New Moon Facilitation - Inspiration and Correspondences

Healing ourselves and manifesting our power is a collaborative art. We collaborate with aspects of ourselves, and the world around us.

Human beings, like all living systems, are constantly changing. Our emotions, our thoughts and the sensations in our bodies shift. We breathe in and we breathe out.

The moon is our closest celestial influence that models being changeable. Within 28 days we are in starry darkness to seeing in the dark and back again. Just standing outside for a minute before bed each night we can begin to feel the ebbs and flows shaping things ever so slightly.

The new moon corresponds the winter, where the seeds cast in the fall nestle into the ground, resting and ready for spring and sprouting. The new moon corresponds with the setting of intentions, and shaping what will come to fruition when the next full moon arrives.

The new moon shows us how we can be at the beginning of something. We cannot know exactly how things are going to turn out, and the moon cycle shows us clearly that something is going to be manifest, and thus encourages us to shape our lives.

The briefness of each lunar cycle reassures us that we can set our intentions, and make small changes. We have another chance month after month, to layer experiments, expertise, learning from mistakes with compassion.

To me, the new moon also represents deeply connecting to your own unique wisdom and coming out to the collective with what you have gathered, when the full moon arrives.

A powerful symbol.

To turn to 'facilitation', I just love that the root is bringing ease, making things a bit simpler.

For myself and for this practice here, I aim to bring ease and peace for the necessary reflective and loamy process of developing a balanced attention to all of experience, letting go of perfectionism, and coming into the full wholeness and pulsating genius of being alive. And grounding in that, to build loving communities where we all can belong and thrive.