Birch Moon

The Birch Moon is in the Celtic Tree Month of Birtch from December 24-January 20th

The Birch Moon prepares us for the journey through the year ahead. Purification and protection rituals are common practices as the year again beings its waxing phase.

Prepare yourself for things to come by making a birch broom. For the shaft choose any branch or dowel two to four feet long. Attach birch twigs to one end using twine. Light thirteen candles, one for each of the thirteen Celtic Tree Months.

Ryhamticaly tap the broom over your body to purify your spirit and to graner a protective force around you. Think of losing the uneasy and unsettled elements of the past year while gaining those needed to make this year better. As you do this chant:

Broom and birch my spirit free;
preparing me for what may be;
the past is done, the future unformed;
with purity and protection my path adorned.