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Peaking around the corner at 2023: Gemini Full Moon Goals

09
Dec
2022

So, we’re entered the full moon for December on the 7th, and I’m a couple days late in posting…This means that there are now only twenty-two days left in 2022. I have no idea how I feel about that fact, nor do I have any idea how I feel about 2023…other than hoping it goes (or at least ends) a little better than this year is going to be ending.

As I’ve been reflecting back on the past several years—there may be a ‘economic gap’ on my resume—it isn’t a ‘experience gap’—I have added in the science/medical/health content creation, blogger, and writer to my resume (and acknowledged the creative blog as well).

Before I get carried away in the direction of reflections and what I may or may not have accomplished this year (that will be the topic for at least one or two posts at the beginning of the year)—back to the topic at hand: December’s full moon.

Wednesday, the moon moved through the Gemini constellation, and there are questions that one can contemplate during the days surrounding that transition. If one looks at “Moonology: working with the magic of lunar cycles” by Yasmin Boland, those five questions are:

Have I been gossipy, superficial, or flighty this month?

Have I been glossing over other people’s feelings?

Have I been too quick to change my mind, or too restless?

Have I been too much of a silver-tongued hustler?

Have I done enough reading to keep expanding my mind?

If I were to number the above questions one-to-five, my answers would be as follows:

  1. Well, I’m still self-isolating for the most part—so I don’t think I’ve been gossipy or superficial this month. Flighty…yeah, I’ve been a little flighty this month, but considering the ongoing family medical drama (that is still ongoing and acting like a roller coaster)…not surprising that I’m a little flighty.
  2. I don’t think I’ve been glossing over people’s feelings either this month.
  3. This depends on what we’re talking about—I haven’t changed my mind in terms of pivoting into remote/online/contract writing and/or data analysis position and trying to start my own freelance company. Being restless—maybe a little, but hey—dealing with a family medical issue (which has entered month four), the damn SARS-CoV2 virus is here to stay, and I’m not sure which way is up anymore.
  4. Nope.
  5. Working on this—I’ve realized this year that I go through cycles when it comes to reading non-fiction. I have enough non-fiction books that I really shouldn’t buy any new ones next year—or at least make sure that I’ve read at least three books for every book I think of buying.

So I’m also going to see what house the moon will be transition through during this time. Using my rising sign (which is Scorpio), the Gemini constellation is moving through my eighth house—the focus of this house on “death and rebirth, reinvention and transformation”.

Thanks to the SARS-CoV2 virus, I’ve spent majority of the past three years doing serious self-reflection and personal/professional development. I’ve decided the direction I want to head in for my career transition—remote science/medical/health communications, with the long-term goal of having a successful freelance business within both that realm and creative/hobby side as well. Therefore, I have allowed the ‘bench lab scientist’ to ‘die’ and I’m going to be reinventing myself in 2023 as a successful science/medical/health communicator.

So this is the time to try to find balance between slowing down, rushing to learn things, being real with people, money, and determining one’s self worth.

Therefore my small goal list for the last few weeks of 2022 (and the first few weeks of 2023), will include:         

  1. Setting up my master 2023 habit-tracking journal. I had fairly good success with the 2022 master habit-tracking journal (just had to remember to take time towards the end of each month to finish setting up the next month—especially towards the end of the year)
  2. Continue reading one of the many non-fiction books that I’d started during the last half of 2022
  3. Finish getting the second website/blog up and running, as it will be one of the major parts of my online portfolio for science/medical/health communications
  4. Get the ‘writing/working’ station setup in the bedroom…aka rearrange the room
  5. Figure out an schedule/calendar for various sites (LinkedIn, the creative blog/website, and the science/medical/health website), plus figure out the other social media sites that I want to use to promote both blogs

But above all, remind myself—that I’m making progress and that is what I should be striving for: progress over perfection, the ‘okay’ draft over the ‘polished/perfect’ never published draft.

Here is to the last full moon of 2022, and sending out happy thoughts and vibes to everyone, and fingers crossed that going into 2023 and beyond—things calm down, and we all figure out what our individual (and global) new ‘normal’ looks like.

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Gemini Full Moon: habit trackers, reading, and planning for 2022

19
Dec
2021

So, we’re entering the full moon for December last night (December 18th), and I will probably be a day late in posting. This now means that there are only thirteen days left in 2021. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be cautiously peeking around the corner to see what 2022 is going to be bringing.

As I’ve been reflecting back on the past year (and actually two years), I’ve realized that while I may have a ‘economic gap’ on my resume—it isn’t a ‘experience gap’—I just have to take the plunge and actually state that I’ve been developing/creating a blog/website for the past few years (even if it hasn’t generated any revenue).

Before I get carried away in the direction of reflections and what I may or may not have accomplished this year (that will be the topic for at least one or two posts at the beginning of the year)—back to the topic at hand: December’s full moon.

Tonight the moon will be moving through the Gemini constellation, and there are questions that one can contemplate during the next few days. If one looks at “Moonology: working with the magic of lunar cycles” by Yasmin Boland, those five questions are:

  1. Have I been gossipy, superficial, or flighty this month?
  2. Have I been glossing over other people’s feelings?
  3. Have I been too quick to change my mind, or too restless?
  4. Have I been too much of a sliver-tongued hustler?
  5. Have I done enough reading to keep expanding my mind?

My answers to the above questions are as follow:

  1. Since we’re still dealing with the pandemic, I don’t think I’ve been gossipy, superficial, or flighty this month. I’m only around family still.
  2. I don’t think I’ve been glossing over other people’s feelings either this month. Again–I’m only around family.
  3. This depends on what we’re talking about–I haven’t changed my mind in terms of pivoting into a remote/online/contract writing and/or data analysis position and trying to start my own freelance company. Being restless–maybe a little, but hey–we’re heading into the second year of dealing with this damn pandemic and I think just about everyone is getting a little restless.
  4. Nope.
  5. Working on this—I’ve realized that I’ve been playing way to many games on the kindle instead of reading. So, I may end up ‘removing’ the games from the kindle and rededicate it to being a reading only apparatus.

So I’m also going to see what house the moon will be transition through during this time. Using my rising sign (which is Scorpio), the Gemini constellation is moving through my eighth house—the focus of this house on “death and rebirth, reinvention and transformation”.

Since we’re still in the middle of the pandemic, the past year has really been reflection and doing some personal/professional development. I’m confident that I’m ‘shutting’ the door to academia research (and possibly bench research as a whole) as I move forward with my career transition. I’m slowly working on transforming and reinventing myself as a remote/contract (and then full-time freelancing) writer/copywriter. I’m aiming to be semi-multi niche, only to keep myself from getting bored and burned out. Here is looking to 2022 has the ‘rebirth’ year for more of my ideas and plans.

So this is the time to try to find balance between slowing down, rushing to learn things, being real with people, money, and determining one’s self worth.

Therefore my small goal list for the last few weeks of 2021 (and the first few weeks of 2022), will include:         

  1. Finish setting up my master 2022 habit tracking journal. I’d decided to buy a larger bullet/dot journal and place all (or almost all) habit trackers that I’d been trying to use during 2021 into a single journal. This way, it should save me time overall during 2022, when I don’t have to copy them back in for the next month.
  2. Start a non-fiction book. I’d been lax on my reading (even fiction) for a couple of weeks, so I’m trying to get back into a reading habit (may have to ‘remove’ the games from the kindle).
  3. Continue to work on improving my evening/afternoon meditations.
  4. Figure out an schedule/calendar for the blog/website heading into 2022 and beyond. Since I’m really leaning in the direction of writing—I need to become a little more consistent in posting, as I realized the past few months I haven’t posted as much as I had earlier in the year).

But above all, remind myself—that I’m making progress and that is what I should be striving for: progress over perfection, the ‘okay’ draft over the ‘polished/perfect’ never published draft.

Here is to the last full moon of 2021, and sending out happy thoughts and vibes to everyone, and fingers crossed that going into 2022 and beyond—things calm down, and everyone gets vaccinated.

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Reflections and planning for 2021: Cancer Full Moon Goals

29
Dec
2020

So tonight is the last full moon of 2020–that means there will only be two days left in the year. This has been a very long year with everything that has happened, especially the SARS-CoV2 pandemic that we’re still in the middle of; while there have been two vaccines that have been granted emergency use–I’m not eligible for either of them until probably the summer time (I’m currently in tier four for OK in terms of need). Therefore I’m probably not going to be making any major plans for any type of traveling until maybe sometime in 2022 going towards 2023.

So the full moon tonight will be moving through the Cancer constellation. Looking within “Moonology: working with the magic of lunar cycles” by Yasmin Boland, there are several questions that one can reflect on during this time:

Have I been insecure, clingy, and no fun this month?

Have I been coming at what I want sideways instead of tackling it head-on?

Have I been sulky, moody, brooding, or manipulative?

Have I been secretive, and possibly even a tad paranoid?

Have I had enough family time, or time with people who feel like family?

Well, if I were to number the above questions 1-5, my answers this month would be as follow:

  1. I don’t think that I’ve been insecure or clingy this month. While I’m still not 100% certain of what I want to do with my life–I have several ideas, and need to fine-tune a plan/schedule to be able to devote enough time to each potential project. In terms of not ‘being fun’–we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and therefore there really isn’t anything to do, if one is listening to the health officials and staying home. Finding time for hobbies, in addition to the different ideas for my career are on the agenda–I’ve realized over the past year or so, I do have the tendency to be laser-focused on one thing to the determinate of other things (for example–laser-focused on career/job/school and ignoring health/fitness/hobbies).
  2. Yes, I probably have been going at what I want sideways instead of tackling it head-on. I think I found it a little easier to do it this way, since I’m not 100% certain of what it is I want to be doing.
  3. No, I have not been sulky, brooding, or manipulative. Yes, I’ve been a little moody–but hello, we’re entering the tenth month of this damn pandemic–everyone is getting a little moody.
  4. No, I have not been secretive or paranoid.
  5. Yes, I have been having enough family time (again–there is a pandemic and I’m self-isolating at home with my parents; and we’ve seen my younger brother twice since it started. We’ll probably be seeing more of him once he moves back into town). I would love to spend more time with friends, but again–pandemic, and it really isn’t safe to be getting together with people who aren’t in your immediate family/household.

In addition to the above questions, the full moon in Cancer is also entering my ninth house. The ninth house is the “Big Picture” zone. Basically this zone deals with all things in terms of personal growth, professional growth, travel, religion and philosophy, and so forth.

There are actually two questions you can ask yourself in terms of the above topics:

Have you been fussing too much over the details of your latest problems or tasks?

Is your life and mind expanding or narrowing?

If I were to number the above questions 1 and 2, my answers would be as follows:

  1. This is both a yes and no answer. Yes, I have been fussing too much over the details. I like lists, and I also like to basically have an outline (or at least rough draft) for various projects before starting things. This is more difficult to try to do when you’re thinking of switching directions career wise–especially, if you’re still uncertain about the direction. So instead of doing various things like networking, reading, listening to podcasts, and so forth I’ve been trying to make lists of skills, jobs, companies–but always second guessing and asking myself–“is this really the direction you want to be going”, and more often than not the answer comes back “I have no idea”. I don’t think I’m fussing over the tasks, but that is mainly because I’m not certain of what those tasks should be.
  2. I think that I’m slowly getting back into a learning mindset, and therefore I am slowly starting to expand both my life and mind again. I fell into a ‘closed’ mindset for awhile, more out of self-preservation since I didn’t know what I was wanting to do with my life. I now realize that instead of investigating things and asking questions, networking, reading and trying to figure things out (basically where I am now)–I narrowed my focus to just getting through the day/week to the weekend, and that isn’t the best way to live one’s life.

So the goals for this full moon period may look like a long list–but a couple of them are hopefully going to be checked off the list before the New Year (as they’re part of another goal series that I’ll share in another post).

The goals for the Cancer Full Moon include:

  1. Continue with my night tarot/oracle card reading and brief meditation.
  2. Update various goal posts (150+goals in 2002 day [next installment will be in Feb]; Level 10 life)
  3. Develop a fluid schedule/planner
  4. Make a list of books (mainly non-fiction) to read in 2021 and e-courses to finish in 2021
  5. Read at least one personal/professional development book from said list
  6. Finish one small e-course from said list
  7. Renew one professional membership

And as always the following quotes are going to be coming with me into 2021: “Progress over Perfection”, “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one”, and “Not caring what other people think is the best choice you will ever make”.

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Gemini Full Moon Goals: The last full moon of the year & decade (a few days late)

13
Dec
2019

Well we’ve hit the last full moon for both 2019 and the decade this week. The moon will be transitioning through Gemini, and in less than three weeks we’ll be in 2020 (and a new decade). I swear that time goes by quicker now that I’m no longer taking classes, and having to have a set schedule daily (though with work it seemed that the workday dragged and the weekend flew by).

So what are some questions that one can contemplate during this time? Looking at “Moonology: working with the magic of lunar cycles” by Yasmin Boland, there are five questions that one can ask during this full moon:

            Have I been gossipy, superficial, or flighty this month?

            Have I been glossing over other people’s feelings?

            Have I been too quick to change my mind, or too restless?

            Have I been too much of a silver-tongued hustler?

            Have I done enough reading to keep expanding my mind?

If I were to number the above questions 1-5, my answers would be as follow:

  1. I don’t think that I’ve been gossipy, superficial, or flighty this month. Truthfully, there are very few people that I talk to on a regular basis, and that is usually to catch up with each other since the last time we’ve talked/gotten together. I do try to keep the social engagements that I agree too as I don’t get out all that often.
  2. I don’t think that I’ve been glossing over other people’s feelings. Again, there are very few people that I interact with on a daily basis (that list is even smaller currently since I’m on my reboot break), so I do try to at least acknowledge where the other person is coming from.
  3. I doubt that I will ever be accused of being too quick to change my mind—if nothing else I overthink things and become “frozen”. I actually need to develop the skill of starting to try new things without any fear of failure, and then hopefully things will go a little more smoothly in my job search/transition.
  4. Again, I doubt that I will ever be accused of being a silver-tongued hustler. This is in part due to my introverted nature (being quiet and soft spoken), and also social anxiety. I would love to get a couple of side businesses going to help bring in extra money—but they will be slow going because of the above issues—being quiet, soft spoken, and dealing with social anxiety (and other issues).
  5. No, I haven’t been doing nearly enough reading to keep expanding my mind. Currently I’ve been in a rut to where I go back and reread different romance series, just because I’ve been in the mood for more of “happily ever after” than dealing with current state of the world. This is something that I’m going to be working on over the next few weeks and months as I continue on my reboot break and start really putting more effort into my transition plan and moving into an industry position.

So I’m also going to see what house the moon will be transition through during this time. Using my rising sign (which is Scorpio), the Gemini constellation is moving through my eighth house—this house deals with “death and rebirth, reinvention and transformation”. So in one aspect it is fitting that 2019 is ending with a Gemini full moon—as I resigned from my most current position at my alma mater (so the “death” of my job), and I’m in the process of going through both a personal and professional reinvention and transformation.

So this is the time to try to find balance between slowing down, rushing to learn things, being real with people, money, and determining one’s self worth.

So if I were to make a small goal list for the end of 2019, the goals will include:

            Read at least two non-fiction books, and take (or highlight sections) notes in order to also post a book review on the blog (and possibly amazon as well).

            Continue mediating nightly.

            Start designing/creating a monthly editorial calendar—possibly start treating different areas of life as “classes”—create “syllabus” for each area (with “due dates” for specific things—treat things as “homework”).

And as I head into 2020 remember: Progress over perfection, and 2020 will be the year of change!!

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