gratitude on the new moon
Embracing gratitude & sending joy forward (july 2023- august 2023)
From the last moon cycle, I am grateful for…
I am grateful for the retreat of my Mindfulness Teacher Training with iBme in Connecticut. Applying for the programming, and choosing to say offer a clear YES to the program, asked me to practice deep trust in my path and the more subtle voices guiding me. It was a reminder there is deep, loving, feminine energy in the universe open and willing to tend to my heart. I need to open myself to them, and they can offer a kind of care that is beyond words.
I am grateful for honesty in relationships and how they can show up. I was asked to revisit my understanding of Romance. I worked with a beautiful webinar series, Dismantling the Romance Myth, by Dean Spade, through the Fireweed Collective to work through my tangle of emotions and narratives no longer aligned with the life I want to co-create with others. It was a beautiful reminder in every aspect of our lives, we can choose a different response, especially when we have appropriate tools. I made a zine to process and record my learning on the topic this time around.
I am grateful for the space to tend the bonds with different relationships in my life. While on the East Coast, I decided to share time with loved ones, and woooow, my heart swam in softness. My friends are beautiful and such generous souls. My capacity to be with and offer softness to the younger people in my family reaffirmed my work and reminded me of the stake in my life’s work. Love never ends. The bonds of care persist through the distance and layers. Always.
What excited me about the next moon cycle?
This is the last full moon cycle of the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere. I wonder what I need to offer myself and those in my community in that cycle. What ceremony does this time call for?
I have a wonderful opportunity to be with a forest and fiesta and to listen deeply with an open heart alongside others committing to being in the same intention and space. It will be a new experience for me. My heart is ready to melt.
I am calling in Joy & Grace to accompany me as I continue to build my studio. I am adding more material to the space and more space to do emotional labor for creative energy to flow through me with ease.
Dearest reader, what experiences and beings supported you in the last month? What sweet moment still lingers with you? What is your heart excited to know, experience in remember in the next month?
unfurling with Love,
Flore