What You Will Need:
The Spell:
On the night of a new moon, write your wish on a bay leaf. Simply take the bay leaf outside and look at the moon, then kiss the leaf three times and sleep with it under your pillow.
Current Moon Phase is from August 17th to 24th
During this Moon phase, there is a slight slowing down of enthusiasm due to an emerging desire to produce tangible results from the energy being expended. The issue of values enters into the equation and an urge to tie together the data available so that you can utilize current opportunities. There is still plenty of forward motion, and this is a great time to continue initiating and progressing forward. This Moon phase favors gaining more information and the input of others to further your plans.
*Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.
Consualia (Roman)
Moon Sign: *Leo
*Leo: Draws emphasis to the self, central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People tend to be melodramatic.
*Waxing Moon
*The Waxing Moon: is the ideal time for magick to draw things toward you.
Incense: Cedar
Moon Phase: First Quarter
Color: Gray
by Jan Spiller
The New Moon is a time best suited to making new beginnings! For the first 48 hours following the exact time of the New Moon each month, a window of opportunity opens for making wishes that, if written down, come true in the days and months ahead. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the atmosphere and a feeling of Springtime. This is a great time to go forward and begin projects that you feel instinctively attracted to initiating. Follow your impulses and let yourself make new starts in areas that are important to you.
Waxing CrescentThe New Moon is a time best suited for new beginnings! For the first 48 hours following the exact time of the New Moon each month, a window of opportunity opens for making wishes that, if noted, come true in the days and months ahead. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the atmosphere, making it a great time to go forward and begin projects that you feel instinctively attracted to initiating. Follow your impulses and let yourself make new starts in areas that are important to you.
The New Moon is a time best suited for new beginnings! For the first 48 hours following the exact time of the New Moon each month, a window of opportunity opens for making wishes that, if noted, come true in the days and months ahead. There is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in the atmosphere, making it a great time to go forward and begin projects that you feel instinctively attracted to initiating. Follow your impulses and let yourself make new starts in areas that are important to you.
*Friday (Venus): Love, friendship, reconciliation and beauty.
Feast of the Hungry Ghosts (Chinese)
Moon Sign: *Leo
*Leo: Draw emphasis to the self, central ideas, or institutions, away from connections with others and other emotional needs. People ten to be melodramatic.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation and little magical work (except magic designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters *Virgo 8:33 pm
*Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.
Moon phase: New Moon 11:54 am
Incense: Rose
Color: Pink
This is a time to rest, reevaluate and reflect, pulling back into yourself to reconnect with inner sources of strength. Now is not a time to initiate anything new. It’s a phase suited to spending time with friends and getting in touch with the “big picture.” A window of opportunity exists for seeing your life objectively and becoming aware of what is important to you. At this point, what are your dreams and aspirations? What larger goals can you aspire to that will bring vitality and excitement into your life? This is a time for resting and gaining inner strength to prepare for a new cycle.
MOON PHASES & ASTROLOGY
Moon in Aries:
This is the best time to work magick involving leadership, authority, rebirth, spiritual conversation, or wilpower. Healing rituals for ailments of the face, head, or brain are also done during this period of time.
Moon in Taurus:
This is the best time to work magick for love, real estate, material acquisitions and money. Healing rituals for ailments of the throat, neck and ears also done during this time.
Moon in Gemini:
This is the best time to work magick for good communication, change of residence, writing, public relations and travel. healing rituals for ailments of the shoulders and arms, hands, or lungs are also done in this period of time.
Moon in Cancer:
This is the best time to work magick for home and domestic life. healing rituals for ailments of the chest or stomach are also done during this time period of time.
Moon in Leo:
This is the best time to work magick involving autority, pwer over otehrs, courage, fertility, or childbirth. Healing rituals for ailments of the upper back, spine, or heart are also done during this period of time.
Moon in Virgo:
This is the best time to work magick involving employment, intellectual matters, health and dietary concerns. Healing rituals for ailments of the intestines or nervous system are also done during this period of time.
Moon in Libra:
This is the best itme to work magick involving artistic work, justice, court cases, partnerships and unions, mental stimulation and karmic spiritual or emotional balance. Healing rituals for ailments of the lower back or kidneys are also done during this period of time.
Moon in Scorpio:
This is the best time for magick involving sexual matters, power, psychic growth, secrets and fundamental transformations Healing rituals for ailmlents of the reproductive organs are also done in this period of time.
Moon in Sagittarious:
This is the best itme to work on magick for publications, legal matters, travel, and truth. healing ru=ituals for ailments of the liver, thighs or hips are also done at this time.
Moon in Capricorn:
This is the best time to do magick for organization, ambition. recognition, career and political matters. healing rituals for the knees, bones teeth, and skin are also done at this time.
Moon in Aquarious:
This is the best time to work magick involving science, freedom, creative expresion, problem solving, extrasensory abilities, friendship and breaking bad habbits or unhealthy addictions. healing rituals for ailments of the calves ankles or blood are also done in this period of time.
Moon in Pisces:
This is the best time to work magick involving dreamwork, clairwoyance, telepathy, music, and the creative arts. Healing rituals for ailments of the feet or lymph glands are also done at this time.
This is a time to rest, reevaluate and reflect, pulling back into yourself to reconnect with inner sources of strength. Now is not a time to initiate anything new. It’s a phase suited to spending time with friends and getting in touch with the “big picture.” A window of opportunity exists for seeing your life objectively and becoming aware of what is important to you. At this point, what are your dreams and aspirations? What larger goals can you aspire to that will bring vitality and excitement into your life? This is a time for resting and gaining inner strength to prepare for a new cycle.
Well, guess what? We have two Full Moons this month. You know what that means, a Blue Moon. I don’t know why I love Blue Moons. It seems like I can draw more energy from a Blue Moon than I can from a Full Moon. I know I go outside to do my ritual work and house blessings. I sit on the porch and just look up at the Blue Moon and I can feel it’s energies running through my body. You can feel the magick and electricity running through the night sky. Blue Moons are truly glorious creations of Goddess. I know afterwards, I feel totally recharged and ready to tackle the world.
Enough with me, I could go on and on but I won’t. I was doing some digging this morning and came across several recipes you might find useful this Full Moon. I hope you can use them. Enjoy!
Full Moon Incense
3 parts Frankincense
1 part Sandalwood
Burn during Full Moon Rituals
Full Moon Incense 2
3 parts Gardenia
2 parts Frankincense
1 part Rose
½ part Orris
A few drops Sandalwood Oil
Full Moon Oil
15 drops Sandalwood
10 drops Lemon
5 drops Rose
½ oz. Carrier Oil
Full Moon Ritual Incense
2 parts Sandalwood
2 parts Frankincense
½ part Gardenia
¼ part Rose
A few drops of Ambergris oil
As Leo’s ruler, the sun may currently be playing a starring role in the 
heavens, but the moon continues to illuminate the night sky. In The English Husbandman (1635), Gervase Markham (1568 – 1637) advises readers on how to forecast the weather with the moon’s help: “If when you see the new Moon appear,… she be black or discoloured in her midst …if she be compassed about either with thick or waterish transparent vapours; or if she look more than ordinarily pale, all these are infallible sign of Rain.
Before your August Esbat, consider which aspect of this time of year you wish to highlight and then address the full moon accordingly. The name Corn Moon emphasizes the ripe harvest, while Wyrt or Wort (Old English for “root” and “medicinal plant” respectively) Moon focuses on the gathering of herbs.
This is a tremendous time of transmutation. All of the prior elements are coming together for a final burst of creative output. You have seen a clear view of your own needs and the posture of significant others. Now the accumulation of that input is leading to a deep, core change within you. In this phase, you will naturally be inclined to seek higher guidance so that you can emerge from this transformation successfully. The Disseminting Moon favors sharing what you have learned (and are learning) with others.
*Tuesday (Mars): Passion, sex, courage, aggression, and protection.
Festival at Sassari
Moon Sign: *Cancer
*Cancer: Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Pinpoints need, supports growth and nurturance. Tends to domestic concerns.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, a little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Incense: Cinnamon
Moon Phase: *Fourth Quarter
Color: Scarlet
This is a time to rest, reevaluate and reflect, pulling back into yourself to reconnect with inner sources of strength. Now is not a time to initiate anything new. It’s a phase suited to spending time with friends and getting in touch with the “big picture.” A window of opportunity exists for seeing your life objectively and becoming aware of what is important to you. At this point, what are your dreams and aspirations? What larger goals can you aspire to that will bring vitality and excitement into your life? This is a time for resting and gaining inner strength to prepare for a new cycle.
*Monday (Moon): Peace, sleep, healing, compassion, friends, psychic awareness, purification and fertility.
Women’s Day (Tunisian)
Moon Sign: *Gemini
*Gemini: Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence. Time for shortcuts, communication, games and fun.
*Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters Cancer 4:27 am
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter
Incense: Clary Sage
Color Lavender
The time of reaping is at hand. There is a feeling of completion infused into the atmosphere during the Last Quarter Moon. The opportunity opens to recognize how far you’ve come in various parts of your life. This is not a good time for new beginnings, but rather a reflective period suited to evaluating how you have been using your time and what has been accomplished. Issues of authority may arise. This Moon phase supports taking responsibility for actively tying up the loose ends of projects that are already underway.
*Sunday (Sun): Healing, spirituality, success, strength, and protection.
Fiesta of Santa Clara
Moon Sign: Gemini
*Gemini: Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence. Time for shortcuts, communication, games, and fun.
Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon is a time for study, meditation, and little magickal work (except magick, designed to banish harmful energies.
Incense: Frankincense
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter
Color: Orange
The Moon for Aug 10, 2012
(At Midnight, US Central time, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere)
The time of reaping is at hand. There is a feeling of completion infused into the atmosphere during the Last Quarter Moon. The opportunity opens to recognize how far you’ve come in various parts of your life. This is not a good time for new beginnings, but rather a reflective period suited to evaluating how you have been using your time and what has been accomplished. Issues of authority may arise. This Moon phase supports taking responsibility for actively tying up the loose ends of projects that are already underway.
*Friday* Love, friendship, reconciliation and beauty
St. Lawrence’s Day
Moon Sign: Taurus
*Taurus* Things begun now last the longest, tend to increase in value, and become hard to alter. Bring out appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.
Waning Moon
*The Waning Moon* is a time for study, meditation and little magickal work (except magick designed to banish harmful energies).
Moon enters Gemini 4:11 p.m.
Moon Phase: Fourth Quarter
Incense: Vanilla
Color: Rose
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