What challenges did you face in this moon cycle? How can you grow from them?Ĥ. The dark moon is also a powerful time to connect with your shadows. Ask yourself: What came up for you this month? What did you struggle with? What frustrations & irritations were note-worthy?ĥ. What “Wins” did you experience this month? What were some of your big accomplishments?ģ. What memories did you make in this closing moon cycle?Ģ. It begins to create this beautiful road map of where you’re going, where you’ve been, what your strengths are, your challenges & how you can best utilize the energy of the moon to maximize your personal growth & spiritual evolution.ġ. You can see what the focus is for you each month, the lessons you’re learning, and wisdom gained with each moon cycle. When you engage in this journaling practice monthly, you begin to see more clearly the path you’re walking in life.
It is a very beautiful & powerful practice to begin answering these questions with every Dark Moon. I’ve included some journal prompts & questions for self-reflection below. In my practice, I observe the Dark Moon on the night before the New Moon.
So I want to encourage you to spend some time at the end of this week, observing the Dark Moon. We’re missing this crucial component of our personal growth. Rarely do we give ourselves these crucial moments of pause & reflection before diving in to the next thing coming.īut in losing these pauses, we’re also losing this vital time where we absorb & assimilate lessons learned & wisdom gained from our experiences. We’re such a forward-looking culture we’re constantly looking at what’s next, what’s the next thing on my To Do list, what’s happening next. We rarely stop & rest when we complete one thing before moving on to the next. In so many facets of life we’ve dismissed this vital moment of pause. It’s not surprising to me that in our modern society we’ve lost the tradition of observing the Dark Moon. Without taking this moment of pause, we are missing this important integration of all our work & all our growth from the previous moon cycle. This is where the wisdom of the ending cycle settles into our Souls & our spirits. The Dark Moon is the pause where we assimilate everything we experienced in the closing moon cycle. Similarly, the Dark Moon is the savasana of the moon cycle.
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Without this pose, you’re not able to absorb the full power of your yoga practice. This is when your exercise & your practice settles into your body & your spirit.
It is in this pose where your body absorbs the practice you just engaged in. Savasana, also known as corpse pose, is when you lay still on your back for several minutes. Most yoga teachers will tell you this is actually the most important pose of every yoga class. If you practice yoga, you’ll be familiar with the final pose of every yoga class–savasana. It is the moment in time where we are absorbing everything that we learned & gained in the previous moon cycle. The Dark Moon is the end of the previous moon cycle. The Dark Moon is a very important part of the moon cycle. Until the moon is illuminated again, we are in the dark moon phase of the moon cycle. This is the moment the moon receives exactly 0% illumination & will begin growing again. This week’s New Moon occurs Monday, October 8 at 11:46PM (EST). And as such, they have slightly different energies & are supporting us in slightly different kinds of introspection & growth. So while modern astronomers tend to use these terms interchangeably, they are actually 2 different parts of the moon cycle. The New Moon begins when the moon shows the very first, tiniest sliver of illumination. However when the moon is at 0% illumination this is, technically, the Dark Moon. Modern calendar makers have followed suit & what is marked on most calendars as the New Moon is actually the time when the moon is at 0% illumination. They mark this as the exact point when a new moon cycle begins, ie. Modern-day astronomers denote the New Moon as the day the moon is at zero illumination. (Scroll down for journal Qs & soul work for the Dark Moon.) Do a quick google search & you’ll find so many articles about the upcoming New Moon (for example): what it means, what energy it brings, what astrological sign it’s in, how it relates to your life, etc., etc. Every moon cycle there is a lot of talk about the New Moon.
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