Follow Your Moon

Today begins the Gibbous phase of the Wisdom Moon cycle...it's time, between now and Saturday, to get creative regarding your goal. Here's a little story followed by a 'moon phase menu' that works moon after moon.

In a Tibetan Buddhist story we are asked to imagine walking around a lake at night. As we look into the water we see the moon reflected. As we walk clockwise around the lake and look into the water it will appear as though the moon follows. If we turn and walk in the opposite direction it will appear as though the moon also goes in this direction with us. However, there is actually no moon in the water, it is merely a reflection, an illusion, a water moon. And if, in fact, we were to fill one hundred barrels with water and place them along the shore of the lake it would appear as though there was a moon in each barrel, however it is not the moon it is simply a reflection, a water moon. Our lives and our relationships are like this water moon. We look about us and we think that what we see is real but it is all just a reflection of our mind, as in a dream, like a water moon.

Here is a simple recipe for Following Your Moon/Goddess: month-by-month, year-by-year.

With each new moon…have a vision. Close your eyes and open your heart/mind. Set a goal. Ask for clarity, which will lead to wisdom and illumination in the coming 29 days of the unfolding moon cycles. Create a treasure map using color, images and words to illustrate your heart’s desire.

Three days later at the crescent moon phase do your research and allow your vision/goal space to struggle like a seed planted in the ground. Imagine that it reaches up to find the light as it simultaneously stretches down to set a root. Breathe in the beauty and the wonder that surrounds you.
When the three days of the first quarter moon comes it’s the time to take an action (write the letter, make the phone call, dance, or paint or sculpt your vision) all to inspire growth, trust and love for your goal.

The gibbous moon phase is three days before the full moon; this is the time to remain positive…remain completely focused and create, create, create in connection to your goal.

The full moon reflects. This is the three days in which you can see the shadow or hidden side of your vision or goal. This is when you can experience your goal from deep within. Now you can see and sense and feel what works and what may not. Introspection at this time leads to inner strength.

Three days after the full moon comes the disseminating moon phase. This is the time to share what you have learned thus far regarding your goal. Speak to a trusted friend or mentor or write in your journal recording your discoveries.

The third quarter moon each month offers a time to say “thank you”. Now we begin to cleanse, renew and purify our thoughts and feelings being very grown up and recognizing that we’ve done what we can to accomplish the goal for this cycle.

The balsamic phase each month (moon) falls three days before the new moon. Now we release what has come and prepare to begin again…this is the time to dream the dream of the seed idea or vision that will be planted with the next new moon…

Circles, cycles, following your moon path….or as I tend to say…enjoy your Luna-see…