The Full Moon Release: Why Science and Spirit Both Say It's Time to Let Go

You've probably felt it before—that restless energy when the moon is full. Maybe you couldn't sleep. Maybe old emotions surfaced out of nowhere. Maybe you found yourself reviewing your life, taking inventory of what's working and what's not.

Our ancestors tracked time by the moon. They planted and harvested by her cycles. They understood something we're only beginning to remember: that we're not separate from nature's rhythms. We are nature. And when the moon reaches her fullness each month, she's offering us something profound—a chance to release what we've been carrying that was never ours to hold.

This isn't woo-woo. It's about alignment. About working with energy rather than against it. About understanding that transformation doesn't come from fixing yourself from the outside in—it comes from clearing the internal blocks that keep you stuck in patterns that no longer serve you.

The Science Behind the Full Moon's Pull

Let's start with what we know to be true: the moon moves oceans.

The gravitational pull between Earth and the moon creates tides—billions of gallons of water rising and falling in rhythm with lunar phases. During a full moon, when the sun, Earth, and moon align, this gravitational force is at its strongest. We call these spring tides, and they're the most dramatic shifts in sea level we experience each month.

Now consider this: the human body is approximately 60% water. Your brain? 73% water. Your blood? 83% water.

If the moon can move entire oceans, is it really so far-fetched to think she might influence the water within us?

While direct causation remains difficult to prove scientifically, research has found intriguing correlations. Studies have shown that sleep patterns can shift during full moons—people take longer to fall asleep and experience less deep sleep. Hospital emergency rooms report fluctuations in patient volume during full moon phases. One study in the journal Psychiatry Research found that psychiatric admissions increased during full moons.

But here's what matters most: whether the mechanism is gravitational, psychological, or something we don't yet have instruments to measure, millions of people across cultures and throughout history have reported heightened emotional states, vivid dreams, and increased awareness during the full moon. That lived experience counts.

The Metaphysical Principle: As Above, So Below

Ancient wisdom traditions understood something our modern world is only beginning to reclaim: everything is energy, and everything is connected.

The hermetic principle "as above, so below" suggests that patterns repeat at every level of existence—from the cosmic to the cellular. The moon waxes and wanes. The tides rise and fall. Seasons change. Women's bodies cycle. Energy flows in, and energy must flow out.

The full moon represents the peak of the lunar cycle—maximum illumination, fullness, completion. In metaphysical traditions, it's understood as the time of harvest and release. You've planted seeds during the new moon. You've nurtured them as the moon waxed. Now, at the full moon, you gather what's grown—and you consciously let go of what's complete.

This isn't about burning sage and hoping for magic (though sage is lovely). It's about understanding that you are an energetic being living in an energetic universe, and working intentionally with natural cycles amplifies your ability to create change.

Think of it like this: you could swim against the tide, exhausting yourself fighting the current. Or you could wait for the tide to turn and let it carry you where you want to go. The full moon is that turning tide for release.

Why We Hold On (And Why It's Killing Your Growth)

Here's the truth that most personal development avoids: you can't add more to your life until you make space.

You can't call in a healthy relationship while clutching the ghost of your ex. You can't step into your purpose while carrying the belief that you're not enough. You can't create abundance while gripping poverty consciousness like a security blanket.

We hold on for so many reasons. Because letting go feels like loss. Because we've built our identity around our wounds. Because change is terrifying, even when staying the same is slowly suffocating us. Because we think if we just work harder, fix ourselves more, read one more book, take one more course, then we'll be ready.

But here's what I've learned, and what I watch women discover in ceremony month after month: you don't need to fix yourself. You need to release what's blocking the truth of who you already are.

The Inner Work No One Talks About

We live in a culture obsessed with external solutions. Download this app. Buy this planner. Follow this morning routine. Hire this coach. Fix your mindset. Optimize your productivity.

And sure, tools can help. But they're putting a Band-Aid on a wound that needs air to heal.

The real transformation—the kind that actually changes your life—happens on the inside. It happens when you stop looking outside yourself for answers and start excavating the beliefs, patterns, and stories you've been unconsciously running.

Every experience you've ever had has created a perception. Every perception has created a belief. Every belief has created a pattern. And those patterns are running your life on autopilot, creating the same results over and over, no matter how many vision boards you make.

You're not broken. You're blocked. And what's blocking you isn't outside—it's inside. Old programming. Inherited trauma. Beliefs you absorbed before you could even speak. Stories about who you are and what's possible that you've never questioned.

This is the inner alignment work. This is where your power lives.

Energy, Perception, and the Life You're Creating

Here's the piece that shifts everything: you are not a victim of your circumstances. You are the creator of your experience.

That's not toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing. It's physics. Quantum mechanics has shown us that the observer affects the observed—that consciousness itself influences reality at the subatomic level. Your perception literally shapes what you experience.

You are a field of energy interacting with other fields of energy. Your thoughts are energy. Your emotions are energy. Your beliefs are energetic frequencies that you're broadcasting into the world, attracting matching frequencies back to you.

This is why people say "you create your reality." Not because you can think positive and win the lottery. But because the energy you hold—consciously and unconsciously—is the lens through which you perceive, interpret, and respond to life. And that lens creates your lived experience.

When you're carrying old wounds, limiting beliefs, and unprocessed emotions, that's the frequency you're broadcasting. That's the lens you're looking through. And life will keep reflecting it back to you until you do the work to clear it.

Why the Full Moon Amplifies Release

Energy works in cycles. Inhale, exhale. Expansion, contraction. Receiving, releasing.

The lunar cycle mirrors this natural rhythm. The new moon is for planting, setting intentions, calling in. The full moon is for harvesting, celebrating, and releasing.

The full moon's energy is heightened, amplified, potent. It illuminates what's been hidden in shadow. It brings things to the surface. It creates a natural opening for completion and letting go.

Working with this energy isn't about believing in magic. It's about being strategic with your transformation. It's about using the natural amplification of the full moon to do the release work you need to do anyway—but with the wind at your back instead of in your face.

Athletes train with the season. Gardeners plant with the moon. Sailors navigate with the tides. Why would your personal growth be any different?

What Happens When You Actually Release

I watch this every single month in our ceremonies. Women arrive carrying weight they didn't even know they were holding. Resentment toward a parent. Shame about their body. Fear of being too much or not enough. Beliefs about money that came from their grandmother's Great Depression trauma.

And through the process of acknowledgment, release, and somatic completion, something shifts. Not because I did anything to them. But because they gave themselves permission—in sacred space, witnessed by other women, held by the container of ceremony—to let it go.

The crying. The shaking. The deep exhales. The laughter that comes after. This is energy moving. This is completion happening in real time.

And what comes after? Space. Clarity. Lightness. The capacity to receive what's been trying to reach them all along. New opportunities. Healthier relationships. Creative ideas. A sense of peace they haven't felt in years.

Not because releasing fixed them. But because it removed the blocks that were keeping them from accessing what was already there.

The Ceremony: How We Release Together

There's power in doing this work alone. And there's amplified power in doing it in community, held by the energy of women who are also ready to let go.

This is why we gather every full moon in 30A—to create sacred space for the release that wants to happen.

We don't rush it. We don't bypass it. We create a container where it's safe to feel, to witness, to release, and to be witnessed in return.

We start by arriving—not just physically, but energetically. So much of our lives are spent in our heads, disconnected from our bodies, running on autopilot. Before we can release anything, we have to land in the present moment.

Then we connect with the full moon's energy through guided meditation. We acknowledge what we've created or learned this cycle. We honor what's been. And we prepare for what needs to be released.

The release practice is where you get specific. What belief is complete? What pattern is ready to end? What relationship, story, or identity needs to be consciously let go? You name it. You write it. You speak it if you choose.

Then comes the somatic piece—because your body is where the stories live. Your nervous system has been holding patterns your mind doesn't even remember forming. Through breathwork or movement, we create the conditions for your body to complete what it's been holding. This is where sensation becomes release. Where stuck energy finally moves.

And finally, we witness each other. Because being seen in your release, held in your vulnerability, witnessed in your becoming—that's the medicine women have been offering each other since the beginning of time.

For the Skeptics (Which Means You're Paying Attention)

If you're reading this and thinking, "This sounds interesting but I'm not sure I buy it," good. That means you're thinking critically. That means you're not just swallowing dogma.

I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm inviting you to experience something.

Come with your skepticism. Come with your questions. Come with your rational mind fully engaged. And also come with just enough openness to see what happens when you actually do the practice.

Because here's what I know: you can't think your way to transformation. You have to feel it. You have to move it through your body. You have to let yourself be witnessed in the messy, real, human process of letting go.

The full moon isn't magic. The ritual isn't magic. You are the magic. The ceremony is just the container that helps you remember.

You Have Everything You Need

This is the truth that our culture doesn't want you to know: you already have everything you need for your healing, your growth, your transformation. It's not in a supplement or a certification or a relationship or a promotion. It's already inside you.

You don't need to be fixed. You need to be cleared. You need to release the conditioning, the trauma, the beliefs, the patterns that are covering up the truth of who you are.

Your power isn't out there. It's right here. In your body. In your breath. In your willingness to feel what you've been avoiding. In your courage to let go of what's familiar but no longer serves.

The full moon is simply a reminder. A monthly invitation to stop, reflect, and release. To work with nature instead of against her. To align your inner rhythm with the rhythms all around you.

Join Us for the Next Full Moon Release Ceremony

The full moon is the most potent time of the lunar cycle for release. For letting go of what's weighing you down. For clearing what's blocking you. For making space for what you're calling in.

This isn't just another full moon gathering. This is sacred space for women who understand that creation requires release—that you can't step into the new while clinging to the old.

Each month, we gather in an intimate setting in 30A to harness the full moon's energy for clearing, completion, and conscious letting go.

What happens in ceremony:

Opening (15 minutes) — We arrive, settle in, and ground into the space. Light refreshments, tea, and a moment to land in your body.

Full Moon Ritual (30 minutes) — Guided meditation to connect with the energy of the full moon. We acknowledge what we've created, harvested, or learned this cycle—and prepare to release what's complete.

Release Practice (20 minutes) — You'll be guided through a powerful release process—identifying what needs to go (beliefs, patterns, relationships, stories) and consciously letting it go.

Somatic Release (15 minutes) — Breathwork or movement practice to release stored emotion and resistance from your body. This is where the magic happens—when you let your body complete what your mind can't.

Community Witnessing Circle (10 minutes) — Space to share what you're releasing, witness each other, and feel held in sisterhood. (Sharing is optional but encouraged.)

If you're ready to stop carrying what was never yours to hold, if you're ready to create space for what's trying to reach you, if you're ready to remember that your power lives within—join us.

The moon will be full whether you honor her or not. But when you show up, when you do the work, when you release with intention—that's when everything changes.

I'll see you in ceremony.