New moon
The moon absent from the sky — the dark phase before the cycle visibly returns.
A new moon in a dream is the dream's image of the dark phase before the cycle visibly returns. The new moon is not the absence of the moon; it is the moon at the start of its next round, still invisible. The dream brings the new moon when something in your life — an intention, a project, a new phase of a relationship — has begun in a register too quiet to be witnessed. A new moon honoured in private is the dream affirming the start. A new moon mistaken for the absence of any moon at all is the dream noting that what is beginning is being missed, and the watcher does not yet realise that the cycle has already turned.