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I have found a lot of information through research and from my own analsis of what has been written about moon paste, such as Nigel Jackson's "Celestial Magic" mentioning moon paste in passing in relation to the wiccan ritual of drawing down the moon, or how one needs water from seven wells, What if the water from 7 wells is a reference to 7 being a number held by many as a magical number (like the 7 days of the week) and the one making a trek or using the number 7 and times by 3 , is the 21 day cycle (even though we know the moon cycle, new moon to new moon is 29.5 days, but maybe since only the most wealthy would have known about the stars so maybe it was just accepted a very long time ago that the moon cycle was 21 days?

Why is this called a moon paste? The recipe has no truly moon related ingredients (moths, night blooming flowers, anything other than plants picked at a certain time. What makes it a "moon paste" other than its name?

I found the herbs mentioned in bits around my research, all together they would be found the herbs tumeric, vermilion, betel leaves (are type of nuts), haldi, pinza.

So you would need Water from 7 wells , Herbs gathered at each phase of the moon, Clay taken from a special place, I found the wording here interesting because it says A special place not the special place. Implying you could use a place with a lot of energy, like when drawing down the moon maybe that energy could create a special place as described? Following this the ritual to put everything together would need to be done on the full moon where you mix everything together basically, With incantations be sung widdershins (counter-clockwise, as deosil is clockwise) in the most elaborate of rituals, were the specifics of such rituals I can't find any information on this. You would then bake the whole thing in a fire and pounded into dust and thus you have moon paste. I can post from my research the "passage/quote" of what moon paste is meant to do if anyone wants to know. Does anyone have any information about moon paste?

Thank you

SpiritWitch8