My Cousins Coven

The Crown of the Cycle

If the New Moon is the vow and the Waxing Moon is the build, the Full Moon is the moment the work becomes visible. Not always finished — but revealed. This is the phase of presence: what you have been feeding now shines back.

The Full Moon is often described as a time of “power,” but in mature practice its power is less about volume than clarity. The Moon’s face is whole; the night is bright enough to show edges. In magic, that brightness behaves like a mirror: it illuminates the strength of a working and also exposes the weak joints — the places where desire outran discipline, where momentum became noise, where a promise was made without structure.

This is why Full Moon work thrives when it is treated as a crown, not a shortcut. The phase favors rites that benefit from visibility: divination, blessing, gratitude, charging, and honest assessment. It can also support release — not the deep unmaking of the Dark Moon, but the lucid shedding of what can no longer hide. Under the Full Moon, truth does not have to be cruel; it can be clean.

Many modern witches hold the Full Moon as the archetypal Esbat: a recurring return to the cycle as a living teacher. Some circles practice Drawing Down the Moon as a formal rite of invocation; others keep it simpler — candle, water, breath, and attention. Either way, the essential gesture is the same: to stand in the light and ask, without flinching, What is actually here?

Mythically, the Full Moon has never belonged to one story. It has been read as the eye of the night, the lantern of travelers, the judge of oaths, the blessing of harvest, the radiant face of the goddess, and the quiet witness of the dead. In MCC practice, we treat these as lenses. You might approach the Full Moon through Artemis or Diana for clarity of aim and self-possession, through Selene or Luna for luminous devotion, through Isis for restoration and sacred sovereignty, or through Hekate in her torch-bearing aspect when the work touches thresholds and hidden truth. The point is not to collect names — it is to choose a language that helps the work become honest.

Coven lens: The Full Moon is the phase of shared sight. It is excellent for group divination, group blessing, and results review — naming what worked, what misfired, and what must be refined before the cycle turns toward waning. When done well, this is not judgment. It is craft: the discipline of learning.

Practical rule: crown what you truly built — and only charge what you are willing to carry forward.

As the moon reaches the height of its cycle, the Full Moon stands as both mirror and lantern — illuminating what we have cultivated, revealing what has been hidden, and calling forth the clarity that only peak light can offer. This is not merely a moment for doing; it is a moment for seeing: seeing our intentions reflected in the silver glow, seeing shadows where we once walked in ease, and seeing ourselves in the larger rhythm of sky and earth. Under the full moon, magic moves with fullness rather than force, with receptivity rather than grasping. It is a time to charge and consecrate, to celebrate emergence and communion, to tend to spirit as one tends to flame. And when the light is at its brightest, let your inner witness be equally present — not as judge, but as steady companion. Walk with your fullness, honor your revelations, and carry the moon’s illumination with you as you return to shadow and silence. For in this cycle — as in all — the moon teaches us that illumination is not the end of the path, but a clear view of the next horizon.