So the moon has entered it’s latest full moon phase. This happened either last night (which would have made it a full moon on Friday the 13^th) or tonight. It is also the Harvest moon (which is what the full moon closest to the fall equinox is called).  September is also almost halfway over, and that means there is just a little over three and a half months left in 2019.

So if I looked to the book “Moonology: working with the magic of lunar cycles” by Yasmin Boland, I’d see that there are five questions that one can ask themselves during this time:

Have I been dreamy to the point of not getting enough done and making silly errors?

Have I been overly sensitive and too easily hurt?

Have I been acting like a martyr? Or too easily led?

Have I been meditating every day, and if not, why not?

Have I been in touch with my intuitive side? Following my dreams and hunches?

So if I were to number the above questions 1-5, I think that my answers would be as follow:

1. I would probably agree that I haven’t gotten enough things done in terms of working towards a transition into industry, but that is more of not planning/over-planning/not managing my time well enough. I do “escape” into my own world when the real world irritates me (which is quite a lot lately), but I don’t think that I’m making silly errors. I do make mistakes now and then—but I’m only human, and not a machine.
2. This depends on what one is talking about—I try not to take criticism personally at work, I know that I’m moving on and the others are staying—they have to worry about every little thing to ensure that funding stays. I’m only human and I do make mistakes (and I made a couple this week, that postponed some data for clients by a day or two)—but I always apologize both ahead of time and when I finally get the data to them.
3. No, I haven’t been acting like either a martyr or being easily led around by others either.
4. I try to mediate every day and usually at night. There have been a few days when I haven’t meditated in the evenings before bed, and that is usually because I’m either really tired, or really irritated with something and I just want to read for awhile before heading to bed.
5. I’m trying to do this, I really am—but first I have to try to redefine what my dreams are for my career (as becoming a professor at a university doing cutting edge research isn’t in the current cards). I have realized that I need to live my life for me—which means going on a reboot break to determine what it is I want to do, and moving forward from there.

So the Pisces full moon is also passing through my seventh house, which is also my “love zone”. While I’m currently not in a relationship, it can also relate to how one deals with other people in general. One thing that I have found interesting with this book—there are questions for the full moon, and things to consider with each house (but only with the new moon)—I guess they balance each other out, since you go through each constellation and house twice in a year (once for the new moon and then once for the full moon).

So I am going to pay attention to how I get along with people, and try to be more understanding of others over the next couple of weeks. Therefore my goals for the Pisces Full Moon will include:

            Meditating nightly. I’ve been trying to get back into the routine, and will continue working on it. I can usually manage two-to-four minutes, and hope that within a couple more months, I can get back to five-to-ten minutes. Also I’m going to try to find somewhere on campus that I can at least sit and breath for a few minutes (without being disturbed).

            Get back into journaling and working on my reboot break and transition plan. The birthday is happening soon, and then I will be looking down my last year of my thirties—it’s time to seriously plan for the second half of my life.

            In connection with number two—figure out how to divide things between different days and work on my time management (plan things out).

But over all remember: Progress over Perfection.