Nox Amicus

On Friday, October 16th the moon was New, so eight days ago I was called to find a focus for this cycle. The last cycle saw my attention move to Stillness. Before speaking, I wanted to ask myself who or what would I be speaking for? Was I speaking an actual truth, or simply my truth? Would there be a benefit to these words or actions beyond my own ego?

There are a lot of words flying around these days. Politics has a way of convincing everyone that they are the ones with the moral high ground. Myself included. But I also believe that there is no such thing as a moral high ground – that everything is a matter of perspective. You are not absolutely right about anything. Neither am I. So that is where we can begin.

Finding this cycle’s focus was amusing. I asked what the Intention should be – and the word I got back was Intention. It’s a word I found trouble with some years back – I learned the hard way that it is dangerous to act and react without knowing what your Intent is. That differs from motivation – we act on motivation all the time – but to what end? And do we really examine the cost? We post something snarky on social media because we’re blowing off steam, but what if the eyes that see the post don’t share our snark? Words are powerful. And words are actions.

We know that every action has a reaction – but I want to share something from an old spiritual path. When we throw a stone – we change, the stone changes, the medium the stone passes through changes, and the place where the stone lands changes. There is impact to more than we initially see – this is why Intention is important.

It’s not enough to know what we do and why we do it – but it’s important, especially right now, to understand all the nuance around us.

No song this time – and that’s done with Intent too.