Lunabar Moon Almanack for Thursday, 07 May, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon

Age: 19 ¼ days. Moon Rides Low.

Moon in 4th degree of the Sign Capricorn, the Goat; also in 8th deg. of the Constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Souths: 3:42 morn. Moonset: 8:53 morn. Moonrise: 11:26 eve.

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Aspects of Capricorn: Yin, Feminine, Lunar, Negative, Nocturnal, Earthy, Cardinal, Semi-fruitful, Horary Southern, Wintery, Austral, Obeying, Solsitial, Tropical, Dry, Cold, Changeable, Hoarse.

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Spells and rituals involving the Earth Element should be performed when the Moon is in an Earth Sign: Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.

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Current Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous Moon:

Waning Moon Magick: From three-and-a-half to ten-and-a-half days after the Full Moon. From the Full Moon to the New is a time for study, meditation, and magic designed to banish harmful energies and habits, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity. This is a time for banishing and rejecting things in our lives that we no longer wish to carry around with us.

Waning Gibbous Moon – or 3rd quarter moon – between the Full Moon and the New Moon, 3 o’clock on the phase calendar and is an excellent time for banishing things that influence us in a negative way, all bad feelings and emotions, hurts or pains, or bad habits can all be let go of during this time….we also do clearing spells at this time.

Time: From Full Moon to Dark Moon (approx.14 days)

Goddess Aspect: Crone

Associated Goddesses: Cailleach, Banshee, Hecate, Kali, Morrigan

Magickal Attributes: Banishing: Releasing the old, removing unwanted negative energies, wisdom, psychic ability, scrying, reversing circumstances. Workings on this day are for banishing magick, for ridding oneself of addictions, illness or negativity, physical and psychic cleansings.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

It is sure to be a dry moon if it lies on its back, so that you can hang your hat on its horns. ~ Welsh border saying. *** When the moon is at the full, Mushrooms you may freely pull ; But when the moon is on the wane, Wait ere you think to pluck again. – Essex, in T.F. Thiselton Dyer, “English Folk-Lore”.

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The Moon in the Lunar Mansion

Alshaula, The Sting of the Scorpion, also known as Cauda Scorpionis, The Tail of the Scorpion. Marked by the fix’d Star: Shaula, in Scorpius. *** That cold animal…. Which with its tail doth smite amain the nations. ~ Longfellow’s translation of Dante’s “Purgatorio”.””

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