april reflections

For our Moonscape on April 14th, 2025, and our first event of the year, we worked with the archetypal energy of Libra. The full moon in Libra shone a light on connections, encouraging reflection on how we give and receive love, support, and understanding from a place of reciprocity.

Madeline and I talk about how before we can hold ceremony for others, the Universe holds a ceremony for us. And for me with a Libra Sun (my core identity), I learned important lessons about how I show up (and have been taught to show up) in relationships – from a place of prioritizing others before self, over-giving as a default state of being, and not being “practiced” at asking for help or receiving it. The shadow sides of this archetypal energy.

I believe that astrological placement or not, a lot of us – especially as women – have been conditioned to show up in the world in this way. And I am practicing grace with myself, remembering that I am a beautifully flawed human being – a speck of dust flailing through cosmic space and time, and my goal in this lifetime is to simply show up every day a bit better than yesterday. With that, I offer you this poem that closed our last Moonscape in hopes that these words may come to you as you need them:

I am tender with myself

I surrender, I surrender, I surrender

To the truth that I am infinite,

and infinitely small in this grand orchestra

of destiny and choice intertwined.

I am tender with myself and my unknowing

because the heart is a compass and not a map,

I let go of the sharp edges of my mind

and soften into the gentle curves of trust,

I come back to my center –

a center that is radiant and gentle in all the ways,

like a rose, I exist in beauty, joy, and impermanence.

I give love, I receive love, I am love.

I am tender with myself.