Tarot Cards and Moon Phases

The days following a New Moon phase are auspicious. The actual day of the New Moon, the balsamic or dark Moon period, marks the beginning point when the heavens shift from dark to light. On the following days magic is in the air and the inner life is awakened.

This is a perfect time to tap into your inner wisdom with a Celtic Cross Tarot reading and prepare for a new beginning in your life. Imagine the first crack of an egg. It takes work and diligence to crack that egg open and expand toward new dimensions, but the effort is always worth it in the end.

This metaphor illustrates the potential available to each of us the day after a New Moon approaches. The following quote expresses the essence of the New Moon’s potential.

“A New Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” –Rumi

The New Moon: The Fool

“Behold, a sacred voice is calling you. All over the sky a sacred voice is calling you.” –Black Elk

Do something different for a change. Dare to be lighthearted. Change what you wear. Surprise yourself with a new attitude. Shine the light of magic and wonder in all that you do and see. Watch the birds take flight from tree to tree. Free yourself from old routines that tie you down and exhaust your immune system. Allow the vibrations of the New Moon to awaken your inner life with fresh perspectives and promptings.

Suggested flower essence: Shooting Star … discover yourself again and embody the genius of your soul!

Crescent Moon: The High Priestess

When each day is sacred, when each hour is sacred, when each instant is sacred, Earth and you, space and you, bearing and sacred through time, you’ll reach the fields of light. –Guillevic

The crescent Moon has been associated with Isis, the Egyptian Goddess known as She Who Makes Right Use of the Heart, or the Mother of Heaven. Isis’s headdress is often depicted with the horns of a cow on her head, and the solar disc between them. These horns are a symbol of the crescent Moon and are representations of immanent fertility and prosperity.

An intuitive spark of heart and mind have been lit. You now bear the torch. Be still while you listen and visualize. Take note of the seeds that have been planted within your garden of life and do everything you can to bring nutrients to the foundation of your life. Moisten and deepen your attunement to inner truth. The crescent Moon offers a force of light pushing forward within you.

Suggested flower essence: Cat’s Ear … attune to the magic of your intuition and act accordingly.

First Quarter: The Magician

“You must become the change you want to see in the world.” –Gandhi

The Magician is one who has become seasoned and attuned to the conscious aspects of life ready to manifest. The Magician leads the whimsical wandering of The Fool into a clearer stream of consciousness that can actualize miracle upon miracle. You must now understand the world of matter and turn that which has been unseen into visible creations. Be productive, active, goal-oriented and joyous in every endeavor. Nothing can remain stagnant at this stage of the Moon’s phase. The theme of creative movement is evident in the flow of life.

Suggested flower essence: Iris … the creative paintbrush of the soul. Paint your dreams into manifested joy and deliberation.

Gibbous Moon: The Wheel of Fortune

“How shall I begin my song in the blue night that is setting? In the great night my heart will go out. Toward me the light comes, rattling. In the great night sky my heart will go out.” –Medicine Woman Chant

The gibbous Moon phase can be called the womb of potential. Life is a constant process of transformation and movement involving integration, disintegration, generation and degeneration. Having recently experienced a rebirth cycle, you are now ready to embrace all that is expanding and growing in your life. Confront your opportunities and challenges in order that a permeable reality may evolve. Learn new things, stretch your imagination, seek new experiences and take in an interesting movie or documentary and study. Fill your life with interests and activities.

Suggested flower essence: Mountain Pride … the great warrior of the heart moves forward, actualizing dreams and goals. Perseverance is the key.

Full Moon: The Sun and Moon

“Each night Lady Moon gathers unto herself all the discarded memories and forgotten dreams of mankind. These she stores in her silver cup till dawn. Then, at first light, all these forgotten dreams and neglected memories are returned to Earth as Moon-sap, or dew. Mingled with lacrimae lunae, ‘the tears of the Moon,’ this dew nourishes and refreshes all life on Earth. Through compassionate care of the Goddess, nothing of value is lost to man.” –from the Legend of the Moon by Sallie Nichols

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” –John Wesley

The force of the Sun and Moon are illumined and the pure potential of both lights are fully active. The chalice cup is full, life is brimming over with expectation, and the cornucopia horn of plenty has been placed at the center table of life. Wisdom shines outward. Share your gifts, talents, joys and manifested creations through teaching, writing, dancing and community sharing. This is the peak of light and you are filled with its radiant glow.

Suggested flower essence: Lotus … flower of water and air bringing the unconscious forces into conscious knowing and insight.

Disseminating Moon: The Star

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” –Mary Oliver

This is the time to pour forward all that you have accumulated by networking, sharing news, offering service and find the joy to be the light of the world. You know the mystery of life and you live according to the secret wisdom found in the Full Moon phase. Share in the mystery and walk in the beauty of your true self. This is a time to reach for the stars as they become more visible with the decreasing light of the Full Moon. You may ask yourself, “How may I serve the world?”

Suggested flower essence: The Rose … deeply rooted in the Earth, the rose blossoms into the beauty of love. The rose opens the heart chakra so that we may do our very best work on Earth.

Third Quarter Moon: Judgment

“From joy I came, for joy I live, and in Thy sacred joy, I shall melt again.” –Yogananda

Look deeply now to assess all that you have become responsible for. We have countless opportunities to weigh our pros and cons in life. Seek to negate all polarities and opposition within and roll them back into the deep soil of the past. Now is the time for a renewed self-reflection and once again you are prompted to spend some quality time alone, read a good book, get a haircut, clean out closets, move things around. It will beneficial to fast for a day or eat lightly so that your body may purge and cleanse. You are preparing for another turn of the Moon … and darkness in the sky brings bright wisdom within.

Suggested flower essence: Sagebrush … cutting through all illusion and confusion, sagebrush cleanses the aura and the field of light around the heart chakra.

Balsamic Moon: The Hermit

“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity and beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.” –Thomas Merton

When the dark Moon resides within the heavens, a sweet quiet is pervasive. Meditate, contemplate, pray, chant and rest. There are many ways to experience the descent into the unconscious successfully, and the more attentive you become of this inner need, the greater balance and immune health an individual will attain. Strengthen your connection to the invisible worlds, seek the cave and find the light within.

Suggested flower essence: Queen of the Night … desert cactus flower that blooms in the night offering the inner light of the unconscious.

The Moon phases are the magical wheel that we dance upon each month. In your own birth chart you have your own progressed Moon phases that coincide with the eight phases that I have written about in this post. Each progressed Moon phase lasts approximately 2 1/2 years. You might like to find out which house your progressed Moon is passing through and what sign it is in. It’s great to understand the mapping of your own inner sky.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 28 August, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 14 ¼ days.

Ascending Node is at 2° Libra.

Moon in 24th degree of the Sign Aquarius, the Waterman;

also in 25th deg. of the Constellation Capricornus, the Goat.

Moonset: 5:05 morn. Moonrise: 6:49 eve.

Aspects of the Moon in Aquarius: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Airy, Fixed, Barren, Horary Western, Wintery, Austral, Obeying, Human, Moist, Vocal, Sweet, Warm, Mental, Nervous, Hot

Waxing Moon: Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epon

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

Spells and rituals involving the air element should be performed when the Moon is in the air sign: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

The hour is nigh; the waning Queen

Walks forth to rule the later night;

Crown’d with the sparkle of a Star,

And throned on orb of ashen light.

~ Sir Richard F. Burton, “Kasidah.”

He made an instrument to know

If the moon shine at full or no.

~ Samuel Butler

The moon is a silver pinhead vast

That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.

~ W. R. Alger, “The Use of the Moon.”

The Moon in opposition to Jupiter,

denotes a good day in all kind of things.

~ Bethem’s “Centiloquium”

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Chestnut or black ash timber for fence rails is four times

better if cut in the last quarter of the moon (Feb or Mar) than in

the first quarter. Chestnut, for firewood, snaps more when burning if

cut in first quarter. Hemlock burns better if cut in last quarter.

~ “Old Farmer’s Almanac” for 1833

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It is a sign of fair weather, if the full moon rise clear.

~ Encyc. of Superstitions, Folklore & Occult Sciences of the World

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When the moon passes through the signs of the Zodiac

Which are most peculiar to the Earth, if you then plant trees,

They will be strongly rooted in the Earth;

If you plant them when she passes through the signs of the Air,

Then the tree so planted, will be plentiful in branches and leaves,

And increases more upward then downward.

~ John Baptista Porta, “Natural Magick”, book I.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Thursday, 27 August, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 13 ¼ days.

Ascending Node is at 2° Libra.

Moon in 10th degree of the Sign Aquarius, the Waterman; also in 11th deg. of the Constellation Capricornus, the Goat. Moonset: 3:57 morn. Moonrise: 6:04 eve. Souths: 11:36 eve.

Aspects of the Moon in Aquarius: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Airy, Fixed, Barren, Horary Western, Wintery, Austral, Obeying, Human, Moist, Vocal, Sweet, Warm, Mental, Nervous, Hot

Waxing Moon: Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epon

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

Spells and rituals involving the air element should be performed when the Moon is in the air sign: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

The Moon in conjunction with Jupiter, is found to be a good day in all humane affairs. ~ Bethem’s “Centiloquium”.

Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. – Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” I, i.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe how short soever ; Thou that mak’st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright! – Ben Jonson, “Hymn to Diana.”

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Tuesday, 25 August, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 11 ½ days.

Moon Rides Low. Moon in 12th degree of the Sign Capricorn, the Goat; also in 16th deg. of the Constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.

Moonset: 1:58 morn. Moonrise: 4:26 eve. Souths: 9:43 eve.

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

Waxing Moon: Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiration, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

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

Moon in Capricorn: Spells involving career, political matters and ambition.

Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth, Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.) Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

Doth the moon shine that night we play our play? A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac; find out moonshine, find out moonshine. – Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” III, i .

The Romans believed that the mind was affected by the moon, and that “lunatics” were more and more frenzied as the moon increased to its full. ~Brewer, “Dictionary of Phrase & Fable”.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Monday, 24 August, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 10 ¼ days.

Ascending Node is at 2° Libra.

Moon in 27th degree of the Sign, and 1st degree of the Constellation of Sagittarius, the Bowman. Moonset: 1:06 morn. Moonrise: 3:32 eve. Souths: 8:48 eve.

Aspects of the Moon in Sagittarius: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Mutable, Barren, Horary Eastern, Autumnal, Austral, Obeying, Double, Double-Bodied, Dual, Bicorporeal, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Vocal (first half only), Bitter, Hot.

Waxing Moon: Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

Slowly the solemn moon its full orb rears, And through the skies its lucid influence throws, Each glittering star ’mid fleecy clouds appears, And through th’ immeasurable path of heaven The high galaxy glows. ~ Ann Batten Cristall, “Poetical Sketches.”

The moon she possibly doth shine because Strook by the rays of sun, and day by day May turn unto our gaze her light, the more She doth recede from orb of sun, until, Facing him opposite across the world, She hath with full effulgence gleamed abroad… – Lucretius, “On the Nature of Things.”

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Wednesday, 05 August, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 20 days.
Ascending Node is at 3° Libra.
Moon in 17th degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram;
also in 17th deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.
Souths: 5:28 morn. Moonset: 12:09 eve. Moonrise: 11:37 eve.

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Aspects of Aries: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Cardinal, Barren, Horary Eastern, Vernal, Boreal, Commanding, Equinoctial, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Bitter, Hoarse, Hot.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore

Mists which occur with the crescent moon indicate winds
until that time [next moon]. But those which occur when
the moon is doubly convex [full] indicate rain.
~Theophrastus “(Signs, etc. J. G. Wood’s Translation)”

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Tuesday, 04 August, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 19 ¾ days.

Moon at Descending Node.

Moon in 13th degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram;

also in 13th deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.

Souths: 4:35 morn. Moonset: 11:01 morn. Moonrise: 10:58 eve.

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Aspects of Aries: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Cardinal, Barren, Horary Eastern, Vernal, Boreal, Commanding, Equinoctial, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Bitter, Hoarse, Hot.

The Waning Moon

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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Spells and rituals involving the Water element should be performed when the Moon is in a Water sign: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Moon in Pisces: Spells involving music, telepathy and clairvoyance.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

The moon appearing larger at sunset, and not dim but

luminous, portends fair weather for several days.

~ Francis Bacon, “Historia Ventorum”

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Elf (plural, Elves, Anglo-Saxon, oelf): properly, a mountain fay,

but more loosely applied to those airy creatures that

dance on the grass or sit in the leaves of trees and

delight in the full moon.

– Brewer’s “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.”

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Tuesday, 28 July, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 13 days.
Moon Rides Low.
Moon in 4th degree of the Sign Capricorn, the Goat;
also in 8th deg. of the Constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.
Moonset: 3:16 morn. Moonrise: 5:45 eve. Souths: 11:01 eve.

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Waxing Moon

Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days)

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom. Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth,
Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.)

Perform magic on waxing moons to attract a new quality or behavior, to increase the light within, to attain personal and spiritual growth and greater awareness. The quarter moon suggests a period of overcoming obstacles and continuing on the path to growth.

Spells and rituals involving the fire element should be performed when the Moon is in a fire sign: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius.

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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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore
So sicken waning moons too near the sun,
And blunt their crescents on the edge of day.
– John Dryden, “Annus Mirabilis.”

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Tuesday, 07 July, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 21 ¼ days.

Moon On Equator.

Moon in 3rd degree of the Sign Aries, the Ram;

also in 3rd deg. of the Constellation Pisces, the Fishes.

Souths: 5:50 morn. Moonset: 12:04 eve.

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Spells and rituals involving the Air element should be performed when the Moon is in the air sign: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.

Moon in Aquarius: Spells involving science, freedom, personal expression, problem solving, friendship.

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The Current Moon Phase Is: Waning Gibbous – the Moon is less than fully but more than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing.

“Waning Moon: Symbolic of letting go, surrender, release, quiet time, contemplation, and a time of incubation.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon

Lunar Lore

A cycle of the moon, called “Meton’s Cycle,” from Meton,

who discovered it, is a period of nineteen years,

at the expiration of which time the phases of the moon

repeat themselves on the same days as they did

nineteen years previously.

~ Brewer’s “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.”

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“Tsuki no Usagi” is the rabbit in the moon

who is pounding rice into mochi with a mortar.

– Japanese folk-lore.

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Occasional clouds

one gets a rest

from moon-viewing

~Basho

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Thursday, 02 July, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon Age: 15 ½ days.
Ascending Node is at 5° Libra.
Moon in 11th degree of the Sign Capricorn, the Goat;
also in 15th deg. of the Constellation Sagittarius, the Archer.
Souths: 1:15 morn. Moonset: 6:30 morn. Moonrise: 8:55 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

Moon in Capricorn: Spells involving career, political matters and ambition

Spells and rituals involving the Earth Element should be performed when the Moon is in an Earth sign: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn.
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The Current Moon Phase Is: Waning Gibbous – the Moon is less than fully but more than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing. “Waning Moon: Symbolic of letting go, surrender, release, quiet time, contemplation, and a time of incubation.

FULL MOON -The Moon has traveled ½ way around to the 6oclock position, and the face of the Moon is fully illuminated….We love full moon magic….an apt time for fruition, completion and wholeness….some say the magic can be done the day of the Moon as well as 3 days on either side of it….it is a good time for all Positive Magic….protection, scrying, love, healing and prosperity….also a good time to grow closer to the Goddess by Drawing Down the Moon…..I just love the Full Moon!

Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore

The Moon can be represented in five different phases:
New; Full; Crescent or Decrescent; Half;
and Gibbous, or more than half.
– Brewer, “Dictionary of Phrase & Fable”
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It is a sign of fair weather,
if the full moon rise clear.
– Encyc. of Superstitions, Folklore & Occult Sciences of the World

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Lunabar Moon Almanack

Lunabar Moon Almanack for Tuesday, 30 June, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 13 ½ days.
Ascending Node is at 5° Libra.
Moon in 14th degree of the Sign Sagittarius, the Bowman;
also in 7th deg. of the Constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent-Holder.
Moonset: 4:37 morn. Moonrise: 7:04 eve.

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Aspects of Sagittarius: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Fiery, Mutable, Barren, Horary Eastern, Autumnal, Austral, Obeying, Double, Double-Bodied, Dual, Bicorporeal, Feral, Bestial, Animal, Four-footed, Dry, Vocal (first half only), Bitter, Hot.
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The Current Moon Phase Is: Waxing Gibbous

Waxing Gibbous – when the Moon is more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is increasing.

Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days)

Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth, Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.)

Spells and rituals involving the Fire element should be performed when the Moon is in a Fire sign: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore
The Moon in conjunction with Jupiter,
is found to be a good day in all humane affairs.
~ Bethem’s “Centiloquium”.

If a snowstorm begins when the moon is young,
it will cease at moonrise.
~ Collected in R. Inwards, “Weather Lore”
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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Monday, 29 June, 2015

Waxing, Gibbous Moon Age: 13 ½ days.
Ascending Node is at 5° Libra.
Moon in 13th degree of the Sign Sagittarius, the Bowman;
also in 6th deg. of the Constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent-Holder.
Moonset: 3:49 morn. Moonrise: 6:06 eve. Souths: 11:25 eve.

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The Current Moon Phase Is: Waxing Gibbous

Waxing Gibbous – when the Moon is more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is increasing.

Time: From New Moon To Full (Approx. 14 Days)

Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal).

Goddess Aspect: Maiden

Associated Goddesses: Artemis, Branwen, Eriu, Nymph, Epona

Magickal Attributes: Invoking Beginnings, New Projects, Ideas, Inspiriation, Energy, Vitality, Freedom.

Workings On This Day Are For “Constructive” Magick (Love, Wealth, Success, Courage, Friendship, Luck Or Health.)

Spells and rituals involving the Fire element should be performed when the Moon is in a Fire sign: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius.

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Moon Moon, Mother Moon
Lunar Lore

“Alilat” – the name by which the Arabs adore nature,
which they represent by a crescent moon.
~ Brewer, “Dictionary of Phrase & Fable”.

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Let’s Talk Witch – The Waning Moon

The Waning Moon

The Waning Gibbous Moon or Disseminating Moon appears 3 ½ days to 7 days after the Full Moon. The Moon will rise during the evening and set sometime mid-morning. Again we see the bulge on one side of the Moon but it is now decreasing each day. Darkness is slowly moving in. Waning is underway.

The Waning Last Quarter Moon appears between 7 and 10 ½ days after the Full Moon. She rises near midnight and sets near noon. Because of the return to a right angle between the Sun and Moon the variation between tides is low again. There is once again a balance between light and dark, but the dark will soon overcome the light.

The Waning Crescent or Balsamic Moon occurs between 10 ½ days after the Full Moon up until the New Moon. The Moon rises in the dark hours of the morning and sets in the afternoon. Again we see the Moon as a beautiful crescent, but it is rapidly diminishing into darkness.

You do not have to be concerned so much about overdoing things now because the lunar rhythm will act as something of a brake. Now is a good time to throw away your rubbish, take old clothes to charity shops. Consider how well things are working out and analyse information. Follow your needs and reactions.

You may feel more like meditating and being alone. Clear spaces of all descriptions and make endings, let go of unwanted energies, release, banish and reverse. Some people favour scrying and meditation with the Dark Moon because it is a more inward time. The insights you glean now will have a deeper more insightful quality, whereas as Full Moon they may be more obviously creative.

To connect with the Waxing Moon energies and the energy of the Crone, place an amethyst in a bowl of water, light a purple candle and scry.

Use a hag stone (holey stone) or a piece of elder or yew wood. Hold this during meditation to connect with crone energies and the energy of the Waning Moon.

Make a crone hearth in your fireplace or on your mantelpiece. Decorate it with symbols that represent her to you, or you could just use a cauldron (or big casserole dish) and fill it with a large dark coloured candle and pebbles.

Pagan Portals – Moon Magic
Rachel Patterson

Tarot Cards and Moon Phases

It takes work and diligence to crack that egg open and expand toward new dimensions, but the effort is always worth it in the end.

This metaphor illustrates the potential available to each of us the day after a New Moon approaches. The following quote expresses the essence of the New Moon’s potential.

“A New Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” –Rumi

The New Moon: The Fool

“Behold, a sacred voice is calling you. All over the sky a sacred voice is calling you.” –Black Elk

Suggested flower essence: Shooting Star … discover yourself again and embody the genius of your soul!

Crescent Moon: The High Priestess

When each day is sacred, when each hour is sacred, when each instant is sacred, Earth and you, space and you, bearing and sacred through time, you’ll reach the fields of light. –Guillevic

Suggested flower essence: Cat’s Ear … attune to the magic of your intuition and act accordingly.

First Quarter: The Magician

“You must become the change you want to see in the world.” –Gandhi

Suggested flower essence: Iris … the creative paintbrush of the soul. Paint your dreams into manifested joy and deliberation.

Gibbous Moon: The Wheel of Fortune

Suggested flower essence: Mountain Pride … the great warrior of the heart moves forward, actualizing dreams and goals. Perseverance is the key.

Full Moon: The Sun and Moon

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” –John Wesley

Suggested flower essence: Lotus … flower of water and air bringing the unconscious forces into conscious knowing and insight.

Disseminating Moon: The Star

Suggested flower essence: The Rose … deeply rooted in the Earth, the rose blossoms into the beauty of love. The rose opens the heart chakra so that we may do our very best work on Earth.

Third Quarter Moon: Judgment

“From joy I came, for joy I live, and in Thy sacred joy, I shall melt again.” –Yogananda

Suggested flower essence: Sagebrush … cutting through all illusion and confusion, sagebrush cleanses the aura and the field of light around the heart chakra.

Balsamic Moon: The Hermit

Suggested flower essence: Queen of the Night … desert cactus flower that blooms in the night offering the inner light of the unconscious.

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Lunabar Moon Almanack for Friday, 08 May, 2015

Waning, Gibbous Moon

Age: 20 days. Ascending Node is at 8° Libra. Moon in 15th degree of the Sign Capricorn, the Goat; also in 19th deg. of the Constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Souths: 4:36 morn. Moonset: 9:50 morn

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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

The Egyptians worshiped the cat as a symbol of the moon, not only because it is more active after sunset, but from the dilation and contraction of its pupil, symbolical of the waxing and waning of the night-goddess. ~Brewer, “Dictionary of Phrase & Fable” *** Cut or prune trees in March or April when moon is in Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn. ~ “Old Farmer’s Almanac”, circa 1745.

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Moon in the Lunar Mansion

Alna’a’im, The Ostriches, also known as Trabs, The Beam, or Rafter. Marked by the fix’d Star: Ascella, in Sagittarius.

Courtesy of GrannyMoonsMorningFeast

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