The Full Moon in Aquarius Made Me Do It

Stories and questions for your soul's consideration

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This full moon in Aquarius is making me do a new thing. Well, I am making me do the thing and I’m allowing the power of the full moon in Aquarius, opposite the sun in Leo, to embolden me to do this very thing.

The full moon in Aquarius peaks on Tuesday, August 1 at 2:32 PM EDT. It’s a super full moon— that means its orbit is closer to the earth so the moon appears larger in size to all of us down here on this beautiful orb floating through space.

I am an Aquarius sun and a Leo rising so I feel like this cosmic energy is granting me a certain kind of permission slip. This full moon has issued an invitation to allow me and my stories to evolve, to come into their fullness, to be open to where they want to go.

I've been feeling this build up toward some kind of breakthrough, some kind of opening, for a little bit now. And while I don't think I have all the pieces just yet and I don't know exactly where I'm going, I know me. And time will show me how this break through or “breaking open” manifests.

Here are some other things I know.

I know that this full moon in Aquarius is calling me to balance my exploration of self with my service to the collective. It is actually asking that of all of us. So that is the question I will leave with you— How are you serving yourself while serving others? How are you serving others while serving yourself? How are you allowing harmony between the two?

I am hearing a call to truly understand, to muddle through, to review, to decipher, the best ways for me to walk the line between serving my soul and serving a higher calling. Sometimes they feel the same and sometimes they feel like two sides of the same coin.

In addition, we’re now in the trecena of B’atz in the mayan sacred calendar. It began on Friday, July 28 and ends on Wednesday, August 9 when we enter the trecena of K’at.

B’atz the nawal of creativity, entertainment, fun, and gestation. B’atz is actually the nawal of the sacred calendar, which could be considered to be the fabric created from all the individual threads of time. As such, B’atz weaves time together to create reality, so it can most certainly create more down to Earth things like stories and ventures and initiatives. So, this is a time to create and weave your reality the way you see fit.

Now, during this process of understanding myself through service, and understanding my creative desires, there’s been a lot of energy to move. There’s been a lot of breathing, a lot of somatic work, a massage or two, so many daily walks, tons of stretching, and daily meditation.

In my meditations, with my eyes closed, I have seen myself out walking in the darkness, with torch in hand, looking for the next version of myself. Sometimes there are torches lit along the path, guiding me home.

To where do I arrive?

Well, I always arrive at a home, the coziest of homes, the sweetest of homes, right by the sea, only this home I see in my meditations represents more than just a pile of wood. In fact, I know it as the walls and the roof and the door and the windows of my sweet soul. In every moment, I am always seeking and remembering the home within.

It reminds me of something Emily Dickinson wrote. She wrote, “I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” It’s a beautiful visual to illustrate the ever unfolding process of becoming.

In addition, I’ve received memories and messages from a particular point in my past that I’d like to tell you about right now. I keep being called back to my days of running Eat Boutique, which was a food and recipe site. It was actually more than that. It was a thriving food gift business and community of food lovers.

For those who don’t know, let me share a little background information. I used to ship food gifts all across North America and I hosted pop up food retail markets, mostly in Boston. And this period of my life was a moment of real beauty, because, I felt very much aligned in my energy. I instinctively knew what to do from moment to moment. And that instinct helped me to create beautiful spaces and memories that centered nourishment.

Through Eat Boutique, I hosted approximately 25,000 in-real-life attendees to my markets and I maintained a list of 40,000 followers.

Now, running this sort of business had its ups and its downs, but the cool part was: I made something special almost entirely from my stories of food discoveries, simple pleasures, nourishment, recipes, stories of me in my kitchen with others. And sometimes, the most special stories rose when I was alone in the kitchen, all by myself.

I keep being drawn to investigate that time, to consider what made that business so compelling to others. And for a long time, it was very compelling to me, until I remembered that keeping up with all the latest food trends was no longer interesting to this sweet soul. And all the lugging of all the boxes all across the city was a lot of work, too. So I heard the call to close that business just before the pandemic and it really was the best decision. I do not regret it one bit.

But when I think about that time in my life, I think yes, one of the common denominators that made it compelling was, of course, me. And I remember people always wanting to speak to me about food and its impact at all my events. It could be a lot to hold sometimes — especially when the stories involved grief — but it was also such a delight to be talking about food for a living.

More than anything, I think that time offered me and others an opportunity to explore the pleasure in, at the very least, the kitchen — as well as the kind of pleasure that could potentially extend beyond the kitchen.

In the kitchen, it offered an exploration of the pleasure of making a sweet or savory treat for breakfast, first thing in the morning, to feel rejuvenated or awakened.

Beyond the kitchen, it offered an exploration of the pleasure of strolling a farmers market, touching all the fresh produce, allowing the heat of the sun rays to warm your shoulders while choosing the perfect assortment of peaches. And when you bake that buttermilk peach cake, you remember your warm shoulders and the intention in creating goodness for people you love.

And it was also probably comeplling because we can all relate to wanting to do something for joy, for pleasure, for the love we want to share with others, for the love we wish to offer ourselves. That period of life taught me so much about loving on myself and it helped me reconnect with the knowing that, more than food, I loved myself enough to explore these simple pleasures.

So with that in mind — and in heart, and in soul — we're going to experiment over the next several weeks. I'm going tell stories of simple daily pleasures and the magic that may arise through them, especially when we listen to the soul’s voice.

And these stories may involve the magic behind food. But also, there’s magic everywhere. I mean, we are all magic. So I will endeavor to enlighten, to bring a torch to, the magic that I notice while telling these simple stories. And also, there may be some meaning or memory or magic that arises for you as you hear these stories.

And to begin, I'm going to tell you a story about cookies.

It’s a story about a very specific recipe. It's not my recipe, though it feels like my recipe now. I will share the magic of these cookies with you in my next story.

But back to the experiement for a moment.

At the end, I'll have learned a little bit more about how this feels, to remember the magic in the every day and to look back on, bear witness to, the magic of some past memories. I will apply the lens of my most intuitive self to all of it. And you, well, you'll have learned a little bit more, or a lot more, about me.

Now, I’m still sorting through it but I will probably share these stories in text format and also in audio format in the Audio Membership. So, if you are a subscriber to the Audio Membership, you will get both versions. I hoped you don’t mind me saying but I believe that the audio version is far more compelling.

But I also want you to know that I am likely going to return to podcasting for a month or two (maybe more) to share some of these stories. I’m doing this to offer a peek into the Audio Membership and to help grow that offering. Please tell your friends that they can listen to some stories from me for free on the We Are Magic podcast (starting next week) and they can join the Audio Membership if and when it feels aligning.

With that, I look forward to sharing the first story on the magic of one of my favorite cookie recipes very, very soon. It’s a recipe that’s beginning to answer one of my biggest asks of the universe.

With love and magic, always.

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