Moon Water for a Dark Night of the Soul
Written By Brandi Fleck
This is information on how to make moon water to support healing while you’re going through a dark night of the soul, also known as rock bottom. This post includes a recipe and how to use it.
During a dark night of the soul—those rock-bottom moments when life feels its heaviest—you can still tap into light, clarity, and renewal. In this guide, you’ll learn how to make moon water specifically crafted for healing during these times, complete with a simple recipe, incantation, and ways to use it for deep spiritual transformation.
What Is Moon Water for the Dark Night of the Soul?
Moon water for the dark night of the soul is a specially charged water infused with the light and energy of the full moon, created with the intention of supporting you through life’s most challenging and transformative periods. Unlike standard moon water, which may be made for general cleansing, manifestation, everyday healing (such as rebalancing your energy or loving yourself more, for example), this blend is crafted to help you navigate deep emotional lows, process shadow work, and renew your spiritual strength.
Before You Begin
If this is your first time making moon water or you’re new to the practice, there are a few things you should know to get started.
Read My Moon Water Primer First (Optional but Recommended)
I recommend reading Everything You Need to Know About Moon Water before diving into this recipe. You’ll learn what moon water is, how it works, and how moon phases affect its energy. Understanding these basics will help you go deeper into your own recipes and rituals.
Know That Every Moon Water Is Unique
No two moon waters are exactly alike and neither are the people using them. The phase of the moon, your intentions, where you place your jar, and your unique healing needs all influence the results. You may not experience the same effects I did, and that’s okay.
Make It Your Own Practice
Consider this recipe a starting point. Observe what happens after using your moon water and jot down notes in a journal. Over time, you’ll discover your own patterns, preferences, and ways to adapt the process to your energy and gifts.
My First Moon Water Experience Under a Super Blue Moon
I decided to make moon water for the first time under the Super Blue Moon that occurred on August 19-20, 2024. It was large, bright, and packed quite a punch with potent feminine energy, so I couldn’t resist, even though I’d never done it before.
This particular moon water, I infused with intentions of health and prosperity. And while drinking it can help assist with healing, and we’ll talk about that a bit in this article, remember, I’m not a doctor and this is not medical advice.
I drank half of the moon water I made immediately after bringing it in. It was quite literally the best tasting and most refreshing water I had ever tasted. I could feel it trailing down my esophagus, lighting the passage to my stomach, and cooling inflammation in my lungs (which I’d been dealing with long after a bout of Covid over the summer). It felt extra special, cooling, and calming.
Then, I had a friend suddenly dip deeper into a dark night of the soul that’s she’s been in for a while. Her health is declining and doctors can’t figure out what is going on. Does this sound familiar to you? It seems to happen to so many of us who’ve experienced trauma, which eventually wreaks havoc on our bodies if we don’t release it—this is where many dark nights of the soul come from. I got the sense that I needed to gift her the other half of my moon water.
Before I drove it out to her, I contemplated how it could help her, and my guides came through with the incantations for supporting healing through the dark night of the soul. I wrote them down on a sticky note and headed to her house, an hour away.
Understanding the Dark Night of the Soul
A dark night of the soul can be different for everyone, but I tend to think, based on my own experience and the experiences of others that I’ve heard about, that the common thread is that it typically involves the journey down to rock bottom, being at rock bottom, and if you’re lucky, the ascent out.
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I love the subtly of words, and when we refer to “rock bottom” as a “dark night of the soul,” it implies that lessons are being learned on a deeper, soul level, that perhaps spans lifetimes—lifetimes that aren’t just yours, but also belonging to ancestors and lessons that have been trying to be resolved over lineages.
You don’t have to have experienced trauma to have a dark night of the soul, but based on the work I do with coaching and Reiki, I tend to believe everyone has experienced some form of trauma anyhow. If you feel you haven’t experienced trauma though, a dark night of the soul can be triggered by an existential crisis, identity crisis, or feeling like you don’t belong, for example. It can even be prompted by deciding you’re going to go on a spiritual journey and actively choosing to take on that path.
However, if you were abused, mistreated, or violated by someone, the dark night of the soul or rock bottom often happens afterward. Yes, the experience in itself was likely horrible, but the trauma in your body afterward creates the experience of rock bottom. Oftentimes being abandoned to cope alone, or cope at all, with extremely difficult experiences begins the descent into rock bottom.
While rock bottom can be different for everyone, it oftentimes includes experiences of chronic illness, divorce, dissolving relationships (familial or otherwise), addiction, homelessness, loneliness, and challenge after challenge that pushes us to our absolute limits. Rock bottom oftentimes includes feelings of helplessness, being a victim, mental distress, and inability to face emotions completely.
Rock bottom oftentimes presents a crossroads in our lives where we have a choice to climb out or stay put. And it’s not always that black and white. Sometimes the climb out involves falling back down, even multiple times, and hanging on to hope that you can try to climb out again and will eventually be successful.
The darkness in a dark night of the soul implies that shadow work is to be done…or undone. There’s an implication that this rough, lowly time period (or several) in one’s life serves a greater purpose and perhaps even gives our lives meaning.
Perhaps a dark night of the soul doesn’t have to be looked upon negatively. After all, night time in the physical world is not all bad. There is plenty of beauty to be had at night time. Without it, we’d never be able to see the moon in all it’s glory. Without it, certain animals and even flowers wouldn’t thrive. Without it, our circadian rhythm wouldn’t be what it is, and therefore, we’d likely not experience dreaming during sleep the way we do. Isn’t sleep and dreaming wonderful?
And if we apply the metaphor of nighttime to the dark night of the soul, perhaps being in this phase enables us to dream bigger and more fully. It allows us an occasion to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes.
As you begin to ascend from the dark night of the soul and see the light at the end of the tunnel, you begin to feel a sense of agency and sovereignty in your life that perhaps wouldn’t have come without dropping to rock bottom first.
This doesn’t mean that everyone has to hit rock bottom before growing, evolving, and using their agency in the world. It just means that if you have, you know what it feels like to experience hell and escape, to be renewed, and to choose to follow a different path.
If you feel like you’re at rock bottom, moon water isn’t a quick fix, but this recipe is for you. Use it consistently and over time to support your ascent (choosing a different path and breaking the cycles), and to learn the lessons that will heal the ages so we can move on to bigger and better things as a human collective.
Moon Water Recipe for Healing at Rock Bottom
Here are lists of ingredients you’ll need, step-by-step instructions for making the moon water and storing it properly, and recommendations for how to use the moon water complete with incantations and affirmations. Follow this recipe and you’ll be well on your way to a healing ritual you can recreate time and time again as needed.
Ingredients You’ll Need
Highly purified water—the fewer plastics and forever chemicals in it, the better
A sterilized, quart glass mason jar with lid
A full moon
A place where you can leave the water outside overnight that allows direct access to moonlight for 6-7 hours of a Super Moon or 8-9 hours on a normal full moon
Some shade is okay in general, but that changes the recipe
Doing this inside on a window sill is okay in general, but that also changes the recipe
To know when dawn occurs (it changes, so you’ll need to look it up for your specific day)
Alarm clock!
Important Instructions
Fill your container with purified water. If It’s going to be freezing temperatures, leave about 1/4 of the container empty in case the water freezes.
As you’re filling your container with the purified water, set your intentions for deeply healing for your highest good and the highest good of all. You can do this by thinking about it, feeling what it would feel like as if you’re already there, or you can even write your intentions down on a piece of paper before you pour the water into the container.
Seal the container. After the container is sealed, if you’d like to amplify the energy, use your dominant hand to continue tracing circles in the air in a clockwise motion around the top of the container, still focused on your intentions. Do this until it feels right to stop.
Set the container outside in the moon light. If you chose to write your intentions, you can fold the paper, taking care to fold it toward yourself each time you fold it and then set it underneath the glass jar.
Storage Guidelines
Store the moon water out of direct sunlight. If sunlight touches the water, the energy of the it will change. This isn’t always bad, but it does change the result, which could hinder your desired effect. Keeping it in a cool, dry place is best.
The sooner you drink it, the better. The further away from the full made under which it was made, the weaker the energy becomes.
Drink the moon water before the next full moon.
How to Use Moon Water for Emotional and Spiritual Growth
Once the moon water is ready, you can drink it! (Only drink it if you used clean water and a clean container, however!) You can drink it in small doses over the course of several weeks. I prefer to listen to my body and drink as much as my body wants. With this particular recipe, my body wanted so much of it! I drank almost half of it in one sitting by pouring it into a clean glass and resealing the jar when finished. And then the following day, I drank a little more before I was guided to gift it to a friend in need. You may not be guided to gift it to a friend in need like I was, and that’s okay too.
Incantation and Affirmation for Healing
Here’s what to do as you're preparing to drink the water, while you’re drinking the water, and after you’ve consumed it.
1. Before you drink the water, say this incantation:
“May the light of the moon guide me through the darkest time in my life, help me navigate through healing, and sustain me until the sun rises.”
2. As you’re drinking the water, visualize every cell in your body illuminating with bright white light.
3. Immediately after you drink the water and at anytime thereafter you need it, say this affirmation:
“The light of the moon guides the way through the darkness. Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
What to Expect After the Ritual
After you drink it, results vary! Results depend on where you’re at in your healing journey.
It’s important to pay attention to repeating patterns that are showing themselves to you and ask yourself what they are telling you.
Patterns and synchronicities can be subtle or in your face. But if it feels relevant and important, you can observe the feeling or what makes what you’re noticing a pattern and start making notes in your phone, journaling, or even by taking mental notes if you’ll remember. Doing this brings the shadow into the light—the unknown or unacknowledged into your awareness. Once you know that information, you can start to integrate this new awareness into your actions. This eventually changes behavior. Once you change behavior, your life changes drastically.
For me, after I drank the moon water, not much happened in the way of tower moments (reality crumbling down fast to create a new reality). It's been more of a slow, gentle burn. However, I would not be surprised if tower moments arise if that’s what is needed for your situation.
You may have vivid dreams—some of which may be scary, some of which may include memories playing before you that you'd nearly forgotten in this lifetime.
I would also not be surprised if whatever narrative you have playing in your life at the moment becomes intensified—certain archetypes and experiences will come up more prominently to get your attention. They’re coming up to be healed.
For example, let’s say you’re going through a divorce and you so badly want to heal from the pain and turmoil it’s causing. Then, perhaps something comes up in an unrelated part of your life that reminds you of an ex you never apologized to but realized later that maybe you should. Or perhaps you’re reminded of how an ex in your past apologized to you later for something that you were holding onto and that you needed to let go of. And then let’s say a co-worker does something that messes up your day unintentionally but immediately apologizes and you notice because it’s out of character. These apology clues are trying to tell you something. Maybe if you apologize for something you did, it will be the ignition of a chain of events that will heal the entire relationship over the next year. That doesn’t mean you’ll get back together, but perhaps it will make the divorce easier to get through and the healing energies you’ve called in are trying to tell you this.
Now, I’m not saying you should always apologize during a divorce—this is merely one example of how healing can show up in a specific way that matches your own life narrative. But if you choose to become triggered over it rather than look inward and observe what’s coming up, you could miss the opportunity and end up on a different trajectory where the lessons may be even harder. Or, the Universe will speak louder and louder until you’re forced to notice.
Following the same example we already started, perhaps you always had a hard time apologizing growing up too. In this example, deconstructing the belief system behind that difficulty would be where the healing work lies and then apologizing as a change of behavior is you overcoming and integrating the shadow, perhaps breaking a karmic bond so you can move on, which also changes the trajectory of your life because you no longer have to keep being put in circumstances to learn this lesson.
Case Study: One Week of Relief
Now, this case study, of course, is anecdotal. This is considered qualitative research into the effectiveness of this specific moon water recipe. Only two people in the history of the planet have had this original recipe, because at the time I made it, I didn’t realize how profound it would be, so I only made one quart and split it with a friend.
Therefore, observed results have not been controlled in a scientific way, but I'm okay with that. I trust my own and my friend’s personal experience. If you’d rather have a scientific approach, that may come in time, but for now, this recipe is probably not for you unless you can tap into your faith.
Now, here’s what happened.
About 4 hours after I got home from delivering the moon water to my friend and walking her through the incantation before she drank the moon water, she texted me saying:
“What the eff did you put in that water?!”
After having not being able to hold down a solid meal in two weeks, she was able to hold down food. After not being able to be intimate with her girlfriend for months, she had the energy to be intimate.
It may not have cured her overarching health issues that go hand-in-hand with her dark night of the soul, but it helped her feel better for about a week after she drank it. To me, that’s the power of magic. If we’d kept up this healing work regularly, who knows what would’ve happened!
Final Thoughts and Invitation
The dark night of the soul can feel isolating, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Rituals like this moon water recipe can serve as gentle companions—reminding you that even in the deepest darkness, the moon is still shining and guiding you forward.
If you decide to try this moon water ritual, notice how your body, mind, and spirit respond over time. Keep a journal of patterns, dreams, and synchronicities. Healing often reveals itself in subtle, magical ways before we realize just how far we’ve come.
I’d love to hear your experience. Share your story in the comments below, and if you want more spiritual practices, healing tips, and guided rituals, subscribe to my YouTube channel, Human Amplified. Let’s keep walking this path together, turning shadow into light.
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Hi, I’m the founder of Human Amplified. I’m Brandi Fleck, a recognized communications and interviewing expert, a writer, an artist, and a private practice, certified trauma-informed life coach and Reiki healer. No matter how you interact with me, I help you tell and change your story so you can feel more like yourself. So welcome!
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