The Compendium

What the craft is made of

Stones, herbs, colours and hours — what practitioners have taken them to mean, and how widely that reading is shared.

All 115 Crystals & stones 41 Herbs 40 Candles & colours 10 Materials 8 Sabbats & moon phases 16

16 entries

Beltane Sabbat Fire on the hill and cattle walked between it — the old summer door, opened with smoke. Appears in 0 workings First Quarter Moon phase Half lit, and named for a quarter of the cycle rather than a quarter of the disc. Appears in 0 workings Full Moon Moon phase Opposite the sun and fully lit — the one phase everybody can find without being told how. Appears in 2 workings Imbolc Sabbat Nothing is growing yet. Something is stirring, and that is a different thing entirely. Appears in 0 workings Last Quarter Moon phase Half lit again and going the other way — the phase for putting things down. Appears in 0 workings Litha Sabbat The sun at its highest and already turning — very old fires under a very new label. Appears in 0 workings Lughnasadh Sabbat First loaf, first sheaf — the harvest opens, and none of the work is finished. Appears in 0 workings Mabon Sabbat The second harvest, and the youngest name on the Wheel — about fifty years old, and straightforward about it. Appears in 0 workings New Moon Moon phase The moon between us and the sun, and invisible for it — the cycle at zero. Appears in 1 working Ostara Sabbat Day and night nearly level — a young festival wearing an old, borrowed, half-attested name. Appears in 0 workings Samhain Sabbat The year's hinge — harvest in, dark owed its turn, and the dead close enough to set a place for. Appears in 0 workings Waning Crescent Moon phase A last pared sliver before dawn — the part of the cycle allowed to do nothing at all. Appears in 0 workings Waning Gibbous Moon phase Still more than half, and shrinking — the turn from getting to giving away. Appears in 1 working Waxing Crescent Moon phase A thin bright rind low in the west after sunset — the first evidence that something has started. Appears in 0 workings Waxing Gibbous Moon phase More than half and swelling — the least romantic phase, and the one where the work actually gets finished. Appears in 0 workings Yule Sabbat The longest night, kept awake through — not because the sun needs help, but because company does. Appears in 0 workings