Styles sometimes change drastically from year to year, so you can’t always count on borrowing a dress from a friend or relative for that special party, homecoming, or the prom. Tuxes are so expensive that most guys decide to rent them rather than pay an astronomical price for one night of dinner and dancing. Just as there is a “run” on dresses right before the big evening, so, too, tuxes get picked over rather quickly. Graduation can also be a pain. Some schools require that you wear a specific color of outfit under your graduation gown, and finding that color isn’t always easy. Between the shoes, jewelry, clothing, limo rental (should you decide to go that way), hair appointments, and the realization that you are leaving childhood behind (in the case of graduation), the stress level is high prior to these three events. To ease part of the strain, think timing. Normally, you’ll experience shopping success if you buy (or make rental arrangements) for clothing and accessories during the following two moon quarters:
• First quarter to day before second quarter: Value for your money.
• Day after second quarter to day before fourth quarter: Best sales.
I say “normally” because astrology is fluid and doesn’t depend on a single planet when it comes to timing. If you are really into astrology, good aspects to Venus, the sun, and Jupiter are also great for shopping, but guard against overspending. Use the Moon School and Shopping Table below to help you match the flavor of the moon to the type of school, educational, or personal beauty aid purchase that you’d like to make. Even if you can’t buy during those days, you can work magick to obtain the things you desire.
Moon School and Shopping Table
moon in aries
Buy or focus on: Sports clothing and supplies; products new on the market; gifts for coaches or players on your team; hats; temporary hair dye; supplies and tools for industrial arts class; metal shop, wood shop, a mechanics course, American history, or any class that deals with the history of war; camping supplies. Watch impulse buying.
moon in taurus
Buy or focus on: Designer label clothing; cosmetics; permanent hair dye; supplies for 4-H and FFA, horticultural class, and earth science; bed linens (home or dorm); beds; sleeping bags; potted plants for gifts; chocolates for your girlfriend; expensive jewelry; things you want to last a long time because what you buy, you’re stuck with.
moon in gemini
Buy or focus on: Books for courses (college and high school required reading); magazines; all writing materials (pens, notebooks, pencils, paper); computer supplies (paper, toner, software, disks); gift cards and personal stationary; stamps; telephones and telephone service; answering machines; cell phones; beepers; radios; two-ways; calculators; dictionaries; encyclopedias; fun gadgets and small toys; definitely supplies for English literature or creative writing classes; the debate team, class yearbook, and school newspaper; finding a tutor or signing up to be a tutor for others.
moon in cancer
Buy or focus on: Researching family and local history; general history classes; supplies for cooking class; buying classmates, friends, and family gifts or cards; food shopping; things for your personal space at home; lock for your locker or dorm room; wrapping paper and ribbon; supplies for marine biology; joining a swim team; volunteering at the concession stand for home games; sewing your own clothes and sewing supplies; choosing the school mascot.
moon in leo
Buy or focus on: Anything with flash and dash; child-care courses; offering babysitting services; tickets for the movies, concerts, rodeos, theme park, or other forms of entertainment; things associated with your favorite hobbies, or a new hobby; choosing pleasurable electives; reading about leadership; buying gold jewelry or items made of silk; making flags; renting a limo for the prom; pet supplies.
moon in virgo
Buy or focus on: Buying personal care items, medicines, and vitamins; exercise equipment; joining a gym; self-defense, karate, or first-aid class; working out a budget and any type of organizational supply (date books, journals, diaries, report covers, page protectors, index cards and boxes, etc.); supplies for any sort of math class or health class; books and materials for research projects; volunteering for community service, including sponsored organizations such as the Red Cross, inner city projects, etc.; work on school planning committees including the prom and graduation committees and dinner reservations for any of those functions; asking for help with homework; writing an agenda for a meeting; buying supplies to repair things.
moon in libra
Buy or focus on: Clothing for parties, proms, graduation, and dates; perfume; tapes and CDs; ordering corsages and boutonnieres; food for parties; having your nails done; buying party supplies, including those purchased to help decorate for homecoming, the prom, general school dances, and other school social activities; arrange a sleep-over; speech class; debate team. Buy stickers, decorative items for notebooks and lockers, incense, school spirit items, presents for your girlfriend or boyfriend, supplies for art or music class, romance novels. Have your hair done.
moon in scorpio
Buy or focus on: Occult supplies; photographic equipment; taking pictures for any report or course; video cameras and tape or film; darkroom supplies; making a movie for any subject; classes involving self-defense, military, or police training; ROTC functions; sex education; archeology; collecting news clippings for class; studying the stock market; information for psychology and sociology; studying economics; throwing a Halloween party and choosing Halloween decorations; studying social issues; buying undergarments; working on your bug collection for science class. Buying crime and mystery novels, or books on the occult.
moon in sagittarius
Buy or focus on: Gag gifts and humorous books or movies; ordering imported items; translating your spells into a foreign language; any supplies or reports related to foreign language studies, the law, geography, social studies, politics, or comparative religion; visiting second-hand shops; planning a trip; buying and studying maps; bartering with friends; choosing classes; buying souvenirs; preparing for field trips and trips abroad and the supplies you will need while there; doing research at the library; writing or learning the school pledge.
moon in capricorn
Buy or focus on: Gifts for your grandparents; thinking about your goals in life; gathering information about various colleges and your major; supplies and studies for astronomy; buying calendars and watches; buying school uniforms or items with a school or club insignia; skin lotions or oils; working on speeches for public speaking class or issues involving the student council. Note: Capricorn is not the best shopping moon.
moon in aquarius
Buy or focus on: Buying computers, zany stuff, supplies for clubs or group efforts, and anything electrical. Setting trends at your school; working for political changes in your school system; booking an airline flight; studying astrology; becoming an advocate; joining the band or school chorus; joining a sorority or fraternity; studying social models.
moon in pisces
Buy or focus on: Buying or renting movies; dream books; shoes; nylons; swimwear; art supplies that require thinning with liquid such as watercolors, acrylics, and oils; designing report covers; working creatively; enhancing psychic abilities; buying clothing, accessories, and masks for costume parties; studying chemistry and buying supplies for chemistry class; collecting charitable contributions.