On summer/full moon energy…

Over the next few weeks I’m going to chronicle out what living in alignment with my hormones/the moon has looked like for me, a post-journey I started two weeks ago on here. This is post 3/4, go ahead and click back to post 1 and check out post 2 if you haven’t caught them yet!

Excited today to move us along to the third phase – visibility, summer, the full moon! I love this imagery because you simply cannot ignore the full moon when it’s lighting up the whole sky, can you?? In hormone terms, this is where ovulation happens – Kate Northrup has coined this “egg wisdom” and it’s a powerful way to look at it! More on that in a second. This is often the time you most want to be seen – it’s often when you feel sexiest and have the most energy for “extras” like hard workouts and date night. This might be when your kids listen to you best too! #funnythat

This can be a time where it’s also important to tune into your ability to manifest and receive. If that sounds like a lot of hocus pocus, just focus on the receiving part. How hard is it often for us – especially as women – to allow ourselves to receive. If you’re extra magnetic, it can be an exercise in LITERALLY taking the good things coming our way – from a new date ,to help with the kids, to compliments. Because capitalism and the patriarchy have together created the space where we take so much of our worth and value from what we’re “earned”, it can feel challenging when something comes easily – isn’t that just so ironic? But I’ve heard it from friends, from my family, even out of my own mouth – “oh, it’s no big deal, it just happened” or “oh I didn’t really do anything, it’s no big deal”. This is a chance to practice just saying thank you!

I challenge you to try it the next time someone complements you. I am terrible at this, but I’m working on it. #progressnotperfection Try just saying thank you. That’s it. Not “oh this old thing”, or “oh thanks I like your dress too!”, or my personal favourite “oh I got it on sale!”. Try just leaving it at thank you! And let me know how that goes ;)

I want to quickly highlight a pitfall here.

The patriarchy is afraid of your power, or more specifically – patriarchal institutions are threatened by you USING your power. When we wake up to our wild, sexy, beautiful magnetism, we throw so many of the roles placed on us out the window. These are the days I walk with an extra sway in my hips, where I speak up in a conversation where someone says something that makes me uncomfortable, where I can say heck no or oh yes please with more ease. None of these things fit into the “good girl” narratives. None of these involve me making myself smaller, or diminishing myself to make someone else more comfortable. None of these involve me sacrificing myself on the alter of other people’s needs, and that can be threatening to systems that depend on me putting myself last. But this phrase really is key to be able to do LESS and have MORE.

Swing your hips. Post the picture of yourself in a bikini. Have the sex! Eat the cookie. Stand up for yourself. Do the damn thing. Life is way too short to let this precious time slip away unused every month!

Let’s jam on what this might mean for action in your life. This is the time to give them the old razzle dazzle! Because of your brain chemistry in this phase, your communication is excellent. Have the hard conversations. Ask for the raise, do the job interview, confront that guy that keeps stealing the special tea you bring from home in the office kitchen. The world is yours! Now, if you’re rolling your eyes at me right now because this sounds like a week where you should do a LOT, that’s ok! Remember, we’re going to look at just moving some of our activities into the phases – but also! I want you to remember that when we work with the cycles, energy flows differently than when we work against it.

Here’s an example – have you ever had a summer cold? (Ok maybe you need to holler at me so I can share my favourite protocol that has meant we have had exactly 2 colds in the last 4 years in my house, but!) You’ll know what I’m talking about if you have. Summer – the same energy we’re talking about here – feels like the time you want to be out playing at the beach with your kids, or laughing on a patio with your girlfriends over iced lattes. That makes it extra hard to just want to stay inside, curled up on a couch, like you might want to if you’re nursing an illness. It’s the same with our lives – when we move with the energy, it feels a little less like we’re constantly swimming upstream and exhausted.

Again, you don’t have to blindly believe me. In fact, please don’t! We – society, but/and especially those of us who identify as women – are at a stage where we need to move past “I have to do it this way because it worked for someone else”. Try it on – even for 5% of your work or life – and see how it feels.

Even just noticing is the first step. Next week I’ll wrap up our last cycle and we’ll come back into fall energy – preparing once again for winter. Stay tuned. <3