Moon journal

Eight phases, eight ways to write.

The Moon takes about twenty-nine and a half days to close its cycle, and each phase has its own colour: you don't set an intention the way you take stock. This path offers, for each of the eight phases, a few chosen writing prompts and a small gesture to close the page. Open the one you're in, take your notebook, and let the sky set the tempo.

  1. New Moon The darkest night of the month is also the most welcoming for a blank page.
  2. Waxing Crescent A thread of light returns in the west: what you sowed now asks for a first move.
  3. First Quarter Half a moon, dead center in the evening sky: the moment things grind, and things get decided.
  4. Waxing Gibbous Almost full, not quite: the Moon teaches you the art of the final adjustments.
  5. Full Moon Everything is lit, even what you had no intention of looking at.
  6. Waning Gibbous The light starts to ebb: the moment to pass on what the full moon showed you.
  7. Last Quarter The half-shadow has switched sides: what needs to be set down is waiting for you to name it.
  8. Waning Crescent A last thread of moon at dawn, and the quiet before the next seed.

To understand the cycle itself: the moon calendar guide.