Introduction to Adding Magic to Your Daily Routine: 6 Easy Witchcraft Spells

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Looking for Simple Magic?

After all these years of following a witchy path, one of the things I have learned is that simple is good. Maybe it’s because I am a lazy witch, but easy spells are preferable to long, drawn-out, and complicated rituals.

Does that mean that short, easy spells are less effective than carefully constructed magickal formulas? Not at all. Because the one thing that makes spells work is the energy that you raise to send them ‘out there.’

The trick is to be able to raise that energy to the necessary level whenever you need to. And the way you do that is by tapping into emotions.

To learn more about all that, read How to Begin Witchcraft: Casting Spells. There are instructions on how to cast a circle (mostly I don’t bother) and suggestions about how to use spells.

Six Simple Spells to Enhance Daily Life

These will be posted as one per day until all six are posted. They started today January 2, 2023.

January 2 and 3, 2023 Current Moon Phases Nothern and Southern Hemispheres

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

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Northern Hemisphere

2 January 2024

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning.

Visit the December 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on January 2 has an illumination of 65%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 2 the Moon is 20.68 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 65%
Moon Age: 20.68 days
Moon Angle: 0.49
Moon Distance: 404,882.03 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,097,875.72 km

Useful Moon Resources