The timing the old folks kept for love work: Fridays, the waxing moon, and the land-rooted calendar underneath the tradition.
Timing matters in this work, and the tradition kept a calendar long before apps did. It is a land calendar, carried by people who planted and harvested and knew that when you do a thing shapes how it grows. Here is the timing the old folks kept for love work.
Friday is the love day
The week has assignments in the tradition, and Friday belongs to love. Love lights get set on Fridays, love petitions get spoken on Fridays, and if you only remember one piece of timing from this post, that is the one. It is also, conveniently, the day the week softens anyway, which the old folks would tell you is not a coincidence.
The moon runs like a garden
Our timing follows the moon the way farmers follow it, because farmers is what our people were. The waxing moon, growing toward full, is planting time: drawing work, come-to-me work, anything you want to increase. The full moon is the height of power, suited to work that needs the whole engine. The waning moon, shrinking toward dark, is clearing time: release work, cutting away, letting the ending end. Set drawing work while the moon grows and it grows with it. This is land wisdom, not star charts, and the difference matters in this house.
Ready beats perfect
Now the counterweight, because the calendar can become a hiding place. A clear heart and a specific petition on a Tuesday beat a muddled one on the most auspicious Friday of the year. If waiting for the perfect date is really waiting because you are unsure, the timing is not your problem, and When to Do Love Work and When to Leave Him Alone is. Never light angry regardless of the date, per Never Work Love Angry.
The card does the counting
Every Pull Up ships with its ritual card carrying the days, the numbers, and the moon guidance for that specific work, so you are never squinting at a lunar app wondering if tonight counts. The color side of love timing lives in What Red Candles Mean in Hoodoo, and the full choosing map is What Candle to Burn For.
Plant when things grow. The timing teachings, moon by moon, go out on the email list at the bottom of this page.