Earth Renewal Moon, December 24

Are you feeling compelled to make New Year’s Resolutions?

While the New Year offers an opportunity to reconsider your life and how you might want to lead it differently, don’t forget to use the energies of the Earth to assist you in any changes you want to make in this New Year. Right now is about rest, not change.

Everywhere you turn now, you hear about making New Year’s Resolutions or feel the expectation to turn over a new leaf in the New Year. In all cases, the implication is clear: you’re supposed to change those things that you didn’t like about yourself from last year, doing them differently in the New Year. Usually these resolutions represent radical changes: stop smoking, diet, exercise, eat more healthily, get organized, etc. While the New Year and the new calendar with its clean slate potential offer an opportunity to reconsider your life and how you might want to lead it differently, don’t forget to use the energies of the Earth’s season to assist you in any changes you want to make in the New Year.

At the end of December, we entered the Winter season. Winter is the time when the Earth has ended its retreat from the Sun and begins its return to bring warmth and extended light to the Earth. During the Winter, the Earth’s energies have receded completely deep into the Earth to renew and replenish themselves before the needs of coming of Spring. As the days and sunshine lengthen, the Earth begins to warm and regain its vitality and vigor for the Spring and the energies deep in the Earth begin to stir again.

As you enter this New Year in the midst of the Winter season, realize that you too need to renew and replenish your own energies or else you will be running on empty by the Springtime and Summer’s demands. This rest and rejuvenation is a three-month process during which there isn’t ample energy readily available to make radical changes in your life. But these changes will need to take time rather than be immediately.

The best way to renew and replenish your energies is allow the Earth to assist you. She can hold these energies safe, while allowing unneeded and unwanted or intrusive energies to drain away and mulch in the rich soils of the Earth.

So be easy on yourself, rest, and renew your energies during this Renewal Full Moon time.

Next Month: Rest and Cleansing Full Moon on Monday, January 22, 2008.