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The moon is a reminder that no matter what phase we are in, we are always whole.

Heads: “Darkness is not just a lack of light. It isn’t even the opposite of light. It is a wonderful, tangible thing with characteristics all of its own. Darkness is the place where life comes from the great cauldron of creativity, the womb, the cocoon, the cave. Darkness is a great wondrous thing of beauty. This is the season of the dark, whilst nevertheless hoping for the return of the light, we should celebrate the beauty of the dark.” Sharon Blackie

Tails: “As you are tending to your inner well, know that your work is part of a larger mission that is attempting, through our combined experience, to come into harmony. In other words, our individual well-being is also the well-being of the whole. Rather than thinking of the external world as the ‘real reality,’ you begin to see, as the Celts well knew, that psyche and nature are intrinsic. There is a conversational relationship between the inner and outer worlds, a dynamic reciprocity which can be strengthened by our tending to their equivalence.” Excerpt From Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner 

The edge: When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
― Hermann Hesse

Trust the universe. Let it flow. Just Allow. Be.

READ:

Emergence Magazine: Serviceberry – the Economy of Abundance.

Gathering Moss

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a beautiful person. Whenever I read something she’s written, it is like a knock at my inner home door, gently opening.
For those wondering why Moss became my last name, I direct your attention to Brainpickings.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/13/gathering-moss-robin-wall-kimmerer/

After seeing this article, I promptly went out and purchased her book. Within the first two pages, I felt stillness all throughout my body, in intense and profound presence and resonance. I then got her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, which is a phenomenal text on our connection with the earth.

Recently, after I posted this, I discovered a new article that she recently put together for Emergence Magazine: Serviceberry – the Economy of Abundance.

“Gratitude is so much more than a polite thank you. It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods. Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need. In that climate of sufficiency, our hunger for more abates and we take only what we need, in respect for the generosity of the giver.”

Take a moment, each day, and kiss something in your life. Be mindfully grateful. The list of abundance is astonishing and humbling. When we recognize value in what we already have, want and disappointment disappear.

I urge you to read, engross, and follow Robin Wall Kimmerer in whatever way aligns with you.

https://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/