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Hi, witches.

Figured I'd get a head start on this since I'm taking tonight's full moon as an opportunity to clean/cleanse my apartment, have a little wine, and update my calendar with witchy events through the end of next year. :>

As always when I make these kinds of posts, if the peak of the full or new moon is in the wee hours of the morning on one day, I enter it into my calendar as the day before, since that is the night I will be celebrating even though it technically falls on the next day.

Sources this year are my trusty Simple Moon Phase Calendar app for Android, www.pagangrimoire.com, and horoscopes.astro-seek.com

~January~ 2nd - 🌑 New Moon in Capricorn 14th - Mercury retrograde begins 17th - 🌕 Full Moon in Cancer->Leo 18th - Uranus retrograde ends 29th - Venus retrograde ends 31st - 🌑 New Moon in Capricorn->Aquarius

~February~ 1st - 🕯Imbolc🕯 4th - Mercury retrograde ends 15th - 🌕 Full Moon in Leo->Virgo

~March~ 1st - 🌑 New Moon in Pisces 17th - 🌕 Full Moon in Virgo->Libra 20th - 🌸Ostara🌸 31st - 🌑 New Moon in Pisces->Aries

~April~ 16th - 🌕 Full Moon in Libra->Scorpio 29th - Pluto retrograde begins 30th - 🌑 New Moon in Taurus

~May~ 1st - 🔥Beltane🔥 10th - Mercury retrograde begins 15th - 🌕 Full Moon in Scorpio 29th - 🌑 New Moon in Gemini

~June~ 3rd - Mercury retrograde ends 4th - Saturn retrograde begins 13th - 🌕 Full Moon in Sagittarius->Capricorn 21st - ☀️Litha☀️ 28th - 🌑 New Moon in Gemini->Cancer, Neptune retrograde begins

~July~ 13th - 🌕 Full Moon in Capricorn 27th - 🌑 New Moon in Leo 28th - Jupiter retrograde begins

~August~ 1st - 🌾Lughnasadh🌾 11th - 🌕 Full Moon in Aquarius 24th - Uranus retrograde begins 26th - 🌑 New Moon in Virgo

~September~ 9th - 🌕 Full Moon in Pisces->Aries 10th - Mercury retrograde begins 22nd - 🍂Mabon🍂 25th - 🌑 New Moon in Virgo->Libra

~October~ 2nd - Mercury retrograde ends 8th - Pluto retrograde ends 9th - 🌕 Full Moon in Aries 23rd - Saturn retrograde ends 24th - 🌑 New Moon in Libra->Scorpio 30th - Mars retrograde begins 31st - 🖤Samhain🖤 (Witch's New Year)

~November~ 7th - 🌕 Full Moon in Taurus 23rd - 🌑 New Moon in Scorpio->Sagittarius, Jupiter retrograde ends

Maps! Maps! MAPS! If you're a death witch, get one for the cemeteries you visit and mark gravestones/areas you've practiced in! Garden witches! Map out your gardens! Green witches! Map where you find specific herbs in your area! Lunar witches! Mark the best spots to go look at the sky! Make a key! Take notes!

Recipes for COMPONENTS! Write down how to make the mixtures you use in spells often- A special salt mixed with herbs and put under the moon, a mixture of oils for protection, the herb mixes sachets you keep making to add to sachets, whatever!

For green witches- press samples of stuff and glue them in! Go to an arboretum and ask for permission to take leaves to press, they'll usually let you take some- add them in with your notes about trees

Cool ways to make spells! I make spells in envelopes and on empty spools, what are some ways you do?

The local plants in your area and what they do. You're not going to be likely to find chrysanthemums to forage in Missouri, but you will find creeping charlie and prairie plants. What can you do with a thistle?

When you celebrate a sabbat, write down what you did and include samples! Ribbons from your Beltane altar, a pressed sample of your lemmas harvest, a scrap of your Yule decorations. Maybe do a spell and tape the remnants into your grimoire in a plastic baggie

Learn how to make an envelope out of paper just by folding it, how to string seeds, how to dry plants, how to macrame rocks and hang them from your window. Find those little witchy skills and write them down.

How to incorporate your hobby into your magic. Sigiling origami paper, weaving knot magick into your crochet, making blessed bookmarks, etc

Substitutes! Rosemary, rose and clear quartz are good for most things, but there are more substitutes to be used that are more powerful. Roanoke bells are good substitutes for bluebells, apparently.

Correspondences of odd things. Turns out different kinds of cats have different correspondences, huh.

Superstitions and such from where you're from.

For kitchen witches: easy to alter recipes. An egg noodle recipe that takes herbs really well, a simple bread recipe that can be dressed up for spells or rituals, how to make a good pie crust that you can sprinkle nutmeg in or whatever you desire.