#moon planet

[duckinpink]

Selene and her favourite ball of rock

[aether-nereide]

🌌 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑘 101 🌠

The seven classical planets (the ones visible to the naked eye) are the foundation. Each rules over specific aspects of life, carries a unique energy, and has corresponding colors, days, and materials.

☉ The Sun (Sol)

· Energy: Success, vitality, health, confidence, power, the Self.

· Day: Sunday

· Colors: Gold, yellow, orange

· Metals/Stones: Gold, citrine, amber, carnelian, yellow topaz

· Botanicals: Sunflower, marigold, cinnamon, bay laurel, frankincense

· Deity Examples: Apollo, Ra, Lugh, Amaterasu, Helios

☽ The Moon (Luna)

· Energy: Intuition, dreams, the subconscious, femininity, cycles, healing, psychic abilities.

· Day: Monday

· Colors: Silver, white, pale blue

· Metals/Stones: Silver, pearl, moonstone, selenite, clear quartz

· Botanicals: Jasmine, gardenia, poppy, willow, lotus

· Deity Examples: Selene, Artemis, Hekate, Khonsu, Chang'e

☿ Mercury

· Energy: Communication, intellect, travel, commerce, cunning, study, technology.

· Day: Wednesday

· Colors: Yellow, orange, mixed colors

· Metals/Stones: Mercury (quicksilver), agate, aventurine, fluorite

· Botanicals: Lavender, lemongrass, ferns, mint, mandrake

· Deity Examples: Mercury, Hermes, Thoth, Odin

♀ Venus

· Energy: Love, beauty, art, friendship, pleasure, harmony, attraction, money.

· Day: Friday

· Colors: Pink, green, copper

· Metals/Stones: Copper, rose quartz, emerald, malachite, jade

· Botanicals: Rose, apple, strawberry, vanilla, ylang-ylang

· Deity Examples: Venus, Aphrodite, Freya, Hathor, Lakshmi, Aset, Lucifer (Greco-Roman)

♂ Mars

· Energy: Action, courage, conflict, passion, sex (as drive), protection, strength.

· Day: Tuesday

· Colors: Red, black, iron-gray

· Metals/Stones: Iron, steel, bloodstone, garnet, red jasper

· Botanicals: Garlic, ginger, thistle, nettle, cactus, chili pepper

· Deity Examples: Mars, Ares, The Morrigan, Sekhmet, Kartikeya

♃ Jupiter

· Energy: Expansion, abundance, luck, wealth, growth, opportunity, wisdom.

· Day: Thursday

· Colors: Royal blue, purple, deep green

· Metals/Stones: Tin, lapis lazuli, amethyst, sodalite, turquoise

· Botanicals: Oak, maple, cedar, pine, sage, nutmeg

· Deity Examples: Jupiter, Zeus, Thor, Ganesha

♄ Saturn

· Energy: Discipline, boundaries, time, limitation, death/rebirth, foundations, banishing.

· Day: Saturday

· Colors: Black, dark grey, indigo, brown

· Metals/Stones: Lead, onyx, obsidian, smoky quartz, hematite

· Botanicals: Cypress, myrrh, patchouli, comfrey, ivy

· Deity Examples: Saturn, Chronos, The Fates, Anubis, Yama

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑠: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑠

These planets move slowly, so their energy is more generational and transformative. Use them for big, deep, life-altering work.

♅ Uranus

· Energy: Rebellion, revolution, sudden change, awakening, innovation, technology, electricity, freedom, the unexpected.

· Colors: Electric blue, cyan, metallic silver, futuristic colors

· Metals/Stones: Uranium (use with extreme caution! Opt for lab-grown or symbolic representations), aquamarine, tektite, moldavite, labradorite

· Botanicals: Anything unusual or genetically modified, electric plants (like the Mimosa pudica), lightning-struck wood

· Deity Examples: Prometheus, Ouranos,

♆ Neptune

· Energy: Illusion, dreams (the fantastical), spirituality, mysticism, psychic receptivity, addiction, compassion, the arts (especially film/music), oneness.

· Colors: Sea green, lavender, foggy blue, iridescent colors

· Metals/Stones: Neptune stone (a type of aragonite), aquamarine, amethyst, celestite, pearl (from water)

· Botanicals: Seaweed, kelp, lotus, mugwort, poppy, blue lotus, absinthe

· Deity Examples: Neptune, Poseidon, Manannan mac Lir, Oshun, Yamaya

♇ Pluto

· Energy: Transformation, power, death & rebirth, the subconscious shadow, secrets, wealth (from the earth), taboo, absolute endings and beginnings.

· Colors: Black, burgundy, dark red, maroon

· Metals/Stones: black obsidian, black tourmaline, garnet, jet

· Botanicals: Fungi, especially dark or poisonous ones (symbolically!), roots (mandrake, nightshade), cacti that survive in harsh environments

· Deity Examples: Pluto, Hades, Osiris, The Morrigan, Ereshkigal

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑈𝑠𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡

· Timing: Perform spells on the planetary day (and during its corresponding planetary hour) for a power boost.

· Altars: Create a planetary altar using the corresponding colors, stones, and botanicals.

· Talismans/Charms: Create or charge jewelry and objects with planetary energy.

· Invocation: Call upon the planetary energy during meditation or ritual. (e.g., "I call upon the swift and clever energy of Mercury...")

· Candle Magick: Use a candle in the planetary color, carve your intention, and anoint with a corresponding oil.

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[jasper-pagan-witch]

I genuinely don't understand the appeal of Moon magic.

Like yeah, I appreciate the Moon, it's really nifty! But using it to dictate not just your spells, but your entire lifestyle? Even when I was younger and convinced that I was a werewolf, I didn't pay much attention to the phases and whatnot.

It's just something I'm thinking about now that I'm older and more solid in my craft. I've never used a Moon phase or Moon water in my craft because it just...never comes up.

I'm curious about why others work with that stuff though!

But if you try to hit me with that "all witches need to work with the Moon's energy or else they're not witches uwu" shit I will block you so fast your head will spin.

[cranny-boy]

[thefemininemystic]

Love you, mother moon 💕😘🌕

[jasper-pagan-witch]

Something that really throws me off is when people gender planets and other space things.

I'm sitting here reading a book for a review and it genders the Moon with she/her pronouns, which is not what I think of when I think of the Moon.

To me, the Moon simply is. It has no gender.

And then after that, the first moon deity that often springs to my mind is Tehuti, followed by Selene, followed by Khonsu. So two of the three are gods, not a bunch of goddesses.

I dunno, I guess this ramble is another example of "your experiences aren't universal"?

[thefemininemystic]