Lunar Leadings
Reclaiming Wild Wisdom Through Full Moon Ritual & Sacred Earth Connection (2025)
Walking with the Moon, the Sacred, and the Wild
“The moon has long been a timekeeper for Earth-honoring peoples. Lunar calendars once guided harvests, ceremonies, and communal gatherings. Even ancient Hebrew traditions tethered festivals and offerings to the moon’s rhythm: ‘God made the moon to mark the seasons...’ (Psalm 104:19). The moon, then, is not only a celestial body—it is a sacred way-marker.”
Step into the quiet
guidance of the moons
Let your soul attune to the rhythms of Earth, sky, and story. Lunar Leadings is an invitation to wander with the moon as teacher, companion, and mirror—inviting reflection, devotion, and the rewilding of both heart and imagination.
Within these pages you will find:
Reflections drawn from land, water, and sky, woven with myth, memoir, and the whispering wisdom of more-than-human companions.
Gentle prompts and invitations to mark the cycles of the year, honor your inner life, and cultivate a sacred dialogue with the world around you.
Communal practices to carry your awareness beyond the page—to friends, neighbors, and the wider web of life—deepening your sense of belonging to the Sacred Earth.
This is a book for anyone ready to slow, listen, and return to an animate world alive with wonder. To let the moon lead. To let longing and curiosity, story and ritual, open the way to the sacred in every day, in every season.
Lunar Leadings is a spiritual practice and framework that offers a full-moon wheel of learning, knowing, and loving through ritual, ceremony, and practice.
What’s inside
12 Full Moon Reflections
Personal Reflections & Rituals
Communal Expressions & Ceremonies
Bioregional Prompts
Instructions to Create Your Personal Full Moon Phenology Wheel
Lunar Leadings is for anyone—individuals, families, and communities—ready to reconnect their rituals to the wild, radiant liturgy read by the moon and the land around them.
It’s perfect for personal spiritual practice, offering guidance to attune to seasonal rhythms and celestial cycles.
For families, it provides playful, nature-based rituals that engage curiosity, wonder, and a sense of sacred connection—without the need for religious structure.
And for small groups, it opens a path to rewild shared faith or spiritual practice, inviting participants to see play, meals, and acts of service as forms of worship, praise, and communion with the more-than-human world.
Meet the Author
Mary DeJong is a contemplative mystic and spiritual ecologist, eco-spiritual companion, and storyteller who weaves spiritual practice, ecology, and myth into everyday life. For the past twelve years, following the birth of her daughter, Mary has been tracking the full moons with her family as a form of a wild and cosmic liturgical calendar—a practice that grounds them in the rhythms of the natural world. Drawing on her eco-theological work and Celtic spiritual lineage, Mary integrates the underlying premises that the Earth is sacred and that our lives unfold within a sacred evolutionary cosmology. This vision naturally shaped her family’s spiritual practices, allowing the cycles of the moon to become a guiding rhythm for reflection, celebration, and communal attunement to the wild and wondrous world around them.
Mary holds a B.A. in English Literature; a Master’s in Theology & Culture with a focus on Eco-Theology and Eco-Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology; post-graduate certificates in Ecology & Religion from Yale Divinity and Forestry Schools; and EcoPsychology and Advanced Applied Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has also completed the three-year cycle of the School of Celtic Consciousness with John Philip Newell, and trained with the Animas Valley Institute in the Way of Council and Art of Mirroring.
In Praise of
Lunar Leadings
“Lunar Leadings has reconnected me to the spiritual direction offered by moon and the seasons.”
“Mary’s Lunar Leadings reflections have been a quiet revolution in my life. Each moon cycle invites me to pause, notice, and attune to the rhythms of the world around me—and within me. I’ve shared these practices with my family, and they’ve become moments of connection, wonder, and play. This isn’t just a book; it’s a gentle guide to living in harmony with Our planet.”
“I’m so grateful for this book. Having a full year of simple, meaningful rituals we can do as a family—rituals that get us outside and help us feel connected to the Sacred—has been such a gift. Lunar Leadings has become a gentle guide for us, month after month.”
A Year-long Companion
“When we live disconnected from the natural world, both the Earth and our inner life suffer. But when we attune ourselves to the rhythms of creation, our inner life begins to sing in har- mony with the world around us. We begin to resonate. This attunement fosters attachment, creating a bridge be- tween our interior world and our outer relational con- text—a bridge that nurtures connection, responsiveness, safety, growth, and relational depth. These relational re- sponsibilities extend into a larger spiritual stewardship of the planet”
Lunar Leadings is not a book you rush through in a week—it’s a year-long companion, a guide to walking with the moon and the land, and to deepening your connection with the sacred rhythms of the natural world. Each chapter invites reflection, ritual, and attunement, and can be returned to again and again—perennial in its wisdom, playful and grounding in its practice.
When you purchase directly from my website, more of your investment comes back to me as the creator, helping me continue to make work like this. Thank you for supporting this work, for your curiosity, and for your commitment to living in harmony with the wild and sacred world.