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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes,
67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer.

- scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault:
  slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site
  links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables
  rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion
  list plus a privacy guard.
- tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and
  aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note
  (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages
  list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other
  pages get a Related Knowledge block.
- Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never
  displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid
  diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: Half light, half dark, and a decision due.
source: obsidian-knowledge
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# First Quarter · 🌓
> *Half light, half dark, and a decision due.*
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A week into the cycle the Moon squares the Sun: half lit, half dark, exactly balanced and therefore exactly unstable. The tradition calls this the *crisis of action* — the first real test of whatever was seeded at the [New Moon](/knowledge/astrology/phases-of-the-moon/new-moon). The initial enthusiasm has burned off, obstacles have shown up on schedule, and the project now demands something the seed phase never did: effort against resistance.
The square is astrology's aspect of friction, and the First Quarter is the friction built into every month. What survives it earns the right to keep growing; what doesn't was a wish rather than an intention. The phase's counsel is uncomplicated — act. Not the receptive waiting of the crescent and not the fine-tuning of the gibbous, but the plain decision to push through the first wall or admit the thing isn't wanted enough to fight for.
Anything begun here inherits urgency: First Quarter ventures tend to be born mid-struggle and be the stronger for it.
## Related
- [Phases of the Moon](/knowledge/astrology/phases-of-the-moon)
- [Waxing Gibbous](/knowledge/astrology/phases-of-the-moon/waxing-gibbous) — The next station: refinement
- [Waxing Crescent](/knowledge/astrology/phases-of-the-moon/waxing-crescent) — The faith this crisis tests
- [Last Quarter](/knowledge/astrology/phases-of-the-moon/last-quarter) — Its mirror: the crisis of release
- [Moon](/knowledge/astrology/planets/moon-astrology)