Waning Crescent
The last light before dark. Rest is the whole instruction here; very little needs deciding in this phase.
What This Phase Suits
Rest, reflection, doing less on purpose
Where It Sits
The last sliver before the new moon, visible in the eastern sky shortly before sunrise. It shrinks nightly and rises closer to dawn each time until it is lost in the sun's glare.
Sometimes called the balsamic moon in astrological writing, and it is the least observed phase simply because of when it is up.
How It Is Read
Rest and completion. The traditional reading is of a cycle finishing and a deliberate pause before the next one - the phase associated with withdrawal, reflection and low output.
Of all the phase readings this is the one people find most immediately useful, largely because the idea that a period of rest belongs at the end of a cycle rather than being a failure of one is worth hearing regardless of where it comes from.