Spiraling: It's A Good Thing

Thanks for being here!

I normally write these moonly missives twice a month, with each New and Full moon, 🌑🌕 happily connecting to the ongoing spiral of beginnings, endings, and beginning again. But, June's New Moon came and went without a newsletter. I started several times. I wrote many words – in fact, I wrote too many words. Ideas were sprawling out in different directions, expanding recklessly like the morning glory vine that threatens to take over my garden. I left the words messy on the page. No newsletter.

Two weeks have passed, we’re back to a Full Moon, and I’m beginning a newsletter again. I find myself in a familiar situation: many ideas; none clear enough.

The difference is that this time around I’m finally embracing the idea that maybe the messy expansion is the point. For better or worse, unmanicured growth might be the gift of June’s energy. This is a season of long, light-filled days, giving way to indiscriminate illumination and unfettered expansion. 

I appreciate the irony that it took me so long to circle back to the lesson of cycles: that life happens in spirals, not a straight line, with plenty of ebbing and flowing. 🌑🌕

In this season of growth and change, which can be both exciting and overwhelming, here are a few resources that I hope help you celebrate summer, while also finding a little balance.

☀️ 3 poems: Mary Oliver’s classic, this credo from Joy Harjo, and an ode to expansion from James A. Pearson

☀️ A 17-minute somatic practice for summer, recorded with the online meditation community

☀️ 3 questions to find your JOMO and prioritize your own summer fun, from Mamaroneck Living’s June issue

☀️ And, of course, upcoming workshops to practice together

Wishing you comfortable growth, ease with change, and the warmth of sun on your skin...without any sunburns!