Dear you,
The moon was new yesterday, so tonight there is almost nothing of it to see. By Monday or Tuesday evening a thin curve will show up low in the west just after sunset, and if you catch it, it’s one of the prettiest small things the sky does all month.
People make a great deal of new moons, and I understand why. A dark sky feels like a clean page. But I’d like to talk you out of the long list. The intentions that have actually come true in my own life were almost always small and a little boring: be in bed before eleven, ring someone I love on Thursdays, stop checking one particular profile. The big ones mostly got written down and admired.
So your one small step for tonight is a single sentence. Finish this line on a scrap of paper and keep it in your wallet or your phone case: By the full moon, I would like to have… Make the ending something you could really do in two weeks. Then leave it alone and let it grow in the dark for a while.
Every full moon and new moon until the end of 2027 is in the full moon calendar, if you like knowing where you are in the month.
Clara
