New Moon

The living space has been cleaned up, everything is in its place.

The floors have been swept (from the outside of the room to the center, of course, and then the energy itself swept right out the door), vacuumed, and scrubbed.

I finished the laundry yesterday, in preparation for tonight. Every sock in the appropriate drawer, tee shirts rolled, pants, dresses, skirts and dress shirts hung in the closet. I finished the last of the ironing this morning.

The beds were stripped yesterday, and the linens now smell like clean sunshine with a faint hint of lavender. 

The towels smell like a freshly cut orange, an invigorating start to the day.

Some of the windows are still clean from last month, the rest will have to wait until next month as I simply didn't have the spoons to get everything ready in a day...in a week...

Witching with chronic illnesses is a lesson in compromises. A reminder that the Earth sees me as "enough" even if other people have forgotten what "enough" means...myself included.

Tonight is the New Moon, a time to turn inward. To introflect upon my responsibilities and roles in the world. To course correct.

To chart my path from now until the next New Moon.

I will wash my hair, and scrub my skin. If I were on either coast, I would swim in the ocean and let the sea scrub me clean. Instead, I will use sea salt and make my own sea in the middle of this desert, to wash away regret along with the aches and pains of living. This evening, my dogs and I will walk into the foothills, and find a comfortable boulder to meet the rising dark moon. We will commune, the Moon and I, observing the path of the world in the greater Universe. Tears will be spilt, both hers and mine, for all the needless loss of life... for egos... for pride...and choices made out of fear. I will thank her for my journey thus far, and I will be grateful for her reminder that I am but one voice, one soul, one heart, of billions. That I can't do it all, and at least I am doing something.

I am protecting native species, so the Earth herself can heal.

I am supporting those who protect the water, while also doing what is within my control to protect the water here in the desert.

I am listening to the People who belong to this Land I am living on, and I defer to their wisdom (and don't try to impose my own).

"Nobody can do everything, but all of us can do something"

What are you doing, for this New Moon?