May 31st Full Blue Moon
Excavate (and write about) what scares you
On May 31st, there’s a second full moon in the month. A blue moon. And if you’ve felt it already — the unease, the old thing resurfacing, the emotion you thought you’d finished with — you’re not imagining it.
This moon is an excavation.
The energy of the moon starts by reaching into the deep-seated habits, the reactions you can’t quite explain, the self-doubt that arrives without an invitation; then it illuminates the internal systems we’ve built to protect ourselves, to ask us whether we still need them.
It’s like mining in caves.
You go in not always knowing what you’re looking for. You lose your footing. You lose the light. And then something emerges from the dark that you recognize, something that needed to be said, released, trusted, let go.
Over the next 10 days leading up to the full moon, you will be confronted with deeply meaningful and emotional spaces.
This moon does not ask politely.
In my own life, I’m seeing it already.
Recently, I stood in a room and repeated a need out loud. I was afraid, and the fear almost stopped me. But I knew if I didn’t say what needed to be said, I wouldn’t just be doing a disservice to the person I was talking with; I would be doing a disservice to myself.
I would be hiding behind a secondary need to make everything okay, to smooth it over, to not take up too much space or be too much.
I said it anyway, and it was met with care and kindness.
That’s what this moon is asking of all of us, in our lives, in our relationships, and most urgently, in our writing. It’s asking us to stop managing the distance between what we feel and what we put on the page.
The truth is hard to write. I know that. You know that. But when we write it, when we let it land, something shifts. People see themselves in it. They feel less alone in their own caves, they are met with care and kindness. That’s the whole point. That’s what this illumination is for.
So begin now before the moon is full and start noticing what’s rising in you.
The old ache.
The unfinished conversation.
The thing you’ve been circling without landing.
Let it be material. Let this moon be the reason you finally put it down.
Write what needs to be said. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s true. And because the people reading your words are standing in their own rooms, feeling their own fear, waiting for someone to go first.
With you on the page,
Licia
Your Blue Moon Writing Prompt
Think of something you’ve been circling, a feeling, a memory, a truth you’ve been softening every time you try to write it.
Set a timer for 10 minutes. Write it without softening it. Don’t explain it. Don’t justify it. Don’t make it okay for the reader yet.
Just put it down exactly as it lives in you.
That’s the cave. That’s where the real writing starts.
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