Waning Crescent 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.
Waning Crescent
The quiet before the new: rest, reflect and let the cycle finish itself without forcing anything new to start.
About this tool
The waning crescent is the last thin arc of the cycle — visible low in the eastern sky just before dawn, thinning through days twenty-six to twenty-nine until the new moon resets the count to zero.
Its traditional mood is the quiet before the new: rest, reflect and let the month finish itself without forcing a fresh start. The old almanacs kept this phase for winding down, tying off and sleeping well.
To see whether a date falls on the waning crescent — or any other phase — open the calculator behind this page: it computes the exact phase, illumination percentage and lunar age for any date, entirely in your browser.
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.