Following the period of New Moon darkness, a shy smile of moon appears near the western horizon at sunset. Still hidden within Earth's shadow, the moon at this stage presents a feeting, tantalizing vision. It brings a phase of instinctive, youghful, unconscious, and irrepressible activity. Thus it corresponds to the Maiden's passage in our lives-- a time of self-determined realities, untouched by worldly limits; filled with potentialities, as yet uncorrupted by society's conventional judgments.