Nox Amicus

There was a New Moon last Saturday morning – but this is the first opportunity I’ve really had to write about the work for this cycle. December is going to be crazy for me – I think I figured that I’ll be away from home for 13 days in this cycle – including six aircraft take-offs & landings and over 1,000 miles of driving. It’s all good stuff, and they are all blessings… stamina and resiliency are going to be tough.

So this cycle is about self-care. All around me are too many examples of what happens when you don’t pay attention to what your mind, body, and spirit need. So these few weeks will see a lot of my trying to implement the things I’ve learned in the past ten months and find ways to re-charge through all of the good things that lie ahead.

My work this lunar cycle has been reflection – taking some time to think about where the rest of the work this year has taken me. A lot of that is revisiting things I’d done that were successful, as well as assessing where I might have done things differently.

Last night during the full moon I dreamt that I was attending a reunion of my ex-girlfriends and crushes. Talk about ample opportunity to see things you’d done that might have hurt people… But as much as I was expecting judgement and retribution, I was largely ignored during the reunion.

I tend to hold on too long to things I believe I’ve done wrong – but that doesn’t mean everyone does. Healing involves letting go of the pain – which is even more important if we’re the ones causing the pain to persist.