Waning Crescent

During the Waning half-moon crescent, which is right-facing, the Sun and the Full moon are again square each other at 90-degree angles. Beginning at the Full Moon the moon rises an hour later every night: by half-waning she sets at noon and is visible every morning. The waning crescent symbolizes contraction, inwardness, receptivity, cutting back, and ending the energy begun at the New Moon. It is also a good time for completing, tidying up, or eliminating anything that is no longer necessary. Now we can mentally clean house.

It is also a time to share the accomplishments of the preceding Waxing Moon, reap what you sow, weed and prune what you don't need, and clear the way for new energy. This is Goddess as The Crone and the Cutter, She who ends energy with one flash of her scissors or knife. The Goddess Hecate guides us into her cave to rebirth again.