Tag: New Moon

At 6:58am on Saturday morning, the Moon was New again. This may be one of the soonest times I’ve posted after a New Moon – but something occurred to me a few days ago that is creating a pretty deep dive.

The past couple of posts have been focused on community – both Fraternity and Support were outwardly focused. It was during the Crossroads post on November 14th that I had said, “I have the privilege of directing my energies outwards rather than just focusing on myself”. But this week, a long-standing bit of self-identification ran into an introspective moment of “but why”. I didn’t like the answer.

For as long as I can remember, the phrase “I’m sorry” has been reflexive.… More...

At 7:45pm on February 27th, the Moon was New again. I am posting this closer to the Full Moon than the New Moon this cycle – but I am hopeful to be able to set an intention and draw down the energies needed to manifest it.

During this past cycle, my focus was on Fraternity. I juxtaposed my own feelings around needing to keep the peace and avoid conflict with a need to be fiercely protective and nurturing. How can you peacefully fight a war?

This is all brought about by the current climate that is seeing the implosion of a world I had grown up feeling was indestructible. We were always led to believe the existential threat would come from the outside, not the inside.… More...

The last new moon was at 7:36am on January 29th. We are almost halfway through this cycle, and until last night I hadn’t felt as though I was any closer to having words – much less having focus.

I am grateful for that sentiment changing yesterday. It was a trying day where I felt I had to lay the groundwork to say goodbye to someone I had once been very close to. Goodbyes of this type are rarely easy – but sometimes we need to do difficult things for our overall health – and to align with our deepest held values.

In last cycle’s focus, I closed the writing by saying that we need to “Cast off that which burdens us, or no longer serves us, and unfurl the sails.… More...

The Moon was New again at 5:27pm on December 30. The last New Moon of 2024, and now we begin a new year – not quite with a clean slate, but at least with opportunity.

The last focus was Hills – where I explained how one of the elements of my personality I am most fond of is my penchant for wandering off to climb a hill to see what’s there. I closed the last post with a quote from the companion song – “I’ve got my hands and my head full – A cautious step but I’m hopeful. I leave the station I go up into the Hills”

I am still very much working on finding my self; understanding what inspires and motivates me.… More...

At 1:21am on December 1st, the Moon was new again. Yes – that’s 1:21 on 12/1. Cool the way the Universe can spell things out for us, isn’t it?

The focus for the last cycle was, fittingly, Crossroads – where I’d wondered whether to cloister myself away or venture out into the world and try to make some kind of difference; it was a search for purpose and meaning.

There are always choices at a Crossroads – you can move forward, you can move to one side or another, you can retreat and move backwards, or you can even stand still. I was watching myself move through the potential choices as I stood. I really grappled with what this focus was going to be for a long time.… More...

At 8:47am on November 1st, the moon was new again. The theme for the last cycle was Definition. In an effort to figure out what Mattered, I wanted to try to take some time to figure out exactly who I was. The results were mixed.

October presented numerous opportunities for personal growth. I faced challenges with new people in unfamiliar environments, there were vibrant gigs with the band, which allowed me to express myself musically. I overcame obstacles that were Defining to my professional identity. I had a moment with my spiritual community that was deeply resonant. However, I realize that these experiences are merely components that could belong to anyone. Nothing truly stood out as a unique path for my Definition.… More...

At 2:49pm yesterday, the moon was New. The last time I was this close to the actual date was in May, but this theme hit me like a ton of metaphorical bricks over the weekend and needed to come out now.

In this last cycle, I focused on Mattering. I wanted to feel some inherent sense of relevance – not so much to other people but to myself. I wanted to find a space where I didn’t always feel like I needed to overextend.

This over-extension comes from a need to be all things to all people as flawlessly as possible. This brings with it a seemingly never-ending torrent of contingencies – over-anticipating every possible perceived need. Every need, of course, except my own.… More...

The Moon became new on Monday, September 2nd, at 9:56pm. Despite being the end of a relaxing Labor Day, I wasn’t yet in a place to commit to a focus for this month. Now, as we approach a full moon tomorrow night, I think I finally have my theme.

In a way, the uncertainty around this cycle’s focus makes sense. Last month I talked about Freedom, and how I wanted to leave behind the identities that I’d crafted or adopted and write my own story. When you basically give your spirit a blank sheet of paper, what do you choose to write?

I ran through several potential themes, each based on different facets of my life. Some fulfilling and inspiring, and some where resignation had replaced motivation.… More...

The moon was last new on August 4th at 7:13am. The last cycle’s theme of Experience saw me trying to differentiate between the kinds of Experiences I was living through – trying to make sense of what does and does not work for me is a lifelong effort. Thankfully, I believe I’m starting to realize that reading from an outdated script serves no one – and that the best Experiences are those that are true to the nature of our individual essence.

Over the past several years, as I put more and more distance between myself and past traumas, I have come to see the friction caused by my living life on my own terms versus my feeling some sense of obligation to ‘the other’ – some amorphous entity for whom I’ve been performing through this life.… More...

At 6:57pm on July 5th, the Moon was New again. We’re currently in the waxing crescent phase, which signifies growth, intention, and hope.

The focus for the last cycle was Resistance, during which I talked about how I “was creating my own Resistance in the path of my attaining peace and happiness” and how I wanted to “bring awareness to where and how I stand in my own way and be mindful that even when I am unable to see clear steps forward, it doesn’t mean that’s actually the case.”

Throughout that cycle, I tried to take note of where I was seeing Resistance or friction in my path. I eliminated some barriers I had inadvertently erected for myself, but when you spend a lifetime creating defenses, it takes a while to realize that some of the things you thought were in place to help you are the very things that are doing you harm.… More...