More moon thoughts as we enter the new moon phase

I found the following at astrowisdom's moon archives, an excellent resource.

New Moon in Pisces
Monday, February 27, 2006
4:31pm PST
9º 16'

Please visit her site to read this months new moon influences.

I began this blog two years ago after a dream. One I call the Micro/Macro dream. In it I was challenged to discern what my personal micro says about The Macro. I can't say for sure my blogging was a direct result of that dream, but I think it was definitely fuelled by it.

The Micro Macro image (one large circle next to a small one) and concepts took a lot of my interests that year. And I discovered Alchemy.

I earned that the cycles of my micro (the universe of me) is linked to the cycles of the Macro, (the Universe that contains me and everyone and thing else in here with me).

And that is why it is so important that each individual is allowed, encouraged to explore and express their most sacred innermost selves. It only serves to enhance the whole of us.

Last year, The tarot image I selected during my annual reading was the Moon.
My personal project was to get in touch with my inner most feelings, as I recognised I was very cut off from these important aspects of myself. I had denied myself my feelings far too long. I began an experiment using my artwork and poetry sort of as a mirror of what was going on inside me. Hence my poetry and art work is intensely personal. I called this experiment healing through creativity.

I felt there was a logical partnership between my own desires to get more in touch with myself, through the agency of art, symbol and word to the symbolism of the Major Arcana's Moon card I pulled during a meditative excersise.

I spent a lot of time over the year in familiarizing myself with the phases of the moon, including adding a moon calendar from calculatorcat to this site.

The symbolism I worked with in my art work and poetry was definitely water based. Ocean scapes, Porpoises, sea pearls, Uta Tulu (my ancient raindrop character), my sunshower series and so much more than I can mention here.

It was a harsh year. Not only did I connect to my innermost feelings, hopes, desires, fear's; I was flooded with them. Overcome even. But the art was more than satisfactory.

I knew as the year was ending that the coming year would have to be the year of harnessing those emotions. I believe they can be used, like wild oxen, properly reigned they can propel one toward a suitable destiny, unless allowed to overwhelm and consume. (This figures in a theme of preliminary sketches I've been working on)

Because of my blogging and journal keeping I discovered an interesting pattern between my creativity, my menstrual cycle, and the phases of the moon. I know it sounds off the wall, but as I went through my entries I noticed a pattern of creative outflow peaking during the three days directly preceding the onset of my menses. As I track the moon, my fertility and my creative products, I find they all travel together. As the moon advances (a day or two a month) so does my window of opportunity for greater creativity. The three seem completely linked.

This very observation is a good example of how investigating your inner self, hidden emotions, motives and memories can produce tangible and valuable insights about how to best apply your talents.

As an artist and a writer, it is to my advantage to know when my muse will be swooping in for a visit in advance.

As a woman, my menstrual cycle went through a transformation once I began paying attention to the cycles of the moon, meditating, and creating. I no longer suffer from missed periods, or heavy ones, or painful ones. My last ultrasound showed a remarkable recovery in my right ovary, one that ten years ago had been crippled by policyctic syndrome. I don't think it's a coincidence.

By connecting to my own (micro-scopic) cycles, the (Macro-scopic) cycles of the Earth (and moon) I can always be prepared to receive my muse, turn off the phones, turn on some candles, sit down quietly and focus.

I honestly believe anyone can benefit from investigating their own ebbs and flows of mood and motion. Creativity and health. For women especially, I think it is important to pay attention to the moon, her phases, and how you feel, how you act during these times, especially when looking to heal things such as fertility, sexuality, relationship with self, relationship to the world.

xoxoxo
Here's to good health, ours, your's and the earth's.