New Moon

The New Moon begins the lunar month: the Moon has just passed the Sun and returns as the first thin sliver at dusk. It is the time of seeds, intentions, and fresh starts, when something is planted that the coming two weeks will grow.

Uses

• Setting intentions
• New beginnings
• Planting seeds, literal and figurative
• Initiative

When

From the exact new moon to about a day and a half after, when the first crescent can be seen low in the west after sunset.

Tide

Turning

Goddess aspect

Maiden (in the Triple Goddess of modern practice)

Sun–Moon angle

0° to 18°

Working with it

On the night of the New Moon, write your intentions for the month on paper, as if they have already come true. Keep the page somewhere you'll see it and reread it at the Full Moon.