Offering a Ritual for the New Moon

This year, there were two new moons in Virgo, the later one happening on September 21, 2025. My lyra mentor and I were chatting and she asked if we could do a ritual together soon—it happened to be just before the second new moon in Virgo. I suggested we do a ritual at the new moon for protection because living in 2025 is full of horrors. Since she is also a circus witch, I invited her to do a lyra sequence as an offering to the moon as part of our ritual.

Right now, I like the idea of moving left to right. Depending on where you go looking for information, the left is seen as “evil” such as in the root of the word for left in Italian (sinistra is left, it has the same root as sinister), or it can be seen as going against the norm (moving counterclockwise, Since I want to move away from how this country is moving, I’m all for some counterclockwise movement). The flow we developed together went like this:

On a low hanging lyra, start a clockwise spin, side mount with the left leg, pull up to horse, lean head down and sweep left leg from horse to wineglass, bring left leg behind to either a teardrop (supported back balance) or full back balance, use your foot to assist coming up to a double knee hang on top bar (arms are witch’s choice), twist to get one shoulder on bottom bar and bring feet down into an inverted person in the moon, twist into an upright person in the moon, descend through dragonfly or amazon.

**I realize lyra vernacular is different from studio to studio, so here’s a video of me performing the sequence we offered to the new moon: https://www.instagram.com/circuscoracreations/reel/DO6MqnVjBU1/

We honored the 4 elements in different ways: For earth we had some crystals with us, for air we did the lyra sequence, for fire we had electronic candles placed in the cardinal directions, and for water we kept ourselves hydrated. We also did a 5 card multi-deck reading using three tarot decks and an oracle deck. This was a ritual my mentor proposed. The five card reading goes as follows:

Card 1: What is the new moon bringing me

Card 2: What is my energy during this new moon

Card 3: What do I need to open myself to

Card 4: Something that wants to manifest for me

Card 5: How can I best focus my intentions

Doing this reading with multiple decks is interesting because you run the possibility of pulling the same card for more than one placement, which is exactly what happened to me. I would have loved to do this with 5 decks, but between the two of us we had only brought 4. Next time, I will bring more cards.

If you have a chance to try the sequence we put together (even if it’s not the new moon any more) I’d love to see it! Tag or message @CircusCoraCreations on Instagram <3