The dark moon is best used for personal meditation, review, and inspection. Associated with the goddesses crone aspect, it is a time to lose yourself in personal intorspection and to make decisions about what you would like to change or what you think you need to start in order to make yourself happy or a better person. Prayers and self examanation are now. Once you have the answers of what do  I need to do you can ask the goddess for help at the new moon.