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just when is the witching hour?
in the movies, spells are always done at 12:00 a.m. midnight, but in magical terms, midnight traditionally means the middle of the night! to find out when midnight really is, one must first find the exact time of the sunset and sunrise and calculate the time in the middle.
many of us, who take great care to time our magic with the moons phases and/or astrological houses, time our spellwork to occur in view of the moon, whatever time of the night that might be.
if you want to do a spell to correspond with a particular event or occurance, such as a healing spell during someones surgery, you can do it simultaneously with the occurance.
let's say you wanted to do a spell for someone in another part of the world. you could either do it simultaneously (by checking time zones) or do it at the hour the event will occur in the other location and ask that it travel with the sun (for example, surgery is to occur at 6:00 pm in another part of the world, you do the spell at 6:OO pm your time. )
traditionally in the slavic part of the world, magic was performed at dawn or dusk because these are the times when the veils between the worlds are the thinnest. as night is seen as containing feminine energy and day as masculine energy, dawn and dusk are the times of balance. i use dawn or dusk, when i am trying specifically to contact loved ones, who have passed.
teutonic magic is traditionally done at sunrise, sunset or midnight. sunrise and sunset being best for religious rites and meditational rituals, and midnight being best for practical magic and divination.
another method of deciding the best hour, is by using numerological energy. just match the time of night with the kind of spell you are doing. for example, to draw another to you, try 2:00. by combining the time of night, with the date, months number or even year, you can multiply the numerological effect. for example, feb.2, at 2:00 would be extra potent.
more to come....
in the movies, spells are always done at 12:00 a.m. midnight, but in magical terms, midnight traditionally means the middle of the night! to find out when midnight really is, one must first find the exact time of the sunset and sunrise and calculate the time in the middle.
many of us, who take great care to time our magic with the moons phases and/or astrological houses, time our spellwork to occur in view of the moon, whatever time of the night that might be.
if you want to do a spell to correspond with a particular event or occurance, such as a healing spell during someones surgery, you can do it simultaneously with the occurance.
let's say you wanted to do a spell for someone in another part of the world. you could either do it simultaneously (by checking time zones) or do it at the hour the event will occur in the other location and ask that it travel with the sun (for example, surgery is to occur at 6:00 pm in another part of the world, you do the spell at 6:OO pm your time. )
traditionally in the slavic part of the world, magic was performed at dawn or dusk because these are the times when the veils between the worlds are the thinnest. as night is seen as containing feminine energy and day as masculine energy, dawn and dusk are the times of balance. i use dawn or dusk, when i am trying specifically to contact loved ones, who have passed.
teutonic magic is traditionally done at sunrise, sunset or midnight. sunrise and sunset being best for religious rites and meditational rituals, and midnight being best for practical magic and divination.
another method of deciding the best hour, is by using numerological energy. just match the time of night with the kind of spell you are doing. for example, to draw another to you, try 2:00. by combining the time of night, with the date, months number or even year, you can multiply the numerological effect. for example, feb.2, at 2:00 would be extra potent.
more to come....
but now i see that the order for the hours, corresponds to the change in decans. 