The planner exposes depth and complexity in magical timing and then attempts to identify the best magical opportunities for each day.
See, the planner is like a master distiller’s recipe. The ingredients include:
Hygromanteia Lunar Days (this is like the elite version of basic lunar magic)
Astrological aspects and transits, including decans, particularly focused on the Sun and Moon
A selection of magically operant Christian and Pagan holidays and Saints Days
Talisman quality lunar mansions elections (thanks to Nate!)
Other points of timing that I’m testing out or that I’m lead to in my work, but that are sub rosa at this time
Distillation is where the art comes in. What I do is analyze each day, looking for alignments and connections within and between these various ingredients, using my decades of practical magical practice (so many decades, OMG!) to suggest workings that are auspicious or ill-advised for a particular magical day. It’s a kind of alchemy. Anyone can find or buy the ingredients. Anyone with the patience can create the magician’s pantry where they are stored (for me, this is a giant spreadsheet that I’ve been collating for years now — and which is testing the bounds of Excel’s capacity at this point). It’s the analysis and intuitive discernment that turns all the disparate parts into a cohesive suggestion for that day.
A day “for destruction” (and there’s one every lunar month) might immediately suggest malefic magic. But on a Friday, with the Moon in Taurus, Venus in fiery Leo, and a lunar mansion election for friendship? I suggest mitigating against destruction by buttressing your friendships and connections. That’s the work for Friday the 16th. Next month the work for that day might suggest something very different.
Of course, you might distill these same ingredients into something very different, a recipe of your own, based on your own skills and intuition — and that’s exactly correct. The planner is, above all, a teaching tool. Because when you work enough magically timed magic, you’ll find your ability to alchemize your own perfect magic is strengthened and becomes intuitive. You FEEL the right magic.
The other cool part of the planner are for, you know, actually planning so you can get all that magic done. Goals and tasks, scheduling, habit formation, record keeping. Apparently less magical (and I’d argue that) but not less important.
I share this background because I think it’s important to understand what the advice you are getting is backed up with. I can come here week after week and share a great day for this or that, but I think some of the vital context is missing.
My Inner Circle Members (love you!) — who get the full planner each month — see more of the context, but naturally not all of it. Over the past few months, I’ve been tweaking the planner to highlight more of the distillation and attempt to reduce data overload. That’s important because over time I just keep on expanding my pantry, a process that, for me goes like: learning, absorption / integration, personal work, adding to spreadsheet, including cautiously in analysis, adding to the planner.
I hope this is useful (and that you take advantage of that election on the 16th)!