Full Twin Moon: Wild Witchcraft beneath Gemini’s Glow

I. When the Moon Rises in the House of Winds

When this moon swells in Gemini, the air grows strange and brilliant.

The mind sharpens.

Thoughts turn quick as sparrows.

Truth glimmers at the edges of your sight and waits for courage.

This moon carries a double-light.

It gleams on the waking path and on the dream-road at once.

The wise called this phase the Moon of Messages, for the wind grows hungry to speak, and those with witch-sense hear the braided threads beneath ordinary sound.

The wind minds stir.

The cunning ones listen.

II. The Unbound Energies of this Moon

1. The Splitting of Thought

Gemini divides the mind into two clear streams.

One stream carries the story you tell the world.

The other carries the story you whisper only inward.

Under this moon, the two move together until revelation rises.

2. The Shadow Twin Emerges

The old folk spoke of the other self—the one who sees without flinching.

This moon calls that self forth.

What rises is truth.

What answers is instinct.

What stands revealed is the path you already walk.

3. The Messenger Current

Mercurial air carries symbols, pattern, and meaning.

Insights fly fast through the mind.

Dreams open doorways.

The witch’s breath becomes an instrument of perception.

This moon belongs to those who watch, listen, and follow signs.

III. How the Old Witches Worked with this Moon

The feral wise women and the hedge-walkers shaped themselves to lunar winds.

They crafted their workings through alignment rather than force.

They slipped into quiet, opened their senses, and let the unseen speak.

Practices preserved in lore:

• Smoke reading by firelight

• Soft-water scrying under moonbeam

• Quiet breathwork to thin the veil

• Mugwort-dream wanderings

• Witch-lines traced in ash or chalk

• Herb bundles burned for clarity

• Listening to wind-carrying whispers in the rafters or the hedges

These practices shaped the witch, not the world.

The moon shaped the rest.

IV. Herbs that Answer the Wind-Moon

The wild moon of Gemini calls for herbs that sharpen sight, open inner roads, and hold the mind steady as meaning moves fast.

1. Mugwort

A moon herb, a dream herb, a sight herb.

Carried for liminal clarity.

2. Rosemary

A purifier of thought.

Burned to awaken memory and reveal patterns.

3. Lavender

Softens mental turbulence and prepares the mind for insight.

4. Yarrow

A boundary herb for diviners.

Carried when truth is required.

5. Elderflower

A twilight bloom tied to spirit-lore in the Gaelic lands.

Steeps the senses in subtle seeing.

These herbs accompany the witch into deeper perception.

V. Feral Craft: Moon-Work 

1. Smoke Watching

Smoke carries the voice of the wind.

The witch lets it move unbidden.

The mind reads the eddies.

2. Water Gazing

A bowl of water under the moon’s white gaze becomes the mirror of the inner field.

Images arise within, shaped by instinct and ancestral memory.

3. The Breath-Path

Slow breath.

Long thought.

The witch quiets the tongue within and listens to the wind passing through her bones.

4. Witch-Lines

Ash or chalk lines on the floor arrange the witch’s attention.

Straight lines for clarity.

Crossroads for decisions.

Spirals for descent into perception.

These marks remind the witch where her focus travels.

VI. Old Charms and Moon

The Wind’s Answering Rhyme

“Wind of the fourfold ways,

Turn my thoughts and lift the haze.

Moon on the mind, steady and bright,

Carry the meaning into my sight.”

A charm whispered for insight.

The Dream-Opening Utterance

“Mugwort herb with silver thread,

Guide my dreaming, lift the dread.

Gemini moon on feathered wing,

Show me the truth the spirits bring.”

A charm used for deep reflection and symbolic dreaming.

The Yarrow Truth-Calling Verse

“Yarrow white and yarrow gold,

Speak the tale that must be told.”

This supported clear thought before divination.

VII. How the Wild Witch Uses this Moon

• Sit in stillness and let the mind widen

• Burn herbs for clarity of perception

• Scry, dream, journal, or breathe until the message rises

• Let the shadow twin show its teaching

• Follow instinct as wind-carried thought

• Trust symbols, not chatter

• Let the moon sharpen the inner blade

The Gemini Moon reveals.

The witch receives.

What rises is already yours.

VIII. Sources Preserved for the Scholar-Witch

1. Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits

2. Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie

3. Lizanne Henderson and Edward Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief

4. Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth

5. Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Celtic Gods and Heroes

6. Patricia Lysaght, The Banshee

7. A. W. Moore, Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man

8. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica