The eight moon phases

A phase is simply the angle between the Moon and the Sun, and the whole month is one argument between what you intend and what you feel. These are the same eight phases the site reads off the live sky.

• 🌑 New Moon0–2% litthe first two to three days of the cycle — beginning, intention, dark, seed.
• 🌒 Waxing Crescentroughly 3–35% litdays three to seven — momentum, belief, first steps, fragile.
• 🌓 First Quarterabout 50% lit, growingdays seven to ten — friction, decision, commitment, crisis of action.
• 🌔 Waxing Gibbousroughly 65–98% litdays ten to fourteen — refining, editing, nearly, impatience.
• 🌕 Full Moon98–100% litthe two or three days around exact opposition — culmination, clarity, release, visibility.
• 🌖 Waning Gibbousroughly 65–98% lit, shrinkingdays seventeen to twenty-one — gratitude, distribution, meaning, telling.
• 🌗 Last Quarterabout 50% lit, shrinkingdays twenty-one to twenty-four — revision, letting go, conscience, crisis of meaning.
• 🌘 Waning Crescentroughly 2–35% litthe last three days, often called the balsamic or dark Moon — surrender, rest, dreams, emptying.