New moon

So, today is the day I was hoping for in the dark when I was surprised by the last smiles of the recumbent moon. Anticipation can be a powerful force to get your focused.

With this new moon, I am planting my intentions, those I have been gathering in anticipation for the dark place the moon becomes so as the moon's full light shines, my little seeds of intentions will bloom, just like they should.

What intentions have you been hiding in your heart, waiting for the right time? What has been calling to you? Don't let your ego talk you out of your grand and rightful intentions. You are brave and stong and beautiful. Let your intentions sing out and become your destiny.

For further inspiration, here is my long time favorite inspirational quote:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are all born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in just some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own life shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson

No need to wait for next month or next year, plant those desires so they become the opportunities you have been waiting to see. So, get our there with your little seeds and get planting!

Dark of night

I will admit that I do not own an alarm clock. I just wake up in my cozy bed well before every other person in my home (and probably my neighborhood). I fall into the extreme morning person category.  So, I spend my morning time fully awake in the stillness and I am thankful for the darkness of the night, where the stars shine bright down upon my path. This morning as I was walking, I was excited to be without the moon. Don't get me wrong; I love the moon. As a moon lover, I enjoyed the recumbent sliver yesterday and assumed it was a new moon morning.
My mind began racing with ideas...What do I want this month? what goal lies in my path? what do I really, really REALLY want? Just as I was rounding the last bend on my walk, like a little knowing smile in the sky, the moon shone down to meet me. I have a little more time to ponder and to meditate on this question.
The darkness of the morning is a fall occurrence. As I walk in the summer, I enjoy dawn's early light and the coming of the morning greeting me, as do other people out moving their bodies. The beauty of the darkness for me is the contrast. The brightness of the stars and the amazing moon loving me from above.
As you find your stillness and silence, what do you really want?