Moon Magick, Facts & Lore The moon passes through 5 destinct phases: 1. Dark Moon (not visable) 2. New Moon (crescent moon) 3. Waxing Moon (growing moon) 4. Full Moon (fertile moon) 5. Waning Moon (shrinking moon) The Dark Moon is the most secretive and powerful time to consider spell casting, although you should wait until the moon is visable before conducting your ritual. It has the power to pour light into your desire. The Waxing Moon building up to the Full Moon is the time for calling on your desires and making them grow into manifestation. The Full Moon is the time for making powerful statements about how you wish your life to be. The 13 Full Moon rituals are called Esbats, and during these one of the major acts of magick, drawing down the moon is performed. The Waning Moon is the time for making reducing spells (losing weight, moving from an old home, etc.) and releasing all those thoughts and situations that no longer serve you. The Moon and the Sun The Moon is-- reflective, meditative, calm The Sun is-- brilliant, restless, hot The Moon-- changes shape, shifts from darkness to light The Sun-- remains constant and intense The Moon is-- receptive, feminine, mysterious The Sun is-- a great masculine force, projective The Moon-- reflects the darkness of the unconscious The Sun-- pours the light of consciousness over the world The Moon is associated with-- serpents, bulls, and spiral images It rules-- the seas, tides, and the menstrual cycle She is a fertility symbol The Moon reigns over-- Worlds of intuition, psychic ability, poetry, rain, emotions, travel, questing, secrets, reflection and meditation, memory, prophecy, plant life, healing, and the inexorable march of time She is-- Soothing, contained, and symbolically speaking--every bit as powerful as her consort, the Sun She represents-- Birth, growth, fulness, decline, death, and rebirth. Moon Worship Moon worship preceded Sun worship in every primitive society. The names given to the Moon Goddess are: Artemis--Virgin Huntress Aphrodite--Goddess of Love Selene--Mystic Hera--Mature Mother In Ancient Egypt she is-- Isis, Hathor, and Seshat The Eskimos called her--Sedna The Chinese named her--Shing Moon The Celts called her--Morgana All over the world, rituals were held in her honor. In the Wiccan religion, she is celebrated on the following days: Winter Solstice: December 20-23 Candlemas: February 2nd Spring Equinox: March 20-23 Beltane: May Day Summer Solstice: June 20-23 Lughnasad: August 1st Fall Equinox: September 20-23 Samhain (Halloween): October 31 Dream Gatherers: A Dream Myth This particular myth connects the Moon with the morning dew. Every morning, so the tale goes, the Moon Maiden gathers all the worlds forgotten dreams and buried memories into a lovely silver chalice. Every morning she returns them to Earth in the form of dew or Moon Sap. Thus, nothing meaningful is lost; everything comes and goes. The Moon Maiden (A Japanese Moon Myth) One spring, a fisherman named Hairukoo sat down on the seashore to rest. He marveled at the blue sea sparkling in the sunlight, the shining sands, and the tall pine trees in the background. The world is fair, he thought to himself. Looking around, he spotted a robe hanging on a tree. He thought no more of the lovely scene in front of him, for the robe was the most beautiful and rare thing that he had ever seen. It was made of pure white feathers, wonderfully fashioned and soft to the touch. He was just about to lift it from the tree, when he saw a maiden coming towards him from the sea. The robe is mine, she said. Give it to me, kind fisherman. She was a lovely maiden and her voice was sweet and musical, that Hairukoo found even more pleasure in looking at her and listening to her words. I have found it, he said and cannot possibly part with a thing so wonderful. It must be placed among the treasures of Japan. The maiden clasped her hands and implored, Without it I cannot fly, and will never be able to get back to my home in the heavens. Give it to me kind fisherman, I pray you. Hairukoo could not make up his mind. The maiden was beautiful, but so was the robe, so he hardened his heart and continued to refuse. The maidens pleading finally softened his heart and he said, I will give it to you, if you dance here on the sands before me. The maidens face brightened, and she replied, I will dance the dance which I dance at home with my sisters, that makes the Palace of the Moon turn around, so that even men can see it. But I cannot dance without my feathers. I will not give it to you until you have danced, said Hairukoo. If I do you will fly away and I will never see you dance at all. The maiden grew angry. On earth you may break your promises. she said But among those who dwell in the Heavens, falsehood is unknown. Ashamed of himself, Hairukoo handed the robe to the maiden without another word. She donned the robe, and drew from it a musical instrument that gave forth the most delightful sounds. In a clear voice, the maiden sang of the wonderful things that were to be seen in the Palace of the Moon. Thirty kings were throned in that Palace. Fifteen of them wore white robes, and while they ruled the Moon shone down upon the people of the earth. Fifteen of the kings wore black robes, and during their reign the Moon waned until it was seen no more. When the maiden was finished, she sang of Japan and blessed the country promising that the gods would grant it fruitfulness and beauty. Then her song became a chant in a language that Hairukoo could not understand and her feet left the golden sands, and her feathers bore her up to the heavens, back to the Palace of the Moon. Weather Scientific studies have concurred that hurricanes, typhoons, and storms are more likely to occur within a few days of either the New Moon or the Full Moon. Rings around the Moon are considered to be a reliable predictor of rain. Ancient sailors dreaded the appearance of a star too close to the Moon--it meant that a storm was just ahead. If the Moon shows a silver shield, Be not afraid to reap your field But if she rises haloed round Soon well tread on deluged ground. Farming Under the Waxing Moon...(growing and expanding) plant fruits and veggies that grow above ground. Reap foods that will be eaten immediately. Under the Full Moon...Collect grapes for wine, spread fertilizer, and water seedlings. Plants are at their fullest _expression during this cycle. Under the Waning Moon...Think of harvesting, planting, preserving, storing, or drying the produce. This is the time to tend to the land that will soon be barren. For the plants that thrive underground, this is the time to plant. The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Moon Facts The Moon was formed 4.6 million years ago. A billion-year-long meteor shower shaped its mountains and craters. The highest peak of the Moon is Mt. Huygens (rises 25,000 ft. above the Moons surface) Its deepest crater is 10,000 ft. below the surface Its location is 225,755 miles from Earth Its temperature can reach as high as 212 degrees F at Lunar Noon Its size-- surface area: 11,700,000 sq. miles diameter: 2,160 miles Characteristics-- No atmosphere, weather, or seasonal change. Each lunar day lasts 14 Earth days. Its largest craters are: Bailly (184 miles), Clavius (140 miles), and Schickard (139 miles) Lore In ancient times, women feared falling asleep under a full moon for fear of being mooned--becoming pregnant by the Moon. A marriage consummated at the Full Moon in June will last a lifetime. Pregnant women who stroll unde a Full Moon will give birth to lunatics. When the Moon is Full, then wits in the wane. Meditation on the Moon Choose a night of the Full Moon and light a silver candle at Gabriels hour (9pm). Sit where you can observe the Moon and begin to breathe quietly and deeply, inhaling the mystic light of Her silvery rays in your imagination so that, as you breathe out, you exhale a beautiful outpouring of white magical radiance. See yourself and your surroundings as suffused with this light. Say to the Moon: Moon-Goddess, Enchantress and Mistress of the night, I pray that I might be endued with the grace and the strength of your majesty and beauty and enchantment of your magnetism. I experience the bliss of your peace, tranquility and power. I hail you as Queen of Wisdom and the Receptive Soul. All my life I shall walk in the charmed circle of your wisdom, beauty, power, serenity and mystery. I am filled with the heavenly peace of your motherly love, which enfolds me tenderly within the great white wings of Isis, whose radiant presence is with me in every life situation. Sit for a few minutes contemplating the Moons mysteries, then bow to Her and blow out your candle.
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