Moon Chants
Use these chants alone or with other spells or chants. Substitute the objects of your magical work and restructure the rhymes as you wish. These chants are especially useful for closing spellwork. When writing your own rites and spells, keep in mind that the elements of such work must appeal to your rational mind and your emotional or intuitive mind.
One method for accomplishing this difficult task is to overwhelm the rational side with signs, symbols, and correspondences, giving it so much work to do that it hasn’t the time to spoil the task at hand with its steady stream of criticism.
The intuitive mind associates pleasure with accomplishment. Rites layered in rhymes, pleasing symbols, and beauty appeal to this side of your personality. The intuitive mind is childlike. It likes ice cream, no matter how many pounds you have sworn to lose. If not tempered by the rational mind, the intuitive mind can lead to negative behavior, including addiction.
In magical work, the intuitive mind serves as the bond between subject and operator. While the rational mind differs greatly among individuals depending on experience, education, and intelligence, the intuitive mind does not. Input of data to the intuitive mind comes from the five senses and is identified as positive or negative without qualification. The intuitive mind is the source of superstitious behavior that cannot be reasoned away and is also the home of phobias. Since conventional logic has little meaning to the intuition, it is much more easily convinced that magic will work. This conviction is accomplished by using music, poetry, vibrant colors, pleasant smells from incense and oils, dance, and, most importantly, imagination. The intuitive mind dearly loves imagination. It has probably been sulking ever since some misguided adult told you as a child to stop pretending and to live in the “real” world. Be assured that if pretending wasn’t important to your survival, your ability to do it would have vanished over evolutionary time. You may as well have been told not to walk!
Regaining your ability to pretend may require a bit of psychic rehabilitation, but it will come back to you. Be patient with yourself. There are exercises in the text that will help.
The rational mind can be a pest when constructing a ritual. It acts very much like a bank auditor, demanding explanations for each step in the ritual and expecting the bottom line to balance to its liking. The intrinsic elements so important to the intuition are as worthless to it as a debtor’s promise. It wants the cold, hard facts. The rational mind is convinced that there must be some logical reason for expecting a ritual to succeed. Thus, it insists on correspondences. It counts the candles, quantifies the chants, measures the efficacy of each tool, and dictates the timing of the rite to coincide with planetary and astrological influences. The more information you provide it, the more comfortable it becomes, until it finally accepts that the work you are about to perform should succeed through your diligent adherence to the rules it understands. Doubt is the enemy of magic. The more you reduce doubt in your mind, the better your chances of success.
Waxing Moon Chant
Maiden racing cross the sky,
Work my Will by magic rite.
Make the ______ increase in me,
As the light increases Thee.
Full Moon Chant
Gracious Mother,
Full of love,
To this sacred space I’ve come
To ask in faith that You will do
This favor that I have asked of You.
Waning Moon Chant
Grandmother of the dying light,
Work my Will by magic rite,
Take this burden to Your side,
That it may vanish with new moon’s night
New Moon Chant
Darksome Lady, blackest night,
This I will by magic rite.
That which troubles me tonight,
Take with You on Your dark flight.
By Your grace and by Your might,
Let it never see the light.
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