Best Days of the Month for Magical Workings - Old Time Grimoire Magic for Successful Witchcraft

 

There is always a fascination among witchcraft practitioners with the art of timing -- the belief that performing a spell at a particular hour or day will give the spell an edge, such as the Planetary Hours and their derivative the Voodoo Hours used to decide when a magical working will be performed.

Naturally, there are also beliefs about the best days to perform spells. This listing comes from a Renaissance era grimoire, but which contains spells that date back to Greco-Roman era. (The book is for sale with the translation The Book of Oberon, though you can read the direct transcription for free via Esoteric Archives.) This is using standard calendar dates, so 1 is the 1st of the month, 31 is the 31st of the month, etc.

1. Good to begin all manner of things
2. For hate and enchantment against enemies
3. "Right naught" -- don't plan for magical work on this day
4. To enchant and conjure wicked spirits
5. For invisibility, and enchant against enemies
6. For works that regard theft and for knowledge of hidden goods
7. Don't use this day
8. For love of virgins (unmarried targets)
9. Don't use
10. Don't use
11. In the afternoon, to enchant.
12. For works of theft
13. For works of love
14. To go invisible
15. Don't use
16. For discord and strife 
17. For gaining love of women 
18. For theft
19. For hate
20. Don't use
21. To go invisible
22. For love
23. For discord
24. Don't use
25. For enchantments
26. For love
27. For love
28. "Naught for love" -- anti-love
29. Anti-love
30. Against enemies
31. "Idem cum principio. Deo semper et ubique gloria." Trans: This as the first. Glory to God eternal and everywhere.