Full Moon Fire Ceremony 🔥🌕 Cold Moon

6:45 for 7 pm start. Full Moon Fire Ceremony 🔥🌕
Our local Shaman friend Shannon O'Flaherty, who has led some lovely rituals and ceremonies for our Conscious Cafe Skipton community on the year's quarter days, regularly offers a Full Moon Ceremony in her garden in Ilkley. She is inviting you to join her. She usually holds these on the actual Full Moon day or a few day's either side.
The Cold Full Moon rises in the quiet stillness of winter, when the days are shortest, the nights are longest, and the air is crisp with reflection. Its name comes from the time of year when the cold truly settles in—both in nature and often in our routines—slowing us down and calling us inward.
Spiritually, the Cold Moon is a beautiful invitation to pause, reflect, and restore. It’s about stillness, inner wisdom, and embracing the quiet. This moon encourages you to take a breath, look back at your year, and honor all that you’ve been through—every step, every stumble, every soul-growing moment.
Symbolically, the Cold Moon represents completion, clarity, and inner light. In the darkness of winter, it glows with a quiet strength, reminding you that your light still shines—no matter how cold or dark the world may seem. It’s about finding warmth within, trusting your inner compass, and recognizing the beauty in simply being.
This moon whispers:
Rest is sacred. Stillness is strength. And your soul knows the way.
It’s the perfect time for gentle self-care, heartfelt reflection, and setting intentions—not in a rushed or pressured way, but with calm, deliberate love. The Cold Moon doesn’t ask you to do more—it asks you to listen more deeply.
Shannon says: "Acknowledging the presence of the Full Moon is about ending one cycle and beginning a new one. To let go, invite in, find balance and connect with your higher knowing and connection to Source. Fire 🔥 transmutes heavy energy to light! It’s amazing how much taking things to the fire can alter your life! 🙏💜 "

Bring a small stick about the size of a pencil.
WEATHER NOTE: Although the fire ceremony dates are all on Meetup fixed in advance, as we get close to the evening, if big rain is forecast for that particular night, Shannon may advocate a date change to a dry night as all the events are outside in her garden!

Venue is Chez Shannon's in Ilkley. House number given to those who book. Please arrive at 6.45pm for a prompt 7pm start. Depending on the numbers, the ceremony will be over within 2 hours leaving time for a hot drink and review.
A donation of £5 is requested for this offering to cover hospitality and Meetup costs.