THE LUNAR CYCLE OF LIVING: Rosh Chodesh Nisan, 5783 / 2023

[Juliet Spitzer is a Spiritual Director who lives near Philadelphia — AW, ed.]
 
by Juliet L. Spitzer

Each new moon we begin
with a sliver
of an idea we tend and curate and sculpt and hone
to its fullness
where we float for a spell,
contented in the completion,
then suddenly notice - as if we’ve never been on this ride -
it becomes less magnanimous
more concise
waning, allowing
making room for the next inspiration
that again grows and blooms
into round, unfettered wholeness
where we rest for a beat,
then tune our wild howling
slowly back to its essence -
the fragment of a month
waiting to be well-lived