Waxing 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.
Waxing Crescent
First light after the dark: the phase of small brave steps, early commitments and tending fresh beginnings.
About this tool
The waxing crescent is the first sliver of light after the new moon — a thin arc hanging low in the western sky just after sunset, growing a little thicker each evening through days one to six of the lunar cycle.
Tradition reads this phase as first light after the dark: small brave steps, early commitments and tending whatever was seeded at the new moon. It is the moon of beginnings that already have a shape but not yet a spotlight.
To check whether a given evening carries a waxing crescent, open the calculator behind this page: it computes the exact phase, illumination percentage and lunar age for any date, past or future, 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.