LeoThe phase of the Moon on November 06, 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 Leo means admitting when pride has outlived its use. Leo hates to back down, yet this phase asks for an apology you've put off too long. Let the story end without needing to win it.
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.
If you pick your appointment by sign rather than by phase, Leo is the one to wait for. Growth is strong, the texture comes back with body, and the shape keeps its outline longer than it has any right to. Fine hair benefits most.
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.
Leo is a fruit day and the driest sign on the calendar. Thun's tables point it at seed crops and at harvesting anything meant for long storage, grain especially. Sowing salad here mostly wastes the day.
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.
The heart and the spine belong to Leo. That makes it the entry the old tables flag hardest and, at the same time, the least practical one, since cardiac and spinal work is rarely something anyone is invited to reschedule. Elective work further down the body is what the tradition would use the day for.
* 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
