The Gibbous Moon phase is the “almost full” phase, and in its last night can often be mistaken for a full moon.

The Gibbous moon phase runs from 10.5 days after the New Moon until the moment of the Full Moon (14 days after New).  It rises in the mid-afternoon and sets around 0300 (”zero-dark-stupid” as we called it in the Army).

Gibbous moon energies are good for workings that involve:

• Patience
• Peace
• Courage

The Gibbous moon hold the promise of the Full, but is not quite there .. although with a few days’ patience the fulfillment always arrives.

Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Darwin
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The First Quarter moon phase will look like a half-moon, as it is halfway between the New Moon and the Full Moon.  As one of the four marker points, it can hold quite a bit of magick and energy.

It begins from 7 days past the New Moon and lasts until 10.5 days past the New.  The First Quarter moon will rise around noontime and set around midnight.

The First Quarter moon energies are best for:

• Elemental Magick and meditations
• spells for luck
• spells for self-improvement

All of these workings are directed at improving yourself or your magick, and the First Quarter is the best time to do them as you look inward.

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Darwin
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As I annointed the three candles I bought the other day with patchouli oil, the thought occurred to me.  There is a good reason most people I have learned from or books I have read say to annoint candles by hand.  It does much more than just spread scented oil onto the wax.

This past semester, the other class I took was forensic science, and at the beginning we learned of something called the Locard Principle: “with contact between two items, there will be an exchange.”  (BTW I got an A in that class, as opposed to the D in organic chem.)  While Locard was the head of a crime lab, his principle has definite application in magick!

When you annoint a candle by hand, your skin oils and epithelial cells (dead skin cells) also transfer on the microscopic level, which tranfers a little of yourself into the candle wax along with the scented oil.

This right here is perhaps the best argument for the “do it yourself” crowd in candle magick.  Along with imbuing the candles with your intent, you literally put a little tiny bit of yourself into the wax!

Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Darwin
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In a few minutes hubby and I will be off to have lunch and do a bit of planned shopping, and I intend to pick up some yellow and orange candles for some spell work I intend to do.  I already have green candles on hand.

So, what’s the big deal about candle colors?  It is an extra “boost” when certain colors have certain meanings to you.  Different traditions use different color correspondences, but here are mine:

• Red: Fire Element, energy, strength, courage, passion, romantic love
• Orange: Goals, motivation, business & legal affairs, action, self-esteem
• Yellow: Air Element, intelligence, learning, communication, creativity
• Green: Earth Element, money, growth, fertility, luck, herbal/plant magick
• Blue: Water Element, peace, healing, intuition, emotion
• Purple: Spirit Element, psychic ability, wisdom, spiritual development
• Brown: endurance, animal magick, home & hearth
• Black: protection, banishment, power, ward setting
• White: purity, cleansing, truth, spirituality
• Pink: friendship, emotional healing

As I mentioned, different paths may have different correspondences for the colors.  A fun exercise: If I am using green, orange, and yellow candles what am I working on?

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Darwin
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I’m back, and still somewhat recovering from the stress that accompanied this semester’s Finals Week.  Honestly, I don’t think I have felt this stressed since I was in Iraq, complete with nightmares and memory problems, along with smoking as much as I did while in Iraq.

The good news is, I passed organic chemistry.  The not-so-good news is I passed with a D, which means my GPA will never be the same.  Rumor has it this particular professor is known all over the state for being excrutiatingly tough, and that several graduate programs give students who go through his class a form of “extra credit” to try to make up for the damage he and his class do to GPAs.

Blog note: I have added a “Comment Policy” page to Wicca Warrior.  This is NOT aimed at anyone in particular; it has been on my to-do list because of the experiences I have had with comment abuse on my other blog.  No comments have been deleted, but I thought I should put the policy up before I start having problems on this blog.

Now, to get back to blogging.  Is there anything anyone wants to see in the coming days?

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Darwin
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