Re: making cayenne tincture...
After considering the several variables you both are dealing with, my adviced to both of you - do it. Start the tincture with the peppers you both say you have. The fact that your are soon to have a new moon is a bonus, but this would not be a showstopper if the new moon was not due son. Either way, do it. By the time the next month or so comes around, you'll both be the first to know how good it is :)
At least one or more of those variables hit on topics that have..... interested me for a while, shall I say.... especialy the name of that candy strikes a cord in my particualar interest/curioustiy here.... "divination candy".... but the other main side curiosity I've had is the moon thing, and to be clear, I mean specifically the thought that the pull of moon/tide/gravity has an impact on the tincture, not the moon juice thing about when to not start sour kraut, although that latter moon thing is also something else that I am curious about since I've heard others reference it in discussion with other things reated to earthly & celestial energy phases......I know, kinda deep and way out there. The thing is, discussion of these side branches of interesting topics can get so deep and way out there in a hurry deep in a hurry that I probably should not go too much more into them , my thoughts on them, right here right now in this thread....so, back to main topic; do it, both of you!
Just be sure that fresh peppers need so much liquid/menstrum to compensate for their water content, and the dried peppers need so mch liquid to compensate for the density (IE> dried powder peppers are much denser compared to peppers still in the form of the whole fruit). This is really a matter of tweaking the liquid amount one way or the other, not a whole lot to get bogged down in, so, do it!