GeminiThe phase of the Moon on September 07, 2023 was a Last Quarter.
The Last Quarter is for closing loops before the next cycle starts. Whatever hasn't worked over the past two weeks doesn't need forcing any further. Tie off what's finished and clear space instead of starting anything new.
The Last Quarter in Gemini clears out conversations that never reached a real conclusion. Gemini talks around a problem easily, so this is the moment to say the actual thing and stop circling it. Old opinions you've outgrown mentally can go now too.
Today’s recommendations for haircuts, gardening, and surgery are on the Moon Phase Today page.
Length is the wrong goal today. Regrowth runs at its slowest through the second half of the cycle, and most lunar calendars steer bigger cuts away from these days. Spend the time on the things that don't involve scissors: a deep conditioning treatment, or a wash that clears out product buildup. Taking damaged ends off is still worth doing, and arguably better timed here than in a waxing phase, because what you remove stays gone for longer.
For layers and curls the lunar calendars point at Gemini and the other air signs. The idea is lightness. Growth comes in a little uneven though, so a blunt line loses its edge sooner here than it would in an earth sign.
Haircut Moon Calendar
Nothing new goes in the ground. The old reading is that the soil is at its emptiest now and won't carry new growth, so the month's maintenance gets done instead: weeding, mulching, cutting out dead or diseased wood. Pruning is well timed here, since a cut made while the plant is quiet bleeds less and heals cleaner than the same cut in a waxing phase. Leave the beds tidy and they're ready to sow the moment the next cycle starts.
Air signs give flower days. Gemini is the one to use for cut flowers and for anything you want to bloom heavily, though sowing here is said to favor the flower at the expense of the fruit behind it. Keep it away from the tomatoes.
Gardening Moon Calendar
The almanacs mark this stretch down. Healing capacity is read as dropping off and the cycle as favoring rest, so the old advice is that an operation which can wait should wait for a waxing phase. Note the condition in that sentence. It applies to elective procedures with a movable date and to nothing else, because an operation scheduled for medical reasons should happen when your surgeon scheduled it. Small work that can't be postponed isn't something the tradition objects to either.
Gemini rules the shoulders, arms and hands in the melothesia scheme, with the lungs usually included, and the advice takes the same shape as everywhere else in the sequence. Leave those parts for another day. The old tables would spend this one on foot or knee work.
* Lunar timing is folk tradition, not medical advice. No research supports scheduling surgery by moon phase. Always follow your surgeon's recommendation on when to operate.
Surgery Moon Calendar
