Full Moon, Full Heart

Today is the Full Moon in Capricorn which is in my 3rd house that governs communications, writing, and learning.

At the beginning of this year, when we had a New Moon in Capricorn, I initiated a project that I'm calling my 2022 Writing Challenge.

Since January 1st, I've posted blog everyday. For me, this level of commitment has been unprecedented. I've written several times that one of the keys to doing this has been to keep the bar low. The point is not to write a good post everyday, but just to publish something.

My intention is to improve my writing and editing skills over the course of the year and experiment with coming up with new things to write about and share on what it means to live on the upward spiral.

In my own Moon Practice, I take time at the full moon to look back on what has transpired from my intentions set two weeks before with the previous new moon but also what has come to fruition with the intentions I set 6 months prior when the New Moon was in the corresponding sign.

(In case that sounds confusing know this: The Moon goes through all 12 astrological signs each month. On the New moon, it will be in the same sign as the Sun. For example, right now the Sun is in Cancer and so the new Moon two weeks ago was also in Cancer. However, the Full Moon of that cycle will be in the opposite sign as it travels through all signs throughout the month. Over the course of a year, the Moon will travel through all 12 signs throughout it's New and Full Moon cycles. What that means is that whatever sign a New Moon is in, it will return to that sign as a Full Moon 6 months later. I find this helpful to revisit areas of my life that correspond to these signs like I'm doing in this post.)

So today, I'm using this Full Moon energy to look at not only what progress has been made towards the goals I set for the current lunar month but what has come to fruition this year.

For someone who's yet to sustain a daily practice of this kind for this long, to say that I'm proud to have maintained my promise is almost an understatement. Believe me, there have been days that I almost forgot. There was the one day my computer wouldn't turn on and I had to figure out how to post from my phone. There was the day that I ended up at the emergency vet (and the day I ended up back there a few months later!). There were days were I had barely any energy and recycled some poetry. There were days that I only wrote a few sentences. But still, I hit publish every day.

In reflection, I will say that though I've posted everyday, I rarely go back through and ruthlessly edit. This is what I'd like to get better at. I've also told myself for months to start categorizing and tagging the posts so I can organize them. I'd like to find the time over the next 6 months to incorporate this into the process as well.

But despite what I feel like are areas of improvement, I'm moving through today with a full heart. I made a promise to myself and I'm keeping it. I can't wait to see what emerges as I write through the rest of the year.