The last Full Moon of the season shines bright this weekend. And as Full Moons often do, it inspires us mortals to raise a glass in celebration and maybe even awe.
The creatures in us can feel the intermingling of the seasons, Summer dancing palm to palm with Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter whirling with Spring in the Southern part of the world.
It’s a time to celebrate the abundance in our lives. It’s time to experience and express the gratitude for our harvest from this cycle around the Sun. To name, one by one, each bit of bounty – Each new skill, essential learning, relationship, new interest, hobby, perspective, treasured memory. Sometimes we forget how rich we are in all the diverse fruits of experience. This Moon invites us to remember. This Moon invites us to name each blessing, kiss it and tuck it into our heart.
It’s worth noting that sometimes our most valuable harvests are won by difficulties, by things not going our way. Bitter as they may taste at first, with some time & reflection, these can offer the greatest and most lasting nourishment. Allowing these experiences to teach us is how we do our most profound growing. So let us not forget to conjure gratitude for those gifts, learnings, perspectives that have come with a sting.
This weekend let the last Full Moon of the season invite you into a small and potent ritual:
1. Under the Moon, with your pen as your wand, list your bounty.
2. Breath full and heart lit, remember all those treasures your Life has delivered to you this Cycle. Do not rush the process, allow the writing to flood you with the feeling of each.
3. When your list is complete, make a personal offering of gratitude toward to Life – maybe it’s a song or a howl or a dance, or something that’s just between you and the Moon – trust your instincts.
Life is so very short and the way I see it, the more we can celebrate the better. The vital spirit of celebration is one passed down through the ages. The instinct lives in us. Our ancestors had harvest celebrations of all kind. Evidence for ceremonies of thanks have been found the world over. So call your ancestors and descendants to the party if you wish, as you make your whole self – mind, heart, soul, spirit & body into an altar of thanks.
Bonus Invitation: Here at The Wild Woman Project we are at the very end of a year-long adventure we began on the New Moon last September. For a year we have been sharing in a theme, an ongoing contemplation: Build Altars Everywhere. So if you’ve been following along – you may be inspired to make a final altar of Celebration for all the blessings the journey has delivered to you.
Deepest gratitude to you wild women who bring rituals of remembrance into our modern world. Thank you for keeping your hearts feral and your bodies in touch with the Cycles of the the Sun & Moon. This is how we stay wild. This is how we become wise.
Happy moon, my loves, happy moon.
♥️ + Howls,
Chris
P.s ~ Our New Theme will begin in just two weeks with the New Moon Meditation Adventure and will culminate at next year’s Wild Woman Fest. Tune in on September 22nd or enjoy the recording.
On the Horizon
Join us for an hour-long New Moon Meditation Adventure on March 18th.
Online, from anywhere.
Using a dynamic meditation journey, we will tune into the New Moon, to your own Inner Guidance, synced up with wild-hearted women from around the world. This offering will include music, storytelling, meditation, journaling prompts & intention-setting.
Can’t make it live? No worries. All participants will receive a copy of the recording with 24 hours of the session.
"The Circle Leader Training Program at The Wild Woman Project was one of the most transformative and healing experiences of my life. I have received many tools, resources, support, and connections that I will carry on with me forever." ~ Hannah Devin, Graduate
Wild Woman Fest returns…
Join us for the 10th Annual Wild Woman Fest August 19-23rd, 2026
All on a beautiful & sacred land in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville North Carolina.
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We have Wild Woman Project-trained Circle facilitators is 27 countries, and 44 out of the 50 United States.
Calling wild-hearted women, in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville ~ let’s stir up some sisterhood magic in 2026.
Monthly on Sunday afternoons, 3-5pm, near the Full Moon at The Well in West Asheville.
Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the organizer & facilitator of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
