Each of us move through seasons of becoming, times of new beginnings, expansion, fullness, release, and rest. The Progressed Moon in Astrology mirrors these cycles internally, tracing the rhythm of your emotional evolution and the natural flow of creation and renewal within your life.
Each Progressed Moon phase lasts roughly 3 to 3.5 years, together forming a 27–28 year emotional cycle that unfolds like the Moon’s visible dance in the sky.
While the sign and house of your Progressed Moon describe how and where you’re growing, the phase describes when – the stage of the cycle your soul is currently moving through.
What the Progressed Moon is (and why it matters)
The Progressed Moon is the Moon’s position in your Progressed Chart – a symbolic progression where one day after birth equals one year of life. It moves approximately one degree per month, completing a full circuit through the zodiac every 27–28 years.
The Moon’s changing phase in this chart reveals the rhythm of your inner unfolding: beginnings, growth, fulfillment, reflection, and closure.
Your Progressed Moon phase speaks to timing, the natural pace of emotional growth. It tells you whether you’re in a cycle of initiation or integration, of expansion or release.Understanding it helps you work with time rather than against it, finding grace in your current emotional season.
Understanding the Moon Phases
Just as the visible Moon waxes and wanes, your Progressed Moon shifts through eight phases, each marking a different relationship between your Progressed Moon and Progressed Sun.
Together, they tell the story of your personal becoming – from spark to culmination to renewal.
The Eight Phases:
🌑 New Moon: Beginnings, emergence, and instinct.
🌒 Crescent Moon (waxing crescent): Courage, trust, and momentum.
🌓 First Quarter: Action, building, and decision.
🌔 Gibbous Moon (waxing gibbous): Refinement, devotion, and preparation.
🌕 Full Moon: Illumination, expression, and culmination.
🌖 Disseminating Moon (waning gibbous): Sharing, teaching, and integration.
🌗 Last Quarter: Release, reorientation, and change.
🌘 Balsamic Moon (waning crescent): Rest, reflection, and surrender.
Each of these phases carries its own invitation – a rhythm within your greater cycle of emotional and spiritual evolution.
Progressed Moon Through the Moon Phases
Use the sections below to explore your current (or upcoming) Progressed Moon phase, and to align with the natural flow of your becoming. Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed New Moon Phase: A Season of Seeding and Emergence
Also known as: Dark Moon, Seed Phase, Initiatory Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed New Moon marks the beginning of a new 27–28 year cycle, a sacred rebirth of self, purpose, and emotional direction. It is both tender and potent, like the quiet moment before dawn. You’ve completed an old story and now stand at the threshold of another, holding seeds not yet visible but already alive within.
Overview:
This phase invites you into new beginnings that are often more energetic than external at first. You may feel inward, reflective, or uncertain, sensing something new stirring beneath the surface without clear form. The New Moon phase is instinctual; it whispers through curiosity, intuition, and inner callings rather than concrete plans. Life asks for trust here: to act on the feeling before you see the full picture. The emotional tone is one of becoming – raw, unpolished, and deeply alive.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed New Moon phase guides you to plant intentions, experiment, and reconnect with possibility. You’re learning to listen to the quiet voice of emergence rather than the loud expectations of certainty. Early in this phase, you might feel disoriented or even lost – a necessary clearing after the endings of the previous Balsamic phase. Gradually, vitality returns. You begin exploring new interests, relationships, and directions that will define the next three decades of your growth. The more you follow intuitive sparks, the more clearly your new identity begins to take shape.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow arises as impatience, confusion, or self-doubt. You may crave clarity before you act, but this phase teaches faith in the unseen. The opportunity lies in honoring process over outcome, remembering that beginnings are meant to be tender.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition here speaks softly, through impulses, dreams, or subtle excitement. It doesn’t shout; it hums. Follow what feels fresh, even if it makes no logical sense.
Practices & Reflections:
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Begin new creative or spiritual explorations without needing results.
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Keep a “seed journal”: write ideas, longings, and visions as they arise.
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Create a quiet ritual of initiation to mark your new cycle.
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Reflection: What feels new, even if it’s still unnamed? What am I ready to begin, however small?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Progressed New Moon is to trust in emergence. Though the light is dim and the path unclear, you are planting the future through every choice born of intuition. This is your time to dream life into being.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Crescent Moon Phase: A Season of Trust and Momentum
Also known as: Waxing Crescent, Emerging Phase, Growth Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Crescent Moon follows the dark stillness of the New Moon, a time when light begins to return, revealing early shapes of what was once only felt. This phase carries the energy of momentum, courage, and faith. The seeds planted earlier begin to root, but they require nurturing and perseverance. You’re beginning to act on the intuitive stirrings that were once whispers, even if the ground still feels unsteady beneath your feet.
Overview:
This cycle offers the opportunity to build confidence in your new direction. The Crescent phase is about trust – trusting the unknown, trusting your instincts, and trusting that your small steps matter. There is both excitement and vulnerability here, as you begin to reveal parts of your new identity to the world. Obstacles may arise, testing your devotion to the path you’ve chosen. Intuition flows through desire and pull – that subtle yet undeniable draw toward what feels like yes.
Growth & Maturation:
Across its 2–3 years, the Progressed Crescent Moon invites growth through persistence and faith. You’re learning to move through uncertainty with hope rather than fear. Early in this phase, self-doubt may whisper – yet each time you choose to act anyway, your new identity strengthens. This is a time of setting foundations, building supportive habits, and aligning your environment with your emerging life direction. The maturation here lies in courage – in claiming your right to grow, even when you cannot yet see the outcome.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow may arise as hesitation, fear of visibility, or clinging to the past. When old comfort calls louder than new curiosity, growth stalls. The invitation is to keep going, even slowly, and remember that trust is a muscle built through movement.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition here speaks through repetition and resonance – patterns, ideas, or opportunities that keep reappearing. Notice what keeps calling your attention; life is showing you where your energy wants to go.
Practices & Reflections:
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Revisit your intentions from the New Moon phase; choose one to act on.
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Practice consistency in small ways that support your new path.
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Surround yourself with encouragement and inspiration.
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Reflection: Where am I being asked to trust more deeply? What am I ready to build, step by step?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Crescent phase is faith in motion – to move even when you can’t yet see the full path. Each act of trust plants another root into the life you’re creating.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed First Quarter Moon Phase: A Season of Action and Becoming
Also known as: Action Phase, Crisis in Action, Building Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed First Quarter Moon marks a powerful turning point, the moment where intention meets action. After the dreaming and seeding of the earlier phases, this is where movement accelerates and choices shape direction. Life calls you to act with courage and clarity, even amid uncertainty. This phase carries the pulse of creation – assertive, dynamic, and alive with possibility.
Overview:
This passage offers the opportunity to build upon what has begun and to commit fully to your unfolding path. The First Quarter phase is a time of decision-making and visible progress. You’re asked to step out of hesitation and into movement, to bring form to inspiration through tangible effort. Challenges may surface now, not as punishment, but as initiations that strengthen your will and clarify what you truly want. Intuition flows through momentum; you’ll feel it as confidence, as the quiet knowing that it’s time to move forward.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed First Quarter Moon invites maturity through courage, accountability, and self-direction. Early on, you may feel pushed to act, to define yourself, or to make significant changes in career, relationships, or lifestyle. This is where you meet resistance, inner or outer, and learn to work with it. Growth comes from commitment: showing up, taking risks, building the next layer of your foundation. As the cycle matures, you emerge stronger, clearer, and more rooted in your individuality.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow can appear as impulsiveness, frustration, or overexertion. When urgency overrides awareness, burnout can follow. The invitation is to balance determination with rhythm, to move forward consciously, not reactively.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition speaks through energy and momentum. When something feels activating, motivating, or enlivening, it’s a green light. When heaviness or resistance lingers, pause – life may be redirecting your focus.
Practices & Reflections:
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Take consistent, practical steps toward your goals.
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Channel emotion into creative or physical movement.
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Reflect on what obstacles are teaching you about your strength.
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Journal: What am I ready to act on with courage? How can I move forward with both power and grace?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the First Quarter phase is to claim agency – to become the active participant in your unfolding story. Through each choice and action, you build the bridge between vision and reality.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Gibbous Moon Phase: A Season of Refinement and Devotion
Also known as: Waxing Gibbous, Refining Phase, Crisis of Consciousness
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Gibbous Moon is a time of shaping, perfecting, and preparing. After the bold movement of the First Quarter, this phase slows the pace, inviting refinement and devotion. It’s about polishing what’s been built – fine-tuning your craft, clarifying your message, and tending the details that transform effort into mastery. Emotionally, it’s a time of adjustment and discernment, asking: Is this still aligned with what I intended to create?
Overview:
This passage offers the opportunity to bring your vision into deeper coherence. The Gibbous phase is about preparation for visibility – a gestation before the illumination of the Full Moon. You may feel both eager and restless now, sensing that something within is almost ready to bloom. Intuition flows through the subtle push to edit, refine, or reimagine. It’s a sacred process of devotion — of showing up again and again, even when progress feels quiet.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed Gibbous Moon invites growth through patience, humility, and craft. Early on, you may question your path or feel critical of your progress, a natural part of this refining process. The deeper invitation is to find meaning in the work itself rather than the outcome. This phase teaches that growth often happens through attention, not acceleration. As it matures, you learn the art of precision and trust – that your care and consistency are laying the foundation for something truly luminous.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow can arise as over-analysis, perfectionism, or fatigue. When you focus on flaws rather than the essence of what’s being created, the joy of the process fades. The opportunity is to return to devotion – to remember that refinement is an act of love, not judgment.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition speaks through the details – the quiet urge to adjust, reorganize, or enhance something that no longer feels true. Guidance here is subtle, patient, and rhythmic.
Practices & Reflections:
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Revisit your goals and refine them with care.
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Engage in daily rituals that strengthen focus and steadiness.
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Create space for feedback or collaboration, new insights bring evolution.
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Journal: Where am I ready to deepen my craft? How can I approach refinement as reverence?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Gibbous phase is to fall in love with the process of becoming. Through devotion, discipline, and attention, you prepare the ground for illumination.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Full Moon Phase: A Season of Illumination and Expression
Also known as: Opposition Phase, Illumination Phase, Culminating Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Full Moon marks the peak of your 27–28 year lunar cycle, a moment of culmination, awareness, and visibility. What began as a seed during your Progressed New Moon now reaches full bloom. This is a time of revelation and clarity, when light touches every corner of your life, illuminating what has grown — and what has reached completion. Emotion runs high here, rich with insight and meaning.
Overview:
This phase offers the opportunity to see yourself and your life with greater perspective. The Full Moon acts as a mirror, reflecting how far you’ve come and what your soul has been creating beneath the surface. Often, relationships, projects, or themes initiated years earlier reach fruition or turning point. You may feel both fulfilled and stretched – aware of the beauty and responsibility that visibility brings. Intuition flows through revelation, through the flashes of understanding that rise like light breaking through the clouds.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed Full Moon invites growth through expression and discernment. Early in this phase, emotions can feel magnified – clarity arrives, but so does exposure. You’re being seen now, and that visibility can feel both empowering and vulnerable. The deeper invitation is integration: to align your outer life with inner truth, to share what’s ripened, and to release what’s no longer needed. As this phase matures, you learn to hold awareness with grace — to celebrate what has come to life and to bless what must now be released.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow may appear as overwhelm, burnout, or attachment to results. When light is everywhere, rest can be elusive. The opportunity lies in balance, remembering that illumination is not the end, but the midpoint of the cycle.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition here speaks through illumination and contrast. Truths emerge with clarity, often through relationship, reflection, or external recognition. Trust the insights that arrive effortlessly – they’re the harvest of years of inner work.
Practices & Reflections:
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Celebrate what you’ve accomplished or understood.
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Share your gifts: teach, create, or express.
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Practice gratitude and rest in fullness before the next unfolding.
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Journal: What has come to fruition? What truth is now fully visible to me?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Full Moon phase is revelation, to see with both the heart and the eyes. By standing in your light with authenticity, you honor the fullness of your becoming and prepare to share its wisdom with the world.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Disseminating Moon Phase: A Season of Sharing and Integration
Also known as: Waning Gibbous, Sharing Phase, Distribution Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Disseminating Moon marks the stage after illumination, a time of generosity, expression, and exchange. What was revealed at the Full Moon now seeks to be shared. This is the phase of contribution, where experience transforms into wisdom and wisdom becomes gift. Emotionally, it’s a season of outward flow, a desire to teach, create, communicate, and spread what you’ve learned through lived experience.
Overview:
This passage offers the opportunity to integrate and distribute your growth. The Disseminating phase is about embodiment – the act of living what you know, not just understanding it. You may feel inspired to share insights, support others, or contribute to causes aligned with your values. Intuition flows through connection and conversation now; messages move through you as if carried on the wind. The world becomes mirror and audience, reflecting how your truth ripples outward.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed Disseminating Moon invites growth through generosity, teaching, and authentic sharing. Early in this phase, you may feel compelled to express your story – to publish, mentor, guide, or serve in new ways. The deeper invitation is to share without expectation, to give freely, and to trust that what you’ve learned will reach those who need it. This is a time to let wisdom circulate – to move from self-expression to contribution. As the phase matures, you find joy in participation and community, realizing that your story belongs to something greater.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow may appear as overextension, self-righteousness, or attachment to being understood. When the desire to share becomes performance, the energy dissipates. The opportunity lies in humility, to offer truth as an act of service, not self-definition.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition here speaks through inspiration that seeks expression – the urge to write, speak, teach, or uplift. Pay attention to what wants to move through you rather than from you.
Practices & Reflections:
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Share what you’ve learned: teach, mentor, or create.
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Reconnect with community; allow your wisdom to circulate.
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Balance giving with receiving: fill your own cup as you pour into others.
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Journal: What wisdom am I being asked to share? How can I offer without attachment to outcome?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Disseminating phase is to share your light. Through giving and teaching, you complete the cycle of creation, allowing knowledge to evolve into collective wisdom.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Last Quarter Moon Phase: A Season of Reorientation and Release
Also known as: Third Quarter, Reorientation Phase, Crisis in Consciousness (sometimes flipped with Gibbous in some systems)
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Last Quarter Moon marks a time of re-evaluation, reorientation, and quiet courage. After the outward expression of the Disseminating phase, the energy begins to turn inward again. You’re standing at the crossroads between what has been and what is yet to come, a sacred threshold where wisdom deepens through discernment. Emotionally, this is a season of truth-telling: to see clearly what still serves your growth, and what is ready to be released.
Overview:
This phase offers the opportunity to integrate the past while preparing for a new cycle of becoming. The Last Quarter Moon is a time of maturation – of recognizing the lessons gathered from the past decade and deciding what to carry forward. You may feel called to restructure your life, shift priorities, or withdraw temporarily to realign with authenticity. Intuition flows through clarity and confrontation now – it reveals what’s ending, not as loss, but as liberation.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed Last Quarter Moon invites growth through reflection, letting go, and conscious evolution. Early in this phase, restlessness or dissatisfaction can surface, signaling that certain parts of your life have fulfilled their purpose. The invitation is to allow change – to gracefully dismantle what no longer resonates, clearing the ground for new creation. As this phase matures, wisdom crystallizes: you see how each chapter has served your soul’s unfolding, and you begin to release the need for external validation. The emotional focus shifts from doing to understanding, from maintaining to simplifying.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow can arise as resistance to change, nostalgia, or bitterness. When endings are resisted, stagnation takes root. The opportunity lies in acceptance – to honor what’s complete and to trust that endings are also beginnings in disguise.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition here speaks through truth, moments of deep knowing that can no longer be ignored. Pay attention to where energy naturally withdraws; life is showing you what’s ready to conclude.
Practices & Reflections:
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Reflect on the last 7–10 years: what stories are complete?
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Simplify your commitments and release what drains energy.
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Spend time in nature or solitude to support integration.
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Journal: What am I being asked to let go of with grace? What wisdom do I carry forward from this chapter?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Last Quarter phase is release with awareness. By consciously completing what’s ready to end, you create sacred space for the new life that awaits.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Progressed Balsamic Moon Phase: A Season of Rest, Healing, and Surrender
Also known as: Waning Crescent, Release Phase, Surrender Phase, Completion Phase
Emotional Essence:
The Progressed Balsamic Moon is the final stage before a new 27–28 year cycle begins. It’s a time of completion, reflection, and release, a quiet dusk before the dawn of renewal. Life invites you inward now, into stillness, softness, and surrender. This is a deeply spiritual phase where the focus turns away from doing and toward simply being. The emotions are tender and vast, as if the soul itself is exhaling after a long journey.
Overview:
This phase offers the opportunity to rest, heal, and integrate all that has unfolded over the past decades. The Balsamic Moon is an ending – but also a sacred incubation. You may feel drawn to solitude, spirituality, or practices of closure. Projects, relationships, or life chapters that have reached their natural conclusion begin to dissolve. It’s a time of clearing and forgiveness, where the past is gathered gently and returned to light. Intuition is heightened now, but subtle – arriving through dreams, symbols, and sensations rather than reason. This is a cycle of divine trust: the willingness to let go without knowing what comes next.
Growth & Maturation:
Over its 2–3 years, the Progressed Balsamic Moon invites growth through surrender, acceptance, and peace. Early in this phase, you may feel tired, nostalgic, or uncertain – a natural response to the closing of a major life cycle. But the deeper invitation is serenity. You’re preparing to begin again, though you cannot yet see the next path. This is the time to release attachments, to simplify, to forgive, and to tend to your spirit. As the phase matures, you embody compassion and perspective, the kind that comes only through lived experience. You become the quiet mystic of your own story, dissolving the old to make space for the new.
Shadow & Challenge:
The shadow may arise as resistance to stillness, fear of endings, or longing for the past. When you try to push forward before integration, exhaustion follows. The opportunity lies in rest, allowing closure to be sacred rather than sorrowful.
Intuitive Flow:
Intuition speaks through silence now. It’s not about messages or signs, but about presence. The quieter you become, the more clearly you hear your soul.
Practices & Reflections:
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Create intentional space for solitude, journaling, and rest.
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Reflect on the entire cycle you’re completing – honor its beauty and lessons.
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Practice forgiveness rituals for self and others.
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Journal: What am I ready to release into peace? What endings can I bless with gratitude?
Soul Lesson:
The invitation of the Balsamic phase is surrender. To lay down what has been, to release striving, and to trust that endings are fertile ground for the next beginning. In stillness, the seed of the next New Moon quietly stirs.
Pair this with the zodiac and house of your Progressed Moon for vaster understanding. Or explore a 1:1 Astrology Reading for greater depth.
Learn More About Your Progressed Moon:
Journey through each of the lenses:
✨ The Progressed Moon: All You Need to Know
✨ The Progressed Moon through the Zodiac Signs
✨ The Progressed Moon through the Houses
Together, they’ll reveal the emotional map of your becoming – your living, breathing Moon within.
