Full Moon. Full Plate.

Life got full and I had to drop some things. This wasn't my first choice, but I had to prioritise my energy. I suspect you know that feeling.

Most of us are navigating more than enough.

It takes honesty to admit the plate is too full. The busy badge of honour is seductive. I almost fell for it myself. So I've been editing my life, looking for more space, and finding new ways to protect what matters.

My days revolve around my clinic. Which means I get a direct look into people's lives, into your lives. And they are full. Remarkably full and most often overwhelmingly so.

A blue moon invitation

On the last night of May, a blue moon reached its peak over Melbourne.

The second full moon of May.

Rare.

Unhurried.

A witness to the end of autumn and the turning toward winter.

Full moons illuminate. Not always comfortably.

So here's an invitation:

Notice where you are so full you could burst.

Notice honestly, do you need it all?

Notice where your edge is, and whether you are over it or close.

The invitation is simply to notice.

Not to immediately find a solution.

The treasure is in the noticing itself.

The mind left to its own devices tends to produce more of the same. Even our solutions carry the fingerprints of the problem. We think our way toward answers that look suspiciously like the thinking that created the difficulty in the first place.

Noticing is the pattern interrupter.

Taoism, the philosophy at the root of Chinese medicine, doesn't begin with taking action. It begins with observation. Noticing is where it all starts.

The trouble is that noticing creates a little space. And space can feel uncomfortable.

The very thing we're searching for; more time, more space, more room to breathe, is often the thing we rush to fill the moment it arrives.

What if we didn't?

Into winter

Winter in Chinese medicine is the season of the Kidney.

Of stillness.

Of going inward.

Of conserving what matters and letting go of what doesn't.

The most yin of all seasons.

The most honest.

If something here speaks to you, you can work with me in person at my clinic in Preston and at The Yin Palace gatherings in Melbourne, or online through my qigong community and Rage Rising. The Three Treasures Pathway is offered both in person and online.

With Love,
Anny 🌹