Quick Specs
- Brand: Escential Essences
- Type: Scented stick incense
- Tagline: Isis
- Count: 95-100 sticks per package
- Made: Hand-dipped in the USA
- Cruelty-free: Yes
A Perfumed Stick for the Moon’s Monthly Cycle
Moon Goddess is a perfumed blend on the sweet side, with the tagline Isis, and it suits a practice that repeats every month. The moon gives you a built-in calendar: a new moon to begin something, a full moon to look back from, and a stretch of waxing and waning nights in between. A large pack matches that rhythm. You can light a stick at every new and full moon for years without counting, and still have sticks left for the nights between. A white candle, a glass of water, and a stone or two are enough to turn a shelf into a moon altar. Set the stick beside the candle and the water. Whether you set intentions in a notebook, sit outside for ten minutes, or only glance at the moon from a window, the stick gives the evening a clear start. Because the scent leans sweet, it works well indoors, when the windows are shut and a soft fragrance is welcome. The moon is also the one clock everyone shares: people everywhere see the same phase on the same night.
A monthly practice needs a shape, and one stick can supply it. At the new moon, when the moon is invisible, keep things small: light the stick, write a few intentions, and fold the page into your notebook. At the full moon, when the moon is at its brightest, look back: what grew, what stalled, and what’s ready to go. A new moon and a full moon fall about two weeks apart, so the month has two natural stopping points. Between those two nights, the stick can mark smaller gestures, such as a card pulled on the first evening you can see the crescent, or a short walk when the moon is high. What matters is that the month has a recognizable beat, and that you return to it. If you track the cycle in a calendar or journal, jot the date beside a line about how the month went, and the stick becomes the cue for that entry. If the weather hides the sky on the night you planned, light it anyway, because a cloudy night is still the night of the moon.
Practical Ritual Applications
Light a stick at the new moon while you write three intentions for the month, and another at the full moon while you list what you’re ready to release. Burn one beside your deck when you pull a card for the evening; if you read with the moon cards, my tarot decks and divination collection has decks for it. Keep a pack in a drawer by the altar and mark the cycle on your calendar so each moon night arrives with a stick already waiting. Light one after dinner on a moon night while you clear the table and lower the lights. If you can see the sky, set a glass of water where the moonlight falls and burn the stick beside it. For friends who keep a moon altar, tie a few sticks with ribbon as a small gift.
How to Burn Moon Goddess Incense for a Moon-Night Ritual
Three steps give a moon night a simple opening, middle, and close.
- Choose the night and set the table
Check the date of the new or full moon and give yourself an unhurried evening. Set a stick holder on a flat, heat-safe surface near a window if you can see the sky, with a notebook, a candle, and a card or two. Keep the candle and the holder apart, and clear of paper and fabric. Open a window slightly for airflow.
- Light the stick and set your focus
Light the tip, and when it begins to smoke, wave the flame out and place the stick upright in the holder. At a new moon, write a short list of what you'd like to begin. At a full moon, write what you're ready to finish or release. Keep each list short enough to read aloud in one breath.
- Close the evening
When you're finished, put the stick out in a dish of sand, and empty the holder when the ash is cool. Stay near it until it's done. Fold the new-moon list into your notebook, or at the full moon, tear the release list into pieces and discard it, then blow out the candle.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
Moon practice runs on a calendar, so I carry Moon Goddess in the bulk pack: a stick ready for every new and full moon, with plenty left for the nights between. The pack is large enough to last for years of moon nights, so you can build the habit without ever watching the count. The same blend is also available as cones and as a fragrance oil. For other items to build a moon altar, browse my moon products collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Partly, and later than many people expect. In Egypt, Isis was known mainly as a mother and protector tied to the Osiris myth, and by Ptolemaic times (305 to 30 BCE) she was linked with rain, the sun, and the moon, possibly through the Greek lunar goddess Artemis. Greeks and Romans often called her a moon goddess and read her cow-horn headdress as a crescent moon.
Many readers do. On a full moon they set the deck on a windowsill or outdoors so it sits in the moonlight, a method often called a moon bath. It's one of several cleansing methods readers use, alongside smoke from incense or herbs, salt, and fresh air. Check the weather first so the cards stay dry and don't blow away, and bring them in before morning.
About 29.5 days from one new moon to the next, according to NASA. The moon takes about 27.3 days to circle Earth, but 29.5 days to return to the same phase. The cycle has eight phases, from new moon through full moon and back, so new and full moons fall about two weeks apart.
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