Bigger than you.
May 16th's new moon for far-reaching intentions and open hearts.
I was texting with a friend today about some life things. The kind of back-and-forth where you’re searching for words that don’t quite exist yet. And then she just called.
She cut right through it.
“Think about the larger ecosystem you’re building,” she said. “Make sure you’re including what’s beyond just yourself. You’re allowing things to become less tangled, more grounded…and yes, it asks a lot of the heart, but you’re moving through it beautifully. This is what anchors you.”
I’ve been sitting with that ever since. The larger ecosystem you’re building.
This May 16th new moon asks a lot of us and our hearts.
It asks us to lift our eyes from the immediate and take in the wider view.
It nudges you to consider: Where have your intentions stopped at your own front door? What opens up when you let them reach a little further?
Even in the small moments, there are ripples that will change things more than you realize and more than you’ll ever know.
And it doesn’t ask you to have it all figured out.
It asks you to show up to the page, to the people, to the parts of yourself that are still becoming. To be in it with others, not managing the distance but closing it. Stretched, yes. Learning, yes. And underneath all of it, more alive than you were before.
It also asks you to trust these moments to tell you more than what’s on the surface…
The 4 a.m. talks. The coffee at a kitchen counter while yapping to a friend. The decision to eat a gingersnap cookie for breakfast. The choice to pick up the phone when something bigger needs to be said.
It’s all material. Sit with it before you open the document.
You don’t have to write something grand; you just have to write something true to where you are right now.
That’s the invitation. That’s always been the invitation.
With you in it,
Licia
Your May 16th New Moon Writing Prompt
Set a timer for 5 minutes and write a list of 10 things you care about.
Not the impressive things. Not the things that sound good in bios. The real things.
The chipped mug. The friend who always calls back. The grocery store at 7:14 a.m. The song you replayed 18 times last Thursday. The text you got that made you smile at your phone.
Then pick one and write a 5-sentence paragraph about why it matters.
That’s often where the story starts.