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🌕 Honey, the Moon is Ripe

A Celtic Celebration of Sweetness, Union, and Sacred Bees


You’ve probably heard this full moon called the Strawberry Moon.

It’s cute. It’s catchy. It’s also… not quite right.

Where I come from, strawberries are not ripe in June. In the Northeast, they show up closer to July. And in Florida, where I was raised, strawberry season peaks in February — just ask anyone who’s been to the Plant City Strawberry Festival.

So let’s be honest. “Strawberry Moon” is a nice-sounding label, but it’s botanically suspect in a lot of places. Worse, it’s often falsely attributed to Indigenous peoples in ways that flatten, erase, and generalize real cultural nuance.

No tribe gave us a “universal moon name list.”

That’s colonial convenience, not sacred truth.

This year, I’m not participating in that confusion. I’m reclaiming this moon with a name that actually resonates with me: The Mead Moon!

Rooted in Celtic tradition, tied to honey, and buzzing with sacred feminine energy.



🍯 Why Mead Moon?


In ancient Celtic culture, the Mead Moon marked the honey harvest. Mead, a fermented drink made from honey and water (think honey wine), was used in rituals, feasts, and marriages. It was a symbol of sweetness, union, and magic made tangible.

Ever heard the term honeymoon? That’s where it comes from. Couples would drink mead for a full lunar cycle after their wedding to promote fertility and joy.

This full moon isn’t just about fertility, though. It’s about the nectar of life, and how we consciously savor it. Whether you’re partnered, solo, celibate, or wild as hell, this moon is for you.


🐝 Sacred Bees and Solitary Magic


Let’s talk about bees. Bees don’t just make honey.

They represent:

Sacred structure with ecstatic expression
Sacred structure with ecstatic expression

🐝 The divine feminine in motion

🐝 Alchemy through collaboration

🐝 Sacred structure with ecstatic expression


The hive is ruled by the queen.

The work is cooperative.

The results are miraculous.

To work with the energy of the Mead Moon is to honor your own sweetness,

your sensual wisdom,

and your right to pleasure 

whatever that looks like for you.





🌕 Ritual Ideas for the Mead Moon


This moon is ideal for embodied, joyful, and deeply personal magic. Here are a few ways to tap in:

  • Anoint your pulse points with honeysuckle or jasmine oil (not sticky honey). Whisper, “May love find me soft and strong.”

  • Create a honey jar spell to sweeten your life, for romance, for self-worth, for that job interview. It’s all valid.

  • Honor your body with sacred self-pleasure. The Mead Moon often gets marketed as all about couples and fertility, but you get to decide what this moon means to you. You don’t need a partner to have a sacred union. Solitary witches are whole. Period.

  • Decorate your altar with golden candles, bee imagery, fresh flowers, and offerings of honey or fruit.

  • Write your own full moon affirmation using this journal prompt: How can I welcome more sweetness and sensuality into my life right now?




📜 Free Printable: Mead Moon Grimoire Insert


Want a beautiful page for your Book of Shadows or witchy journal?

I’ve got you. Download the free Mead Moon Ritual Insert right here:



It includes ritual suggestions, a journaling prompt, and intention space — all parchment-toned and bee-decorated, because your magic deserves to be pretty and powerful.




🧰 Need Help Crafting Your Ritual?


If you want a no-pressure, non-dogmatic guide to building your own lunar ritual,


It’s simple. It’s intuitive.

It’s built for witches who do it their own way.




🐸 Bonus: Recipes from Ocean Frog


I’ve also got something cooking (literally).Our Kitchen Witch contributor, Ocean Frog, is preparing a couple of sweet, sacred recipes you can use to celebrate this moon, think honey, herbs, and magic on a plate.

She’s a Florida-born Pisces, veteran, mom, and culinary witch with a knack for turning the Wheel of the Year into something you can eat. Her Mead Moon treats will be posted in the Kitchen Witch’s Corner on the site.




🐝 Final Buzz


You don’t need to follow moon names that were never meant for you. You don’t need to mimic someone else’s rituals. You don’t need to hide the part of yourself that craves joy, touch, and sweetness.

This Mead Moon, you get to reclaim your right to pleasure, power, and honeyed magic, in your own body, your own voice, your own rhythm.

Because Honey, the Moon is ripe and so are you. 🌕




 
 
 
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