Well, there are alot of thingsabout the moon, sun and stars, that are important to working magick. **The following information as well as more indepth information can be found in Advanced Candle Magick by Ray Buckland published by Llewellyn** Sun KEY WORDS Self-expression, Vitality ASSOCIATIONS Creativity, fatherhood, children, games, royalty PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS The heart and the spine POSITIVE TRAITS Affectionate, creative, generous, love of children, love of life, quiet dignity NEGATIVE TRAITS Arrogant, over-bearing, condescending, domineering Mercury (Uranus) KEY WORDS Communication ASSOCIATIONS Travel, mental perception PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS The brain, the intellect, nervous system, respiratory system POSITIVE TRAITS Desire to learn and to teach, versatility, perception, intellectual, reasoning powers NEGATIVE TRAITS Inconsistent, argumentative, sarcastic, cynical, hypercritical Saturn KEY WORDS Limitation ASSOCIATIONS Tenacity, slow change, inhibition, restriction, intolerance, law, mining, printing, dentistry, building and real estate, second hand goods, agriculture, death PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Skin, bones, teeth, gall bladder, spleen POSITIVE TRAITS Cautious, practical, thrifty, reliable, self-disciplined, patient NEGATIVE TRAITS Selfish, dogmatic, depressing, aloof Mars (Pluto) KEY WORDS Energy, initiative ASSOCIATIONS Action, masculinity, aggression, weapons and tools, impulsiveness, loyalty, fear of the unknown, soldiers, surgeons, sportsmen and craftsmen PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Adrenals, kidneys, urogenital, red blood corpuscles, muscles POSITIVE TRAITS Defends the weak, is decisive, responsive, pioneering, freedom-loving NEGATIVE TRAITS Selfish, over-aggressive, brutal, unthinking, quarrelsome, rude Venus (Neptune) KEY WORDS Harmony ASSOCIATIONS Feminine influences, money, partnerships, possessions, the arts, beauty, clothing, fashion, feeling, peace-making, pleasures, musicians, jewelers, actors, dressmakers, artists and nurses PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Throat, kidneys, lumbar region, paratyroids, feelings (especially of love) POSITIVE TRAITS Kind and gentle, appreciative of beauty, tactful, adaptable, placid, lover NEGATIVE TRAITS Excessively romantic, effusive, impractical, indecisive, parasitical Moon KEY WORDS Instinctive, fluctuation, Responsive ASSOCIATIONS Emotional disturbance, memory, home and family, ancestors, personal habits, nutrition, patriotism, public welfare PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Birth, motherhood, digestion, stomach, breasts, sympathetic, nervous system, body fluids POSITIVE TRAITS Patient, shrewd, tenacious, imaginative, maternal, good memory NEGATIVE TRAITS Mood, changeable, unreliable, gullible, narrow-minded, unforgiving Jupiter KEY WORDS Expansion ASSOCIATIONS Truth, knowledge, religion, education, languages, foreign countries, book publication, philosophy, faith, good humor, learning through reading, bankers, judges, exxlesiastics PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Pituitary gland, liver POSITIVE TRAITS Generous, optimistic, loyal, just, compassionate, good at sports and languages NEGATIVE TRAITS Self-indulgent, extravagant, conceited, overly-optimistic, extremist Days and Their Attributes Monday - Moon - Ancestors, childbearing, dreams, healing, instinct, memory, merchandise, purity, theft, virginity Tuesday - Mars - Enemies, initiation, loyalty, matrimony, prison, protection, war, wealth Wednesday - Mercury - Business, communication, debt, fear, loss, travel Thursday - Jupiter - Clothing, desires, harvests, honor, marriage, oaths and treaties, riches Friday - Venus - Beauty, family life, friendship, fruitfulness, growth, harmony, love, nature, pleasures, sexuality, strangers, waters Saturday - Saturn - Building, doctrine, freedom, gifts, protection, real estate, sowing, tenacity Sunday - Sun - Agriculture, beauty, creativity, fortune, hope, money, self expression, victory Planetary Hours Dawn Sunset Moon Magick New Moon - Moon is 0-45 degrees directly ahead of the sun - Moon rises at dawn, sets at sunset; for full use of these energies, stick between this time period - Moon is from exact new moon to 3 ½ days after - Purpose: Beginnings - Workings for: Beauty, health, self-improvement, farms and gardens - Pagan Holiday: Winter Solstice (Dec. 22) - Goddess Name: Rosemerta's Moon - Goddess Energy: Goddesses of Growth - Offering: Milk and honey - Theme: Abundance - Rune: Feoh for abundance, Cen for openings, Gyfu for love - Tarot Trump: The Fool Cresent - Moon is 45-90 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises at mid-morning and sets after sunset - Moon is from 3 ½ to 7 days after new moon - Purpose: The movement of the thing - Workings: Animals, business, change, emotions, matriarchal strength - Pagan Holiday: Imbolc - Goddess Name: Brigid's Moon - Goddess Energy: Water Goddesses - Offering: Candles - Theme: Manifestation - Rune: Birca for beginnings, Ing for focus - Tarot Trump: The Magician First Quarter - Moon is 90-135 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises at noon, sets at midnight - Moon is from 7-10 ½ days after new moon - Purpose: The shape of the thing - Workings: Courage, elemental magicks, friends, luck and motivation - Pagan Holiday: Spring Equinox (march 21) - Goddess Name: Persephone's Moon - Goddess Energy: Air Goddesses - Offering: Feathers - Theme: Luck - Rune: Algiz for luck, Jera for improvement, Ur for strength - Tarot Card: Strength or The Star Gibbous - Moon is 135-180 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises in mid-afternoon, sets around 3 a.m. - Moon is between 10 ½ to 14 days after new moon - Purpose: Details - Workings: Courage, Patience, peace, harmony - Pagan Holiday: Beltaine - Goddess Name: Nuit's Moon - Goddess Energy: Star Goddesses - Offerings: Ribbons - Theme: Perfection - Rune: Asa for eloquence, Wyn for success, Dag for enlightenment - Tarot Trump: The World Full Moon - Moon is 180-225 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at sunset, sets at dawn - Moon is from 14 - 17 ½ days after new moon - Purpose: Completion of a project - Workings: Artistic endeavors, beauty, health, fitness, change, decisions, children, competition, dreams, families, health, knowledge, legal undertakings, love, romance, money, motivation, protection, psychic power, self improvement - Pagan Holiday: Summer Solstice - Goddess Name: Sekhmet's Moon - Goddess Energy: Fire Goddesses - Offering: Flowers - Theme: Power - Rune: Sol - Tarot Card: The Sun Disseminating - Moon is 225-270 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at mid-evening, sets at mid morning - Moon is 3 ½ - 7 days after full moon - Purpose: Initial destruction - Working: Addiction, decisions, divorce, emotions, stress, protection - Pagan Holiday: Lammas - Goddess Name: Hecate's Moon - Goddess Energy: Earth Goddesses - Offering: Grain or rice - Theme: Reassessment - Rune: Thorn for destruction, Algiz for protection, Thorn for defense - Tarot Trump: The Tower for destruction, Hope for protection Last Quarter - Moon is 270-315 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon - Moon is 7 - 10 ½ days after full moon - Purpose: Absolute destruction - Workings: Addictions, divorce, endings, health and healing (banishing), stress, protection, ancestors - Pagan Holiday: Fall Equinox - Goddess Name: The Morrigan's Moon - Goddess Energy: Harvest Goddesses - Offering: Incense - Theme: Banishing - Rune: Hagal; Ken for banishing, Nyd for turning, Isa for binding - Tarot Trump: Judgment Balsamic (Dark Moon) - Moon is 315-360 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at 3 a.m. sets mid-afternoon - Moon is 10 ½- 14 days after full moon - Purpose: Rest - Working: Addictions, change, divorce, enemies, justice, obstacles, quarrels, removal, separation, stopping stalkers and theft - Pagan Holidays: Samhain - Goddess Name: Kali's Moon - Goddess Energy: Dark Goddesses - Offering: Honesty - Theme: Justice - Rune: Tyr for justice, Ken for banishing - Tarot Trump: Justice
Sun KEY WORDS Self-expression, Vitality ASSOCIATIONS Creativity, fatherhood, children, games, royalty PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS The heart and the spine POSITIVE TRAITS Affectionate, creative, generous, love of children, love of life, quiet dignity NEGATIVE TRAITS Arrogant, over-bearing, condescending, domineering Mercury (Uranus) KEY WORDS Communication ASSOCIATIONS Travel, mental perception PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS The brain, the intellect, nervous system, respiratory system POSITIVE TRAITS Desire to learn and to teach, versatility, perception, intellectual, reasoning powers NEGATIVE TRAITS Inconsistent, argumentative, sarcastic, cynical, hypercritical Saturn KEY WORDS Limitation ASSOCIATIONS Tenacity, slow change, inhibition, restriction, intolerance, law, mining, printing, dentistry, building and real estate, second hand goods, agriculture, death PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Skin, bones, teeth, gall bladder, spleen POSITIVE TRAITS Cautious, practical, thrifty, reliable, self-disciplined, patient NEGATIVE TRAITS Selfish, dogmatic, depressing, aloof Mars (Pluto) KEY WORDS Energy, initiative ASSOCIATIONS Action, masculinity, aggression, weapons and tools, impulsiveness, loyalty, fear of the unknown, soldiers, surgeons, sportsmen and craftsmen PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Adrenals, kidneys, urogenital, red blood corpuscles, muscles POSITIVE TRAITS Defends the weak, is decisive, responsive, pioneering, freedom-loving NEGATIVE TRAITS Selfish, over-aggressive, brutal, unthinking, quarrelsome, rude Venus (Neptune) KEY WORDS Harmony ASSOCIATIONS Feminine influences, money, partnerships, possessions, the arts, beauty, clothing, fashion, feeling, peace-making, pleasures, musicians, jewelers, actors, dressmakers, artists and nurses PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Throat, kidneys, lumbar region, paratyroids, feelings (especially of love) POSITIVE TRAITS Kind and gentle, appreciative of beauty, tactful, adaptable, placid, lover NEGATIVE TRAITS Excessively romantic, effusive, impractical, indecisive, parasitical Moon KEY WORDS Instinctive, fluctuation, Responsive ASSOCIATIONS Emotional disturbance, memory, home and family, ancestors, personal habits, nutrition, patriotism, public welfare PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Birth, motherhood, digestion, stomach, breasts, sympathetic, nervous system, body fluids POSITIVE TRAITS Patient, shrewd, tenacious, imaginative, maternal, good memory NEGATIVE TRAITS Mood, changeable, unreliable, gullible, narrow-minded, unforgiving Jupiter KEY WORDS Expansion ASSOCIATIONS Truth, knowledge, religion, education, languages, foreign countries, book publication, philosophy, faith, good humor, learning through reading, bankers, judges, exxlesiastics PHYSICAL ASSOCIATIONS Pituitary gland, liver POSITIVE TRAITS Generous, optimistic, loyal, just, compassionate, good at sports and languages NEGATIVE TRAITS Self-indulgent, extravagant, conceited, overly-optimistic, extremist Days and Their Attributes Monday - Moon - Ancestors, childbearing, dreams, healing, instinct, memory, merchandise, purity, theft, virginity Tuesday - Mars - Enemies, initiation, loyalty, matrimony, prison, protection, war, wealth Wednesday - Mercury - Business, communication, debt, fear, loss, travel Thursday - Jupiter - Clothing, desires, harvests, honor, marriage, oaths and treaties, riches Friday - Venus - Beauty, family life, friendship, fruitfulness, growth, harmony, love, nature, pleasures, sexuality, strangers, waters Saturday - Saturn - Building, doctrine, freedom, gifts, protection, real estate, sowing, tenacity Sunday - Sun - Agriculture, beauty, creativity, fortune, hope, money, self expression, victory Planetary Hours Dawn Sunset Moon Magick New Moon - Moon is 0-45 degrees directly ahead of the sun - Moon rises at dawn, sets at sunset; for full use of these energies, stick between this time period - Moon is from exact new moon to 3 ½ days after - Purpose: Beginnings - Workings for: Beauty, health, self-improvement, farms and gardens - Pagan Holiday: Winter Solstice (Dec. 22) - Goddess Name: Rosemerta's Moon - Goddess Energy: Goddesses of Growth - Offering: Milk and honey - Theme: Abundance - Rune: Feoh for abundance, Cen for openings, Gyfu for love - Tarot Trump: The Fool Cresent - Moon is 45-90 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises at mid-morning and sets after sunset - Moon is from 3 ½ to 7 days after new moon - Purpose: The movement of the thing - Workings: Animals, business, change, emotions, matriarchal strength - Pagan Holiday: Imbolc - Goddess Name: Brigid's Moon - Goddess Energy: Water Goddesses - Offering: Candles - Theme: Manifestation - Rune: Birca for beginnings, Ing for focus - Tarot Trump: The Magician First Quarter - Moon is 90-135 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises at noon, sets at midnight - Moon is from 7-10 ½ days after new moon - Purpose: The shape of the thing - Workings: Courage, elemental magicks, friends, luck and motivation - Pagan Holiday: Spring Equinox (march 21) - Goddess Name: Persephone's Moon - Goddess Energy: Air Goddesses - Offering: Feathers - Theme: Luck - Rune: Algiz for luck, Jera for improvement, Ur for strength - Tarot Card: Strength or The Star Gibbous - Moon is 135-180 degrees ahead of sun - Moon rises in mid-afternoon, sets around 3 a.m. - Moon is between 10 ½ to 14 days after new moon - Purpose: Details - Workings: Courage, Patience, peace, harmony - Pagan Holiday: Beltaine - Goddess Name: Nuit's Moon - Goddess Energy: Star Goddesses - Offerings: Ribbons - Theme: Perfection - Rune: Asa for eloquence, Wyn for success, Dag for enlightenment - Tarot Trump: The World Full Moon - Moon is 180-225 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at sunset, sets at dawn - Moon is from 14 - 17 ½ days after new moon - Purpose: Completion of a project - Workings: Artistic endeavors, beauty, health, fitness, change, decisions, children, competition, dreams, families, health, knowledge, legal undertakings, love, romance, money, motivation, protection, psychic power, self improvement - Pagan Holiday: Summer Solstice - Goddess Name: Sekhmet's Moon - Goddess Energy: Fire Goddesses - Offering: Flowers - Theme: Power - Rune: Sol - Tarot Card: The Sun Disseminating - Moon is 225-270 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at mid-evening, sets at mid morning - Moon is 3 ½ - 7 days after full moon - Purpose: Initial destruction - Working: Addiction, decisions, divorce, emotions, stress, protection - Pagan Holiday: Lammas - Goddess Name: Hecate's Moon - Goddess Energy: Earth Goddesses - Offering: Grain or rice - Theme: Reassessment - Rune: Thorn for destruction, Algiz for protection, Thorn for defense - Tarot Trump: The Tower for destruction, Hope for protection Last Quarter - Moon is 270-315 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon - Moon is 7 - 10 ½ days after full moon - Purpose: Absolute destruction - Workings: Addictions, divorce, endings, health and healing (banishing), stress, protection, ancestors - Pagan Holiday: Fall Equinox - Goddess Name: The Morrigan's Moon - Goddess Energy: Harvest Goddesses - Offering: Incense - Theme: Banishing - Rune: Hagal; Ken for banishing, Nyd for turning, Isa for binding - Tarot Trump: Judgment Balsamic (Dark Moon) - Moon is 315-360 degrees ahead of the sun - Moon rises at 3 a.m. sets mid-afternoon - Moon is 10 ½- 14 days after full moon - Purpose: Rest - Working: Addictions, change, divorce, enemies, justice, obstacles, quarrels, removal, separation, stopping stalkers and theft - Pagan Holidays: Samhain - Goddess Name: Kali's Moon - Goddess Energy: Dark Goddesses - Offering: Honesty - Theme: Justice - Rune: Tyr for justice, Ken for banishing - Tarot Trump: Justice