the full moon in aries for writers
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But now: let’s talk about the Full Moon in Aries.
Xx,
Jeanna
There is a phase that I sometimes notice in folks — that when the painful, essential process of healing begins, there is a choosing of the self that can be almost reckless. A realization of, I don’t have to prioritize other people’s needs above my own! that can feel so revolutionary, so wild, so freeing after a lifetime of codependency or abuse or even an experience of profound tragedy that it can suddenly feel as if the rules no longer apply to us.
It is a feeling of freedom that can result in distancing oneself from the friendships and community connections that are actually still nurturing. Growing. Healthy.
It’s a kind of forgetting that I myself was once guilty of. It was a severe overcorrection, the swing from being raised in codependency to You mean I get to choose myself first as a divorced, queer woman? — one that initially resulted in not showing up for beloveds who had done nothing but consistently show up for me.
It is a tender thing, to know that you can hold space for others while still holding your own. The journey back to center can take a while.
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This work of balance, of harmony, of finding the self while still being active in a community is the work of a Full Moon in Aries occurring during Libra season. Exact at 27* of Aries on Wednesday, October 19th, at 10:56am Eastern, this moon highlights the tension of the Aries-Libra axis. The call to boldly communicate our needs, our desires in the midst of a season that is about the justice of being in harmonious relationship with the world around us.
There’s a lot of talk in spiritual and New Age circles around boundaries, around prioritizing yourself. Generally, this is a good thing. I’m a Saturn-ruled person. I think boundaries are great. Too many women and queers and people of color and folks existing across all of those intersections have been socialized to not prioritize themselves, to not honor their own desires, to exist at the whim of other people. Shoring up our boundaries is an excellent and essential first step.
But it is only that: a first step. We live in a society, after all, and few of us are called to the lifestyle of the hermit. Eventually, most of us re-enter our community, having gone into the woods of ourselves to learn how to heal and how to tend our needs so that when we are in relationship with others, we can hold our own — and help our friends when they’re drowning.
It is a fine line — the line between “put your own mask on first” and “help the person you love next to you, because we’re all in this together.”
Prioritizing our own needs doesn’t mean dismissing the needs of our beloveds, as we were once dismissed.
Writing Prompts for the Full Moon in Aries
Where in your life are you noticing a tension between prioritizing yourself and also investing in relationship with others? Is it with beloveds, with family, with roommates, with creative community? Sit with this for a moment. Notice how it feels in your body. What feels threatening or uncomfortable? Is the source of the discomfort a person who is trampling your boundaries, or a feeling of responsibility that has its roots in past patterns, or something else?
What does prioritizing your own needs and boundaries, creatively speaking, look like? What does asking other people to respect those boundaries look like?
This Full Moon marks the six-month culmination since the New Moon in Aries earlier this year — check out the writing prompts from earlier in the year to see how the seeds you’ve planted have grown, changed, or otherwise shifted or been discarded in favor of other projects.
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