Light a candle and shuffle while asking: “What does the full moon want me to know right now?” Pull one to three cards and study the images intuitively before reading traditional meanings.
Journal about the reading and what guidance you received. Place the cards on your altar where you’ll see them as reminders throughout the coming days.
Ritual 15: Community Circle Ceremony
Gathering with others during full moon multiplies the energy and creates powerful shared spiritual experience. This ritual works for friends, family, or spiritual groups.
Gather your group in a circle with each person bringing a candle. Light candles while each person states one thing they’re releasing or one intention they’re setting.
Sit in silence together for several minutes, then pass a talking stick around the circle for each person to share.
After everyone speaks, join hands and say together: “We release what no longer serves us. We call in our highest good. Blessed be.” Blow out candles together and share food to ground the energy.
Final Thoughts
These 15 full moon rituals offer you powerful practices for working with lunar energy as a beginner. From journaling and meditation to love spells, money rituals, ancestor honoring, and bathing ceremonies, each ritual creates space for release, manifestation, and spiritual connection.
Choose the rituals that resonate most strongly with you. Even one simple ritual performed consistently each month creates profound transformation over time.
Start with what feels accessible and natural, then expand your practice as your comfort and confidence grow.
