You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
-Mary Oliver-
Braveheart, today is the moon is full. There are huge snowflakes falling outside as I type this.
Curiously enough, just one week ago my family and I enjoyed conversations and holiday snacks outdoors on a warm, sunny ☀️ patio.
I am listening to Vince Guaraldi Trio’s album, A Charlie Brown Christmas, as I type this. (A reality that is sort of its own Christmas 🎄 miracle; 💁🏻♀️ the past five years have been years of 😔 melancholy, healing ❤️🩹 and intentional 🚫 withdrawal from celebrating much of anything.)
Everything changes …
Lunar phases and allowing the 🌙 moon to be my calendar for my right brain planning practice helps me cope + embrace these changes in infinite ways.
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 living soft, cycling like the moon and to practicing the details of what we need for our ease and comfort.
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