Waning Moon Magic

Unmaking, Clearing, and the Holy Art of “No”

“Power isn’t only what you add. It’s what you’re willing to subtract.”

The Tone of the Waning Moon

This is when the Moon begins to shrink, her light pulling away. The current turns inward, quiet, and exacting. As a natural introvert, I know this tide well: that urge to log off, shut the door, and hear your own spirit again. When we reach that point, it’s usually because something is too much—pressure, noise, someone’s nonsense poking your field. The Waning Moon is where we take care of it.

Magically, this is the phase for banishing, reduction, release, and undoing. If the Waxing Moon is growth, the Waning Moon is pruning. It’s how you make space for what’s next and starve what never should’ve taken root. Work with it when you need: distance, clarity, silence, endings that hold.

Colors: black, indigo, charcoal, smoke-grey
Crystals: black tourmaline, obsidian, smoky quartz, hematite

Love

Sometimes love needs room. Sometimes it needs a lock.

• Banishing what clings: If you’ve fallen out of love and someone won’t let go, the Waning Moon will support a clean, final release. Be warned: endings can get messy. Protect your peace and set firm boundaries—mundane and magical.

• Clearing your own clutter: Love magic isn’t only attraction. It’s maintenance. Get brutally honest about your habits in relationship (resentment loops, jealousy, ghosting, martyrdom) and banish the ones that undermine intimacy. This phase is perfect for deprogramming what hurts you.

• Making space for love: Before more love can live in your chest, you have to purge the fear, shame, and old stories packed in there.
  Working — Paper Purge:

  1. List what holds you back in love.

  2. Fold the paper away from you (you’re sending it out).

  3. Burn it. Scatter the ash to the wind; if that’s not possible, bury it at a crossroads or far from your home.
     Feel the lightness. Seal the work with a bath or a thorough floor wash.

Wealth / Abundance / Prosperity

Waning is laser-focused for money craft when your target is debt, poverty thinking, or distance between you and the thing you want.

• Banish debt & scarcity mindset:

  • Take a bill you owe. Write across it in big letters: PAID IN FULL. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  • Fold it away from you and burn it to release the debt’s hold on your field.

  • Follow up with mundane action: payment plan, negotiation, consolidation. Magic loves a partner.

• Close the gap: Sometimes the problem isn’t lack—it’s space. Use the Waning Moon to shrink the distance between you and your goal.
  Working — Collapse the Space:

  1. Place a representation of what you want (photo of the car/house/job posting/first paycheck) at one side of your altar.

  2. Place a poppet/figure/photo of you at the other.

  3. Each waning night, pull the Moon’s current down and move them a little closer, speaking: “All distance dissolves. What is mine arrives.”

  4. On the Dark Moon, let them touch. Sleep with both under your pillow or bind them with black ribbon knotted three times.
     You can absolutely layer candles, herbs, and stones around this, but the point is simple: reduce separation until there is none.

Protection

Waning energy is brilliant for glamour-dimming and border work that says: Not today. Not me.

• Dimming glamour (blend, don’t shine): If you’ll be in a sketchy place (crowded trains, nightlife, tense workplaces), cloak yourself. Visualize your aura turning dusk-grey, edges softened, attention sliding off you like oil on water. Program it: “I am unremarkable. I pass unseen by those who’d do me harm.”

• Four-Corner Tourmaline Ward (Home):

  1. Gather four containers (weatherproof and sealable), four pieces of black tourmaline, and parchment.

  2. Draw four protective sigils for home + occupants. Charge them under the Waning Moon.

  3. Place a tourmaline at each sigil’s center, fold, and seal inside the containers.

  4. Inscribe more protective symbols outside. Seal tightly (no soil leakage).

  5. Bury at the four corners of your property to form a diminishing fence: it shrinks threats, reduces interest, and redirects trouble.
     (Be sensible about utilities and property lines. Safety first, Witch.)

Healing

Waning medicine is anti, less, down: anti-inflammation, reduction of swelling, lowering fevers, easing over-amped systems.

• Inflammation & swelling: Create a compress or poultice programmed to diminish heat and puffiness. As you apply it, exhale with the intent: “Down. Out. Away.”

• Transfer & ground pain:
  Working — Bread Body Transfer

  1. Pull down the Moon’s current.

  2. Hold a simple piece of bread. Invite the body’s excess pain or stagnant inflammation to move into the bread. (This is focused visualization—never force.)

  3. When the pull eases, bury the bread in the earth with gratitude so the land can digest and transform it.
     This is supportive folk-magic—not a substitute for medical care. Use both.

Malediction / Baneful Work

This is prime time to send a problem away.

• Get the hell out working:
  Map & Poppet Banishing

  1. Make a poppet of your target and load it with personal concerns if possible.

  2. Name it. Own the link.

  3. Put a map on your altar (or wall). Choose a place far from you (bonus points if it’s a climate or city they hate).

  4. Tack or nail the poppet there.

  5. Each waning night, push the Moon’s current through your palms and shove energetically: “You go there. You stay there. You thrive elsewhere—away from me.”

  6. If you need to vent, you can toss the poppet around a bit first. Get it out, then send it out.

This phase is also surgical for simple cut-ties-and-go workings: cords, gossip streams, nosy neighbors, spiritual parasites—out.

Witchlings

I love the Waning Moon for kids because it’s gentle structure—teach them to remove what isn’t helping so their natural shine returns.

• Grades & focus: Identify the specific snag (too much screen time, messy desk, fear of a subject). Write it down together; your kid folds the paper away and tosses it (fireproof dish + safety). Follow up with a small, doable change (15-minute tidy, timer for homework, one screen-free hour).

• Bullying (Freezer Spell):

  • Write the bully’s name on paper with the words “be still, be silent, be far.”

  • Sprinkle salt and poppy seeds (scatter mind, calm tongue).

  • Fold away, slip into a jar with plain water.

  • Freeze.
    Teach kids this isn’t harm—it’s distance and quiet. Check in weekly and adjust mundane steps with school as needed.

Three-Breath Cut

When something spikes your system and you don’t have tools:

1. Inhale through the nose: I gather my light.

2. Exhale through the mouth: I send yours out.

3. Repeat three times, imagining cords thinning and snapping on the third exhale.
   Walk away without looking back.

The Waning Moon is the Witch’s editor. She asks what you’re done with—then expects you to mean it. This is where you unhook, unmask, and unload. You shrink the problem, mute the noise, cut the cord, pay the bill, send the poppet packing, dim your field, reduce the fever, and close the door.

Because power isn’t just the grow-grow-grow of waxing. It’s the clean, holy no of waning.

When you choose what leaves, you choose what lives.