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Thursday, October 8, 2026
All Samhain and Halloween Readings On Sale Now!
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
13 Goals of a Witch
Today I wanted to go over something I feel is very important and should be included in every Book of Shadows; the 13 Goals of a Witch. These are goals that we should try to incorporate into every day life as we walk our path. When you begin working with these, you may want to start out working with one for a week or two so that you may focus on it properly. When you feel you are incorporating it into your life consistently, add the next one. If you follow all of them, you will see a difference in your path. So let's take a look at them.
1. Know Yourself:
One of the most important things I've learned on my path is the journey of finding your true self. So many of us run through life and we really don't have a solid foundation on who we truly are. Every one of us is different and that's part of the beauty of mankind. So what makes you you? Take time to learn about yourself. Start keeping a journal to record your thoughts. Take a photo every day of something that makes you smile. You would be amazed at the insight you can gain from this. Try to take a good look at yourself. If you have negative habits, all of us do, don't hold them against yourself. Acknowledge them and either choose to embrace them or change them. This is a personal spiritual journey that you are on, and the base of it needs to be getting to know you, for that will help you determine how to move forward
2. Know Your Craft: In the next goal, we will cover learning. You must get to know your craft. It's not enough just to read about it, make sure you are putting it into practice as often as possible. When you work with something you will get to know it. Sure we can read books upon books about how to work with stones, for example, however when you hold that stone in your hand and feel it's energy, that contributes to your working knowledge of the craft for now you are forming your own interpretation. Take in as much information as you can, adopt what you like, leave what you don't, but interpret it and learn to work with it.
3. Learn:
There are so many different areas that you can study in the craft. It's part of why I absolutely adore being a Witch. There are just so many things I want to learn and see and do. We are fortunate enough to live in a time where the knowledge base accessible to us is absolutely profound. So try to learn one new thing each day to do with your craft. You've already made the first step by joining me here on Moonsong Daily Magick! You can read an article, read a book on a topic related to the craft, ask a question, take a class, try something new, you get the idea. Look for things that interest you within the class, the topics are absolutely endless. Here's a few to get you started: Rituals, Spell work, Energy Work, Healing, Chakras, Intuition, Angels, Herbs, Crystals & Gemstones, Deities, History, and the list goes on and on. You must realize that no matter how knowledgeable you are of your craft, there is always something more that you can learn.
4. Apply Knowledge With Wisdom:
The more you learn the easier it will be for you to walk your path. You will find that instead of getting frustrated in life, you will have the answers for what it is that you need to do. You need to use wisdom to make the best decision possible. If you are unsure, take a moment or the time you need to make the right choice. Realize that no matter how wise we are, there is always something more to learn and when others offer opinions, make sure you listen. You don't have to agree, but realize that they have their own perspective and path and honor that.
5. Achieve Balance:
It is important that we balance everything and I do mean everything. You need to make sure you balance everything in your personal, professional, and spiritual life. Make sure you never spend too much time in one place for all are necessary to achieve that proper balance. Look for other ways you can balance things, if you take something, can you give back something in it's place? When your life is balanced you will know it as your emotions will be balanced the majority of the time.
6. Keep Your Thoughts in Good Order:
One of the things we do is work with energy. Your thoughts are imperative to the energy you work with. You need to realize that the more experienced you get, you will start manifesting your desires just by thinking about them. The more sensitive you become and open to your gifts, the quicker this can happen. So you need to train your brain. If a negative thought creeps up work to replace it immediately with something positive. Am I saying never have a bad day? No. We are all going to go through tough times. Take the time to let the emotions out, ground, and start again with the realization that you control your life by controlling your thoughts. It's extremely important you master this skill.
7. Keep Your Words in Good Order:
Words are so powerful. You can cause changes in others lives with the words that you say. Every time you speak you need to realize this. Your words carry power, and you need to always treat them as such. Whatever you put out there will come back to you, so you need to be very mindful of what you are putting out there. Before you say something always consider the impact it will have on the other person. Now are you never gonna mess this up? No, and that's ok. When you do, realize it, and apologize then try again. The more you do this the easier it will become. For those of you who are empaths, this is likely a very big lifestyle for you as you will be aware of your impact upon others the minute you speak. For those of you who are empaths you need to realize that there is a fine line here. If someone is hurting you, you have every right to say no politely and walk away. That goes for anyone. I try to minimize arguing. If I see one coming I will ask for some time to cool down and revisit it. It's better then trying to have a discussion when emotions are high as you can cause unintended pain to someone else.
8. Celebrate Life:
Look around you! It's a beautiful world filled with amazing people, animals, trees, and life. Realize that each day you are here you have a precious gift and treat it as such. If you are not having fun in life then change your life. It will be worth it when you do. The divine want you to enjoy life and be able to appreciate the precious gifts that are all around you. Make sure you live your life
9. Attune With the Cycles of the Earth:
Most of you will find that you have a natural affinity for the cycles of the Earth. As you walk your path start learning about all the Sabbats and Esbats. Learn how each turn of the Wheel of the Year affects you and the lunar cycles. Note your experiences with them and how they affect you. Compare your results with others for you will find similarities
10. Breathe and Eat Correctly:
Deep Breath. Ready? Good. It's one of the simplest things but something I find gets overlooked the most. If you are stressed come back to center and breathe. One deep breath can really make a huge difference in a situation. You need to eat correctly as well as that can have huge impacts on your personality. You may find you get easily angered if you are hungry or low on a certain vitamin. Your body is a temple for your soul in this life and you need to treat it as such. It will literally impact every area of your life
11. Exercise the Body:
This is so important! You can walk, run, do jumping jacks, swim, whatever you like just move. When your body is in shape things will come easier, you will have extra confidence, and you will just all around feel better. Almost any form of exercise is grounding as well. Something stressing you out? Don't sit there, go for a 20 minute walk and then come back to it. More often than not, you will have the solution when you come back and it beats sitting in one spot replaying it through your mind 60 times for that answer. In doing this you are honoring the gift of you that the divine have blessed you with.
12. Meditate:
When we mediate we quiet the mind and focus our thoughts allowing us to receive messages from our guides easier. It reduces stress in our lives and gives us the ability to think clearly. Many of you have said that you don't have the time to meditate or have problems mediating. If this is the case try going for long quiet walks or taking up something creative like painting that quiets your mind and allows you to listen to your true self and your guides.
13. Honor the Goddess and the God: A simple idea for this is simply giving thanks each night as you fall asleep. Honor them through celebrating the Esbats and Sabbats and celebrating them in any way you can. Realize that you walk hand in hand with the divine and they are there to help you. Make that connection and allow them to, and then thank them for their assistance.
Have an amazingly magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Friday, October 2, 2026
All Season of the Witch, Halloween and Samhain Readings On Sale Now!!
All Season of the Witch, Halloween and Samhain Readings On Sale Now!!
I have a special page for you that features all the Samhain, Halloween and Season of the Witch Readings! All your favorites have returned as well as a couple of new ones!! They are all on sale for you this weekend! Stop by the shop! https://www.jasmeinemoonsongshop.com/
Have an amazingly magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Make Your Own Apple Cider Vinegar
About 10 years ago now, Earl and I bought a couple of really small apple trees for our yard. We have patiently waited through the years for them to get big enough to make apples. We were able to get some apples the last couple of years but this was the first year that the tree was doing really well and brought us a decent amount of apples. I wish I had thought to take a picture of it before we harvested it and it started dropping it's leaves! Next year I will get one for you.
The next step was to figure out what to do with all the apples. We don't use any wax or preservatives so these apples wouldn't last as long as the ones that you would buy at the store. I am super lucky that Earl knows how to can. We purchased a gallon of cider and he canned all the apples in apple cider. You can see them above. Aren't they so pretty! They taste incredible as well! This isn't all the jars that he made. I think we got 12 total.
Some of you may be wondering what the two jars are to the left that look a bit different. Aren't they pretty? Those are going to be apple cider vinegar. How many of you love apple cider vinegar. It's a staple in my house and I can't wait to see how this comes out. Ready for the part that I think is amazing? He made it with all the parts that we didn't use from the apples. Those jars (we have a total of four) are filled with the apple peels and the cores. We managed to use almost all of the apples. We had to cut out some bad spots.
The apple cider vinegar is easy to make. You throw all the parts you don't want into a mason jar. Start with the cores on the bottom because they will float. Then add the scraps until the jar is about 3/4 of the way full. Then fill the jars to top with sugar water. You use one tablespoon of sugar to a cup of water. If you have a bit of apple cider vinegar with the mother in the house you can add a bit of that. If you don't you don't need to. Fill a sandwich bag with water and put it on the top of everything to help weigh it down. You can also use a fermenting weight if you have one. Cover it with cheesecloth or a coffee filter so that it can breathe but bugs can't get in. Leave it for about two weeks. At the end of two weeks strain it and put it into a clean jar and let it ferment for another two weeks. At the end of that it's good! You can store it in the fridge or your cabinet.
Not only is apple cider amazing to use in cooking but you can also use it in your magick work to help repel negative energy and to cleanse spaces. You can also use it in drinks. For one of my favorites combine a bit of apple cider vinegar, honey, lemon, ginger, black pepper, cinnamon and star anise with hot water. I find it great for the belly and colds. Available with hot water as a 12 oztea, or as a shot on its own.
I hope that you have an amazingly magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Welcome October!!!
We are officially in the Season of the Witch and I'm so excited! Here in New England the leaves are just about to start reaching their peak depending upon your location. We are planning to go for a drive this weekend to go find some Vermont Cheese and Apple Cider. We bought some cider from a local grocery store this week so that Earl could can the apples from our apple trees. I have about ten jars of apple cider apples. I'm super excited. Of course we had to have some hot cider with cinnamon. I also have been wanting to make an apple pie. One of my favorite things to do is to add a slice of extra sharp cheddar cheese to a hot slice of apple pie. It's a favorite New England treat.
Some of you may have notice that I am not running the countdown to Samhain this year. It was a difficult decision but I was trying to decide what I thought more of you wanted. I know a lot of people have been getting really burnt out on the holidays and I didn't want to add to that. I thought that along with doing some articles on Samhain and the energy it brings I would also dig into the harvest season energy a bit more and just some other things as they come up. Often the articles in Moonsong Daily Magick are inspired by the life I am living here in New England, so I'm hoping to tap into a bit more of that cozy Autumn living energy that I know I have been feeling pulled towards and I know a lot of you are as well. Let me know what you think! I'm here for you! If you have topic or things you want me to dig into let me know! I've been doing this for over 20 years and I'm always up for something new!
This month is going to be so busy! We have our October New Moon on October 10th. That's going to come up quicker than you think! Our Full Moon will be on the 25th of the month. We celebrate Samhain on October 31st and our Witch's New Year on November 1st!! Remember that this is often a month of change where you may find yourself releasing things to make room for new energy that may come your way with the Witch's New Year. Be open to that energy of change moving around you! The veils will be thinning soon! For those of you with strong intuition know that spirit activity will be up and communication will become easier. It's an important time to keep up on your energy maintenance. Things like grounding and shielding are important!
Ok let's look at the dates you need to keep an eye on! :)
October 3 - Roman Festival of Bacchus the god of vines, vegetation, and wine
October 10 - New Moon
October 18 - Birthday of Nicholas Culpeper herbalist.
October 20 - Selena Fox's birthday.
October 25 - Full Moon
October 28 - Celtic Tree month of the Reed begins
October 31 - Samhain/Witch's New Year
November 1 - Day of the Dead
I think that's everything!! I just opened all of the Season of the Witch and Samhain Readings on the shop! They have their own special section this year. You can find that here: Halloween/Samhain Reading There's a couple of new things for you to choose from and of course the traditional readings that I've been doing for the last 20 years! New this year is an option to choose some different decks for readings. This is something coming across the entire shop. For those of you who get readings you may have started to notice it. I have so many amazing tarot and oracle decks. When you get a reading on some readings you will also see an option to choose your deck! I hope you will have fun with it!
October Forecasts are available now!!! They will be delivered on or before Monday, October 5th and will include all four weeks in October taking you through Halloween.
I hope everyone has an amazingly magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Full Moon Blessings
“Release your fears and prepare to fly,
blessings you will receive under tonight's sky,
for the Full Moon will shine down on you,
infusing you with courage for all that you must do.
Give thanks tonight on this the Harvest Moon,
for all the gifts received and dreams coming true soon
Remember you have the power to make the changes in your life,
it is in your hands to walk a path free of strife.
So gather the courage coming your way
and make sure you take at least one step each day
toward the dreams that you wish to come true
and the freedom to fly will come to you.
― Jasmeine Moonsong
Full Moon Blessings!! Welcome to your September Full Moon! Our Moon tonight is known as the Full Corn Moon as this is the time of year that typically corn is being harvested. I know in the area I live in, most of the corn is in and the corn stalks are now being put on the farm stands for people to use to decorate for Halloween. It's also called the Harvest Moon.
Our Moon this month is also known as the Harvest Moon. The Harvest Moon doesn't always happen in the same month. The name is given to the Moon that is the closest to the Autumn Equinox. This month we just celebrated our Autumn Equinox and Mabon on the 22nd so that's quite close. However if the Full Moon was on the first of the month and the October Full Moon was on the first of October, the October Full Moon would then get the Harvest Moon name. As always, the name of the Moon can depend on your tradition as well. :) I also know it as the Harvest Moon as it is closest to Mabon the second harvest and middle harvest with the final harvest being Samhain on October 31st.
The leaves are just starting to turn here in New England. The beautiful colors of red, yellow and orange are starting to pop up all around us and the weather is getting a bit chillier. I am very excited that we have our first pretty big Apple harvest this year. We have had an apple tree for years now and it's finally big enough that it's making apples. We got a huge five gallon bucket of apples this year! We are really excited. Earl is going to can some of them with apple cider this weekend.
Our Moon tonight is Aries and I love the energy that it's bringing our way. It's bringing energy that is going to help you with courage and confidence and energy that you should find empowers you to make choices that are in your best interest and help you to walk a path in your life that is best suited for you. The strong energy of the Ram is going to help you to stand your ground and to really move towards what you know that you want and you need in your life. This Moon is going to shine a big spotlight on you and ask you to remember to be true to yourself and to be sure that you aren't sacrificing yourself for others. It's amazing to do nice things for others but you have to be careful to not give so much of yourself away that you lose who you are and you need to be careful of people who will take advantage of you if you are known to be a giving person who takes care of others. I find that sometimes people can be so eager to please others that they will abandon who they are and what they want... always be careful of that. You can get really lost if you aren't careful.
This is a chance to reunite with yourself and to really shine a light on who you are right now in your life and to look at what you need. In taking care of yourself you will find that you are able to better take care of yourself and others for those of you who may be worried about it. :) You may find that things that have been hidden from you will be revealed with this Full Moon. This can be especially true if you are taking extra good care of yourself. You may also find that this Moon helps you to connect more to your emotions and bring more awareness to what you are thinking and feeling right now in your life.
The September Full Moon Reading is available for you on the shop! I have designed a special reading themed with the energy of this Full Moon and if you want, you have the option to combine it with the traditional Full Moon Reading. I also have
Have an incredibly magickal day and a Blessed Full Moon!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Monday, September 21, 2026
Mabon Blessings & Blessings of the Autumn Equinox!
The return of the crisp morning air, soft blankets and sweaters, pumpkin and chai teas, colorful leaves everywhere, pumpkins and other Autumn goodies as we celebrate Mabon and the Autumn Equinox! Mabon Blessings! Today is important for two reasons. Today the Wheel of the Year turns and we celebrate Mabon. Mabon is our Witch's Thanksgiving and the second of three harvests with the third concluding with Samhain next month. It's the perfect time to give thanks for the many blessings that are surrounding us in our lives. Today is also the Autumn Equinox, a day where our night and day are balanced in light. We have some really wonderful energy to work with today.
As we celebrate our Autumn Equinox we have a bit of a pause in the middle of some pretty intense energy of change and transition. Today we will experience and equal amount of light and darkness in our day. Our daylight hours are balanced with our nighttime hours. It's really a magickal time to pause and reflect upon the journey that you have been taking in your life. What's clear to you right now? Is anything hiding in the shadows? Do you need to bring more balance to anything in your life? These are all questions that it would be good to spend a bit of time reflecting upon today.
Moving forward we will find that the Sun spends a bit less time with us as our beautiful Moon spends a bit of extra time with us. For some this is a bit daunting to deal with as I know so many of us enjoy the warmth and light that the sun brings us. Yet I want to remind you that in the darkness there are treasures to be found as well. For me one of the reasons that I get excited for the darkness this time of year is all the lights! From the lights on our Halloween display to all the holiday lights as we move towards Yule. They wouldn't be quite the same in the sunshine.
While today is a day of balance we are going to remain in a really strong time of transition and change that is going to increase as we are moving forward through the season of the Witch and towards Samhain. Be willing to let things go that aren't working for you in your life to make room for new things in our Witch's New Year.
Today focus on the blessings you have in your life and the things that you wish to give thanks for. Take time to appreciate the beauty that is in the world around you. Spend some extra time in the light outside. Work with the spells that I have given you on Daily Magick. Both will help you to really work with the energy around us today.
"The Wheel of the Year has turned again,
this time bringing us a cooling wind,
the sun and moon shine equally bright
illuminating our paths with their light.
Fear not the darkness that may come,
but embrace that which is unknown.
For when you walk a spiritual path,
the light for you will always last
Believe in yourself and the divine day by day,
and you will be blessed in every way."
I have several reading for you available at the shop that will help you to celebrate and work with the energy this time of year. The Mabon Tarot Journey really celebrates the energy of the harvest and our holiday today. You can pair it with the Autumn Equinox Reading for a special bonus or book that reading on it's own. Both readings are available for you with the special Season of the Witch Mabon Oracle or my main deck the Mystic Dreamer Tarot. You can choose at checkout. Witch Way Autumn takes a look at where you are today on your path and the things that you need to focus on for this season.I hope you enjoy them! They will all be retiring tomorrow so make sure you book them today if you would like one! I also have the special Season of the Witch reading because today we begin the Season of the Witch!
Have a Blessed Mabon and Autumn Equinox and a magickal day
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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