We've Been Doing It Wrong
Why the 3-Hour Window Before the Full Moon Is the True Ritual Portal According to Science, the Moon, and Your Body
For years, spiritual circles have gathered at the height of the Full Moon to set intentions, burn wishes, and bask in her glow.
But what if the real power lies in the three hours before she’s full?
That’s what Dr. Glen Rein discovered in his pioneering water-memory experiments. Using Solfeggio frequencies and electromagnetic fields, he found that water, the Great Scribe of the Cosmos, becomes highly absorbent to information approximately three hours before the Moon reaches Her zenith.
In other words, the ritual window begins before the climax.
We aren’t misaligned by performing rituals at the height of the full moon, just attuned to one layer of the mystery. But science, Spirit, and the body itself are revealing a deeper inhale that occurs just before lunar fullness. And when we sync with it, something magical happens: we become co-creators with the Light within.
The Moon, Water and the Inflow
Water is the keeper of memory. This we learned from the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto. It is the bridge between realms… between the subconscious and superconscious, the Earth and the Stars. The Moon, as the Divine Feminine reflector, governs tides, blood, wombs, dreams, and the unseen subtle flows of prana. The moments before the Full Moon are not empty, they are pregnant.
Just like the sea pulls back before a tsunami, there is a metaphysical retraction in the energetic body of Mother Gaia just before fullness. This creates a vacuum of receptivity, a powerful void of intake. Water, and likewise our emotional bodies, become hyper-absorbent. All vibrational information, both terrestrial and cosmic, enters the womb-space of the Earth and of our own being.
This 3-hour window mirrors what many menstruating women experience just before their cycle begins: energetic retraction, heightened perception, emotional depth, and sensitivity to subtle realms.
The body knows when something Holy is about to descend.
So does the Moon.
We might begin calling this phase the “Lunar Inhale.” A time when water and spirit open wide to receive the codes of Light, and prayers.
The Lunar Inhale
This 3-hour window is like the final inhale before the exhale of Illumination. The Moon swells, not only in Light but in Intelligence. Esoterically, we could say:
The Moon draws down the codes from the Galactic Core.
Water acts as the scribe, recording, imprinting, absorbing the quantum frequency of what is being broadcast.
Again, Dr. Glen Rein’s research gives this mystical knowing a scientific backbone. His studies show that water’s electromagnetic receptivity peaks roughly 3 hours prior to the Full Moon, syncing with Cosmic Cycles in measurable ways. A beautiful confluence of ancient ritual and modern data.
How to Apply this Spiritually
1. Burn Intentions BEFORE the Full Moon
Instead of setting intentions at the peak, offer them into the mouth of the Moon before She reaches fullness, in the sacred 3-hour ingress window.
Why burn? Because Fire transmutes. It carries intention as smoke into the astral ethers. Water receives, but fire launches. Together, they form a ritual circuit.
2. Use Water as a Conscious Oracle
In that sacred window:
Drink structured or blessed water. You can bless your own water. Simply speak blessings to it. Try this esoteric phrase when blessing your H20:
“I AM the Presence charging this water with the Life-giving Essence which I absorb and which renews my body in Perfect Health and Eternal Youth.”Speak into water, whispering your prayers and revelations.
Bathe with salts and intention.
Place bowls of water under the moonlight 3 hours before the peak to catch the incoming codes.
Let water become your ritual partner.
3. Stillness and Listening
The three hours before the Full Moon are like the pause before orgasm, the Holy hush before revelation. Create silence in your space. Journal. Do not seek Clarity, let Her seek you.
Ritual Timing for July 10, 2025
The Full Moon peaks at 4:37 p.m. EDT
The 3-hour “Reception Inflow” begins at 1:37 p.m. EDT.
Begin your ritual no later than 12:37 p.m. EDT to be fully present as the veil opens.
Check your local time zone and subtract 3 hours from the Full Moon moment to align your ritual.
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Shaun Adams
Oracle and Champion of the Divine Feminine
Author, Astrologer, and Certified Delu-lu Coach
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