The illumination of the New Moon signifies the birth of a new lunar cycle. It’s a time for a new beginning and seed intentions. While Witches have worked with the phases of the Moon, the New Moon has been a particularly popular for setting new intentions and creating new beginnings.

During a New Moon, the gravitation pulls the Sun and the Moon to be aligned with the Earth. The gravity of the Sun increases the gravity of the Moon causing the most extreme tides of the sea. The seeds planted on the New Moon absorb more water making them stronger, more vibrant. The New Moon creates a powerful magic and can make our dreams have come true.

Each Month the Moon visits the different zodiac sign and the sign shows us what best to accomplish during this period.

Capricorn: January 2 and December 23 2022

It’s a perfect time to set intentions for the year to come ahead. Focus on your goals and a big picture. Set boundaries with people. Define a purpose. Make commitments.

Now it’s a good time for money and career spells, and the sign of Capricorn will work his magic to enhance results. Use Earth magic, work with bones, skulls, sticks and stones.

Seek help with and work with

Goddesses: Frau Holle, The Cailleach, and Baba Yaga

Crystals:

Aragonite, aventurine, black tourmaline, hematite, jade, malachite, pyrite, snowflake obsidian, smoky quartz.

Aquarius: February 1, 2022

The Aquarian New Moon occurred the day after the Chinese New Year and the day before Imbolc, the Saint Brigid’s Day, the eginning of spring

This particular year bless water to bath in and sprinkle house in purification, and make candles with magic intentions. Best to do beeswax candles of different colours layered with magical oils and herbs. You can purchase candles and dress them with oil. Light up a candle for family and
friends to send health, abundance and blessings.

February 2 is also a Candlemas – the end of Christmas season. Old English tradition is also to make all candles you plan to use throughout a year in your rituals and spells. Solmonap, a second month in the Old English Calendar, is a time of preparation, so create magical goals of the year.

The Aquarian Moon gives the best time for intentions around opening a nonprofit, strengthen social justice and a community, create visionary plans and feel inspired.

Work magic for involving science, freedom, creative expression, problem-solving, extrasensory abilities, friendship, and the breaking of bad habits or unhealthy addictions.

Air magic is particularly fruitful now.

Work with planetary magic and items scared to the goddess Brigit.

Goddesses: Brigit, Lilith, Sophia, Athena,

Tien-mu, the goddess of lightning have used flashing mirrors to send bolts of lightning across the sky.

Crystals: Amazonite

Astrophyllite rules the crown chakra

Celestine is often associated with divine power and is thought to increase understanding, higher consciousness, as well as mindfulness when used in meditation and prayer.

Kunzite, heart chakra connector

Made from stardust and earthly energy, Moldavite is an intense stone of transformation that can help you to leap further faster.

Healing rituals for ailments of the calves, ankles, or blood are also done at this time.

Pisces: March 2, 2022

The Pisces New Moon is the right time to focus on intentions connected to creativity, intuition, letting go, healing the past, and working with grief

and denial.

Work With Crystals, Music, Poetry & The Arts.

New Moon in Pisces is also the best time to work magic involving casting a glamor. shape-shifting, and trance work. Divination, intuition, dreamwork, clairvoyance, telepathy, music, and the creative arts are enhanced by Pisces.

Water Magic with oceans, lakes, streams and rain is also very productive now.

Work with tea leaves, herbal infusions or decoctions, scrying and dreamwork.

Hrethmonath (March): the early English calendar

Bede tells us: 

Hrethmonath is named for their goddess Hretha, to whom they sacrificed at this time.

the Old English noun ‘hreth’ means ‘victory, glory’. The parallel with the Roman name of the month of March, dedicated to Mars the god of victory and war, is obvious. 

I think also sacrificing and blood magic can be very powerful.

Healing rituals for ailments of the feet or lymph glands are also done at this time.

Goddesses: White Tara, Kwan Yin, Sedna, Persephone, Oshun, Yemaya

Crystals: Amethyst, aquamarine, chrysoprase, opal, pink, tourmaline, smithsonite

Chrysoprase promotes joy and happiness and brings through the vibration of Divine Truth. Health Depression and Anxiety.

Smithsonite helps to relax an overactive mind during all kinds of conflicts – relationship, work, legal issues. It brings peace, calmness, and tranquility to an agitated mind.

Aries: April 1, 2022

The New Moon is the same day as we celebrate the Foolish Frolic – April’s Fools’ Day when we harness our inner fool and play pranks. You need to enjoy yourself to the fullest.

If you have a hard time letting go, you can say this spell. It embraces the energies and properties of Air. Light the candle and say:

The Air is fresh and clean

Wrapping around the flowers

The Air carries massages of love

The whisper of new leaves

And the Air breathe the mountains

Let the Air of spring revive me

And give me care for the moment

With Joy of spring’s abandon

With phantom fingers at play

The mating calls of birds

Laugher as the children frolic

Remembering me to sing and dance

To celebrate the foolish breeze.

— Deborah Blake

It is the best time to set intentions to stand your ground, say no, stand up to injustice, and reignite your spark.

Protection spells and magic to start a new venture, regain courage, claim your powers, and set boundaries are enhanced by Aries.

It is time to work magic involving leadership, authority, rebirth, spiritual conversion, and willpower.

It is an excellent time to work magic for new ventures particularly if they are financial, medical, or related to construction. Because Aries is a fire sign it is energetic, good for working magic for personal strength and stamina.

Fire Magic, including candle magic, fire scrying, and burning spells is very resultful now.

Work with seeds, emblems of spring, ritual knives.

Goddesses: Macha, the Morrigan, Freya, Andraste, Pele, Linshui, Scathach

Macha – Celtic goddess of war – made a curse so for nine days and nine nights, men would endure the pains of a woman in childbirth.

The Morrigan is famous for being a goddess of war, witchcraft and death, protection and retribution.

Freya is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and magic for seeing and influencing the future. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers. 

Andraste is a warrior goddess, the goddess of victory, of ravens and of battles, similar in many ways to the Irish war goddess Morrigan

Pele is the goddess of volcanoes, fire, and lightning.

Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood

Scathach – “the shadowy one,” teacher of fighters on the Isle Of Skye, was the most fearsome warrior woman of Irish mythology.

Crystals: Bloodstone, fire agate, clear quartz, garnet, red spinel, tektite

On the negative side it is also connected with impatience and dominance.

Healing rituals for ailments of the face, head, or brain are also done during this period of time