New Moon Newsletter

Happy New Moon!

...in Sagittarius (awwwoooOOOOooooooo!!)

Please give a warm "welcome back" to the monthly New Moon/Full Moon newsletters :)))

Since finishing up the podcast, I've been thinking a lot about what else has brought me a lot of joy this year. This has been a great year for me, with lots of joy and growth (both personally and professionally); good friends who are now family; and a new perspective on my role as a creator, and especially in writing this newsletter.

I realized this month that talking to y'all is actually one of my favorite things to do in my professional life. It's fun, rewarding, and a little bit bonkers (the best things are) -- so I wanted to bring back an old favorite of mine (and I know also a fave for a lot of people on this list).

It's time for a monthly check-in every month on the new moons and the full moons. (Whooooo!)

I'm super excited to bring this back, and adding a little bit of the good old channeled Akashic Records content that I know has also been a big hit over the last year. Keep reading for your channeled reading!

Today, on 12/12 (natch), the new moon is in Sagittarius, the sign of freedom, independence, and telling people to fuck off while you do your own thing. This is always a great time of the month to set intentions. Check in with yourself today, and see how you want to show up over the month ahead and what you want to put your energy into.

I recommend writing down your intentions. On the full moon, you'll see a lot of them begin to show up in the physical reality if you've been able to act on them, so it's useful to be able to keep your intentions alive for yourself over the course of the month...and also to remember what the hell you said you wanted to create.

(Forget my intentions completely? Me? No, never. Certainly never have I rolled into the full moon with just...good vibes, head empty. Not me.)

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

To seek the light and noise and sound -- to make your light burn brightly and hotter, despite the darkness (that surrounds) around you. This is a mighty goal.

There are no lanterns there or plywood to burn. You cannot make torches or reeds to blow on; no sound penetrates here. There is no air to grow a flame in, no air to breathe or tremble in in fear, either. You cannot know the extent of the flames you bury or burn; to see further in the darkness than the flame inside you is to burn out like flame yourself. Don't do this.

There isn't much to be said about the darkness itself. It isn't (not) you either. There comes a time when the darkness is friend, and not foe any longer, when it sits at our table and drinks with us. Tells us stories. Calls us by names we have long forgotten. The darkness remembers. It is us. It is n't the other at all.

So when the flame you seek hides in the brush, under a secret lantern under a berry tree; you'll know. It illuminates the air around you, and it opens up the way for you through yourself. Not the darkness, as if it were another substance unlike you. You are fire and ice, air, and water, light and the darkness, within you, all. You are another version of the darkness, that is all. A "holier", brighter version.

We have been asked specifically to be useful to you, and that is what whe have done. Take it, live with it. Use your knowledge of darkness to move you, not towards just brighter and more "holy" ("wholesome") things. You are all of it. You are the world. Do not shy away from the aspects you despise, or that you do not know. Yet.

And that's it. Happy New Moon.

I think it's neat that the Records chose to bring up the "darkness" in us now, at the time of the year when the Northern Hemisphere is having its longest nights.

Here in Seattle, the sun sets by 4:30pm. We call this time of year The Big Sad. It's a play on Seasonal Affected Disorder and also very descriptive of how we're all feeling right now as we enter our annual hibernation phase. (Please pray for our mental health.)

The "Big Sads" in life are hard. They're hard to be with, hard to stay with. The emotions aren't peaceful, they're not uplifting and pleasant and easy. And we are biological animals that prefer to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Feeling sad, and lonely, and vulnerable, and scared, and alone, and actually kind of fucking depressed -- it takes an intentional effort to stay with those emotions, to honor them, and to find ways to support ourselves through these emotions without abandoning our feelings in the process like sad roadkill.

Some people eat roadkill after all, sad or otherwise.

This month, please join me in making space for whatever emotions are coming up for you. Find your flame in the darkness, cherish it, and don't forget that the light means nothing without something to illuminate.

Thank you for joining me! I'll see you again at the full moon in two weeks... and maybe before... ;)