The Diamond Room Newsletter

The Last Full Moon of 2023

in Cancer

This is the cleanest my apartment has been, maybe ever. Is it a new year's clean-out?

Eh...no. Unfortunately my dearest doggo, Hartley Barkley, has made some friends. Very questionable friends.

Flea friends. For the second (and thankfully last) time this year.

The last few days have been spent obsessively cleaning every inch of the apartment and the dog. You can thank the fleas and my grossed-out-by-squirming-bugs brain for this newsletter being a day late.

Yesterday (and still tonight if you look up or are a werewolf) was the last full moon of the year, in the sign of Cancer. This is the culmination of a lot of energies from this year behind us, and a great time to take stock of what we've experienced, created, gone through, and made manifest in the world.

It is a powerful time right now at the turning of the year to complete on the year we've been through. Really acknowledge the "progress" we've made -- although the word implies a linear movement from one point to another, and we all know here that progress is hella nonlinear and very spiralic.

Give yourself a pat on the back for the cool shit you accomplished this year, the little wins that brought you closer to the big ones, and for the wonderful connections that made the process worthwhile.

It's a good time for journaling, or sharing with friends (or both -- my preference for sure).

Before we run straight into the new year with our fresh resolutions and a hangover, it's powerful to leave this year behind with gratitude and a sense of completion.

It was a lot of things, some of them good and some not so pleasant. It was a whole-ass year of your life. You shone like a star in the heavens at times. Sometimes you felt like dirt. That's fine. It's a whole year; you're never going to have one emotion for a whole year without end. That's insane.

Embrace the emotional waves.

And as we look forward to the new year right around the corner, starting to set our intentions and goals for 2024, check out the channeled Akashic guidance below for the year ahead...

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Some wisdom from the Akashic Records for the year ahead...

I asked the Akashic Records, "What will best support the members of the Diamond Room newsletter in starting off the new year powerfully, with warmth and love?"

Here is their response:

There is a warm welcome inviting you to up your game in the coming year. You'll know it when you feel its cosmic tug, pulling you towards what you wished to have, always, and never thought you could attain. There is no matter here, no wishing, separate from the universe -- the wishing and the wishes both seem to be a change that you're bearing up under. They are a way for you to tunnel out of your present circusmstances -- both the wishing for more and better (that allows you to escape out of the dull and miniscule present) and the contents of those wishes (the dreams that guide and change us all, that make you want to be a better person, a richer and a warmer one, a lovelier new person in spite of all the tragedies and sundry disapppointments of the past few months, years, etc.).

There is a whole new world in front of you. It isn't made of glass and air and dreamstuff; it's as real as you are, my friend. You can attain it, easily, over time and with a little more effort than you've been putting in towards it. That's it. Time and pressure will change mountains. You only have to let them work on you and through you.

How do you know when you've achieved it? This is a real question. "Richer" and "more in love" are not attainable dreams or goals, they are just directions for you to be going in. But how you measure the distance you've traveled along any one of these roads is your invention. Maybe it's "my wife smiles at me more again" or "how many times I've pitched my ideas and products" or "when the clock strikes three and I am awake still, having the time of my life on my computer at work." It could be anything; you choose. Your choice. Dealer's choice (and you deal your own game here, you choose the rules you'll play by. Neat, huh?).

If you didn't set intentions last new moon, don't worry. Take heart. The new year is coming and with it new opportunities for intentions-setting this year ahead of you. Start to noodle on a few ideas. Weigh out what's important to you. It's a short list of those; not that many things are truly important. The rest is fluff. Dreamstuff.

Choose your dreams wisely. They will come true with a little effort and time; and then you've got your future ahead of you, all laid out according to plan. Take the time here and now to lay out that plan well, and with ease. Take the time to think carefully, deeply about the dreams you want to invest in. They won't all happen, not all of the dreams you have. But the ones you invest your time and and effort (energy) into -- those will manifest, guaranteed.

Thank you. That's it. Happy new year (ahead of time.) ;)

Some of you may know that every year I set a word or phrase for the year. For 2023, it was "Slow Down to Speed Up." (You can listen to the podcast episode about that here.)

This theme showed up this year in a great paring-down of the bullshit activities that used to take up a lot of time and especially energy. Things like doubting myself after I'd made a decision (leading to dithering over something for endless hours or days), starting eight different tasks and finishing none of them (for this one we can thank the brand new ADHD meds), and endless scrolling (still an issue sometimes, but much improved).

Removing these energy drains from my life has lifted me up. Out from a sense of daily drudgery, of being on a hamster wheel, of making it to the end of the day wondering where it all went, or why I'm so fucking tired.

I have more energy, more vitality, and more mental clarity to spend on the things that matter. And I'm much more clear on what those things are, too!

This is what I'm hearing in the Records' words for 2024. I hear the continued paring-down of our lives to remove the fluff and the unhelpful nonsense. To bring us closer to the core of what makes us happy, human, and powerful creators of our universe.

Expect to hear some more fun stuff about this topic over during the year to come. 😏

Have fun completing this year. The next one sounds like a fun ride.

This newsletter brings me joy every time I send it. Write it. Think about it. Having you here is one of the things that I'm most grateful for from 2023. Thank you, and may we all have a marvelous, incredible, and experimental new year. 💖