Charubel's image for this degree is a new Moon with only the smallest portion showing in the western sky, and its placement is the first thing to interpret: a lunar sliver set in the middle of the Sun's own sign. The new crescent appears at dusk, in the west, only briefly before it follows the Sun down, and it is the traditional signal for beginnings, the first visible evidence that a cycle has already restarted invisibly. Almost all of the Moon in this picture is dark; the light shows only at the rim.
Read against the eleventh degree of Leo the image suggests a beginning that must be trusted on minimal evidence, a self or a project mostly still in shadow whose visible portion is genuine but tiny, and it counsels the patience the sky itself enforces, since no crescent can be hurried into fullness. There is also a lesson aimed at Leo directly: the crescent's light is not its own, and the degree quietly reminds the sign of radiance that everything lit is lit from somewhere. The shadow reading is premature display, announcing the whole Moon while owning only its edge, or the opposite failure, dismissing a real beginning because so little of it yet shows. On a natal or progressed point this degree tends to mark enterprises and identities in their earliest visible phase, and the working counsel is exact: honour the sliver, date the cycle from it, and let the remainder fill in at the pace light actually travels.