Everyone pays attention to the full moon. She gets the rituals, the Instagram posts, the breathless captions. And then she starts to shrink, and everyone moves on. The waning gibbous moon is the phase directly after the full moon. Still bright. Still commanding. Still more than half lit. And almost nobody gives her the time…

Everyone loves the full moon. Everyone has opinions about the new moon. And the waxing gibbous? It gets a polite nod on the way past, like a middle child at a family dinner. That’s a real shame, because this phase is where most people’s spiritual practice quietly falls apart. I’ve been tracking lunar cycles for…

Everyone obsesses over the full moon. Social media lights up with full moon rituals, full moon manifestation posts, full moon this, full moon that. Meanwhile, the waning crescent moon quietly slips through the pre-dawn sky and almost nobody pays attention. That’s a mistake. After twenty years of tracking lunar cycles in my own life and…