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A newsletter about love and loss and the role of forgiveness in transformative change. Dispatched on the primary phases of the moon.

February 20/New Moon

Mom Update.

Tina Laurel Lee

Feb 20, 2023

The new moon is here and so I write to you. Since I wrote you last time, Mom has declined to a new phase and hospice has placed her on a watch status as she is expected to die soon. We don’t know a lot. That is the hardest part. Trust is required. She is calm and comfortable and in a place she loves with people that she loves. And she is a brave and adventurous person and she will do this in her own way, as she has done everything else.

As I do with these new moon letters, I am posting my series of moon practices with this beginning of a lunation. I suggest you follow the moon’s trajectory through your life by pausing with each of its primary phases. The page that organizes it all has been updated with the dates for the next cycle. The pauses are how you take the reigns of time into your own hands and start to lead that chariot where you want it to go. For $8 you can become a paid subscriber for a month and have access to them all.

Songs of Forgiveness

Begin this practice with the New Moon

Begin the set of meditations gathered below with the next New Moon. That is when the moon is between the Earth and the Sun and no light is reflected back at us here on Earth. It has traditionally been a time when people set intentions, plant seeds, and use the cycle for manifesting the things we want more of in our lives. When the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are lined up like this, we get our biggest tides because the solar and the lunar gravitational pulls are working together. And so, I offer, you can work with them too, when you take the time to pause with each phase and let the moon have its place alongside the Sun’s daily push and pull…

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