Waxing Gibbous Meaning and magickal uses

The swelling moon before full, for patience, refining plans and steady growth.

• Intentions: Prosperity, Healing, Creativity
• Planet: The Moon
• Timing: About days 8-13 after the new moon

How to use it

• Refine your work. Review a project you started this cycle and make small improvements rather than starting over. Edit, tidy and adjust, trusting the momentum you already have.
• Build up energy. Each night until the full moon, spend five minutes picturing your goal as already growing. Add a pinch of a matching herb to a small jar on your altar each time.

Works well with: The Moon, Green Candle, Blue Candle, Green Aventurine, Bay Laurel

Folklore

Gibbous comes from an old word meaning humped or swollen, and it describes the Moon when more than half of it is lit but it is not yet round. In the days before the full moon it grows a little each night, rising later in the afternoon. Witches traditionally use this phase to keep building on what they started: refining, adjusting and patiently nurturing growth. It is the stage where effort quietly piles up, much like fruit swelling on the branch before harvest.