-written in 2024
In this moment, I ovulate with the new moon, my body has aches and cramps and there is a tenderness to my whole being. I bleed with the full moon. The connection of body to moon is my calendar. Each morning at 5 am I am with my dogs walking paths through the woods and the moon is the daily story teller.
A full moon will make shadows of the tall trees along the path, giving a mystical feeling to the forest. During a new moon the darkness is calming, there is a quiet beyond the usual hush and I feel wrapped in completion. And there is a beginning stumbling over a completion like my boots navigate the rocks when it is too dark to see them.
The first time I harnessed the Aries (we are beginning on Taurus) New Moon it was an initiation into a part of myself that longed to be set free. A part that had lived through me before and then was neatly packaged up and stored away. It was a release, a storm of emotion and energy. I was inside of a magic that would be years of unlearning to understand.
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