The waning moon is not a passive rest between cycles. It is the most intellectually and spiritually demanding phase in the entire lunar cycle — the sacred introspective corridor of self-discovery and self-realization that determines the quality of every New Moon seed you plant. You cannot plant a sovereign seed from an unsovereign self. This is the article Cat Oakenhart has wanted to write about the moon cycle for a long time — the one that gives the waning phase back its proper authority. Come into the descending light. The most important knowing waits in there.