Entering My IDGAF Era and Other Stories for the New Moon in Leo
Entering My IDGAF Era and Other Stories for the New Moon in Leo
Plus, an invitation to this week's podcast episode on a very magical cookie recipe
I hope these stories on the sweetness of life and the magic that unfolds when you listen to your soul inspire you to see the magic always unfolding in your own life.
Today’s new moon in Leo feels like wild expansion, like life-changing progress, like stepping off the edge of a cliff. Except this energy is significantly subtle.
Instead of a big boom, you may be quietly expanding into the fullest expression of yourself.
Instead of experiencing some cataclysmic event outside the walls of your body, you’re life may be changing, shifting, under the surface, like light cells morphing and multiplying in your energetic composition.
And though you may be stepping off the edge of a cliff, you may feel full-on trust that instead of falling into a deep crevice or feral river, your next best steps are rising to meet you, like a solid white road paved expressly for you.
Does any of this resonate with you, sweet soul?
New moons are for declaring new intentions, for allowing your sweet soul to whisper new wishes into the air, such that the element can ensure their most potent expression.
With this new moon, the seeds I’ve planted previously, in other moon cycles, maybe in other lifetimes, are simply getting extra nourishment and space for growth.
“Stop tending too much,” they say. “Let us breathe and do our slow, magical dance upward.”
Slow growth, subtle growth, may feel less perceptive to the eye but it’s reliable and exciting, just the same. It’s the kind of growth you can count on, the kind that sticks, promise.
Something unsaid happened between me and another this week. It wasn’t a huge deal—simply a situation where expectations weren’t aligned—but the space in the conversation made the momentary crisis of intimacy quite evident.
The heaviness of the exchange lingered for a good few hours in my body. Finally, my soul asked me an on-point question, “What is the feeling you are experiencing, sweet one?”
I searched my mind for the train of emotions. I certainly felt sadness for misaligned expectations but it was more than that. I felt like I had done something wrong. I felt culpable in some way.
“I feel guilty,” I said aloud, as if I was answering another person in the room. But giving voice to the feeling can be helpful, especially if I wish for my soul to soothe me.
“So…” the soul offered. “Forgive yourself.”
Stunned at the simplicity of the offering, I said aloud, “I forgive myself.”
And just like that, the heaviness lifted. By allowing the audacity of self-compassion, I had alleviated the unnecessary drama and moved onto being a whole human again.
This week, I declared a tiny intention toward a big new potential something.
And, just afterward, I remembered that it’s not the payoff that matters as much as that tiny intentional declaration.
It’s the choice, the step toward the dream, that brings out enough of an aliveness in me that is fierce and powerful. And to witness that aliveness makes me fall more in love with myself.
And that process of falling in love with myself, a little bit more each day, is vital. It’s vital for you, too.
That’s because, it’s the flex toward self-love, even in tiny ways, that nourishes your desire for play and pleasure, that allows your body to have a lot more fun. And those feelings are like fuel to how you bring your particular art into the world, helping you continue to come into your fullest expression.
All this new moon energy is reminding me of where I like to be. Though I’ve yet to stand on a board, I’m an aspiring surfer so let’s use that metaphor.
Like a surfer riding on the waves, I don’t particular care to prolong my position at the highest tip of the wave nor in the deepest or lowest nook of the wave.
I leave lingering in the highs and lows to the thrill seekers. In fact, I notice that I let the highs and lows move through me, receiving the temporary splash or battering, but finding my way back to breath and center.
I choose to linger somewhere in the middle of the wave. Because it’s from that spot in the middle of the wave—focused, gathered, collected—where I do my best work, create my most profound art, make my kind of reliable progress. It is from that whole place, my wholeness, that my soul sings most sweetly.
As a Leo rising, I’m deep into exploring all the expressions of myself—physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, professionally, and most especially as an artist.
And the more I step into those various expressions, the more I allow all the parts of me to manifest, to come to the surface, the more I find that they are all welcome.
My wild side, my serious side, the lover, the maiden, and the mother in me, all of them wish to express. And now that I feel safe bringing them out, letting them dance the proverbial catwalk, I’m most definitely entering my IDGAF* era.
I want you to know that all the parts of you are welcome here and everywhere you wish to be, too. Walk the catwalk with me, won’t you? Perhaps, we can strut our stuff to this song.
*Look it up ;-)
Lastly, a new We Are Magic podcast episode released today and it’s all about how a magical cookie recipe is answering my biggest ask of the universe.
Listen here.