What it is:
Drawing energy from the night (Darkness, Moon phases, stars ect.)
What it’s not:
Doing witchcraft at night/in the dark
Intro:
Being a Nocturnal witch means that you practice your craft using the nights energies. A lot of this type of craft focuses on drawing out the energies of the night for then or later use. For a few examples… you can make Moon water and save it to make tea later in the morning. You can use the energies of the night through sigils to charge you. The stars shine bright and look pretty, use their energy for glamours.
Opening the connection between you and the night
- Make a calming tea: Peppermint or green tea (here’s a link to my own peppermint and orange peel tea recipe)
- Light incense
- Drink Moon water
- Draw sigils on your hands or wrists before starting anything
- Light candles (have their colours correspond with a moon phase or correspond with the night)
- Do a tarot spread (Moon phase tarot spreads )
- Do candle divination in the dark
Colours that correspond with the night
- Blue (dark shades)
- Purple (dark shades)
- Grey
- Red (dark shades)
- Silver
- Black
Incense that corresponds with the night
- Jasmine
- Patachouli
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Rose
- Musk
- Amber
- Frankincense
- Copal
- Pine/forest
Anything musky really.
Crystals that correspond with the night
- Onyx
- Black tourmaline
- Amber
- Smoky quartz
- Hematite
- Dark coloured Agates
- Azurite
- Bloodstone
- Garnet
- Labradorite
- Malachite
- Aegirine
- Apatite (Blue)
- Nuumite
Herbs that correspond with the night
- Evening primrose
- Casablanca lily
- Dutchman’s pipe cactus
- Night bloom water lillies
- Nottingham catchfly
- Mugwort
- Moon flowers
- Four o’clocks
- BlackBerry
- Night gladiolus
- Dragon fruit flowers
- Ginger
- Hazel
- Bay
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Lilac
- Thyme
Here’s a link to a post with a few of these herbs listed that goes into detail about them
Deities of the night
Hypnos: God of sleep
- calms you into a deep sleep
Erebus: God of darkness
- Helps you discover what’s hidden
Nyx: Godess of the night
-Promotes mischief
-Protects children/innocence
Morpheus: God of dreams
- Guides you in your dreams
Phobetor: God of nightmares
-Appears in dreams as an animal or monster
- Will also appear as a living animal to communicate with mortals
Phantasos: God of surreal (weird) dreams
- Gives you weird dreams that are hard to interpret, but are very prophetic
Ideas for where to use nocturnal witchcraft
- Divination: Make tarot spreads that correspond with moon phases
-Dream magick: As you close up other stuff for the night, practice some dream magick by making sachets for your pillows for example
- Use Moon water in tea, cooking or in spells
- Make sigils related to the night, as you sleep they will absorb the darkness and the current moon phase and then when it’s day, the signs intent will be released until sundown.
-Cosmic witchcraft: the night is perfect for astrology ! Why not take some of the energies from specific stars or planets?
