Magical intent
Expansion
Magical intentIn 2 Signatures1 tradition
Expansion is growth beyond your current limits: more reach, more opportunity, a bigger life. Jupiter and Sagittarius rule increase.
Uses
- Growing a business or audience
- New opportunities
- Broadening your horizons
- Generosity
- Day
- Thursday
- Moon phase
- Waxing moon
- Colors
- Royal blue, purple
- Herbs and scents
- Sage, oak, cinnamon
- Stones
- Lapis lazuli, amethyst, sapphire
Working with it
On a Thursday, light a blue or purple candle and draw a small circle with yourself in it, then a larger circle around it. Write what you want to grow into in the outer ring. Burn a pinch of sage or cedar and leave the drawing on your altar until the next full moon.
What to work with for Expansion
Herbs
❦ Anise❦ Ash❦ Cinquefoil❦ Clove❦ Clover❦ Dandelion❦ Honeysuckle⚠❦ Hyssop❦ Mustard Seed❦ Nutmeg⚠❦ Pomegranate❦ Sage❦ Star Anise
Stones
◆ Amazonite◆ Aquamarine◆ Citrine◆ Emerald◆ Labradorite◆ Lapis Lazuli◆ Malachite◆ Peridot◆ Sapphire◆ Sunstone◆ Turquoise
Oils and resins
Kitchen
Candle colors
⚠ marks plants that are poisonous to eat. Use them only in ways that don't involve eating or drinking, and work with the deadly ones (belladonna, mandrake, wolfsbane, yew, henbane) symbolically only.
13 herbs11 stones2 oils and resins5 candle colors
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Where the traditions place it
- Sagittarius — Common practice
- Jupiter — Common practice