Waning Last Quarter Moon: A Time for Surrender, Truth, and Letting Go

Waning Last Quarter Moon: A Time for Surrender, Truth, and Letting Go

The last quarter moon arrives around seven days after the full moon and lasts for about four days. From here, you’re roughly a week away from the new moon, and you can often feel that shift begin. The bright clarity of the full moon is long gone, and now the lunar cycle enters a more introspective, refining phase.

As the moon wanes and gets smaller, her energy is encouraging and supporting you to surrender and let go – just as she is doing. This part of the cycle always carries a quiet honesty.

The moon shows, in perfect simplicity, that the only way to make room for new beginnings is by letting go of all that holds you back. What you’ve outgrown becomes harder to ignore. What feels heavy becomes more obvious. And the invitation to release becomes impossible to resist.

Your energy will begin to get quieter and more inwardly directed, your intuition stronger and your tolerance for dealing with anything that is not right for you will become much less as you make your way, once again, to the dark-moon phase.

It’s a time for truth-telling with yourself, for clearing space, for choosing what moves forward with you and what you’re finally ready to leave behind.

Under the waning last quarter moon:
• Make a last effort to finish things off, wrap things up and do what you have been putting off.
• Take inspiration from the moon and do daily work around letting go.
• Take responsibility, face up to things and make decisions for your future.

This phase isn’t loud or dramatic. It’s steady, necessary, deeply grounding work. It gently guides you to meet yourself honestly so you can enter the new-moon energy feeling clearer, lighter, and aligned.

Crystals for the waning last quarter moon

• Moss Agate – a powerful crystal that encourages feelings of peace, tranquillity and emotional balance, helping you let go of feelings of stress, fear or worry.
• Labradorite – a crystal of transformation, labradorite shines light into hidden truths, bringing what needs to be seen, understood and transformed to the surface. It will help you to know your own inner magic, connect to higher awareness and guidance, and trust your intuition.