At 10:52pm on June 28th the Moon was new again, and today at 2:38pm the Blessing Moon (or Meadow Moon, or Buck Moon) was full.
I am not “late” for this intention, but there were some things to move through before I could be sure what the focus was actually going to be.
The last cycle saw me looking into empowerment and something I chose to call “compassionate assertiveness”. This is something I feel I’ll be working through for a while – as with so many lessons – I had some of the “assertiveness” down, but can find places I fell short on compassion. Still, using a recently found voice is going to come with some rough patches, so in many ways some of the compassion I need to exercise is also with myself.
This past Saturday was a long-awaited ritual with my spiritual community. These particular rites tend to focus on leaving behind an aspect of ourselves that might be holding us back. I had finished the work for this particular transition in the summer of 2019 (about the time I was in Australia), and it was first scheduled for April 25, 2020 – so I have been moving in this direction for the better part of three years now. Still – the ritual was beautiful and profound, and reinforced my desire to focus and rely on my intuition rather than over-thinking.
There were a lot of things I’d planned to say for this cycle, but there is beauty in silence, so in keeping with this cycle’s focus on Release, I will Release the conscious thought and just let the spirit speak for itself.
I am normally not a fan of chants, but I am also not one to decline a gift from synchronicity.