So, the moon should be hitting its next full moon stage tomorrow night—and it should also be an lunar eclipse as well (I’m now debating on whether or not I’m going to stay up late enough to view it).

But before looking ahead to the Scorpio full moon, I should take a look back at the goals that I set for the Libra full moon and see how I did with each of them.

So what were my goals for the Libra full moon? They included:

  1. Finish ‘fleshing’ out my twelve-month plan that I started under the Aries new moon (focusing on career/professional development, health/wellness, personal development/finances/spirituality, and hobbies/crafts). Will be a continuation of expanding my focal points from last year (the main idea from the book ‘The Renaissance Soul: How to make your passions your life—a creative and practical guide’ by Margaret Lobensteine).
  2. Create the ‘May brain-dump’ page; basically try to get all ideas and thoughts for the month of May onto paper. This will allow me to see pages/posts that I would like to create and give some direction to the month (possibly also convert it into the start of an editorial calendar).
  3. Develop a rough draft of a personal/professional development plan (ties in with the finishing of my ‘twelve-month plan’).
  4. Get back into my evening meditations, and possibly start doing some light yoga as well.

So how did I do with each of them?

I’m still ‘fleshing’ out my twelve-month plan. I know that I want to head in a remote and/or freelance direction in terms of science/medical/health communications/copywriting. I’m actually starting to try to develop a portfolio that isn’t just my academic papers/posters, LinkedIn profile, or the pieces that I’ve written for Medical News Bulletin (though they’ll all be included of course). In terms of the other areas (health/wellness, personal development/finances/spirituality and hobbies/crafts), I’m still working on those directions.

Instead of generating a ‘May brain-dump’, I’ve actually created a 90-day content challenge spreadsheet (and considering the number of topics on the spreadsheet currently & the number of topics I may add)—I have enough ideas for a while.

The 90-day content challenge sprung from my latest review of my comfort diagram and wanting to really try to push the comfort/bounce zones. The overall goal is that at the end of the 90 days, I should have at least 90 days worth of content to polish and then publish over the following 90 days (or longer).

I’m also still working on the personal/professional development plan as well. Though I’ve realized a couple of my little ‘sticking points’ over the past two weeks: 1) I’m still afraid that I’ll get bored with a subject/niche—therefore I haven’t decided anything really more specific than either scientific/medical/health communications/copywriting or molecular, cellular, and cancer biology; 2) I can fall into the ‘rabbit-hole’ of the internet in terms of trying to do research and I have to remind myself that I’m not aiming to write a research paper; and finally 3) it’s perfectly okay to focus on a topic that isn’t science.

I’m still trying to extend the time on my evening meditation beyond a minute or two, and I really haven’t started doing any yoga.

So, I would say that I hit maybe twenty percent of my goals for the Libra full moon. This was in part too much in my head and letting my imposter syndrome/inner critic run the show. There has been progress—and it’s been small, but it is there. Therefore, I’m going to ‘shake’ off the judgmental feelings of ‘not doing enough’, and focus on what I can accomplish during the rest of the year.

As I’m remembering: ‘Progress over Perfection’.

How did you do with your Libra full moon goals?