Ripe Berries Moon, August 9

This Ripe Berries Moon is a time of beginning the harvesting of fruits and vegetables that have been growing since the spring. What is available now to begin to pick or harvest that has grown to fruition?

This Ripe Berries Moon is a time of beginning the harvesting of fruits and vegetables that have been growing since the spring. A more thorough harvest will occur later in the year before the first frost in the fall. Contemplate what you’ve planted this spring, nurtured this summertime. What is available now to begin to pick or harvest that has grown to fruition?

It’s important to recognize that this Ripe Berries Moon harvest is a continuous process, because all the berries do not become ripe at the same time. Therefore, it’s a time of reflection on your nurturing process to see what is available to harvest; harvest; then wait another day or so before reflecting and harvesting again. This periodic and continuous process may not be how you’ve organized your harvesting. So allow yourself to reconstruct your mindset and expectations.

We’ve asked throughout this year what do you have planted and what is growing? Now is the time to begin to harvest those ripe berries. Remember that if you’re unhappy with what you’re harvesting, then you need to reconsider what you plant next spring, because what we grow comes from our seeds, not the plant or its resulting fruit. Even this simple concept can be hard to remember when you’ve spent a long time working towards something (i.e., growing the plant) to realize that if the fruit is sparse in harvesting, you may have originally seeded the plant with inner beliefs of unworthiness or scarcity. If you started with beliefs of unworthiness or scarcity, then the result will follow.

So enjoy your harvesting of those ripe berries this moon.

Next Month: Harvest Moon on September 7