05/08/2026
Our New Moon offering will be a 2 part Ritual experience.
The Greeks called it the Noumenia. Not a “new moon ritual.” A feast.
On the dark of the moon, the ancient Athenian household would kindle fresh fire, dress the home altar & lay offerings before Hekate at the threshold, not to ask for things, but to honor the moment when the lunar month died & was not yet reborn.
Hekate’s Deipnon (her Supper) was left at the crossroads the night BEFORE the Noumenia, the very darkest night. Scraps from the household table, torches, eggs, garlic. Not glamorous. Purposefully not glamorous. The offering was about clearing the psychic debt of the past month, not manifesting the next one.
The Noumenia that followed was for beginnings. But you had to do the clearing first.
With a New Moon falling at the Uranus threshold, the night of May 15 is your Deipnon. Go to your crossroads, literal or liminal & leave what belongs to the past 8 years behind. The garlic is still appropriate.
May 16 is for planting.
What’s the difference between your Deipnon & your Noumenia practice?