Embrace the Wolf Moon: Set Intentions and Achieve SMART Goals with the New Moon Journal

By Dennis Bluthardt at Namaste Studios

Traditionally observed in January, the Wolf Moon is a beautiful and powerful sight. The naming of this full moon dates to indigenous tribes in the U.S and has deep roots in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic history. Of course, the name derives from the howling wolves that would gather during the winter nights. At Namaste Studios, they created the New Moon Journal to guide you through setting intentions each month. Intentions are unlike our everyday “to-dos” as they align with the bigger picture or our “why.” As you harness the energy of this Wolf Moon, allow those items or “what” to be born.

Enjoy their list below of items to consider during this new moon phase! Ultimately, our greatest success and ability to shed possibly old and unwanted identities is to journal in the first person as if these attributes are already yours. Namely, in this phase, consider bringing those items “to the surface,” or the known, whereas, in the full Wolf Moon, those are ready for action in one’s immediate environment, or what we call the seen.

Your Aspirations

Safe, productive, analytical, practical, honest, patient

Your Values

Connection, raw, rare, readable, happiness, hope, humanity, hunger, humility, proper, respectful

Yearly Theme

I am Beyonce!

Your Soul’s Desire (calling)

Find myself through the joy of inspiring and motivating people with my writing.

This week, try sitting with your favorite journal each night or just before you close your eyes at the end of the day. Sit and observe the Wolf Moon. Focus on your intention list and embrace the lunar phase of this magical and captivating object overhead: The Wolf Moon.

The New Moon Journal by Namaste Studios

The New Moon Journal allows for more than dreaming. This book is a potent tool for change and a great aide for writing one’s life story. Its pages are filled with good prompts, urging the writer to find a more precise direction. It is partitioned into sections for each moon’s stages, which can be used for nightly reflections, weekly check-ins, and (if desired) intention mapping. Now is the time when the theme of the lunar month is chosen for you based on the qualities of the current New Moon sign. The theme of the New Moon sign creates the container, personal intention, and lens through which you want to view your growth for the month.

The Wolf Moon Energy is intuitive, expressive, strong-willed, and nurturing, which will make for some fun, interactive journaling. You are just saying your current outlook on life and what you want to attract more than anything else. As the month goes on, watch these intentions play out in your life overall and start to make yourself more aware of the effects of the moon phase energy on you.

What Are Wolf Moon Intentions?

They are your outlook and what you want to manifest or attract more of in your life. Grab your pen, start writing, and see what comes to mind! Most people find at least one identifiable thread around personal or spiritual growth or development.

Understanding the Wolf Moon

Often, you’d hear wolves howling during the cold winter nights of January, the traditional full moon. Historically, this marks a time when Native American tribes would go hunting and gathering in the moon’s brilliant light. The moon just finished being ‘reborn’ after the Winter Solstice/new year. The days are starting to lengthen while this full moon is waning visibly.

You can remember your link to our personal energy and emotional states. Are you full of feelings like longer energy? If you were to look at some of the ‘release and renewal’ themes, for people who let their gaze linger on the Wolf Moon, many say, ‘This inner call makes it a natural companion for the year’s intention setting.’ Others claim that as the Sun begins to ‘fill back up’ or wax, its light shines on our path. You also find the courage to release thoughts, relationships, and situations that drain your energy and distract you from your goals.

Another group says the Wolf Moon helps us remember personal energy-increasing tasks. This moves back toward manifestation makes intentions for the year more visible. Maybe, too, others hope to align more and more of those measurable intentions with the year’s eight phases of the Sun. I love that! I mean, there are so many clubs. Why not ‘thee?’

Releasing What No Longer Serves You

The Wolf Moon usually appears in January and carries a message: it’s time to let go! As the year’s first full moon, this moon prompts us to release anything that no longer serves us. 

Think of any negativity or limiting beliefs you may have acquired in the 12 months prior–now is the time to let them go! This will help you release “everyday baggage” from your life to have a clear and open mindset for the coming months.

To maximize this release, do some grounding exercises! Grounding helps you root deeply into the Earth and access more of Earth’s solid, physical, and grounding energy. Some easy grounding exercises are.

• Physically standing with your feet on the ground.
• Visualizing roots shooting out of the bottom of your feet.
• Breathing deeply while feeling the sensation of the Earth beneath your feet.

These are easy exercises that you can do to help you ground your energy for the Wolf Moon! As you ground yourself, see all that old baggage leaving your system. See those roots climbing out of your stomach and grounding into the Earth. This will help you stop “digesting” someone else’s attitude or issue so you can refocus on yourself more clearly.

Practicing Meditation and Energy Healing

When you next gaze up at the nighttime sky’s glittering stars, I encourage you to imagine yourself soaring through the Universe’s ether and intimately associate the adventure with how powerful and meaningful you genuinely are.

Our poets, novelists, and lyricists all agree with that symbology. “All true,” you think, “But which stars are mine?”

Stay tuned, because I’m going to explain the precise astral association and its fascinating mythological symbology.

As you’ll discover, reading a few paragraphs about what to know about your birth’s coming astronomy is viewing provocative power fantasies that, when explored in depth, result in deep new insights, a wonderful sense of happiness, and the total validation of your lifestyle choices.

For Saga readers inspired by my list of greeting cards celebrating what Marilyn Monroe taught me about wearing MIND in the world, you already know your book is a Do-It-Yourself hybrid, where those around you benefit from your excellent astral references.

Cultivating Gratitude and Reflection

Gratitude helps us shift from not having enough to having more than we need. Yet, it is not something that we are hardwired to do. We must consciously practice more gratitude to have a happier, more content mindset, positively shaping our reality. Focus on what you must be grateful for today and every day. This practice takes a lackluster life and refines it into a life one is happy to live!

The New Moon Journal intends to support you in practicing more personal growth introspection. Look at the questions/practices for this lunar phase. Do them. Then repeat them for each new moon going forward. Learn more about the practices. You’ll be amazed at what you learn about yourself.

Acknowledge your wins. Acknowledge your lessons. Run! Learn! Leap! Everyone must do more of this if they hope to form the lives that they want to live. Know what you did. Get quiet. Practice introspection. Document yourself.

The Wolf Moon in January: Traditionally, among other meanings for various cultures, it symbolizes the wolf itself. The relentless, badass wolf animal is a sign of strength and champions itself by its respected wolf pack.

A Full Moon Ritual: As you sit by the fire and ponder, what will your inner change be? New Moon Journals, also by yours truly, will transform, for the better, how you enter this year, ready to publicly howl about an adventure you just unexpectedly dreamed up while huddling around a campfire with your best friends.

Also, here are a few helpful tips: I received a few emails this past week about the increasing interest in the new moon. Well, not the new moon you see often, but a journal about a new moon may be appropriate as it is “new.” If I put this here, it is a journal.

New Year Transformation: My intentions, what the hell are they? I don’t know what your mind is saying right now, and I don’t know if you enjoy confusing-type jokes like me, but I have undone the evildoing of quickly not finding a ‘new moon quote’ on Amazon.”

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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