In November, death and dying are omnipresent.
Life appears to be withdrawing.
Daylight is shorter, and the light from the Sun is cooler. The leaves have fallen from the trees. At this time, the idea of rebirth in the Spring seems very far away. The times of the Waning and Dark Moon are most commonly used for banishing energies. In this ritual we turn our will to the purposeful withdrawing of our energies from those things which are harmful to us.