Embrace the Corn Moon: Set Intentions and Achieve Your Goals with the New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios

By Dennis Bluthardt at Namaste Studios

Traditionally celebrated in September, the Corn Moon marks the time of Harvest and abundance.

This lunar phase, named for the corn crops ready for gathering, symbolizes growth, fruition, and the culmination of efforts. When the moon grows, it wants our attention for more profound thinking and planning of our wishes, the kind we call dreams, less technically. We hope to make these dreams real; hence, the waxing moon is an auspicious time for personal transformation.

Namaste Studios produces the New Moon Journal, which can be used to enhance the experience. 

It can also be imposed, but not too heavily, on those wishing to find something like order, which may or may not be necessary for those wishing to have an effect. But it can also be used, I suspect, in the act of not-wishing, that is, going beyond wishing in a way that makes the experience of the new moon more potent.

To extract the most from this moon phase, consider using the SMART system, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound, to set up your intentions. This is a way of ensuring that what you want and where you want to go is altogether clear and in forms that can be easily tracked. When using this system, you might also try putting the word “I” in front of what you want to make it sound more like a promise. “I will achieve this by the next full moon.”

As you greet the enchantment of the Corn Moon, remember that this is a time to bask in and think about the delights that are almost here for autumn. The sun and moon can be your allies when setting intentions and recalling what you need to remember when discussing goal achievement and the magic of dreaming.

Setting Intentions with the Corn Moon

The New Moon’s energy symbolizes a second chance. You can make your dreams, plans, and goals a reality.

The New Moon is an invitation to a fresh start. You can achieve anything you want to achieve; believe it.

You can be given another chance to give your relationships all you have.

Always be the kind of friend you want to attract to yourself.

Indeed, the choice is yours.

Whatever you decide to do with your New Moon energy, always choose to make the most of the season you are in because it will never come back!

What is the Corn Moon?

The Corn Moon arrives in September.

And not to gloss over how remarkable our natural world is, this is traditionally the time of year when corn and other crops are harvested (hence the full moon of September being referred to as the Harvest Moon).

Traditionally, the planting and harvesting of crops coincided with the lunar cycle, which is why this full moon gets its name. It’s a powerful reminder of the abundance around us, not just of food (since most aren’t farmers these days) but of the labor already done throughout the year.

Depending on who you ask or how you might personally feel as you look up, this is also a moment to recall what has transpired since the beginning of the year: What goals have you reached, etc.

In this “harvest” time (which the Corn Moon marks as the symbolic beginning of), it might be beneficial to consider tossing out any remaining “resolutions” as you focus on what you want to take with you going forward. Not only is this a possible strategy for conquering any last-minute goals, but some historical witchery beliefs suggest partaking in “releasing” thought patterns/habits/friends/lovers, too, could be utilized at this time to welcome the promise of the new year.

The New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios

“The powerful New Moon Journal is designed to help bridge the natural pull towards personal growth at the time of the new moon. With dedicated sections for desire, how to track your manifestations, deep and emotional exploration and release, structuring your thoughts and feelings about your intentions, and making dreams come true are simple. During September (the Corn Moon), the lunar-driven theme is partly a show of gratitude to the fullness and abundance of life today. It’s a harvest moon, after all, a time to celebrate the things you have achieved and the reality of who you are that has come to be over the last months, to gather the best of your bounty. So, how can you adapt these thanks, lessons, and themes to the idea of journaling to manifest your life? How can you use the “New Moon Journal to journal your life and the world in September?” Sit and think about, as holidays and seasons change, the feelings of thanks you have for something that has come to pass over the past season, a few seasons, or in your lifetime.

Consider journaling about thanks for a person, or love for a person, or think about what you would like to bring into your life, or the next few months (or the dreams you want to make happen before the end of the year). See it and realize it. Visualize the outcome based on specific steps you could take.

Creating SMART Goals

SMART goals are a formula to make your objectives Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. It is a key personal growth tool that provides a clear direction and steps to follow, so you know how to get where you need to go. Breaking down your big, audacious aspiration into manageable steps helps you consistently keep acting while staying motivated (meaning you’re more likely to reach that lofty ambition). So, you will have a more incredible feeling of personal success and, thus, growth overall.

For greater synergy, align your SMART goals with your Corn Moon intentions for a doubly effective personal growth practice. The Corn Moon is traditionally a time for celebrating abundance and gratitude among many indigenous tribes across the U.S. I intend that I and the Embodied Lunar members also use this powerful time for potent reflection and the setting of purifying intentions. By creating SMART goals that align with the energy intentions, I am encouraging you to glean from the Corn Moon, hopefully, you’ll find setting yourself far more relevant, meaningful, and impactful objectives that you, deep down, really want/need to get done.

Though you may want to keep fit (an intention for improved personal health) and feel like you’re ready to get to work, schedule three 20-minute workouts for the week (your SMART goal)—but is that the correlation to your Corn Moon intention and life purpose that I’m telling you it is? Is what you’re setting for your objectives for the Corn Moon tied as closely to life per your eventual destiny (fueling your Dharma)?

Meditation and Grounding Exercises

Designating space around the recitation of an affirmation to meditate will provide more runway for this intention to take off into the universe, especially during the fertile New Moon in Virgo. This moon creates space for a slight reflection on the importance of the work we do in the world, the projects we steward that feed our souls, and the following points on the intentional lunar map to plant seeds near our goals and milk the brilliance of harvest season this time of the year.

Closing our eyes again, we will begin our practice by speaking one positive, grounding affirmation about our physical being. It may be tethered to something new you noticed about yourself today that made your smile, or a “new to you” reason you recite a conceptual rhetoric about why you love yourself (which may be associated with body positivity).

In actual, high simple, not essential fashion, you will elevate your practice by quietly acknowledging your positive words and enjoy the “low-” or “no-frills” aspect of planting a lunar-, or New-Moon-related, intention that sparks your curiosity to expect a few new lessons along the journey of subjectively chasing your “impossible”. Who knows? There may be more value in the experiences of your potential new “happy little accidents” than in more attainable goals. You will earn this bear by aligning your thinking, words, and behavior with an applicable, realistic action plan, proper nutrition, and rest.

Energy Healing Rituals and Gratitude Practices

The Corn Moon, celebrated in September, symbolizes a time of Harvest and contemplation. This lunar phase is an opportune time to incorporate energy-healing rituals into your life that align with this moment’s generous and grateful energy. One effective ritual is to create a corn husk doll. Harvest. While making the doll, put all your intentions for the next months into it. Give it your concentrated energy and make it positive. This is about so much more than just making a doll.

Integrating thankfulness into your writing during the Corn Moon can intensify the effects of your energy-healing practices. Start by dedicating time each evening to reflect on the day’s events. Make note of three things you’re grateful for, however tiny, that happened during the day. As simple as it sounds, this act is powerful because it directly shifts your mindset from scarcity to abundance. A mindset of abundance naturally attracts more positive things into your life.

In addition, consider composing a letter to the universe in which you express gratitude for both the gifts you have received and those you anticipate in the future. Such a letter can be a powerful manifestation tool, making your desires even more concrete and present. Writing to the universe can also help you tune into the Corn Moon energy.

Melding energy healing practices with a journaling ritual focused on thankfulness yields uncommon growth. Of course, everything is connected regarding how we grow, especially when discussing practices that foster spiritual and personal development. Still, it’s worth highlighting this uncommon route, which combines energy work, writing, and gratitude. Abundance, nature, and cycles are everything right now.

Reflection and Journaling

Personal growth benefits from reflecting because it forces one to stop and think, with intention, about the things one has experienced, thought, and felt to this point in life. When doing this, one attempts to gain some insight about oneself. While practicing the art of reflection, what is done in this moment is akin to going very slowly over a speed bump. This experience demands much more thought and allows one to access parts of the mind that are not typically called to service and to make connections that are not usually made. You will be able to immediately see where you need to make plans for life changes and goal setting.

One tool (of many) suitable for this kind is a guided journal. Journals that have prompts in them that will foster your journey deep into your mind to find the good stuff. You might see some questions like, “What challenges did I have this week, and how did I respond in my thoughts and actions?” This is a good self-reflection question because it forces you to review your essential human reactions. What are you most grateful for on your birthday this Friday or this year? This makes people focus their sights on the positive things in their lives. This encourages you to foster an “attitude of gratitude” and will help you keep living and building a fantastic quality called resilience.

Like us, you will see other questions on the journal pages that will have you digging deep. Journaling your thoughts from one day when you learned something big will be good. Again, what valuable morsels of great insight could you get from doing this thinking regularly as a practice?

“Traditional in September, the Corn Moon” represents abundance and the hard work it took to get there. It’s not about the hustle, and it’s not about the struggle, it’s about the yield. It’s about looking at the seeds of your work. What are your fruits? The Corn Moon is a time for personal growth and goal setting for the rest of the year. Not only do we sit and enjoy the spoils so far, but we also set our intentions for the continued Harvest to come, and we use those significant spoils as a part of that. It’s a back-end-front-end scenario that turns it into reality and your desires into manifestation.

It’s a great time to get the New Moon Journal at Namaste Studios! It is a great journaling tool for anyone interested in doing more New Moon intention journal writing and coming up with a consistently clear set of Moon intentions each New Moon. Their structured New Moon prompts and writing formulas not only help them get clear about their intentions, but they also help them create the path to get there. Their journal has been helpful for them in documenting their intended personal growth, from intention to reality. It’s a private but powerful glimpse into the “Me” they intend.

This is an excellent time of year to get the New Moon Journal on Amazon. And make sure that you get the “discounted price” too. But, if you want to come onto “the path” of Harvest, keep all your abundance intact, you should get in on this New Moon, this New “Harvest” Moon. 

To learn more, visit our Moon Journal Blogs at Namaste Studios or buy a New Moon Journal on Amazon or our Namaste Studios Bookstore. 

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