Lunar Lore
May you have warm words On a Cold eve,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill
All the way to your door.
~Irish Blessing
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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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O Moon! the oldest shades ’mong oldest trees
Feel palpitations when thou lookest in:
O Moon! old boughs lisp forth a holier din
– John Keats, “Endymion.”
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…the Moone alwaies in her encreasing,
hath the tips of her hornes turned from the Sunne toward the East:
but in the waine, contrariwise Westward.
Also that shee shineth… [increases],
and so riseth in proportion the second day forward unto the full:
and likewise decreaseth in the same manner to the change [new moon]
Pliny’s “Natural History,” Philemon Holland’s trans.|
The Moon in the Sign of Libra: Yang, Masculine, Solar, Positive, Diurnal, Airy, Cardinal, Semi-fruitful, Horary Western, Autumnal, Austral, Obeying, Equinoctial, Moist, Vocal, Sweet,
Spells and rituals involving the earth element should be performed when the Moon is in an earth sign: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn.
Straight from
GrannyMoon’s Morning Feast
