Phases of the Moon and Big Little Lies?

I started re-reading 'Big Little Lies' (I'd started reading it a while ago and had to start over again from the beginning to remember what I had read) on the new moon last month, not on purpose though, I had just noticed the moon on the front cover of the book and wondered what phase the moon was in when I started over from the beginning and laughed when I found out it was right on the new moon.

The moon plays a big part in the novel 'Big Little Lies' literally and metaphorically and there is even crescent moons pictured throughout the novel.

The story is often told in months leading up to the trivia night where everyone is either dressed up as Elvis or Audrey, and the female characters often talk about the female reproductive system, while the story takes place in a seaside town with the lunar influenced ocean right on the doorstep.

Not being into astrology or very knowledgeable about moon phases I had stumbled across a podcast run by one of the 'Two Rad Chicks' called Inner Wisdom with Deanne Love which just happened to have an episode about the phases of the moon and what each phase of the moon meant as have as new age/old age folklore went.

Let Them Eat ... ?

Moon Cakes

Inner Wisdom with
Deanne Love Podcast

But then I started noticing the moon phases mentioned in other books I was reading and media I was viewing and listening to, and decided to download a lunar phase app on my phone to keep track of just what phase the moon was currently in in relation to me.

I would often read 'Crow Mellow' out in the backyard when I was getting some sun when I wasn't reading 'Big Little Lies' since my copy of BLL was a signed copy that I didn't want to risk getting damaged in the sun, unlike my copy of 'Crow Mellow' which I thought I was just going to give away after reading anyway.

This was where I read about the gibbous moon and wondered what that was, and didn't realize that as I read that passage about the gibbous moon that the moon was already going gibbous that day and was already up in the afternoon sky along with the sun:-)

The gibbous moon on the day I
found out what gibbous meant:-)

Crome Yellow/Crow Mellow?

A gibbous moon mentioned in 'Crow Mellow'

The day of the September 2021 new moon

Of course, the gibbous moon is mentioned a few times throughout Huxley's first novel 'Crome Yellow' as well.

"Nothing would be pleasanter than to read in a well-written book of an open-air ball that took place a century ago"?

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

2021 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is
 on Tuesday, September 21, 2021

2021 Moon Festival

I guess I've never really realized just how big a part the moon plays in our human lives, either real or imagined.

Conspiracy Philosophy: Wo/Man in the Moon in the Middle?

The first total lunar eclipse to be
seen across Australia since July 2018

Total Lunar Eclipse Begins in Australia at 9:11 ... pm Tonight?

UPDATE: September 24th, 2021

A new moon study?-)