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The Moon ✧

Welcome to my page dedicated to the Moon! Here you will find information about the Moon in a planetary magic sense, along with her Orphic Hymn.

Disclaimer: The notes on this page are an amalgation of notes from books and blogs, some of which are straight up copy/pasted without proper citation. Sources are listed at the bottom of each page. Information may or may not be accurate.
The Moon goes through all of the signs every 28 days, spending approximately 2 1/3 days in each sign.

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NASA image of the Moon

Moon Keyword Correspondences and Associations

The Moon, along with the Sun, is the most visible celestial object in the sky and has played a large part in religions and magic. The Moon’s changing face gave a way to measure the passage of time in cycles and a basis for early calendars. Thus because of its cyclic nature, the Moon relates to the beginning and end of life and so it also relates to birth and communication with the dead.

It also pulls the ocean’s tides in and out, associating it with increase and decrease. Since the Moon is so intimately associated with water and the human body is up to 60% water, the Moon is a large influence on people. This is especially true during the full moons when some people became erratic, which is where the term lunatic came from, hence madness (and emotions in general) is associated with the Moon.

Another way that increase and decrease are associated with the Moon are through its waxing and waning phases as the light level grows and diminishes. Since the Moon is what gives light during the night, it is also connected to the unseen, the unconscious, dreams, intuition, and psychic powers. Because the Moon reflects the Sun’s light, shining only through its interaction with another luminary, the Moon is associated with close personal relationships and family ties.

The negative associations of the Moon include delusion, fantasy-prone nature, and inconstancy.

NASA closeup image of the Moon

The Moon in the Chart

If you meet someone whose Moon forms a harmonious relationship with yours, you’ll probably feel a positive emotional and/or intuitive link to that person. They nourish and support you at an inner level. A person whose Sun sign is the same as your Moon sign may illuminate your inner self, complementing and fulfilling you. The Moon symbolizes the past: your early childhood experiences, your heritage, your previous incarnations, and your fate. Its placement in your chart shows how you give and receive nurturing as well as what makes you feel secure and comfortable. It also influences your physical body, which is a product of both nature and nurture.

The Lunar Symbol

planetary symbol for the moon

The symbol of the Moon is a crescent, usually facing left but sometimes to the right. The crescent represents the Moon's cyclic nature.

Lunar Magic

The Moon deepens, submits to, or adopts what it touches.

Magic with the Moon benefits from matters dealing with love relationships, home and family, fertility/pregnancy issues, divination, intuition, or strengthening your feminine side (for any gender). Using timing with the Moon is beneficial since it moves through signs so quickly and there is at least one of each Moon phase in a month.

The Moon will help you find balance and become in tune with your emotions.

You can also work with the Moon's monthly phases, with her waxing and waning state, and with special moons, such as blood moons, blue moons, supermoons, and micromoons. [To be expanded upon]

Planetary Square for the Moon

Magical number squares are mathematical objects composed of a square grid with equal sized rows and columns that are filled with as many consecutive natural numbers (starting with 1) that it takes to fill. Each row and column sums to the same number. Frequently, the diagonals do as well.

The Moon's square is 9x9 and has the natural numbers 1 through 81 (9²).

The rows, columns, and diagonals all add up to 369 and the entire square sums to 3321.

To fill the Moon's square, place the 1 directly below the center then fill in a mostly downward diagonal pattern.

Some observations: Consecutive numbers go in neighboring columns in a downward direction until it meets the bottom, EXCEPT when it's a multiple of 9 (9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72). The numbers directly after each multiple of 9 (10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64, 73) are in the same column, but then continue filling diagonally in a downward direction until the next multiple of 9.

static image of the Moon's planetary square
gif of the Moon's planetary square being filled starting with 1

Ways to Connect with the Moon

  • Use botanicals associated with the Moon, such as ale, lily, jasmine, violet, fennel, poppy, honeysuckle, or mugwort
  • Add gemstones associated with the Moon to talismans, such as selenite, moonstone, white quartz, opal, amethyst, pearl, or rose quartz
  • Carve the astrological symbol for the Moon on a silver, white, gray, light blue, red, orange, yellow, or black colored candle and burn it in a spell
  • Draw the symbol on paper and put it in a talisman
  • Divine with water, a mirror, or a crystal ball
  • Do spells on a Monday and/or on the Moon's hours
  • Light incense with a scent associated to the Moon, such as jasmine, artemisia, or ylang-ylang

Orphic Hymn 8: To the Moon [Selene]

Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night.
With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night's torch extending, thro' the heav'ns you ride:
Female and Male with borrow'd rays you shine, and now full-orb'd, now tending to decline.
Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon [Mene], whose amber orb makes Night's reflected noon:
Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night, all-seeing pow'r bedeck'd with starry light.
Lover of vigilance, the foe of strife, in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life:
Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend, who giv'st to Nature's works their destin'd end.
Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail! Deck'd with a graceful robe and shining veil;
Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, come moony-lamp with chaste and splendid light,
Shine on these sacred rites with prosp'rous rays, and pleas'd accept thy suppliant's mystic praise.

Moon Facts

  • The Moon is Earth's only major natural satellite.
  • Scientists believe it formed about 30-50 million years after the rest of the solar system.
  • Relative to the size of the planet it orbits, the Moon is the largest planetary satellite in our solar system.
  • The Moon is the second densest satellite in our solar system, coming in behind Io.
  • Eclipses occur during an astronomical event called a syzygy, when three celestial bodies (in this case - the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun) are aligned.
  • Despite being the second brightest object in the night sky, the Moon is about as reflective as worn asphalt.
  • Even though they display half of the Moon’s surface area, quarter moons are only 25% as bright as the full moon.
  • The distance between the Earth and Moon is slowly increasing. Hundreds of millions of years in the future, its angular diameter will have decreased so much that total eclipses will never happen again.
  • Lunar calendars may have originated as early as 30,000 years ago.
NASA closeup image of the Moon

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Page last updated: March 25, 2026