Moon Magic: Waning Moon

Magickal Intentions

· Analyzing

· Banishing

· Being Grateful

· Closure

· Cord-Cutting

· Diminishing

· Discharging health issues

· Finishing Projects

· Forgiving

· Observing

· Planning

· Reducing clutter

· Reflection

· Reorganizing

· Rest

· Retrospection

· Slowing down

· Starting diet or detox

· Surrender

Waning Gibbous

From the 4th day after the Full Moon until almost halfway to New Moon.

This is a good time to give thanks and practice gratitude.

Take a look at the progress you have made and give thanks for it.

Release expectations.

It is also a great time to reduce clutter in your life. Whether that is physical, emotional, or spiritual.

Third (Last) Quarter

Halfway between Full and New moon. About 7 days after Full Moon.

This is a great time for healing. Healing wounds. Healing your emotions.

It is a perfect time to recognize, acknowledge, and release any negativity that surrounds you. This can include the people that bring negativity and toxicity. This is a good time to let them go as well with a cord-cutting if needed.

You can heal from bad habits by letting them go during the Last quarter moon. Try visualizing each night as the moon gets smaller and smaller that your addiction also becomes smaller and smaller.

As this is a time for cleansing it is also a great time for starting a diet or detox. Using breathwork or Pranayama to cleanse and detoxify your lungs, improve digestion, immune system etc.

As we are getting rid of negativity in our lives it is a good time to let go of any grudges you may be holding. It is a time for forgiveness. For yourself or others.

Here is a Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness:

If I have harmed anyone in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly, through my own confusions, I ask their forgiveness.

If anyone has harmed me in any way, either knowingly or unknowingly, through their own confusions, I forgive them.

If there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive, I forgive myself for that.

For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle, judge or be unkind to myself, through my own confusions, I forgive myself.

Waning Cresent

About 3 days before New Moon.

The waning time is a great time for making room for further abundance. You might do this by journalling, meditation, and release. But be gentle with yourself.

Get some extra rest as you have let go of things and now prepare to enter the dark moon and then to begin the cycle again with the New Moon.

It is also a good time to release or discharge health issues. Visualize them disappearing with the moon.

Waning Moon Three Card Tarot Spread

1. The thing that holds you back

2. The thing you should be grateful for.

3. The thing to cultivate during the next Lunar Cycle.

In your garden

Plant below ground pants like potatoes, carrots, onions, beets and flowering bulbs like Iris, daffodils, tulips.

It is a good harvest time as well.

From Full Moon to Third Quarter – plant perennials, root vegetables, and bulbs

From the Third Quarter to dark moon – weed, maintain, cultivate, and fight pests and diseases.

Waning moon is a great time to smudge and cleanse your house.

Banishings and reversals are more powerful when done on a waning moon.

Deities of the Waning Moon

Hecate -Tripple Goddess

Bil – Norse

The Cailleach -- Not often described as a lunar deity, the Cailleach is one of the great Celtic ancestors. Yet as a hag, or crone Goddess, she shares the disseminating, destructive power of the waning Moon.

Herbs for the Waning Moon

Mint -- widely used for love, health, attention, and mental lucidity. Mint promotes healing and purification when burned as incense. If added to bathwater it removes negativity.

St. John’s Wort – This is a powerful protection herb. It is also great for purification. It is the one to use in any case when you feel that there is something strange that oppresses you, when everything is falling apart, or when you feel that despite your best efforts, things do not change. It can be used in a bath or worn.

Sage – Purification, cleansing, banishing energies.

Juniper – Offers protection, banishes negative energies, and aids in exorcism rituals.

Mugwort – Enhances lucid dreaming, divination, and astral travel during the waning phase.

Cedar – Promotes grounding, strength, and banishing of negative influences.

Crystals for the Waning Moon

Clear Quartz - assist in achieving virtually any goal in life, balancing.

Celestite - emotional protection and to end worry, fear, and anxiety.

Icelandic Spar - brings clarity, insight, manifestation, enhancement, and power.

Selenite - clearing and releasing that which is not serving.

Kunzite - crystal for clearing, self-love, promoting humility and self-tolerance.

Jet - for protection, good fortune, divination, and health.

Rose Quartz - for emotional healing and balance.

Black Tourmaline – for protection, grounding, and balancing.

Obsidian - grounds and protects, vitalizes purpose, and eliminates blockages.

Himalayan Salt – clears foreign energy and improves environment.

Selenite – clears and shields from outside influences.

Icelandic Spar - brings clarity, insight, manifestation, and rooting out problems.

Waning Moon Detox

Start a list of people, things, habits, thought patterns, and anything else that no longer serves you and that you need to release.

This list will then be burnt the next New Moon.

As the light of the moon decreases you may naturally feel sleepier. Give into it! This is the perfect time to focus on your sleep and restoration.

With the theme of letting go, this is the perfect time to clean out a small space to dedicate for ritual/spell work if you don’t already have one. (Even if it is only a small shelf.) If you have a dedicated ritual space/altar, then it is the perfect time to clean it. Get rid of any old or unneeded things.

Consciously try to eat less as the moon wanes. The small loss of weight can help us prepare to give up other things.

Gather quotes, pictures, and ideas to create a Vision Board for the next Month.

Waning Moon Knot Magic Banishing Spell

Supplies:

Black Cord13” long

Dragon’s blood essential oil

Paper and Pen

Choose something you want to banish from your life. Simplify your intent down to a word or short sentence describing what you want to banish. (You could even make it into a sigil.)

Take one end of the cord and tie a knot close to the end, but do not tighten it. Look through the knot and read your intention, tighten the knot. As you do feel knot binding that energy into the cord.

Place one drop of Dragon’s blood oil on the knot. While saying: “I bind thee and banish thee from my life.”

Repeat this 8 more times for a total of 9 knots. (3 times 3.)

Place the cord away somewhere you will not see it and forget about it. Better yet bury it and forget about it.

You can burn or crumple and throw away the paper with your intention. You no longer need it. The energy is bound withing the cord.

Dark Moon

This is when the moon is at 0% illumination. It lasts 1-3 days. The New Moon begins when you can begin to see the tiniest of slivers.

The Dark Moon is the pause between one cycle and the next. It is a time for absorbing everything that we learned in the previous cycle.

Journal Questions & Shadow Work for the Dark Moon

1. What memories did you make in this closing moon cycle?

2. What “Wins” did you experience this month? What were some of your big accomplishments?

3. What challenges did you face in this moon cycle? How can you grow from them?

4. The dark moon is also a powerful time to connect with your shadows. Ask yourself: What came up for you this month? What did you struggle with? What frustrations & irritations were note-worthy?

5. What lessons did you learn? What wisdom are you taking forward into the next moon cycle?

Dark Moon Crystals

Sodalite - Clear negative feelings.

Labradorite - Dispel fear, anxiety, and negativity.

Garnet - Stimulates willpower, intuition, and trust.

Tourmaline - Break free of situations in which you feel entrapped or unresolved.

Onyx - Assists with emotional balance, self-control, and relieving stress.

Jet – To dispel, protect and draw off negative energy.

Shungite – To detoxify.

Hematite – To reflect off negative and foreign energy.

Lepidolite- Decrease stress and anxiety, heal and transform.

Rhodonite - Inner growth, healing, calming, and balance.

Black Moonstone - Increase mental power.

Dumortierite – To take control and gain patience.

Dark Moon Goddess

Cerridwen -- A powerful Welsh Goddess and enchantress, Cerridwen possessed the gifts of Awen – inspiration and prophesy. A white witch, she held incredible magical skills, including the ability to shapeshift. She was also the keeper of the underworld, a place of transformation and rebirth. For this reason, the lunar goddess Cerridwen is usually associated with the dark Moon.

Hecate – In her crone phase is also often associated with Dark Moon.