It might sound witchy-woo, but I am holding a manifesting ceremony at an abundance altar that I have created in the furthest left-hand corner of my open-plan living area in the run-up to the 15 June super new moon.
I know that it’s an unconventional way to try to bring money into my life, but I am sick to death of the cost of living crisis, and want to bring in abundance.
Any new moon is known in astrology and wellness communities as the universe’s powerful “reset button”, but the energy of a super new moon supposedly just ramps it all up a notch – and is believed to supercharge manifesting.
Why not give it a go, I asked myself. My two children, Lola, 10, and Liberty, eight, can’t wait to join in as they love magic, spells, potions – and all things Harry Potter. As we sit in a moon circle and close our eyes, I feel open to the process.
I have sought guidance from moon mentor, soul allignment and spiritual coach, Kirsty Gallagher, who is the bestselling author of books including 2025’s Your Cosmic Path and is host of The Kirsty Gallagher Podcast, where she gives weekly astro-forecasts, as well as a mentor on Lunar Living, an online members club, where at each new and full moon, she advises on how to use the astrological energies.
During a supermoon, the lunar satellite is at a stage where it’s closest to Earth. Astrologers believe this proximity makes the energetic pull of the fresh start feel much more intense and magnetic. “Just as the new supermoon exerts a bigger gravitational pull on the tides, it will have a deeper effect on us,” Gallagher tells me. And although there are five new supermoons this year, she says, this week’s one is particularly potent for amplifying intentions.
“In the days running up to this new supermoon, Uranus, the planet of freedom, liberation and awakening, meets the lunar nodes of destiny and fate – the pathway where the sun and moon cross – which makes this moon a call with destiny,” explains Gallagher.
“It’s calling us into our higher souls’ evolution and growth. It’s a real wake-up call to move into more trust and to follow our intuition and have faith its all going to work out.”
She advises me to really sit with myself for a few days and take stock before the super new moon during what is known as “the dark moon”, the phase of the lunar cycle when the moon is completely invisible from Earth, lasting between one and a half to three and a half days.
“This is where we really tend to go into the energetic and emotional part of the lunar cycle,” she tells me, “and it brings up all the things that don’t seem to be going the way we want them to. It’s a time to really look at what is getting in the way and what we don’t want, so when we come into the new moon – we flip it into what do you really want.”
The June 15 super new moon is also a major focal point for communication because it occurs in the zodiac sign of Gemini, known as the chief communicator of the zodiac.
“As the new supermoon appears, its ruler Mercury, the planet of communication, is moving towards Jupiter, the planet of expansion and abundance,” says Gallagher.
“This is what gives our intentions real power because what we speak to the universe at this moon is going to be really amplified.”
But, she says, I need to be exact about what I am asking for. “This is a moon that is saying you’ve got to be very deliberate now about what you want. And it’s asking us to really understand the power that our thoughts, beliefs and words have to shape our reality. So this is a moon that says don’t just be vague, saying: ‘Oh, I’d quite like this or that’ – get really clear and precise,” she says.
She suggests that I come up with three intentions to manifest – including an easy one to boost my confidence in the moon’s manifesting potential.
“Most people want a new house and a new relationship,” she tells me. “Or they try to put 17 intentions out there – and you are unlikely to achieve that many.”
It’s good to have a few smaller asks, she says: “Something little that will bring you joy?” But I go full throttle – and want to ask for one thing only: a sizeable chunk of money: in fact, the random figure of £600,000.
As per her instructions, I’ve placed candles, a yellow citrine crystal, which is used for manifesting wealth, abundance, and positive energy, as well as a pile of banknotes on the altar to symbolise abundance.
My children collect a few more crystals, including pyrite for fortune, abundance and confidence and a plastic Disney princess symbolising regal richness.
“You can even write yourself out an imaginary little cheque from the universe for the exact amount that you want,” Gallagher tells me – but she adds: “It has to feel believable” so that it doesn’t produce a “disconnect”, explaining to me: “It’s not enough to think it, you have to be able to feel it as if it has already happened.”
I know that many people are sceptical about manifesting, but I first tried it about 15 years ago when I began meditating and visualising my perfect life – one in which I’d have a baby with the love of my life, Alex, which did in fact happen.
Whether the manifesting helped or not, it certainly focused my attention on the mission ahead. I held a picture of it in my mind so firmly that it almost became part of my very being – and at times, I felt like I was living in a bubble.
I had to keep my positive vibrations high and maintain a state of joy, gratitude and expectancy in order to con my brain into believing I had already achieved my dream. It’s based on the “law of attraction”, a concept brought to worldwide attention in a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne called The Secret, which claims that one’s thoughts and feelings can directly influence external reality. Gallagher’s way sounds similar but with the extra oomph of harnessing the moon’s energy.
But, according to Gallagher, I need to get to the bottom of what it is I really want at a deeper level. I’m not a shallow person who only cares about money. Nor am I going to use manifesting as a way to live in denial about the reality of my finances. It’s just I feel I have so much abundance already in my life in the form of friends, family and experiences, that the only thing that is missing is a windfall – and I think that is the solution to my problems.
Gallagher asks me if it is really safety and security that I am craving. “You need to get to the centre of what it is,” she says, “and it’s this feeling that you want to start to manifest from. What it would feel like in your body to have that money? That’s what you want to lean into.”
Now armed with a deep feeling of gratitude and relief at not having money problems, we sit in a “moon circle”. The new supermoon is above us in the sky, and as the candles flicker in the wind, I recite a simple affirmation in the present tense (as if it has happened): “I am so grateful for the £600,000 that is flowing into my life easily and effortlessly.”
However, I’ve been advised to add in a little waiver. “Whenever I do intentions like this,” Gallagher says, “I always ask for this or something better, so you give the universe space. It can come to you in different ways than you’ve imagined,” she says. This avoids “strangulation”, she says, because the universe might be saying, hang on, there’s £2m over here, if only we’d listen.
Every day over the waxing moon – a roughly two-week period when the new moon moves to a full moon – I must light the candle and sit with the crystal to keep amplifying those intentions and read the affirmation.
It’s unlikely, she says, although not impossible, that in one lunar cycle, I’m going to immediately manifest a huge chunk of money. “It might be something you want to work with over two or three lunar cycles, so then you keep an eye on your thought patterns,” she says, noting that it’s imperative to recognise when negative thoughts get in the way, or that little voice of lack comes in, that could stop it from happening.
The aim is to recognise when negative thoughts are running the show, she says – and change that. That’s what I’m going to need to work on in the waning moon, so that when the next new moon comes around, I’m ready to go again.
Gallagher says this practice of looking at oneself every new and full moon is “a constant evolutionary process where we are getting to know ourselves on a deeper level” – and a total game changer.
Even for those who don’t believe in the moon’s power, she says that by checking in with yourself and what you want twice a month, your life would change in ways you can’t even imagine yet.
But for those who do believe in co-creating with the new moon, working with its energies to produce change is a no-brainer.
“The moon turns the tides on the Earth; it’s the moon that keeps the gravitational pull and keeps the Earth on its axis, so I think it’s almost arrogant of us to think that the moon has no effect on us as humans,” says Gallagher.
“It’s an immense tool of self-empowerment, awareness and self-growth. Every new moon you have a completely new blank state to start again.”
I hope to have beginner’s luck and manifest money with great ease. I keep telling myself that the sky is the limit. Anything is possible with a new supermoon – and even if it isn’t, it’s a lovely idea. Manifesting is fun – and if it brings me closer to what I need, then all the better.
