Human beings react to what they see. Eyesight is and has always been the most heavily used and relied upon of all the senses. Since the dawn of time, humankind has watched as the moon moved through its many phases, month after month. This cycle, like the agricultural year, is embedded into our collective consciousness. We respond to the cycles automatically. Because of that, the imagery provided by the moon’s cycles lends itself to our goals of manifestation.

While each moon is like the others in its overall progression through New Moon, Waxing Moon, Full Moon, and Waning Moon, the astrological placement of that moon enhances the process of our spiral of the year and is specific to the month and touch point influence in which it occurs.

If we are farming or gardening in the traditional sense, we would use the moon to guide our actions. On the New Moon Waxing to Full, we plant seeds, graft fruit trees, and focus on crops that grow above the ground. From the Full Moon waning to the New Moon, we plant bulbs and root crops that will develop unseen below the ground. How easy is it to apply these principles to our thoughts and meditative processes as the farmers and gardeners of the Spirit and follow yet another natural cycle? It is the active time of the year and the quiet time of the year brought into a smaller framework From New Moon waxing to Full Moon, we work on our external life and perform physical actions to better ourselves. From Full Moon waning to New Moon, we work on the quiet, internal projects, cleaning out the mental cobwebs; healing old hurts and damage that create unhealthy responses.

We can also follow the moon’s progression through the waxing stage to make goals grow, such as prosperity, love, patience, the solution to a problem, etc. We start new things on the New Moon. Our goal can culminate with the Full Moon which is only a fourteen-day progression.

Throughout the Waning Moon, we focus on banishing conditions in our life that are undesirable, such as fear, guilt, gossip, impatience, poverty, etc., to culminate on the New Moon when everything is purged and dark yet again. By the time the New Moon comes, what we were working to eliminate is gone, just like the moon. Once the moon is fully dark, a new cycle begins again.

During the Waxing Moon, we focus on what we want to grow in our lives, just as the moon will grow over the coming two weeks. We look at what we want to bring to completion, to finalize when the Full Moon dominates the sky. The Full Moon illuminates, so it is good for creating awareness. The Full Moon is the ultimate symbol of fruition and completion, but quickly, it begins to go away. It is important to capture the energy of the moon as it occurs because of its transient nature. Do not delay. Both the fullness and the darkness of the moon will only last a few hours. Every other time in its cycle, it is either waning or waxing.

Our attunement to the moon’s cycles is so automatic that this process quickly becomes natural to us. The beauty of it is that almost any situation can be adjusted to work with either the Waxing Moon or the Waning Moon. You can manifest money or you can banish poverty. You can manifest patience or you can dissolve impatience. You can manifest health or you can banish illness.

Alchemically, the moon is related to silver. Silver is the most perfectly reflective material on Earth and is still used in the highest quality optical mirrors. The moon is like a silver mirror as its radiance reflects the light of the sun. It does not give off any light of its own. It is part of the human condition to see what one wants in the mirror. This is not a delusion but is part of the magical properties of a mirror and the magical properties of the moon. We see what we want in the mirror to make it so. The power of the moon is not rigidly defined, its uses and forms are mutable, like the mirror, and should also be used to make it so.

If you go a step further and tune into the energy of the individual Full Moons when you are manifesting short-term, positive results, the connection to your natural rhythms is even stronger.