“Even when the season feels uncertain, pausing long enough to notice what you need is a meaningful act. An act of slowing down that helps you recognize rhythms of where you are and what this time is asking of you, even here.” –Morgan Harper Nichols
This is my current guiding wisdom. Morgan Harper Nichols is one of my very favorite artists and her words often resonate deeply for me. This quote, from a recent post of hers, sums up so much of what I am currently experiencing.
As the 🌑 moon wanes to new, and we draw near to the Solstice, I am feeling a new resolve and motivation about my future. 🎉🎉🎉
For over three decades, the moon’s phases have served as my calendar. This evolved into the creation of a mixed media, visual art journal-planner (Right Brain Planner) that features the moon’s phases as a rhythmic way to mark time during a calendar month.
- Instead of a “weekly” focus, I prefer to align with specific lunar phases as starting points, points of progression and concluding.
- This enables me to notice + honor my own phases of energy and focus.
- The moon is my visual reminder that there is an entire side of ourselves (other people and situations) that no one else can see.
- And, Braveheart, it is best to release assumptions about what we cannot see. 💜
- The moon is my visual reminder that I am cycling, that everything is merely a phase.
- Life itself is a series of phases moving from dark to light to dark.
This alignment system has empowered me to practice self-compassion and trust my phases within the cycles of my life and work, studies and discovery.
I can trust my phases even in the dark times. After all, darkness is the moon’s beginning phase.
We can begin again—and Life can get brighter. 💖
Dear Braveheart, here’s to our questions, to recognizing rhythms of where we are and what this time is asking of us.
Right Brain Planner is a collection of lunar + seasonal prompts and journal-planning ideas to encourage self-compassion and review, reflection and expression, discovery and healing.
Braveheart, we learn by doing: we discover details about ourselves through chronicled observation 👀✍️📔 because everything we experience is data. 📊
Data is value-neutral; it is neither “good’ or “bad”—it is merely information to use for our choices, intentions and conclusions. Remembering this helps us to live free from judgment and shoulds.
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
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~love & good wishes~
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute delight to continue this portion of my creative work (even as I retire from full-time work).
This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions).