The Moon Maven

New Moon – Thursday, September 14 18:39pst 2023

We are in the new moon’s power window! There is great opportunity for a clean slate. This moon’s intention and the following exercises empower fresh eyed free spirited examination, and then activate new course rejuvenated determination. You ready for that help?

I believe in a lot of things and enjoy celebrating all things that hold resonance for me. I also constantly do work to make sure my holiday celebrations are opportunities for real meaningful connection. This means I celebrate three New Years; Rosh Hashanah, Samhain, and the Gregorian calendar. Each celebration offers a different meditation and action plan. I give myself structured exercises that boost my soul connection, making each one an opportunity to meet myself in my current truths, so I can determine how to best honor them. With Rosh Hashanah on fast approach, my offering today is new moon, new year, new slate goodness and it’s a really useful way to get yourself on track for rapid helpful transformation.

However much time you put toward this, please make sure you do both parts. Part 1 is NOW JOY, the visualization and connection to this moment’s truth of unleashed joy is so important. Part 2 is ACTIVE PRIORITIZATION and this follow up is why manifesting actually helps, it is the work of listening to your intuition, taking the note and trusting that it is the right step to honor the path you dreamed of. Part 1 is lovely and so helpful, but it’s half a plan… see it through.

Remember that it’s ok to do this work over a period of days. Accessibility is everything. When you really do this work right you never stop doing it. You go to sleep at night picturing your joyful life vision, and that means each nudge and action suggested by the deep guide voice inside you is an answer to the life picture you are dedicatedly designing.

NOW JOY

Joy board time! Get a notebook or sketch pad or poster board, whatever. Offer yourself some fun writing implements, different colors or mediums if that speaks to you. Let this be playful and fast. This should flow easily for you. List all things that feel good in your life. Things you are ready to live and things you are already living. Thinking of these things and putting the words or images on paper should fill you with glee and make you giggle. Have fun! Let yourself go and go until there is nothing else to add. I have done this with rainbow markers on poster board and it’s great fun, but if you need to meet yourself in the moment’s truth of convenient notebook and singular pen- DO IT. Let your imagination get big. Remove the caps of reality you box yourself into and just put the feel good feel best things on.

*Before you call it complete, review the board to see if you’ve captured life balance: home, body, relationships, purpose, luxury, daily quality of life, etc.

ACTIVE PRIORITIZATION

Look at the joy board and take note of potent joyful things that are currently aspirational. Can you think of a life goal that will help all of those things come into existence? What we are looking for here is to take away ONE priority objective. Is there redundancy? A series of desires answered by one thing? That may be where the priority resides.

Write down your determined priority. The big thing that will make a big difference with so many other things. Then write down some steps toward achieving that goal. Write down if you have internal or external obstacles achieving the goal. Is there work you can do to remove the obstacle? Keep this part simple too. It is 100% okay to know only some steps toward the goal and not everything. Accessibility is everything. Do what is immediately evident can be done, trust that the next step will be evident once you’ve completed that bit.

Example: years ago I saw that I needed personal financial prioritization. I realized an obstacle was my confidence in my own financial intelligence. Without money to hire someone with specialty in the field and without much time to grow my knowledge I assigned myself very easy steps toward the goal. I followed some finance experts on Instagram, listened to podcasts as I was able, and took charge of reorienting my confidence in several critical ways. This led to my seeing and taking steps that were more active. The entirety of the work has been as slow as I have needed to be, but still extremely effective.

Manifestation takes work. Actual constant work. Doing the work is worth it. Use the free joyful visualization techniques to guide you to a practical place that is most true to your good feels. From that practical review be lofty and idealized with goals, practical with immediately available steps, make lists of what you know now, then schedule like you would anything else, and let everything come from an honest review of your capacity. This isn’t to stress you out, it’s to lift you up. If the feels around this are too heavy, ask yourself how to scale back the steps you’re taking and make them feel easier.

Special note: let the magic and miracle elements of this universe experience take part. Call out to the moon, your guides, ancestors, the universe at large (this includes people) about the goals and let the help and answers come to you. Whether intuitive nudges or great big external answers happen, make space for them and shift your list to incorporate help and opportunity. Sometimes we assume more steps are necessary and then something magical happens, swoops you in and takes you to that goal. Make space for that possibility in your dream space as you take steps. Stay in the path of ease, of what is currently doable. Confused if an offering is opportunity or distraction? Take your time to consider while reviewing your joy board and goal list. Stay true to you. These are your centering tools now. Use them anytime.

MOON RITUAL

Call out in conversation. Greet the earth and the starry sky new moon. Stand in gratitude for this experience, this moment, this opportunity.

Bring your joy board and list all the goodies til they make you smile. Let the joy of that life vision fill you. Ask that miracles and magic exist in your journey, and that your esoteric company lift your heart and mind, keep you in a clear and kind relationship with your intuition, so you know what steps to take and when. Ask that there be time and space for you to dedicate to the actualization of your priority.

May your joy grow in your life as the moon grows in the sky.

Blessed be.

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