A crescent shape is a symbol or emblem used to represent a stage of the lunar phase in the first quarter. The moon is a very powerful symbol representing the feminine, a dynamic shift as it embodies a new cycle or phase. It’s close relationship with the energy of the SUN or universal Father, the MOON (nurturing mother) becomes the opposite pull towards the dark side.
The moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth is the main cause of the rise and fall of ocean tide; water being connected with our emotional state, the moon becomes the link between the conscious to the unconscious. The Moon represents wisdom, illusion, intuition and spiritual connection.
Different cycles or stages of the moon guides us towards the light in a dark phase in our lives in hopes we obtain this hidden knowledge – comparing the type of image of the moon cycle that mirrors a seed starting to grow and later dying off for new growth. The crescent moon tells a story about a new transition phase taking place in ones life, often emerging in our dreams or perhaps being fixated on the moon above you.
Crescent Moon Meaning
The crescent moon is described as the motion around the Earth, with the Sun illuminating only a practical side of the Earth and Moon. Since the crescent moon contains both a young (waxing moon), and old (warning moon) both contains different spiritual properties.
The warning moon shows the illuminated portion of the Moon is decreasing as the waxing or crescent moon is the last phase of the lunar month. Waxing can be considered the growing with light until a full moon is reached. The warning moon however represents the opposite, or decreasing after a full moon, and is always illuminated on the left.
The waxing moon’s energy is noted as overt, outward, and expanding, whereas the warning moon represents a time of reflection, purging, letting go and decluttering.
Crescent Moon In Dreams
The crescent moon in our dreams represents either a beginning or ending of something to do with one’s emotions or inner life. These feelings or emotions are linked with the feminine, creative, unconscious emotional side of the dreamer. Alternatively, this change or shift in a woman’s dream might be associated with ones menstrual cycle.
Crescent Moon Symbolism In Your Dream
Moons are considered very powerful dream symbols when they emerge, however they are very complex symbols that contain many unconscious elements. In most cases crescent moons represent a major shift or change with the dreamer, this might be reflected in new relationships, unconscious emotional shifts, psychic intuition,
- Fertility and femininity.
- Creativity or psyche surges.
- Increased wisdom or intuition.
- Sexuality and openness to mating, so receptiveness.
- Renewing, end of one phase, or beginning a new event in your life.
Crescent Moon Ancient Spiritual Meaning
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna, or in Greek mythology Selene; is the divine personification of the Moon. In ancient Egypt the moon deity Khonsu is associated as the god of the Moon. His name actually means the “traveller”, and this may relate to the perceived nightly travel of the Moon across the sky.