The red-moon petition
Join a bodily mark to a lunar petition for endurance through a difficult cycle.
What you’ll need
- One drop of your own blood already available from routine medical testing or menstruation
- A cotton swab
- A circle of dark paper
- A white pencil
- An envelope
The ritual
- Write what must endure through the coming cycle around the edge of the paper circle.
- Place one blood mark at the center and let it dry fully beneath moonlight or near a closed window.
- Draw a white crescent around the dry mark and read the petition from beginning to end.
- Seal and discard the swab, then keep the circle in an envelope until the next matching moon phase.