Draws emphasis to the self, to central ideas or institutions, away from connections with others and emotional needs.
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Moon in Moonchild
Stimulates emotional rapport between people. Supports growth and nurturing. Tend to domestic concerns.
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Moon in Gemini
Things begun now are easily changed by outside influence. Time for shortcuts, communication, games, and fun.
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Moon in Taurus
Things begun now last longest, tend to increase in value, and become hard to change. Brings out an appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.
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Moon in Aries
Good for starting things. Things occur rapidly but quickly pass. People tend to be argumentative and assertive.
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Waning
Waning, from Full Moon to New Moon, is a time for study, meditation, and magical work designed to banish harmful energies.
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Waxing
Waxing, from New Moon to Full Moon, is the ideal time to do magic to draw things to you.
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Energy Amplifier Candle Dressing
This candle dresing recipe can be used to amplify the power of any spell or ritual. Based on a mixture of herbs with lively energy, it will stir up extra magical impact and speed the results of your working. The herbs are chosen for their associations with snappy, quick energy.
The key ingredient is ashes from a piece of paper bearing your name. Write your name on a small slip of paper and carefully burn it in a heatproof dish. Gather the ashes after they have cooled and include them in the dry ingredients.
For anointing, you will need 1 drop cinnamon oil. For dry ingredi ents, use ½ tsp. dried crushed ginger root, 3 saffron sprigs, 1 dried crushed snapdragon flower in your favorite color, 1 pinch powdered tarragon, and the ashes.
You can mix the dry ingredients ahead of time and keep them stored in a sealed jar in a cool, dark place. To keep their energy strong, consider adding a quartz crystal to the jar.
Kate Freuler
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Lucky Seven Candle Dressing
The number seven is lucky because so many good things come in sevens: the number of colors in a rainbow, the chakras or energy centers in the body, and the continents of the world. The number seven ranks among the most favored numbers by gamblers and lottery players. This candle dressing contains seven herbs, each representing something powerful and positive.
Dress a candle of any color and burn it to attract luck in all areas of life.
For anointing, use 1 drop mint oil, 1 drop chamomile oil, and 1 drop sandalwood oil. Mix together ½ tsp. crushed dried patchouli leaves for grounding, ½ tsp. dried lavender flowers for attraction, ½ tsp. dried dandelion petals for confidence, ½/ tsp. dragon’s blood resin powder for love, ½ tsp. rosemary for truth, ½ tsp. sage for wis-dom, and ½ tsp. crushed myrrh gum for spirituality.
Try using this mixture on a rainbow candle of seven colors for some extra luck. Burn it just before an important event or celebration to make sure the experience is positive.
Kate Freuler
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Blue Moon
Blue Moon refers to when a Full Moon appears for the second time in the same calendar month. This Blue Moon happens to fall on Wednesday, the day of Mercury . . . during Mercury ret-rograde. While Mercury retrograde does not lend itself well to important new conversations, it provides ample opportunities to revisit unresolved situations and explore them from new perspectives.
It also gives us time to look back on what we might have done differently. While there is an adage that you regret the things you don’t do, the reality is that there are, for all of us, things we have done, said, and tried that we wish we had not. So take an inventory of what you regret, especially looking over what you regret that impacted another person. Can you make amends? If you no longer have contact with someone you impacted, can you make amends in a different way? This exercise is not to answer karmic imbalance but to answer the feeling of regret and understand it only act from emotional alignment.
-Diana Rachel