Nox Amicus

It’s been a rough week. It’s been six days since the new moon and this is the first day I’ve felt like I was able to write an unbiased New Moon post. Funny thing is, the theme that I’d intended on last Saturday followed me through the week and stays true today.

For the April lunar cycle I chose Patience, and in that post I said: “I’m going to just be patiently watching for the next few weeks, void of expectation, but mindful of the changes – and any calls to action those changes may prompt.” Turns out one of the changes was a wonderful surprise gig with the band. But this theme of patiently watching while void of expectation served me well during the troubles this week as well. I was able to find the space between stimulus and response, not react too soon or over-react, and seek advice from a select few places.

All of this brings me to this cycle’s theme – Integrity. For my purposes this month, I’m using the definition “the condition of being unified, unimpaired, or sound in construction”. Last week I’d wanted to choose Integrity because it symbolized the Beltane joining of masculine & feminine, and the unification that the ability to draw equally from both of those perspectives can offer. This week it is still true because the unification of emotional drive and logical restraint served me very well.

There are always competing forces inside us – light/dark, feeling/thinking, right/wrong – but reality is always somewhere in the middle. Reality is rooted in the oneness, the balance, the perspective.

So for the next lunar cycle I want to continue to try to see the whole board. Still staying true to my own convictions, but accepting the fact that “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, one”) applies to all things, great and small.