Obsidian Templater daily journal prompts with moon phase

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Daily Journal Entry Template for Obsidian

A Templater template for daily journal entries with auto-calculated moon phases.

Inserts the current date in human-readable format and calculates the moon phase based on a known new moon anchor (December 20, 2025, Wellington NZ). The template uses end-of-day evaluation so the displayed phase matches the entire day.

Requirements: Templater community plugin for Obsidian

Usage: Insert this template into your journal note to add a new daily entry with automatic date, suggested prompts, and moon phase population.

template_daily.js

## <% tp.date.now("dddd, D MMMM YYYY") %>

**Moon:** <%*
const moonPhases = [
  '🌑 New Moon',
  '🌒 Waxing Crescent',
  '🌓 First Quarter',
  '🌔 Waxing Gibbous',
  '🌕 Full Moon',
  '🌖 Waning Gibbous',
  '🌗 Last Quarter',
  '🌘 Waning Crescent'
];
// Wellington anchor: New Moon 20 Dec 2025 at 2:43 p.m (local time)
const anchor = new Date(2025, 11, 20, 14, 43, 0, 0); // Jan=0. Dec = 11

const lunarCycle = 29.53059;
const msPerDay = 86400000;

// Date evaluated end-of-day so phase "flips on the date it happens"
const [Y, M, D] = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD").split("-").map(Number);
const day = new Date(Y, M - 1, D, 23, 59, 59, 999);
const daysSinceAnchor = (day - anchor) / msPerDay;

// New Moon corresponds to 0.00 through the cycle
let cyclePos = (daysSinceAnchor / lunarCycle);

// Normalise to [0, 1)
cyclePos = ((cyclePos % 1) + 1) % 1;

// Bucket into 8 phases; round to nearest bucket and wrap
const phaseIndex = (Math.round(cyclePos * 8) % 8);

// tR is Templater's output variable
tR += moonPhases[phaseIndex];
%>
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