'Moon Phase Correspondences'


As the phases of the moon affect nature, so do they influence our magickal work.The different phases of the moon have properties that can lend energies to your magickal workings. If you are working toward a specific result, find the associated phase of the Moon for aid. Let the Moon be your magickal calendar!

New Moon:


The New Moon is the time of beginnings. Its the period of controlled energies and growth. This is a particularly powerful time for Divination. It is a time of personal growth and healing.

Since the rising energy of the moon charges and amplifies the energy placed in the spell, the three days after the New Moon are the most powerful times to perform spells for growth and beginnings, which should be realized at the Full Moon. New Moon Magick (New Moon to 3 1/2 days after).

�Timing: Between Dawn and Sunset
�Spellwork: Beauty, Health, Self-improvement, Gardening, Job Hunting
�Color: �Silver
�Rules: Beginnings, Birth, Initiation, Virginity
�Deities: Artemis, Brigit, Electra, Isis, Maiden, Theope

The night of the New Moon, when the Moon is totally dark, is an extremely magickal and potent time. It is a time of 'between the worlds'.

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Waxing Crescent Moon:


This is a good time for constructive magick. The Waxing Moon is associated with the Maiden, so align associations with this aspect of the Goddess. Waxing Crescent Moon Magick (3 1/2 through 7th day).

�Timing: From mid-morning to just after sunset
�Spellwork: Animals, Business, Change, Emotions, Friendship, Health
�Color: �White/Silver
�Rules: Attractions, Beginnings, Birth, Growth, Ideas, Love. Positive & Constructive Change
�Deities: Artemis, Diana, Epona, The Maiden, Neith

The period of the 7th day to 14th day after the New Moon are the most powerful times for fruition and completion.

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First Quarter Moon:

First Quarter Moon Magick (7th to 10th days).

�Timing: �Sunset
�Spellwork: Courage, Elemental Magick, Friends, Good Fortune, Inspiration, Motivation

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Waxing Gibbous Moon:

Waxing Gibbous Moon (10th to 13th days).

�Timing: �10:00 pm to 11:00 pm
�Spellwork: �Patience

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Full Moon:

The Full Moon is a time for work that requires great force. The Full Moon can be conjured for 7 days to 3 days prior, the night of the Full Moon, and the 3 days following. Sometimes the effects of conjuring done on the Full Moon take one full lunar cycle to take hold, and come to completion. At this time, the other planes can be influenced. The subconscious spheres of influence are at their most active and receptive as well. The Full Moon symbolizes the Mother aspect of the Goddess. Full Moon: (14th to 17 1/2 days after the New Moon).

�Timing: �Midnight
�Spellwork: Artistic Endeavours, Beauty, Change, Decisions, Divination, Children, Competition, Dreams, Family, Fitness, Health, Healing, Knowledge, Legal, Love, Money, Motivation, Prophecy, Protection, Workings that may require extra power.
�Color: �Red, Green
�Rules: �Fertility, Fulfillment, Growth, Illumination, Light, Love, Maturation, Nurturing, Power, Psychic Ability, Sexuality, Transformation
�Deities: �Artemis, Astarte, Calliope, Mari, Mother, Nemesis, Nymph, Rhode, Selene

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Full Moon magick should be performed just before the exact time of the Full Moon. The 14th to 17 1/2 days are excellent days for spellwork, prophecy, protection, and divination. Any spell that requires extra power can be performed at this time.

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Waning Moon:

This is a good time for destructive magick. This is magick that concerns endings of such things as bad habits, ways of life, harassment, negative emotions. This is the time for banishment and rejection of things that we no longer wish to have around us. The Waning Moon represents the Crone aspect of the Goddess.

Wanning Gibbous Moon: Wanning Gibbous Moon (Disseminating). Moon Magick (3 to 7 days after Full Moon.

�Timing: �3:00 am
�Spellwork: �Addictions, Decisions, Divorce, Emotions, Illness, Negativity, Stress, Protection,
�Color: �Black
Rules:� �Banishment, Death & Ressurection, Deep Secrets, Divination, Endings, Intuition, Old Age, Post-Menopausal Women, Prophecy, Release, Reversal of Fortune, Power of Healing, Wisdom
�Dieties: �Anna, Astarte, Crone, Europa, Hecate,

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Last Quarter Moon:

Last Quarter Moon Magick (7 through 10 days after Full Moon).

�Timing: �Midnight until Noon
�Spellwork: Addictions, Divorce, Health and Healing (Banishing Disease), Stress, Protection

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Dark Moon:

The Dark of the Moon occurs over the 3 days before the New Moon. At this time, the moon cannot be seen at all. No magick should be performed at this time. Meditations and vision questing may be performed at this time, but not for specific purposes. This is an excellent time for introspection and exploring the dark and hidden recesses of our emotions, and trying to under stand our anger, jealousy, dependency and addictions. Hecate rules this time of the cycle. If you will require her assistance, this is the time to request it.

Goddess Bless!






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