The Full Moon in January is also known as the Quiet Moon, like the New Moon this is a time for introspection. Save your energy, stop worrying about others and concentrate on yourself. That's right, if ever there were a time to be selfish this would be it.
The Quiet Moon is a time of protection and strength. While it is the first full Moon of the calendar year, in terms of nature it occurs in the middle of the cold winter season, a season of death and desolation. In these respects, the Quiet Moon can be seen as a time of both beginnings and endings. This is the time to start to consider what you want to plant and plan for the spring.
Being a full moon it is the time to banish or make right, which as it occurs 13 times in a year makes a little bit of variety important. So aside from your normal magick workings you may try something from a different tradition.
The Blot (pronounced Bloat)
Traditionally a practice of the winter solstice among the Asatru. But you may find similar practices among many other branches of Paganism. In its simplest form a blot is making a sacrifice to the Gods. In the old days this was done by feasting on an animal consecrated to the Gods and then slaughtered. As we are no longer farmers and our needs are simpler today, the most common blot is an offering of mead or other alcoholic beverage to the deities, the practice of making a plate for the Gods is also done.
As I am not Asatru in my family and circle we do a mead pass, accompanied with story telling in either the spring or deep winter.
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