Day: August 11, 2025

August 12, 2025 Current Southern Hemisphere/Tomorrow’s Northern Hemisphere Moon Phase

Source: nineplanets.org

The current moon phase for August 12th, 2025 is the Waning Gibbous phase.

On this day, the moon is 18.21 days old and 91.58% illuminated with a tilt of -72.227°. The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 372,067.11 km and the moon sign is Pisces.

The Moon phase for August 12th, 2025 is a Waning Gibbous phase. This is the first phase after the Full Moon where the illumination of the moon decreases each day until it reaches 50% (the Last Quarter phase).

The waning (shrinking) gibbous Moon will rise after sunset in the east, transit the meridian after midnight, before setting after sunrise in the west.

During this phase, the illumination of the moon will go down from 99.% to 50.1%. Technically, the phase starts as soon as the Full Moon has passed, but it can be difficult to calculate and differentiate the first stage of a Waning Gibbous Moon from a Full Moon when 98-99% of the Moon’s surface is illuminated.

Fun fact: the word Gibbous was first used in the 14th century and comes from the latin word gibbosus which means humpbacked.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous

Moon age: 18.21 days

Moon illumination: 91.58%

Moon tilt: -72.227°

Moon angle: 0.54

Moon distance: 372,067.11 km

Moon sign: Pisces

Source: MoonGiant.com

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on August 12 has an illumination of 86%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On August 12 the Moon is 18.35 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 86%
Moon Age: 18.35 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 368,192.68 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,563,568.06 km

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

Welcome to WOTC! A Thought for Your Day

Each day I choose one thing I want to get accomplished at home. I break it down into smaller steps. That I can rest in between the steps if I need to. It can be anything from dusting or vacuuming or doing dishes (we don’t have a dishwasher except our hands lol) or do 1 to 3 loads of laundry or cut the grass or another outside chore.

An example of 1 thing I do outside, we have a smidgen under ¼ acre which requires a steady up keep. What I want tp accomplish weed whacking around the entire house and along the back fence. Step 1) get headphones and cellphone completely – get water/vitamin water mix with ice into my large travel mug. Steps 2) gather travel mug, cellphone headphones, smokes and lighter take outside. Step 3) get extension cords and weed whacked outside and ready to use. Step 4) Take lawn out and put in the shade. Place cellphone, smokes, lighter on it and travel mug next to it. BREAK TIME until ready to start working than take a break every 15-30 minutes depending on when I feel like it. Step 5) Weed Whack. Stay hydrated! Step 6) reverse Steps 1 through 3. Sit and enjoy my accomplish, enjoy the quite and listen to the birds, watch the butterflies and dragonflies or whatever other wildlife is around until I  feel like going back inside.

This is just 1 of many things I now break down inside and outside “honey do list”. I have found with having more than one chronic pain problem that doing things (even on days I don’t want to get dress) planning only 1 thing to do each day is much gentler that trying to get a bunch of things done in a day that I  don’t ache as much and my pain level doesn’t usually go up to a point I can barely handle it even with prescription pain meds. Also I sleep better and so have less brain fog the next day.

This has also taught me to get up and move around some when working on my computer. I alway make sure to take every 3rd day off from chores to give my muscles and joints a break. If I take more days off in between…oh well the chore won’t run away or complaining. Just as I tell all of you “Your health – physically or mentally or emotionally or any combination of these always has to come 1st or you won’t be able to help yourself or anyone else.”