Lunaria Noctis

What Is A Moon Magick?

In many cultures around the world, practitioners have used the position of the moon, as well as the phases of the moon in their practice. Each phase of the moon is perfect for certain types of magickal workings. Not all witches depend on the particular moon phase. Many develop their own methods and techniques through trial and error to find out what works best. Those that do use the timing of the moon do so by choosing the moon phase most conducive to their magickal workings. This gives their magickal workings some extra lunar energy boost.

Correspondences:

Associated deities: Isis, Diana, Artemis, Morrigan, Holda, Nyx, Nephtys, Sedna, Lilith, baba, Yaga, Kali, Aphrodite, Freya, Ishtr, Hathor, Selena, Oshun, Perspephone, Flora, Cerridwen, Gaia, Epona, Yemanja, Rhiannon, Khonsu, Inanna, Hecate, ...ect

Animals: owls, rabbits, wolves, deer, cats, moths, bats, spiders, raccoons, opossum, cows, frogs, dogs, crabs, whippoorwill, panther

Crystals/Stones: moonstone, selenite, obsidian, silver, mother-of-pearl, aquamarine, gold beryl, topaz, emerald, clear quartz, coral, pearls

Moon Associations: Shadow work, Protection, Meditation, Journaling, Introspection, Strength , Love, Beauty, Manifesting, To attract new things, Purification, Letting go, celebrate your accomplishments, letting go, goal setting, banishing

Plants and Herbs: vervain, moonflower, jasmine, lemon balm, cabbage, camellia, camphor, chickweed, moonwort, gardenia, grape, lemon, passion flower, turnip, potato, pea, cucumber, pear, peach, willow, poppy, mountain ash, mango, wallflower, rowan, cactus

Moon Phases

New Moon

This is the crescent Moon when see the first peak of light, this is a time of newness, the beginning of relationships, the beginning of a new venture, the energy of this phase promotes new beginnings on any level. This is the time for change and for being open to, and looking for new opportunities, tilling the soil and planting seeds actually, and the seeds of ideas.

Waxing Moon

The Moon is beginning to gain strength as it grows in size, and goes from a new to a full Moon, this is a perfect time for growth and increasing things, growth within a relationship, financial growth, a time for learning and gaining knowledge.

If someone is thinking about pregnancy, this is a time of fertility, and it is an exceptional time for communication, in a business matter, or within a relationship. This is also an auspicious time for any legal matters, especially those where finances are concerned, if a healing spell, or healing of any type is needed, this is the time.

Waxing Gibbous

During the phase of the Gibbous Waxing Moon anything to do with increase is compatible; this is a good time for minor magic as the lunar energy is waning.

Full Moon

The full Moon is the most powerful phase, this is when the Moon is seen in its glorious fullness, this is a time of enlightenment and heightened psychic awareness. It is a time when everything comes together, it is a time of ideas, also a time of commitment, to a person, idea or project. It is also a time of family, and or friends coming together, any spell is well aspected during this phase of the Moon.

Waning Gibbous

The Waning Gibbous Moon  is suitable for rituals associated with letting go, and banishing,  if it is time to clear out the old and prepare for the new, this is the Moon phase to spell craft with.

Waning Moon

As the Moon decreases in size, it goes from full to dark, and this is a time of letting go, it is also a time of completion. If you have been wanting to change something in your life, this is the perfect time.

It is also a time of ending anything that doesn’t work in your life, this may be a habit, a relationship, or paying attention to issues  associated with legal matters, this is a time to pay attention to anything that you have been procrastinating about

Moon Water

Moon water is very similar to Sun water. But rather than being charged by the sun, it’s charged by the moon. Moon water can be useful for helping boost the energy of a spell, to help an intention grow, protect and to cleanse a space.

Instructions:

Get a glass bottle

Fill it with any type of water.

☠If you summon a spirit for one purpose, abandon that purpose once the spirit manifests, and then ask for something else instead, the spirit will be furious. Making an additional request impromptu can go alright, so long as the additional request is not too much of a tangent from the original request.

☠The Ars Goetia, which contains 72 demons, was a rewrite of an older grimoire containing 69 spirits. The Ars Goetia included four additional demons and excluded one named Pruflas. 72 relates to the muliebral current of magickal energy, total magickal empowerment, and the Ophidian (draconian/serpentine) current.

☠If you disrespect the demons thoroughly enough, they might attack you, even to the point of having deathly intent. Even when that happens, it is still entirely possible for the deities to forgive you and continue to further your ascent.

☠Forgiveness is easy to get from most spirits, but sometimes forgiveness is partial. Articulated apologies and offerings both make forgiveness easier to get, and making spiritual progress is a big way to regain their favor.

☠Each of us will resonate better with some demons than others from the very beginning of our work. This is based partially upon the idiosyncracies of our physis- you will get the strongest manifestations by working with a demon whose physis is comparable to yours. Invocations of various demons will help you identify which types of spirits you resonate with. The ones most divorced from your physis will be difficult to invoke. By deliberately working with those spirits, you have become gradually attuned to their physis. Not only will this give you the ability to effectively access greater portions of the Numinous, it will strengthen the weak points in your spirituality and balance your own physis. The more balanced your energy is, the more powerful it is.

☠All the deities have their own character, preferences, values, etc. Ra hates psychic vampyres to the extent that he is liable to attack entire covens of them unprovoked, but Tiamat, Qingu, and Absu all love vampyres and are quite interested in their success, evolution, and well-being. Shugara judges people based on character, deeds, and potential. Samael is more strict than most deities.

☠You don't get over shit, you get through it- grieve normally. If you still have an emotional attachment to a bad memory, that means there's something about it you still haven't processed. Spells for emotional healing don't make you weak, they just allow you to cooperate with the spirits who care about you. To rephrase that last sentence: team work makes a dream work.

☠Refuse to distance yourself from the persons and spirits important to you during times of hardship- that's one of the worst things you can do.

☠Do not neglect your own well-being and mundane life for magick. The spiritual high can distract you from your outside life and incline you to procrastinate and neglect your obligations.

☠You'd ve surprised how early in your life certain spirits may have had their eyes on you. Your relationships with them may go back to past lives and/or activities between incarnations. Don't let it bother you if you aren't one of these cases.

☠If spirits call you a fool, that means you're doing the right thing: exploring unfamiliar territory. The Fool symbolizes the initiation process, as does Death. Death also symbolizes change and transformation.

☠Entities who are of a similar spiritual nature to yours or which share the disposition of your personality, will be easier for you to sense, see, hear, channel, evoke, and invoke. There are many factors defining the nature of your personal spiritual make-up, including the state of your alignment with various planetary forces, your Zodiac sign and its alchemical element, your attunement to various types of spiritual energy, and the position of your personality on the spectrum from feminine traits to masculine.

☠Some spirits have their own signature ways to give omens to the magician- Shugara uses the rain, Surgat tampers with locks, and so forth. Omens oftentimes simply serve to either let the witch know the spirit is interested in them or assure the witch of their presence. It's not too uncommon for spirits to hide your shit, appear in clouds, etc.

☠As far as I know, no perfect or omnipotent beings exist.

☠The gods destroy people all the time. Sometimes this can be so subtle that a magickal adept can be destroyed by a deity and think that it's helping them the whole time.

☠If a spirit tells you something you already know or reminds you to do something you already planned on doing, they're doing it for a reason.

☠Offerings do not have to be given during ritual, and you'd be surprised how many different types of viable offerings there are. You can offer fur shed by your pets to a demon (burn it). Fresh picked flowers can be an offering- so can sharing your meal or drink. Incense and lit candles used in ritual can serve as offerings.

☠Demons require offerings for sustenance, but they will only demand them of you if you did something wrong- unless a given offering is simply necessary for a ritual.

☠Ask the demon what they call themselves. If necessary, ask them to explain the symbolism of that title.

☠Consuming part of an offering to a deity takes the essence of that entity into your being.

☠Most practitioners of demon magick have a matron and/or patron demon. When a spirit offers to fill this role, make it official with a personally designed ritual.

☠Refusing to speak about a rite will greatly increase its power, but speaking about it isn't the end of the world.

☠If a deity asks why it should fulfill your request, the right answer is always something to the effect of, "I just wanted your help". Anything else is technically a lie. Lying to a spirit about why you want what you want is a huge mistake, but even the most trustworthy spitits may lie to you about certain things either for your own benefit, to prevent you from knowing a truth you are not ready for, or even just to patronize you. This does not count as hypocrisy on their part- deity-human interactions are a special case.

☠You'll end up looking back at problems you could've solved with black magick.

☠Chances are that whether or not human or animal sacrifice is immoral depends entirely on whether or not it is immoral to kill the person of animal in the first place.

☠Demons hate child abusers.

☠Destructive magick "thins the veil", furthering the alchemical refinement of our universe.

☠Love and lust are very magickally powerful, and sexual interactions with a deity increase your energetic rapport with them.

☠Drawing one of the Goetic sigils is often enough to get the attention of the demon it's attributed to. The demon may even manifest while the sigil is being drawn. Simply looking at any given sigil can make the sigil more powerful permanently. It is even possible to subconsciously activate a sigil by looking at it- this is not a bad thing, nor does it mean that you're being vampyrized by whoever designed the sigil.

☠Some demons think less of you when you think less of yourself. If this becomes a problem with a spirit, tell them you're trying to fix whatever problems you have and ask for assistance.

☠Force yourself to be confident about the effects of a rite during, before, and after its performance.

☠If a particular spirit fills you with intrigue and/or excitement, this means they want to interact with you.

☠When a spirit manifests to give you instructions or warnings, the advice is often as simple as, "do this". "Pay more attention to your surroundings". "Don't trust this person". If a demon tella you things like this, the advice is often necessary for your well-being in your immediate situation. If you plan on doing a rite in the next couple hours and a spirit suddenly tells you to do it at 10:30 specifically, you might find that this is necessary to avoid a grave intrusion.

☠Unless you specifically expect a demon to adhere to its recorded appearance, it will often assume a form hither to unrecorded, even to the extent of changing genders.

☠Even spirits renowned to be the most harsh, demanding, cruel etc. often turn out to have a kinder side.

☠You should only offer your blood to the most important spirits in your path- always seek the guidance of your matron/patron and/or higher self before you offer your blood to a nre spirit. Once you offered blood to a spirit, they are always with you, and their ability to influence you increases. This does not mean that they will take control of you at some point the way people infer. Any amount of blood offered is sufficient to create this connection, and offering more blood later will not strengthen the connection.

☠Cemeteries are great places for demon magick- just don't use them without guidance.

☠Do not think demons are limited to their recorded ranks and attributions.

☠The more you work with, pray to, meditate on, and research an entity, the stronger your energetic rapport with them grows. Generally speaking, when you are thinking of a demon, it is thinking of you.

☠The idea of historical facts is a relatively new invention. Mythical stories often served to contain truth instead of fact. Imagine that a given mythological figure is recorded to have given his last piece of food to a stranger. Such a story would most likely not be intended to relate a specific and factual historical event. Instead, such a story might just serve to convey the mythological figure's generosity.

Salt

Rice

Cinnamon

Dill

Cloves

Star Anise

Cinnamon Sticks

Bay leaves & intentions

Money (Roll bills towards you)

Abundance crystals

Green candle

Start by smoke cleansing the bowl

Add the salt, rice, cinnamon, dill, cloves, star anise, then mix

Add the cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, crystals, money, and candle

Light the candle, let it burn all the way down

Every time you buy something, put the receipt in the bowl and write “everything comes back to me x _”

Gold: positive, wisdom, common-sense, longevity, self-confidence, creativity, wealth, authority, power, masculinity, death

Silver: neutral, intuition, wisdom, psychic, reflection, truth, feminine, cycles, strong emotions, dreams, fertility

Bronze: psychic ability, protection, property

Copper: passive, love, creation, balance, energy conduction, wealth, healing, art, peace, magnetism, gentleness, kindness

Iron: willpower, assertiveness, courage, strength, aggression, determination, grounding energy, protection, self-defense, power, male fertility rites, New beginnings, speed, Wards against ghosts and spirits, astral travel

Lead: contact with the spirit world, grows business, provides stability, banishes negativity, useful in breaking addiction cycles, protection, personal preservation, concentration, conservation of resources

Tin: abundance, wealth, success in legal matters, stimulation, attracting what you desire, energy, healing, regeneration, rejuvenation, meditation and relaxation, honor, wisdom

Palladium: increasing knowledge, wisdom, ancient knowledge, working with the spirit realm, increasing psychic power, safe travel

Aluminum: calming, meditation, protection, travel, truth, reflection

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Acacia: Divination, Knowledge, Love, Vision

Amber: love, comfort, happiness, healing

Angelica: Protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability, meditation

Anise: emotional balance, banishing and protection

Apple: Friendship, Happiness, Lust, Love

Basil: luck, success, money, mental clarity, cheerfulness, concentration

Bay: Purification, Power, Power, Banishing

Bayberry: Prosperity, Control, Happiness

Benzoin: Emotional Balance, Business,

Bergamot: Money, prosperity, Protection, Confidence, Strength, Courage

Cardamom: Confidence, Courage, Mental clarity, Enthusiasm, Motivation

Carnation: Healing, Love, Lust, Protection, Strength

Cedar: Purification

Cedarwood: Purification, Grounding, Protection, Money, Balance, Insight, Wisdom 

Chamomile: Harmony, Calm, Spiritual, Inner peace

Cinnamon: Wealth, Success, Prosperity, Aphrodisiac, Stimulation, Healing

Citronella: Cleansing, Healing, Warding

Clove: Business success, Wealth, Eases fears, Pain relief

Copal: Love, purification, protection, exorcism

Cypress: Self-assurance, Confidence, Strength, Concentration, Eases anxiety and stress, Physical vitality, Willpower, Divination, Astral projection

Dragon's Blood:  Protection, Exorcism, Purification, Courage, Magickal power

Eucalyptus: Healing, Purification, Protection

Frankincense: Consecration, Spirituality, Astral strength, Courage, Exorcism, Dedication

Gardenia: Peace and love

Ginger: Stability, Wealth, Lust, Sex

Hibiscus: Divination,Love, Lust

Honeysuckle: Luck, Good fortune, Happiness, Friendship, Healing

Hyacinth: New beginnings, Happiness, Protection

Jasmine: Love, Sensuality, Money, Dreams, Purification, Wisdom

Juniper: Calming, Protection, Healing

Juniper Berry: Wisdom, Exorcism 

Lavender: Peace, Tranquility, Sleep, Cleansing, Relaxation

Lemon: Purification, Healing

Lemongrass: Purification, Mental Clarity, Hex and Curse Breaking

Lilac: Warding, Clairvoyance, Peace

Lotus: Spirituality, Happiness, Meditation, Wisdom

Magnolia: Beauty, Purification, Spring

Musk: Lust, Sexuality, Prosperity, Courage

Myrrh: Divination, Spirituality, Wisdom, Psychic power, Visions, Healing, Consecration, Exorcism

Opium: Lucid and Prophetic dreams

Orange: Love, Luck, Money, Divination

Orange Blossom: Luck, New Beginnings

Passionflower: Sensuality, Friendship, Calm

Patchouli: Growth, Progression, Money, Love, Sensuality

Peppermint: Mental stimulant, Exorcism, Healing

Pine: Cleansing, Insight, Grounding, Strength, Exorcism, Healing

Rose: Love, House blessing, Fertility, Healing

Rose Geranium: Courage, Protection

Rosemary: Healing

Sage: Purification, Cleansing, Clarity, Exorcism

Sandalwood: Spirituality, Visions, Peace, Serenity, Healing, Protection, Astral projection

Strawberry: Love, Friendship, Luck

Sweet Pea: Friendship, Love, Courage

Vanilla: Memory, Lust, Mental alertness

Vetivert: Money, Peace, Love

Violet: Psychic visions, Wisdom, Luck, Love, Protection, Healing

Wormwood: Astral projections, Helps to enhance the mind faculties

Yarrow: Courage, Exorcism

Ylang Ylang: Happiness, Love, Harmony

source1: The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews by Scott Cunningham

Basics

How to Invoke Spirits

13 Rules When Working With Spirits

The Divine

How a God Becomes Your Divine Parent

What it means to be Jupiterian, Neptunian, etc...

How to Find Your True Gods

How to Consecrate an Object

The Dead

Graveyard Etiquette

About Ancestors

When You Know Nothing About Your Ancestors

Other Kinds of Spirits

Based on The Greek Magical Papyri

Moon in Aries: Fire divination or love charm.

Moon in Taurus: Incantation to a lamp.

Moon in Gemini: Perform binding spells. Spell for winning favor.

Moon in Cancer: Perform spells of reconciliation, air divination, and phylacteries.

Moon in Leo: Rings or binding spells.

Moon in Virgo: Anything is obtainable, perform bowl divination, if you wish.

Moon in Libra: Spells of invocations, spells of release, and necromancy.

Moon in Scorpio: Anything inflicting evil.

Moon in Sagittarius: An invocation or incantation to the sun and moon. Perform business spells.

Moon in Capricorn: Say whatever you wish for best results, do what is appropriate.

Moon in Aquarius: For love charm.

Moon in Pisces: For foreknowledge or love charms.

Today is my birthday so here's some witchy ways to celebrate your birthday! Several of these are closet friendly too!

Color magic! I am wearing red today to bring in some energy and vitality this year. You could wear blue to attract calmness and tranquility, yellow for happiness and big happenings, green for luck and growth, etc.

Wishes! A traditional birthday celebration, but also witchy! Blow out candles, burn a bay leaf, or use some salt!

Divine messages for your personal new year. Tarot, shufflemancy, runes, throwing, whatever you wish.

Spend time with gratitude. Make time to feel joy, happiness, love. I know birthdays can be really difficult which is why it's so important to find time to feel a little joy.

Go outside and recharge in nature!

Get a basil plant to welcome prosperity. Get a rosemary plant to welcome good memories and love. Or any other plant with intentions that you want to bring in.

Drink water! Dehydration is bad! Trust me.

Eat something sweet to bring some sweetness in your year!

Not every witch has a super-organized practice ~ sometimes it’s just a bunch of little, random habits that slowly weave into magic. Being a witch can look like:

✨ Household Magic – whispering intentions into your cooking, adding cinnamon for prosperity or basil for protection without even realizing you’re “spellcasting.”

✨ Nature Collecting – keeping random feathers, shells, or dried leaves in jars “just in case” they’re useful later.

✨ Unplanned Rituals – lighting incense when you’re stressed, making tea feel like a potion, or humming over your skincare routine like it’s an enchantment.

✨ Crystal Chaos – forgetting the proper name of a stone but keeping it near your bed because “it feels safe here.”

✨ Improvised Altars – stacking books, candles, and trinkets on your desk and calling it sacred space.

✨ Everyday Divination – pulling a single tarot card before bed, shuffling oracle cards while watching TV, or noticing repeating numbers as personal omens.

Wheel of the year

Yule

Imbolc

Ostara

Beltane

Litha

Lammas

Mabon

Samhain

Spiritual foundations

Witch types

Grounding practices

Cleansing/clearing

Spirit Guides

Gods/Goddesses/Deities

Angels

Fallen angels

Arch angles

Animal spirits

Demons

Arch demons

Crystals

Crystals

Dos/Donts

Correspondences

Crystal shapes

Crystal cleanings

Crystal grids

Correspondences

Herbs

Colors

Scents

Numerology

Planets

Days of the week

Tarot

Astrology

Personal charts

Astrological Signs

Planets

Non-planets

Houses

Aspect

Lunar

Moon phases

Moon meanings

Moons of the year

Full moon meanings

Natal moon

Divination

Divination types

Divination tools

Intuition practices

Dream symbols

Family tree

Family tree

Energy healing

Reiki

Sound healing

Spells

New Moon

New beginnings

Purification

Love and romance

Health

Fresh starts

New projects

Personal Growth

Removal of bad habits

Binding spells

Bringing things to justice 

Banishing

Dreaming/Prophecies

Banishing magick

Waxing Moon

Constructive Magick

Love

Wealth

Success

Courage

Friendship

Luck

Health/Healing

Growth

Protection

Prosperity

Attraction

Any type of positive magick

Financial Growth

Full Moon

Good for all types of magick

Love

Knowledge

Money

Dreams

Protection

Divination

Cleansing and charging crystals and tools

Psychic awarness

Family and Friends

Protection

Waning Moon

Banishing magick

Bindings

Removing addictions

Clearing negativity from your life

Getting rid of illnesses and sicknesses 

Harvests

Exorcism

Cleansing

Getting rid of bad habits

🐚 Whelks: change, understanding, control, positivity

🐚 Cowrie shells: love, money, destiny, femininity, fertility, strength, ocean, prosperity

🐚 Cerith shells: masculinity, sexuality

🐚 Conch shells: beauty, clarity, communication, strength, grace, invocation

🐚 Cod shells: friendship, emotions, family, relationships

🐚 Oyster shells: love, banishment, luck, transmutation

🐚 Scallop shells: change, diversity, movement, travel

🐚 Nautilus shells: grounding, concentration, connection, creation, growth, writing

🐚 Abalone: ​​affirmation, beauty, calm, luck, creativity, growth, balance

🐚 Clams: friendship, love, goddess, purification

🐚 Limpets: assurance, courage, endurance, strength

How to Dehydrate Herbs

This is my first post on my newly-minted digital grimoire, so I thought I'd start out with info I already know. Here's a short little guide on how to dehydrate herbs and other materials at home in your oven (if you have one). I usually dehydrate fresh materials instead of hanging them as firstly: I have a cat who will find a way to reach anything I hang up to dry, and secondly: there are some materials I don't feel comfortable leaving out in open air as they will likely rot. Also, it just saves on drying time.

Steps:

1. Grab whatever you want to dehydrate whether it be fruits, peels, herbs, veg, or (my favourite) eggshells.

Important Note: DO NOT EVER put plants which are known to be toxic or whose origins are unclear in your oven. It's never worth it.

2. Place your items on a sheet pan with parchment paper underneath (there may be lingering oils on the pan, but if you are okay with that feel free to skip the parchment).

3. If your oven is fancy and you have a dehydration setting, great! Use the recommended temperature. If not, set your oven between 160-190*. I usually set it lower, but if you're short on time it will work higher.

4. This is the most crucial step: keep your oven door slightly ajar in order to let moisture escape. However, very importantly DO NOT EVER LEAVE YOUR OPEN OVEN UNATTENDED (or your closed one, for that matter), especially if you have an older oven. Basic fire safety applies here.

5. The process usually takes around 2 hours if you are dehydrating thinner plants, but may take up to 3-4 if you are dehydrating something thicker like citrus peels or fruit slices. Either way, be prepared to wait a bit. You will know they are done when you can easily crush them if plants or they are breakably-solid if peels. With eggshells they will be brittle anyways, but it's nice to dehydrate them to more easily grind into a powder and also to kill any lingering bacteria.

6. Store herbs as you usually would in a container away from sunlight. Enjoy!

Sources:

When the world feels heavy and your magic feels dim, remember - the elements are alive, listening, and waiting to teach you.

🔥 When you feel burdened by the past

Speak to Fire - he knows how to burn what no longer serves you.

“Transmute this weight into strength, make ashes of my attachments.”

💧 When you feel stagnant or numb

Speak to Water - she will show you how to move again.

“Teach me to flow, to change, to cleanse what clings too tight.”

🌬️ When you feel lost or confused

Speak to Air — it will whisper truth and clarity.

“Blow away the fog, remind me how to breathe again.”

🌿 When you want to give up

Speak to Earth - she knows death and rebirth by heart.

“Bury my doubt, let new strength rise in its place.”

🌙 When your heart aches

Speak to the Moon - she shines even when broken.

“Illuminate my pain, turn it into gentle understanding.”

☀️ When you feel powerless

Speak to the Sun - he will remind you of your light.