002: take it as a sign
or risk missing it all together
As a personal challenge to feel something during the longest stretch of the world’s most enduring lockdown, I had created an exercise for tracing the moon.
It was a journaling activity for noting the moon’s transits and anything revealed, provoked or encountered on the day.
This was my way of knowing that in some way, something is always changing. And I can only know that something if I notice it first.
The idea was also that after a few moon cycles, I would *hopefully* be way more in tune with astrology by understanding it on an embodied level.
I did this for a month, and the results: a weaving in and outside of myself, a thread that brought together mundane pieces of life together but only discernable if I looked closely and steadily.
Unassuming moments with other people, a kookaburra’s laugh, traffic delays, panicked searching for lost items, or a particularly thought-provoking episode of Indian Matchmaker became subtle portal openings where I caught life winking back at me. And with each glimpse, something was unfolding and getting clearer.
All I had to do was to follow the bread crumbs and cheeky nods. That’s when I noticed the way I was inquiring (or lack thereof) and responding (more like reacting) had the space and energy to change. And that it didn’t require so much effort as I thought it would.
The tiring part of this activity, I’ll admit, was having to manually look up the moon transits every day. You know, the actual work of being an astrologer. Not for me.
Thankfully since then, my fave astrologer who truly does do the work, Jessica Lanyadoo, has put out her app, astrology for days.
It’s basically the thing I was doing but with all the info in place, in a very useable and delightful design. I’ve got it on my desktop, keeping it open on a browser so I can easily use and refer to it.
This is what it looks like …
Soooo…
I’m thinking we could start doing this as a group, starting on the new moon in Libra this Wednesday night (Melbourne time)?
Maybe give it a go for a month first.
I’ll put out prompts along the way to share entries and reflections so we can learn from each other, plus some suggestions (like if you want to note down which houses the moon moves through, or if you want to start reflecting on other transits as well).
Of course, you don’t need to buy the app to join in. You can always look up the moon on various google sites and charts, astro.com “extended transit horoscope chart” is a pretty standard one, or use another app you prefer (link us).
Just start taking notes somewhere at the end of each day. And keep this in mind as you do…
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