Last Quarter Moon: Meaning and Energy
See the moon phase for any date: a drawn moon disc, illumination percentage, lunar age and the traditional meaning of the phase.
Last Quarter
Half-lit and descending: the classic phase for release — closing tabs, forgiving debts, clearing space.
About this tool
At last quarter, roughly three weeks into the cycle, half the disc is lit again — the mirror image of first quarter. The moon now rises around midnight and lingers pale into the morning sky.
In moon lore this is the classic release phase: closing loops, forgiving debts, clearing space before the cycle ends. Where the first quarter pushed forward through obstacles, the last quarter deliberately lets go of them.
The calculator behind this page tells you exactly where any date sits in the lunar cycle: the phase name, the illumination percentage and the lunar age in days — computed in your browser, with no date leaving your device.
Example. The date 21 January 2000 returns a full moon, illumination 100 percent, and a lunar age of 14.7 days.
Limit. Age is a single synodic month of 29.530588853 days counted from the 6 January 2000 18:14 UTC new moon, not a full astronomical ephemeris.