Tools for a slower practice
Two small instruments for keeping time differently. One follows the moon; the other follows your breath. Both are free, and neither asks anything of you but a few minutes.
- What is the moon doing tonight?
Moon Phase
Tonight's phase, the next four turnings, and the traditional task for each — for the garden and for the practice.
Open the tool - Have you got three minutes?
Breathing Tool
Three guided patterns — box, 4-7-8 and resonant — paced by a soft orb that follows the breath.
Open the tool
Made quietly
- Nothing is tracked. No accounts, no streaks, no reminders nudging you back. What you do with the tools stays in your browser.
- The sky, measured properly. The moon tracker calculates each phase with the astronomers’ standard method, and we’ve checked it against the US Naval Observatory’s published times.
- Gentle about the evidence. The breathing page cites the research it leans on, and says plainly where that research runs thin.
From the Myrtle side of the house
- Light Calculator — Is my window bright enough?
- Pebble Tray Calculator — Will a pebble tray raise my humidity?
- Symptom Checker — What's wrong with my plant?
All Myrtle tools → · Prefer paper? Printable guides