Glossary

When the Moon is Balsamic, it's best to finish up old projects, tie up loose ends, listen to our intuition, review, reflect, meditate, and contemplate. We might consider envisioning what we want or hope for our future during this phase. While it's a good time for endings, it's not a time for new beginnings.

The Disseminating Moon phase begins at 225 degrees after the Sun (or 135 degrees behind the Sun). This is a time for sharing or disseminating what we've learned. We are more objective at this time. Appropriate activities during this phase are teaching, demonstrating, and sharing our knowledge. In business, spreading the word, promotion, and publicity are appropriate now.

The First Quarter Moon phase occurs when the Moon is 90 degrees after the Sun.

This is a time of action. We become aware of differences, and this can be a time of stress, clashing, and discord, but also of great energy, motivation, and growth. We may be feeling especially ambitious and competitive. Things are beginning to take off or to turn a corner. This is a time when we want to get something going, but we may not know the next step or the exact direction we want it/us to take. Most suitable activities now include taking action, pushing forward, making offers, researching more options, meeting new people, and gathering new/additional supplies you may need to further a project. Watch for overconfidence or overshooting the mark. Use the stress generated now to make changes.

The Full Moon phase begins when the Moon is at 180 degrees after the Sun.

This is an "eyes wide open" phase when we're made aware of something that has been previously hidden or not fully acknowledged. Something can come to fruition, culmination, or a turning point. Something finishes or ends now. Emotions are strong. Deadlines occur, imbalances are illuminated, and compromises need to be made. Epiphanies occur, feelings blossom. This is a strong time for expressing feelings, putting on a show, making an announcement, publishing, promoting, publicizing, uniting, making agreements, and finding missing links/objects/information/people.

The Last Quarter Moon or Third Quarter Moon phase occurs when the Moon is 270 degrees after the Sun.

This is a time of action, but it's about reviewing, receiving, paying, planning, closing, sorting, storing, and reaping. Most suitable activities now include paying debts, asking for money owed to us, giving rewards, receiving rewards, making evaluations, taking inventory, tying up loose ends, dealing with people and matters from the past, contacting people from the past, dealing with endings, acting with wisdom and maturity, and letting go if necessary. This is an accountable time when following the rules is most appropriate.

  A waning Moon occurs from after the Full Moon until the next New Moon, when the Moon is decreasing in light. Plans have culminated and we begin to let go, draw back, and process. It's more appropriate now to let things go than to start anew, with some exceptions.