As a Cancer sun woman, my relationship with the moon is a deep and intimate one. After all, the moon is Cancer’s ruling planet, and everyone in my life will easily tell you my emotions change with its phases. When I was a child (OK, and sometimes as an adult, too), I used to talk to the moon; I wanted to press all of my deepest hopes and dreams into every single crater. The last year really thrust me into my inner spirituality — shadow work, tarot, crystals, flower essences, all that good good — and that’s why it was no surprise that my TikTok algorithm started recommending I make moon water.
But what exactly is moon water, anyway? Basically, it’s distilled water charged under the new and full moon, believed to absorb lunar energy to help us tap into our subconscious feelings and emotions. It also helps to heal and revive aspects of our spiritual body.
“[Making] moon water is an ancient practice of alchemically activating water molecules with the emanations that radiate from the light of a full moon,” explains Mariah K. Lyons, crystal healer and author of Crystal Healing For Women. In fact, it has been used in beauty routines and ritual practices for ages and is seen in cultures all over the world. “The moon radiates a lunar ‘feminine’ energy — which has nothing to do with gender but energetics — while the sun radiates a solar ‘masculine’ energy. Just as we see solar panels capture light particles for a ‘charge,’ when we place water or crystals under the light of the moon they receive a lunar ‘charge’ from the emanations of the moon,” shares Lyons.
Awesome, right? We go outside to get some vitamin D from the sun, but many of us have never considered that light reflecting from the moon may offer some kind of benefit, as well. However, it’s a long-standing spiritual belief that water holds consciousness, and it can be said to hold “memories.” Japanese researcher Masuro Emoto deeply researched water molecules for his 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water, claiming that those molecules can change depending upon environment and intention. When you “charge” water by the moon, its molecules are being imprinted with the energy of the moon — so, the general theory would be that when you drink the moon water or use it on your face as a beauty treatment, you are vibrationally tuning into the energy of the moon that is stored within the molecules of water.