The Bone Moon, and Getting Bare
Stripping Down. Remembering. Returning to What Is Real.
February’s full moon is known as the Bone Moon.
A name that doesn’t soften itself for comfort. A name that tells the truth.
This is the moon of what remains when everything unnecessary has been stripped away. When the noise quiets. When the masks fall. When the body stands alone in its most honest form, asking not to be fixed, but to be witnessed.
Winter has taken what it needed.
What is left is bone, breath, and truth.
The Bone Moon’s Energy
The Bone Moon does not ask you to add more.
She asks you to let go.
This moon illuminates where you’ve been carrying stories that were never yours. Expectations. Shame. Beauty standards passed down, absorbed, inherited without consent. She invites you to lay them down gently and see what remains when they are no longer gripping your skin.
You may feel a pull toward simplicity. Toward quiet. Toward the raw edges of yourself that don’t perform, don’t explain, don’t apologize. This moon works in the body more than the mind. In sensation. In instinct. In the places you feel before you think.
Bone as Symbol
Bone is not fragile.
Bone is structure. Memory. Survival.
It holds you upright. It remembers every version of you that made it through. The Bone Moon reminds us that beneath every layer we’ve added to be accepted, there is a body that has always known how to exist without permission.
To stand in your bare flesh under this moon is not exposure.
It is reclamation.
Journal Prompts for the Bone Moon
Let your answers be raw. Let them be real.
What am I still carrying that was never truly mine?
Who would I be if I stopped trying to be palatable?
Where have I learned to disconnect from my body, and why?
What remains when I strip away expectations, roles, and fear?
How does my body want to be seen, remembered, honored?
Write until your body exhales.
A Bone Moon Prayer / Mantra
Read aloud or place a hand over your heart.
I release what does not belong to me.
I stand in my truth without adornment or apology.
My body is not a battleground, it is a home.
In my bare flesh, I remember who I am.
I choose presence over perfection.
Let this settle into your bones.
Boudoir Under the Bone Moon
The Bone Moon is one of the most powerful times to book a boudoir session.
This is not about costumes or performance.
This is about essence.
Sessions influenced by this moon tend to be deeply grounding and profoundly healing. Clients often arrive more open, more embodied, more willing to be seen without armor. The images created during this time carry a quiet intensity. They feel honest. Unfiltered. Sacred.
Seeing yourself in your bare flesh, without the stories layered on top, can be one of the most powerful acts of self-return. It is often in this stripped state that the deepest healing happens. Not because anything is changed, but because everything false is released.
If you have been dreaming of a boudoir session as a way to come home to yourself, the Bone Moon is your sign.
This is not about becoming something new.
It is about remembering what has always been there.
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