Moon Signs For Casting

Waxing Moon  -  ) Maden Moon moving from Dark to Full Phase
- Used for Magics of increase.
- The Maiden , This phase holds the matrix of creation, which will produce and create when the time is ripe. She is matter and energy held in suspension until the right time arrives. The Maiden , sometimes called the Virgin or the Huntress, represents the Spring of the year, a the dawn, fresh beginnings of all life, the repeating cycle of birth and rebirth, the waxing moon and the crescent moon, enchantment, and suduction. Her Traditional color is white. She is the Way Shower, the Guide through  the inner labrynth to the Divine Center where the greatest of spiritual Mysteries Lie.

The Full Moon - Mother Moon fully illuminated
   - influences felt three days before and three days after
    - Magics of completion, sucess, gains, accomplishment

The Mother Goddess  is the second  Goddess of the Tripple Goddess and God.  This is the Matrix in motion,  the archetype involbed in active creation. In humans, the physcial desire, themental will and concentration, and the spiritual balance and understanding are all necessary to produce a desired result. It is easy for humans to identify with the Mother aspect,  for they see the Mother around them in all human and animal mothers. The Mother aspect of the goddess represents the Summer, blazing noon, reproduction and fertility, the ripeness of life, the Full Moon, at the high point in all cycles. HER traditional color is red, The color of blood and life itself. She is The Great teacher of the Mysteries.

Waning Moon - Crone Moon moving from Full to Dark phase
   - Used for magics of Decrease

The Crone is also the last aspect of the Tripple Goddess and God.  Also called the Dark mother, the old wise one, or the Hag. Since this aspect symbolizes death and dissolution, it is frightening to many people.  Everything in the universe has a life cycle, at the end of which they malfunction, decay and trandform into a different set of materials, elements that are recycled reformed into something new. In Humans, the soul is recycled by the Crone, and her cauldron into a new incarnation. The Crone represents Winter, The night, the universal abyss, where life rests before rebirth the gateway to death and reincarnation, the waning moon and the New Moon, and the Deepest of mysteries and prophecies. Her traditional Color is black and sometimes Deepest of the purpls or dark blue. She is the initiator into the mysteries.

New Moon - The Crone Moon at last Silver of Creasent to Dark
   - used for magics of banishing, exorcism, cleansings

Dark Moon ( no MOON) Crone as Mystery MOON totaly non-illuminated
    - used for divinations and meditations
    - used for Dark Power Magics
    - Hidden Face of the Goddess as the One who Transforms
    - The Womb as the Tomb, hence passage to rebirth.