The lunar phases and their meaning . There are eight lunar phases: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.

The gibbous Moon is one of the eight main phases of the Moon and if it is not the most well known, ... Each one represents a phase of the lunar cycle and its symbols.

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward around the ecliptic once in 18.61 years (6,798 days).