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Moon Phase Correspondences

Moon Phase Correspondences

New Moon- New Moon magick begins on the day of the new moon to three-and-a-half days after. Use the energy of the new moon for new ventures and new beginnings. Also use the new moon for love spells, job hunting, and healing.

Waxing Moon- The waxing moon begins seven to fourteen days after the new moon. Use the waxing moon for constructive magick, such as love spells, magick for wealth and success, courage, friendship, luck or good health.

Full Moon- A powerful energy for rituals of prophecy, divination and protection. Any spellwork that requires extra energy, such as finding a new job or healing serious conditions, is best begun during the full moon. Also for love, gaining sacred knowledge, legal matters, attracting money and prophetic dreams.

Waning Moon- Begin waning moon magick three-and-a-half to ten-and-a-half days after the full moon. The waning moon is used for banishing negativity, for curing addictions, and illness.

New Moon- The energy of the dark moon is useful for working magick against attackers, and for understanding your own angers and passions. Also for rituals designed to bring justice to bear in very negative situations.

Dark Moon (11 to 14 days after the full moon) It is a great time for closure and for bringing things full circle before the New Moon. This is the time to rid your life of whatever it is that is holding you back, causing you to worry, or is generally outdated and useless in your life. Use the energies of the waning cycle to banish disease and negativity, and to dissolve anger, guilt, separation, and any other destructive energies within or around you. The Dark Moon is a powerful time for reflection and meditation. It is a time to become better acquainted with the Shadow side of yourself, and to learn how to channel that shadow energy in a positive manner. Don’t try to banish your shadow side; instead, draw on its inherent strength to aid you in the hard times. Remember, your Shadow Self is neither good nor evil. It’s simply one half of who you are; how it find expression is totally up to you.

Black Moon Any time two new moons occur during a single month, the second new moon is referred to as a Black Moon and is considered to be the stronger of the two.

The Blue Moon

This is the second Full Moon which falls within in a single month, it varies each year. When the Blue Moon occurs plan to do something strange, something you have never done before. Write letters to folks you have not seen for years, plan a surprise for someone you love. Howl at the Moon!

The Moon spends a day or two each month in each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The sign the moon is transiting through can be used to good advantage during spellwork.

Moon in Aries- A good time to perform spells related to job ventures and all new projects related to money. Also a good time to develop strength and courage, and lust spells. This is not a good moon for performing divination.

Moon in Taurus- This moon is excellent for spellwork related to love, creativity, and inner peace. Spells done at this time take the longest to manifest, but the results will be very long lasting and be stable.

Moon in Gemini- The perfect time for spells dealing with communications, healing, and uncrossing spells. Be careful- the moon in Gemini can be unpredictable and unstable.

Moon in Cancer- Excellent for any spell involving the home, fertility, children, or divination.

Moon in Leo- Spells involving leadership, prosperity, fame and career are best done in Leo, but do not perform any spells involving love, or any other emotion, as Leo may actually counteract it.

Moon in Virgo- This moon ensures a spell which involves meticulous detail, especially spells involving education, healing, and stability.

Moon in Libra- Excellent for working a spell with a partner, and for magick involving marriage, couples, partnership, peace, and fairness.

Moon in Scorpio- Use this energy for mysteries, the occult, divination, and sex magick.

Moon in Sagittarius- This is an excellent time to experiment with new techniques or magick spells, but it is not a good time for psychic work or divination.

Moon in Capricorn- Perfect for spells to manifest life’s basic needs and for stability.

Moon in Aquarius- The best time to work on behalf of others, but consciously stay focused on your heart to maintain a higher consciousness with others, and to avoid selfish motives.

Moon in Pisces- Perfect for divination and psychic work, past life regressions, and communication with spirits.

Abundance: waxing to full moon.

Addictions (TO END): waning moon.

Artistic Creations: waxing to full moon.

Bad Habits (to break): waning moon.

Bad Luck (to reverse): waning moon.

Beauty and Health: full moon.

Bindings: waning moon.

Blessings: full moon.

Career Advancement: waxing moon.

Communication: full moon.

Curses, Hexes (to break): waning moon.

Divinations: waxing and full moons.

Energy Raising: waxing moon.

Exorcisms: waning moon.

Fear (overcoming): waning moon.

Fertility Rituals: waxing and full moons.

Forgiveness: new moon.

Friendship: waxing moon.

Garden Planting Spells: waxing moon.

Goals (attainment of): waxing to full moon.

Good Luck: waxing moon.

Growth (of an kind): waxing moon.

Harmony: waxing moon.

Happiness: waxing and full moons.

Healings (to increase health): waxing moon.

Healings (to end sickness): waning moon.

House Blessings: full moon.

Inspiration: waxing and full moons.

Intuition: full moon.

Jinx-Breaking: waning moon.

Judgement: waxing and full moons.

Liberation (to free oneself from something): waning moon.

Love Magick: waxing and full moons.

Love Spells (to reverse): waning moon.

Lunar Goddess Invocations: full moon.

Money Matters (to increase wealth): waxing moon.

Negativity (to banish): waning moon.

Nightmares (to banish): waning moon.

Obtaining (things and goals): waxing and full moons.

Omens: full moon.

Overcoming: waning moon.

Peace (to end hostility, war): waning moon.

Power: waxing and full moons.

Property (to buy): waxing moon

Property (to sell): waning moon.

Prophetic Dreams: full moon.

Protection: waxing moon.

Psychic Powers (developing, strengthening): full moon.

Quests: new moon.

Sexual Desires (to stimulate, increase): waxing moon.

Shapeshifting: full moon.

Spirit Conjurations: full moon.

Strength: waxing moon.

Teaching: waxing and full moons.

Transformations: full moon.

Travel: waxing moon.

Unions (marriages, business partnerships): waxing and full moons.

Weatherworkings (to bring forth): waxing moon.

Weatherworkings (to quell): waning moon.

Weight Gain: waxing moon.

Weight Loss: waning moon.

Wisdom (to increase): waxing and full moons.

Wish-magick: waxing and full moons.

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Correspondences

Correspondences

Days of The Week

Monday ~ Ruled by the Moon. Spells involving emotions, the subconscious, domestic issues and feminine issues. Also, a good day for psychic pursuits and dream work.

Tuesday ~ Ruled by Mars. Spells for self-assertion, more energy, and courage. Victory and passion are also indicated, as well as masculine goals in general.

Wednesday ~ Ruled by Mercury. Spells involving mental issues, communication, education and self expression. Also as day for consulting oracles (tarot, runes), planning magickal work, and writing.

Thursday ~ Ruled by Jupiter. Spells for prosperity and money, luck and business. Also a day for political power, influencing people in high places, law and courts.

Friday ~ Ruled by Venus. Spells for love, friendship, beauty, sensuality, healing, peace and harmony. Also, a good day for spells for artistic ability and creativity generally.

Saturday ~ Ruled by Saturn. Spells to overcome obstacles, neutralizing harmful energy, binding and banishing. A day for protecting by blocking or pushing away negative forces.

Sunday ~ Ruled by the Sun. Spells of many kinds may be done on Sunday, the Sun giving energy to them all, but best for healing and success. Spells for physical strength, obtaining goals, illumination, and initiating any magickal activity.

Colour Correspondences

Before casting a spell you will want to decide what colours are appropriate to it. Colours have vibrations that correspond to influences you may want to include in your magick through candles, gemstones, cords and other objects. However, colours often have personal meanings for us as well. The list below is only a guide. Experiment with your magick and let your own feelings about it determine your colour choices. Correspondences to the days of the week and planets are included.

White, silver (Monday, Moon). Moon rituals, goddess rituals, spells to heal emotions and to balance, purification. White can also be substituted for any colour.

Red (Tuesday, Mars). Spells for physical desire and passion, courage, victory, and physical strength. Stimulates energy and vitality.

Yellow (Wednesday, Mercury). Spells to enhance knowledge, communication skills and to give confidence and aid in visualization skills. May also repel negative energy.

Purple (Thursday, Jupiter) Rituals to influence people in high places, open psychic powers, and for wisdom.

Pink (Friday, Venus). Magick for friendship and romantic love, emotional healing.

Black (Saturday, Saturn). Magic to absorb or remove anything. Banishing, hexing, removing hexes.

Orange, gold (Sunday, Sun). Rituals to enhance energy and power, build vitality, and to bring success and luck

There are, of course, many other colours, and their correspondences do not always fit easily into a list of days or planets.

Green. Usually associated with Venus, but used on Thursday for spell work involving money, prosperity and renewal. Also used for fertility, good luck, and for Earth rituals.

Dark blue. Spells for creativity, peace and communication. Also for deep meditation and karma work.

Light blue. Used for inspiration, peace and healing.

Royal blue. Associated with Jupiter and Thursday, and used for spells concerning court cases.

Brown. May be used in money and business spells, Earth rituals, and for anything involving the home.

Again, experiment with colours and find what works best for you!

Planetary Correspondences

To maximize the effect of witchcraft spells and natural magick, one should look to the natural correspondences between planets and other elements of the magick. In the two sections below, the planets are listed first with the aspects of life they rule, then in a chart showing how the planets correspond to other components you may use in designing in your spell. However, remember that the best magick is always composed of what works best for you!

Aspects Ruled

Sun ~ active change, advancement, creativity, ego, fame, favour, friendship, growth, healing, health, honour, hope, joy, leadership, life-energy, light, monetary gain, personal fulfilment, power, pride, promotion, self-confidence, success, superiors, vitality

Negative aspects: arrogance, bigotry, pride

Moon ~ astral travel, birth, children, clairvoyance, dreams, emotions, fertility, home, imagination, inspiration, intuition, secrets, sleep, women’s mysteries, reincarnation

Negative aspects: delusion

Mars ~ aggression,ambition, arguments,competition, conflict, destruction, energy, goals,lust, male sexuality, medical issues, sports, strength, strife, struggle, surgery, upheaval, victory, war

Negative aspects: anger, violence

Mercury ~ business, buying and selling, cleverness, communication, contracts, creativity, information, intellect, memory,perception, science, wisdom, writing

Negative aspects: dishonesty, deception

Jupiter ~abundance, business, fame, gambling, greed, growth, expansion, honour, leadership, money, parties, politics, power, responsibility, royalty, success, visions, wealth

Negative aspects: greed, wastefulness

Venus ~ arts, attraction, beauty, female sexuality, friendship, harmony, love, luxury, music, pleasure, scent, sensuality, social affairs

Negative aspects: coldness, isolation, lechery

Saturn ~ astral plane, banks, binding, buildings, death, debts, discipline, history, institutions, karmic debts, knowledge, limitations, longevity, magickal knowledge, obstacles, real estate, sacred wisdom, structures, time

Negative aspects: oppression, pain

Elemental Correspondences

Not all witches use elemental correspondences, and among those who do, there is a great deal of variation. The most common elements used in witchcraft are earth, air, fire, and water. Spirit is often added to acknowledge the spiritual component of them all.

When invoking the elements, they are often associated with the cardinal directions. often with Air in the East, Fire in the South, Water in the West, and Earth in the North. However, this is by no means the only possibility. The elements themselves may vary as well. For example, some Celtic traditions use earth, sky, and water, and others use the cosmological realms of Underworld, Earth, and Sky.The correspondences listed below provide only one possibility among many. The sources for these correspondences include Scott Cunningham, Silver Ravenwolf, Amber Wolfe, and Yasmine Galenorn.

AIR

The element of air is associated with mental processes and the mind. It is creative and is that which causes magickal intentions to become manifest. It is also associated with higher consciousness and wisdom, divination, and purification.

Direction – East

Astrological Signs – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Rules – Mind, mental and psychic work, intuition, knowledge, abstract thought, wind, breath, clouds, inspiration, hearing, herbal knowledge, plant growth, purification, freedom, revealing truth, finding lost things, instruction, telepathy, memory, learning the secrets of the dead, zen meditation, new beginnings, illumination

Types of Magick – Divination, concentration, prophecy, visualization, wind magick, karma

Colours – White, yellow, light blue, lavender, gray

Season – Spring

Magickal Tools – Athame, sword, censer, incense

Time – Dawn

Energy – Projective

Gemstones – Aventurine, topaz, mica, fluorite, crystals, amethyst, yellow or blue stones

Metals – Tin, copper

Plants – Acacia, anise, aspen, benzoin, clover, dill, frankincense, lavender, lemongrass, myrrh, pine, primrose, vervain, violet, yarrow

Animals – Birds, insects, spiders

Goddesses – Aradia, Arianrhod, Athena, Nuit, Urania Gods -Mercury, Hermes, Shu, Thoth

FIRE

The element of fire is associated with change and passion. It is both physical and spiritual, being related to sexuality and to divinity. Fire magick is quickly manifested and filled with primal energy.

Direction – South

Astrological Signs – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Rules – Energy, sexuality, passions, love, authority, transformation, purification, candle flames, sun, blood, healing, destruction, will, creativity, flame, heat, bonfires, hearth fires, protection, courage, strength, physical exercise, self-knowledge, loyalty, vision, illumination, power

Types of Magick – Candle, storm, time

Colours – Red, gold, crimson, orange, white Season – Summer

Magickal Tools – Wand, candles, dagger, burned herbs or requests on paper

Time – Noon

Energy – Projective, masculine

Gemstones – Red jasper, bloodstone, garnet, lava, quartz crystals, ruby, carnelian, tigers eye, rhodochrosite, agates

Metals – Gold, brass

Plants – Allspice, basil, cacti, chilli peppers, cinnamon, garlic, heliotrope, hibiscus, juniper, lime, mustard, nettle, onion, orange, red peppers, red poppies, thistle, almond tree

Animals – Lions, lizards, salamander, snakes, praying mantis, ladybug, bee, scorpion, shark, phoenix, coyote, fox

Goddesses – Brigit, Freya, Hestia, Pele, Vesta Gods – Vulcan, Ra, Agni, Hepaetstus, Horus

WATER

The element of water is associated with the subconscious mind, intuition, and emotions. As the primal substance of life, it is symbolized by the womb and is related to fertility.

Direction – West

Astrological Signs – Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Rules – Emotions, feelings, love, courage, the unconscious mind, intuition, the womb, marriage, friendship,happiness, dreams, sleep, healing, menstruation, fertility, cleansing, purification, vision quests, self-healing, sorrow, reflection, psychic ability, oceans, rivers, lakes, rain, springs and wells

Types of Magick – Magick involving the sea, snow or ice, mirror, magnet, rain, cleansing and purification

Colours – Blue, blue-green, green, gray, indigo, aquamarine, white

Season – Autumn

Magickal Tools – Chalice, cauldron, mirrors

Time – Twilight, dusk

Energy – Receptive, feminine

Gemstones – Aquamarine, amethyst, blue tourmaline, pearl, coral, blue topaz, blue fluorite, lapis lazuli, sodalite

Metals – Mercury, silver, copper

Plants – Aloe, apple, catnip, chamomile, ferns, gardenia, lemon, lettuce, lilac, lily of the valley, lotus, mosses, orris, passion flower, rose, seaweeds, thyme, valerian, water lillies, all water plants, willow tree

Animals – All fish, shellfish and sea mammals, serpents, sea birds, cat, frog, turtle, swan, bear

Goddesses – Aphrodite, Isis, Mariamne, Mari, Tiamat, Yemaya, Ran, Kupala Gods – Dylan, Ea, Manannan, Osiris, Neptune, Poseidon, Varuna

EARTH

Earth is the element that is most stable and dependable. It represents abundance, prosperity, and wealth, and is creative but in a practical, physical manner. Earth is that which sustains all life and on which the other elements rest.

Direction – North

Astrological Signs – Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Rules – The body, growth, money, creativity, birth, death, material gain, fertility, birth, healing, rocks, trees, animals, manifestation, materialization, crystals, silence, metal, empathy, grounding, employment, stability, success, runes, strength, practical wisdom, mystery

Types of Magick – Gardening, grounding, magnet, image, stone, tree, knot, binding

Colours – Black, brown, green, gold, white

Season – Winter

Magickal Tools – Pentacle, salt, images, stones, cord magick

Time – Midnight, night

Energy – Receptive, feminine

Gemstones – Rock crystal, emeralds, peridot, onyx, jasper, azurite, amethyst, royal azute, tourmaline, tourmalated quartz, rutilated quartz

Metals – Iron, lead

Plants – Cedar, cypress, comfrey, honeysuckle, ivy, grains, magnolia, patchouli, primrose, sage, vetivert, nuts, oak

Animals – Cow or bull, bison, stag, dog, horse, gopher, ant, bears, wolf

Goddesses – Ceres, Cerridwyn, Demeter, Gaia, Persephone, Epona, Kore, Mah, Prithivi, Rhea, Rhiannon Gods – Adonis, Athos, Arawn, Cernunnos, Dionysus, Herne, Marduk, Pan, Tammuz, Thor

Other Correspondences

*This list includes only a few of the herbs and plants associated with the planets. Many more are believed to be so associated.