This new moon I am releasing many, many things, burdens, weights, expectations, and so on. I am releasing the desire to be desired, to be wanted or to be liked. I am choosing to allow myself to just be, above all, and to never sacrifice my needs for the sake of feeling wanted. I want myself to remember that how other people feel about me should carry no weight in the way that I feel about myself because I am the only one who knows me in and out. We are all so complex, each living our own complicated existence. What makes being a human on this earth so neat is that while we are all living our own experiences, we are all connected simply because we are here. It really puts things into perspective for me. Tiny we are, but that does not mean insignificant.

This new moon I am setting many, many intentions. For this lunar period, and onward into all of time, I intent to continue to further my quest into my subconscious, to further my self expansion and awareness and to continue to grow physically and mentally as I work to heal inner and generational traumas. I strive to seek love and understanding of those and that around me. I work to leave this world, our earth, better than it was before me. I intend to focus on remaining and expanding my humility. I intend to radiate love and light, and help those around me to uncover theirs. I am always transforming into better versions of my past selves, better daughter, better sister, better friend, better lover, better citizen, better student, better listener, better intellectual. I intent to remind myself that my brain is a muscle that should be treated like any other, and excersised regularly- pushed and challenged.

I am not the smartest person in the room, the nicest, the funniest, the most empathetic. But I intend to work towards being the best I can, as much as I can. Time and will power are my best friends and I intend to exercise my savviness of them. I will keep asking questions, even when I feel silenced. When I see wrong doing, I will speak up, because that is what I would hope for. I intend to remind myself and those around me how much I love them. I intend to practice gratitude on a conscious and subconscious level as I continue to release the grip of materialism and consumerism. I honor my commitments and I will remind myself if I fail, to get back up. To rest, to heal, to listen to my body. And then to do it again. and again. Until I succeed, because I will. Trusting myself is the first step. This is my promise to myself.

I love you, XOXO, MB