Caterwauling

Tealight and tourmaline isn’t too far off from what I did last night.

The new moon in Pisces is the last one of the cycle.

This is a weird new moon because it’s in Mercury retrograde. Which surprisingly hasn’t bothered me that much this time around.

It’ll be a weird full moon too. I’ve been advised not to charge my crystals under the Rx full moon. I don’t know why but hey, my life is on a good path and I’m not taking any chances.

In any event, the Pisces new moon is one where love and money is on our minds.

This is one for not just specific intentions (name the person you love, or the dollar amount you want, etc.) … but also you do NOT want to name any NEW intentions.

So basically, the new moon in Pisces (and Rx) is one for manifesting your OLD desires and goals.

It’s for deciding who and what to commit to. Again, specifically.

I might or might not have looked like the meme above.

Easiest new moon ritual ever — gather all the intentions you wrote down last year that haven’t yet been fulfilled.

Looking back over my spell books over the past year, I was pleased at just how many of mine came into being.

Almost like I reaped the rewards just for writing them down.

I came up with 37 intentions that haven’t manifested yet. But lots were moonshots, so I’m not worried.

I’m surprised how many moon landings I made last year too, just for asking for them.

I wish I could share my intentions here. But that’s the thing about intentions. I’m asking for mine for my own good and the good of those around me. Some folks miss that step.

But I will reveal Intention 36: to never think of HC again. To reclaim that time. And I wrote how I plan to reclaim that time.

Look at me, getting zen and organized and shit.

This moon magic is working already!

I just switched jobs and I realize what an economic privilege that is.

I say that because I pulled this card today, the Ace of Pentacles / Coins reversed. And once again, the tarot clearly can read my mind …

Over the years, I’ve been afraid of being let go. For financial reasons or a jerk with a grudge creating problems and employers needing peace too.

But I’ve been even more terrified of applying for something, getting it … and having to live 1-3 weeks without a payday.

Then you have to worry whether the new place even has the money to pay you. Or whether you were just a shiny new trade and it’s First In, First Out when they hit rough waters. Or if you are even a fit in the first place.

In any event, I say this as someone who just collected her last paycheck at her beloved job and gets her first shiny new check at the end of this week.

A trapeze artist, as it were, leaving the swing and tumbling midair — waiting for that next bar to meet my hands.

And it’s fine.

I have savings. I have a brokerage account. I have a 401(k). Plus a mattress stash that’s supposed to be for a couch but I just haven’t felt secure enough to commit to one yet. After a year. But who’s counting, really?

But hey. You know what a scarcity mindset manifests as? Scarcity!

In other words, I’m fine. I’ll be fine. Hopefully for a long, long time.

But damn, that scarcity mindset is a bigger foe than a guy driving around your neighborhood with a Jason Voorhies mask.

In any event, how many people decide NOT to make the leap because they’re afraid to take a financial risk like this?

Money provides such freedom.

I’d like a little more of that freedom.

A lot more.

I bet my life would be a lot different now if they knew how much freedom I plan to secure … and soon.

The shiny new work-from-home job is GREAT … except for the CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION here at the Rock of Fraggles.

I’m temped to lease a second apartment till this shit gets done. At the very least, to secure a co-working space. Although that’s terrible to leave mom here while I go get some damn peace.

Again, it’s nice to have options. And lots of them.