October 17th designates the start of the hunt! This is the time of year when many people fill up their pantries and freezers with a surplus for a long hibernation. But what about spiritual storage? Are our hearts, minds, and souls prepared to endure this winter season?
While many full moon “rituals” typically involve releasing things that no longer serve us, I don’t think we spend enough time focusing on the things we DO want. There’s great power in clarifying our deepest desires, then believing that they’re already ours! Rather than emptying ourselves of any excess, let’s use this Full Hunter’s moon to be filled with our most precious longings. After all, it is more important to be full than to be empty…
Consider this lesson in Matthew 12:43-45 that warns us of how demons can multiply within the emptiness of a vessel (us.)
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
Now compare emptiness to fullness with Malachi 3:10:
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. ‘Test me in this,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.'”
This passage is explaining that if one demon is removed from our inner house and we keep that place empty, it will return with 7 more. The Holy Spirit wants to completely fill us up, leaving no room for any evil to enter. So, let’s focus on ways we can be full during this moon by looking through the metaphysical scope at our “prey”— the objects of our deepest desires. This aim will turn us into precision marksmen!
Activity:
Let us begin with this verse…
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.” – Hebrews 11:1 KJV
There’s a lot of meaning in this one short sentence! Faith is produced AFTER we hope for something, DURING the time that it hasn’t come to fruition yet. It is within this empty space that our faith should be the fullest. How powerful! But is our faith big enough to fill ALL the crevasses of “things not seen?”
Our visualization exercise is in fact a measurement of our faith because, you see… the extent of our desires and dreams can only go as far as our faith will take us. That means the ability to “see” our dreams will end at the very place our faith ends. Knowing this, have you limited yourself in what you believe can be true for your life, thus clouding over the view through your scope? Where is this place that your faith has stopped, and why will you not go any further? Pause here and reflect on these questions.
Now, begin to imagine the world you want to live in tomorrow and forget all the yesterdays. The Holy Spirit is alive and working miracles every single day. Ask for the things you truly want without any worldly limitations! Hope for the things not seen by realizing that faith IS THE EVIDENCE of all that has yet to manifest. Live each day as though God has already answered your prayers and watch as your dreams, that once seemed so far away, begin to materialize into your reality.
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” –Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV
Use this Full Hunter’s Moon to push through any limiting thoughts or beliefs about what you can have for your life or who you can become. There are no boundaries when co-creating with God. He has no limits to what He can do within us and for us, and He is the ultimate hunting buddy! After all, God was lining you up for success the whole time you were fumbling through the weeds of doubt… True faith is believing that you were always on the mark.
So, adjust your scope and extend your aim deep into the unknown. When you can visualize the target by faith alone, take the shot!
With Love, Michelle
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Extra: The Sagittarius (me) is the Archer of the zodiac… Queen of the hunt.
