Evening Shadow on the Trail
When I devote myself to perceiving things as they really are, the sovereign beauty of Mother Earth leaves me speechless. I enter silent interdependence with her. … Unconditional love is present in every moment. … When I don’t allow sufficient time and space, all these wonders slip beneath my radar. I become numb…This is my colonized mind. It still wants to assert itself. Bit by bit, I am rewiring my mind and embracing other ways of being. Hilary Giovale, Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair
… With this New Moon, we are going to a deep place in our unconscious, setting intentions from raw layers of passion and truth that your shadow work may have only recently illuminated. … Dr. Michael Lennox, New Moon in Scorpio – post for November 19,2025
Personal harmonic convergence or a ‘perfect storm’ to niggle my inner victim? That choice, how I interpret my world, its events and observations, rose in me in the quiet dawn this morning as I was present to the dark of the moon and New Moon coming just before midnight tonight here in the mountains (tomorrow for you in the eastern US, across the pond, and down under).
Reflecting on an especially strong pull inward in recent days, the convergence of several experiences and observations emerged, each offering up the choice of perception. Would I give myself the time and space to see harmony, opportunity, possibility, and even gifts – the real? Or would I turn to the rational, colonized thinking that paints me as victim – what the world says is real?
Recognizing the dissolution, discord, and chaos in the world is not separate from me, but rather a reflection of that which is discordant, dissolving, and chaotic in me; the old working its way toward the emergence of something new.
Maintaining awareness of an inner sense that cosmic forces are calling forth and supporting a leap in human consciousness toward living the Truth of who we Be, a storyline being told across many disciplines which are beyond the world’s story found in mainstream news.
Exploring colonization and grappling with the shame that’s risen from becoming aware of my unconscious complicity in perpetuating its harms as well as from the choices of my ancestors who were party to the destruction of Indigenous culture. Beholding the question: what is mine to do?
Experiencing lingering effects and curiosity in the wake of last week’s intense solar activity; how I experienced the activity in body, mind, and spirit; and how I’m choosing to interpret and behold the experience.
Observing how I’m approaching a significant change in our rural health system as well as how I’m standing firm (but not angry) dealing with a company whose deceptive practices I discovered after purchasing a product. Each is informing me of where I feel vulnerable, experience fear, and lack trust in the Divine unfolding of Life.
I’m recognizing that what is real is in the eye of the Beholder and I’m guided to Behold that which is unfolding beyond the so-called news. Being present to the wonder of the cosmos right along with the places in me that invite reckoning, reconciliation, and release. Responding to the call of this New Moon.
May you hear her inward call as well and choose the path of harmony, embracing the beginning of a new lunar cycle abundant with opportunity to leap into the new.
Morning Visit from Coyote