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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.

The realm of the dead is often depicted as a cold dark place, sometimes even being wet. Making it's denizens cool fluid beings craving fire and the warmth of vitality. Chthonic entities, in my experience, are very reactive to warming offerings. Such as candles, fire, coffee, liquor, and spices. These types of gifts excite the spirits of the underworld, allowing their old bones to thaw from being in cold chthonic waters.

You have to be careful feeding fire to the dead. While it is excellent at bringing movement to slumbering beings, it can also lead the dead to cause chaos. Acting wild and unruly for the inexperienced conjurer. Which is why in traditions like Quimbanda you'll find firey spirits such as Exu and Pomba Gira are given these types of firery offerings and mediums will consume alcohol and tobacco, but are warned against over indulgence as to not give the spirit control over you. There is a line to ride when it comes to exciting spirits with hot offerings, as too much fire and the magician could get burned.

Cooling offerings are often preferable when working with the dead for this very reason. Especially with wild/unknown dead you are working with, because over excitement could be dangerous when you're unfamiliar with the being you're speaking with. These offerings take the form of milk, honey, wine, and sometimes coins. You see these types of offerings used frequently in the PGM when working with the dead, and other rarer ingredients get used inconjunction when working with divinities. These cooling offerings call the spirit forward without inciting them too much, and can also be paried with hot offerings to temper spirit.

Many love spells in the ancient world, particularly in the PGM are that of what are known as fetching charms, or binding spells: love spells targeting specific people. However, there are a number of more generalized love spells, ones with no particular target, such as the Stele of Aphrodite.

The Stele of Aphrodite is Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) spell number IV. 1265-74, and dates back to the late Hellenic period of ancient Greece. It was used primarily for love magic, specifically to invoke the favor and obsession of a desired individual, as well as for favor and success within friendship, popularity and beauty. The stele was believed to harness the power of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, to sway the emotions and actions of whoever sees you in favor of the practitioner.

Step by step instructions on how to create your own below ☆