ScorpioThe phase of the Moon on September 24, 2025 was a Waxing Crescent.
The Waxing Crescent is the quiet stretch right after a New Moon intention is set. Momentum is thin here. The work is mostly showing up and taking the next small step, not chasing big results yet, and consistency matters more than speed.
Scorpio tends to keep new plans private until they're proven, and the Waxing Crescent wants total commitment or nothing at all. Guard this early step from anyone who might talk you out of it. Push past the first flicker of doubt quietly, on your own terms.
Today’s recommendations for haircuts, gardening, and surgery are on the Moon Phase Today page.
Cut now if the point is to get length back. Lunar calendars treat the days just after the new moon as the start of the build-up, when hair returns faster and comes in with more body. It suits anyone growing out a short cut or recovering from bleach damage without wanting to wait half a year for the result. One practical note: go slightly shorter than you normally would, since the regrowth catches up sooner than you expect and you'll want the shape to last.
Scorpio is the third water sign, and here the lunar calendars disagree with each other. The common reading is that regrowth comes back thick but unruly, so it suits a shave or a very short cut better than a shaped style. Chemical treatments are traditionally avoided on these days.
Haircut Moon Calendar
Leafy crops belong in this stretch. Lettuce and chard sown as the light builds are said to stay in leaf longer before they bolt, which is the whole point of a salad bed. Seedlings moved now settle in quickly, and it's the traditional window for grafting fruit trees for the same reason. Feed the soil and not the plant: a balanced fertilizer in the next few days backs up the leaf growth that follows. Anything you want fruit from can wait a week.
Scorpio is a leaf day with the least trouble attached. It reads as wet without being as soft as Cancer, so leafy crops sown here are said to hold up better afterwards. Good for watering, for the salad bed, and for cuttings that still need to root.
Gardening Moon Calendar
A growing moon is read as feeding a faster recovery, and that reading is the whole basis for the recommendation. Almanacs point this stretch at operations meant to rebuild strength or bring a long-running condition under control, on the logic that whatever begins while the light increases carries that increase with it. No research supports the idea. It has survived partly because people kept using it, and partly because a date chosen on purpose is easier to prepare for than one that simply arrives.
Scorpio governs the reproductive organs and the bladder. It's the entry the old almanacs treat most seriously and the one repeated most often in later folk calendars. The advice covers elective work in that region and is silent about everything else.
* 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
