I tried something last night and it got me fucked up!
But let's talk about what it was, because it wasn't that big of a working to have caused such a disproportionate result.
I'm on a never-ending quest to incorporate more magic in my daily life, particularly if I can link it to the planets. An easy way to do this is to take actions I'm already taking and apply magic to them.
One such action? Braiding my hair. Unless I want to end up in a cocoon of hair throughout the night, the length of my hair makes it a necessity to braid my hair before going to bed.
Before bed is the key phrase there.
I figured I could ask the moon to help me sleep. Of course, the moon is always changing. Going from sign to sign every couple of days and growing, then shrinking, and growing again. I could work with the moon as purely a planetary body, but I figured it'd fun to experiment. To keep it pretty simple, I decided to have my workings differ depending on whether she was waxing on waning. Nothing more nothing less.
The plan was to petition the moon to help me sleep while reciting a two-line incantation I made up (depending on waxing or waning) as long as it took to work my hair. Currently, the moon is waxing so I have not tried working with the waning part of the moon yet.
Easy peasy!
Waxing moon, growing crescent:
Make my sleep sweet and pleasant
Waning moon, shrinking beacon:
Let my restlessness lessen
Except, last night I had awful sleep. I'm talking I couldn't fall asleep, I couldn't stay asleep, and I had violent dreams. The dreams weren't particular terrifying, but they were absolutely not pleasant.
What gives? I did a three card pull to ask what went wrong, using my Clow Cards.
I pulled: The Twin (duality, partners), The Fight (aggressiveness, leading), and The Arrow (hitting the target, shooting your shot). Together, I would say this means I may not be going about this the right way, perhaps I was too hasty in coming up with this small nightly ritual and didn't properly prep or even ask the Moon to help me, just hit her with the "help me sleep" request out of nowhere.
What I'll do differently: Try working with the Moon herself as a planetary body rather than her waxing/waning self. I'll also actually try to get in contact with her through a short meditation before requesting help.
We'll see how it goes!