#buckmoon

🌒✨ Manifest Your Dreams with the Waxing Crescent ✨🌒

The waxing crescent moon is a time for action and manifestation. Historically, this phase has been used for initiating new projects and personal development.

As the moon grows, now especially under the effect of the Lion's Gate Portal, it's the perfect period to focus on growth, attraction, and drawing new opportunities into your life. This phase supports spells and rituals related to increasing prosperity, success, and advancing personal breakthroughs.

🕰️ Phase Duration: 4~5 days

🧙‍♀️ Suggested Traditional Ritual:

Take a cleansing bath with Epsom salt and a few drops of bergamot essential oil to prepare. Write your desires and intentions on a piece of paper, and light a green candle to symbolize growth and abundance. Hold a clear quartz or citrine to amplify your intentions, and chant: “With this flame, desires ignite, bringing forth my dreams tonight. So mote it be,” focusing intently on the feelings of your desires coming true. 🙌

Meditate on those feelings, intensifying them as the candle burns. When the candle is nearly out and you feel ready, safely burn the paper to release attachment from the specific way you imagine your desire - trusting the intelligent universe to manifest the best outcome for you. I suggest carrying the crystal with you to enhance the effects of the ritual, and cleanse it under the full moon.

🌙✨ How are you planning to harness the energy of the waxing crescent together with the Lion's Gate Portal? Share your thoughts and tag a witchy friend who would benefit from this ritual 💜 You’re welcome to save this post for your lunar practices and follow along for more! 🌟🌿

We are approaching the middle of July where the sunny days are long, and the warm nights are short. This is the month where we get to enjoy the powerful Buck Moon. We can look forward to watching the Buck Moon rise above the horizon, draped in gorgeous orange hues. This beautiful larger and more luminous Buck Moon is going to be projecting some brilliant energy which will make your magickal working all that more powerful! Let's see what we can learn about this full moon and how we can infuse its energies with ours.

Leo Season!

Aquarius Full Moon!

Buck Moon!

Blue Moon!

 So much invigorating energy swirling around us! Let’s get to it:

 This Leo season came in full force with a loud and proud, “LOOK AT ME” attitude. While this seems the norm after a typically subdued Cancer Season, this time around was a particularly strong transition. Venus moved into Virgo (see my previous post for details) and now a full moon in Aquarius is on the horizon! While these are not typically energies that you would associate with one another, they are creating an interesting dynamic for the time being, and more importantly one that can be utilized.

 Leo energy demands attention, on a self-centered level. It is bright, all-encompassing and loud. Aquarian energy is more visceral, analytical, and operates with community in mind. While the sun is in Leo, the full moon moves into Aquarius and we are given a rare opportunity to cut to the core of our problems and find a solution that best suits us. Leo is the Sun, Aquarius the Moon/ Father and Mother/ Me and We/ Child and Parent/ Self and Community.

 It is easy to get caught up in ourselves, especially when we might have felt neglected for so long. This is the time to really look into that dynamic. How is your inner child doing? Are you in need of some tlc? Self-love? Grounding?

Tap into your dreams (I’ve already had some terrifying and enlightening ones ). You may be surprised to find that somethings you thought were well taken care of are actually still swimming in your subconscious. Deal with them accordingly. This is an opportune time to identify what’s keeping us stagnant and how to utilize an effective change that works best for not only ourselves, but benefits others as well.

 Aquarius has big rebel energy and like all things that are NOT experienced in a healthy and time-appropriate way, it will crop up at the most inopportune times and wreak havoc on our lives. So yeah, handle that shit now. This full moon carries throw back energy to the “Great Conjunction” we experienced back in December, with ANOTHER Aquarian full moon coming up in August. The overall theme is an assertive, driven attitude towards positive change.

Stay grounded, speak your truth and look with your third eye.

 Themes: Rebellious energy, Step your game up, You can do this

On a lovely cool dusk dog walk, I saw this glowing ahead of me. The camera doesn’t do it any justice, but it was super pretty. So tonight with it being a full moon. Try to get a look at it. It’s a lovely buck moon. “The full Moon in July is known as the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (Bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time.” A full moon only occurs when the Moon, Earth and Sun…

The Wort Moon is named as such because the Anglo-Saxon word "Wort" means "Herb." That being the case, Her rise in the sky signals the time that herbs have reached their full potential. They stand tall and lush, flowering and fruitful - the product of spring winds and rains and summer Sun. Their aroma fills the air. It lingers and beckons in the summer heat - begging us to choose - begging for inclusion in our magical work.

This Moon also heralds the beginning of our personal spiritual harvests. And because of this, magical efforts seem to come to fruition more easily. Personal psychism abounds, divinatory reading become clear, and dreams are laden with prophesy and vision. For this reason, it's important to give the Spirit World its due, and offer yourself as harvest for its work. In doing this, you'll discover wondrous things about your inner being that you never knew were so. Things that can only make your personal magic more powerful.

Wort Moon Ideas

Wear shades of orange and green to honor the herb harvest, and adorn your hair with wreaths of herbs or greenery

Use orange candles and burn Full Moon Incense. Alternatively, burn a mixture of sage, lavender, and rosemary as incense

Decorate the altar with bunches of vervain or fresh herbs, tied with ribbons

Asperge the Circle with a bouquet of herbs or plants and your favorite herbal tea

Serve herbal cookies. Just add a tablespoon of lavender or lemon balm to your favorite sugar cookie recipe, and serve herbal tea for libation

Charge herbs and plants in Circle for general magical use. But rather than a specific purpose chant, use the following: "Plants of wonder - plants of power / Increase in potency by minute and hour / I conjure you now. I charge you with strength / I give you life of infinite length / And boundless magical energy / As I will, plants, charged you be"

Offer yourself for spiritual harvest by strewing herbs through the yard for the fairies. As you strew, chant something like: "All members of the Sprite and Fey / I offer myself to You this day / For spiritual harvest and Your work here below / So that I may flower and blossom and grow / And learn of myself and that up ahead / While working or playing or dreaming in bed / And in return, there is nothing I ask / But that within Your magic my Spirit can bask"

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