New Moon

Today is the New Moon in Gemini, the natural home of my Moon sign. This lunar position is perfect for what is going on in my life right now. It heralds a new beginning, travel, communication and new perspectives. It is truly indicative of what is coming up for me tomorrow.

I leave bright and early in the morning on a shuttle headed for the airport, hop a bird to Seattle, and by dinner time I will be immersing myself in the lush Washington landscape as part of an intimate group of women, each of us ready to empower the other, discover our truths, share and connect, as well as isolate from the rest of the world in a spirit of communion with ourselves and with the lives that we inhabit. This amazing $1000 workshop, called Soltura, was given to me for only a hundred bucks, after scholarship, plus airfare. It is truly a special event for me, and it is happening at a time when my life is transitioning from the trauma and drama of the last few months, to a more even, exciting phase of rediscovering, or rather truly and intentionally discovering for the very first time, the beauty that lives and breathes within me, the soul that speaks to the world as a persona wrapped in human dreams and actions.

My workshop intensive will be four days of self reflection, and then it's off, alone, on another two day adventure as I carve out a slice of life just for me to roam the streets of the bustling, beautiful city of Seattle. I've never taken a journey quite like this one before. I'm due some personal reflection time. I can already tell that I will not be too anxious to return. Two days in downtown Seattle will only leave me begging for more.

Time has brought me to this place. I have created this opportunity to give me a space to heal from the last many years of sadness, the drama that preceded and immediately followed my separation from David, and the watchful sadness that keeps me hanging on to the possibility that I will somehow have to face those demons again.

This is my time. It begins now. The illumination comes not from the dark of the moon, but from the light of my soul.