New Moon Ritual: June 2026
As you may have seen, there was no ritual blog post for May 2026. My husband and I had to say goodbye to our little werewolf in early May and I just wasn’t in the right headspace for any rituals. That also means this month’s ritual was my first without my little furry companion. He would sleep in the guest room with me when I did these, keeping me company and protecting me. I knew going into it that my emotions were still a little raw, and this first ritual without him was painful, so I accepted it may not be entirely “successful”.
And I was right.
But I’ve also made it a point to not only show a polished version of what this work looks like. Too often what we see online, whether on personal websites or social media accounts, is a heavily curated and edited version of “reality”. You are getting the best take, run through editing software and likely AI filtering, to give you the illusion of perfection. This is why comparing yourself to what you see online can be so toxic - most of the time it isn’t real.
This is why I’m providing this post. Unlike in May when I just didn’t do the dream divination ritual, this month I tried and it and it sort of fell flat. And you should know that. It’s okay for things to just be a little messy and maybe not go the way you want.
The most likely cause for this was all of the emotions this first ritual without my dog brought up. I know his spirit is still around - in fact, at some point in the early morning hours I felt him pressed up against my leg where he used to sleep on the bed - but the lack of his physical presence was painful. I also stayed up way later than I should have because getting started without him there just felt “wrong”. Moving forward I don’t expect things will get “easier” but I will learn to adjust to this new normal.
All that being said, there was some message that was trying to get through to me, I just wasn’t fully prepared to receive it. There are a few specific feelings or images that are lingering. I’ll list them below, but be aware that I’m still trying to make sense of them myself which is why you aren’t getting an analysis in this post.
The things that are still sticking with me are:
A sense of false complacency. The feeling of pre-emptive celebration while someone, maybe my better judgement, is trying to warn me that we aren’t safe yet. I now I’ve used the metaphor of the eye of the hurricane before, and that the calm in the center of the storm can be misleading, and I’m very much being pointed to that.
The image of a “rogue wave”. For folks not familiar with this phenomenon, it is a large and unpredictable surface wave. It is not a tsunami because it is not formed due to displacement of water due to something like an earthquake. There is still a lot of active debate around what causes these waves, but they can come about suddenly and cause significant damage to ships and shore structures such as lighthouses. In recent times, unexplained disappearances of ships have been attributed to rouge waves. There is also an event known as the “Three Sisters” in which three successive rogue waves form. These waves often generate spontaneously and overwhelm the usual designs and capabilities of ocean-going vessels. I want to stress that this did not ping to me as a “Blue Wave” indicator. This image filled me with fear and alarm when I saw it in the divination, and picturing it now still makes my heartbeat quicken.
I’ll likely engage in more divination work through bone casting and cartomancy to see if I can pull on some more thread. If you do the same I’d be eager to hear what comes up for you!
