24/06/2025
New Moon in Cancer 🌑
This moon feels heavy, and holy.
Cancer rules our inner world, our emotions, our sense of home and belonging. It asks us to soften, to feel, to stop pretending we’re okay when we’re quietly breaking inside.
Today, I admitted to someone close, something I’ve been hiding, even from myself. 2 hours of talking round in circles and letting the tears flow has certainly brought some clarity.
I’m in the middle of a depressive episode and have slowly been getting deeper over the last few months. I’ve been smiling, helping others, carrying on. But inside? I’ve felt lost, uncomfortable in my body, unsure of my space, deeply lonely. And exhausted from holding it all in.
Uprooting my life and starting again, finalising the divorce, making uncomfortable decisions about my mum's life and losing special connections with people I love has taken a toll on my mind, body and health.
I share this vulnerability not for sympathy, or a cry for help. But as a reminder that it's okay if you're not okay either. We go through these phases and will get through them as long as we're open and don't hide away.
This New Moon whispers: It’s okay to fall apart.
It’s okay to rest. To cry. To stop pretending.
It’s okay to make yourself the priority.
You don’t have to climb out of the dark tonight.
You just have to let it be true. Let it be seen. Let it be felt.
This is your permission to stop hiding. To soften.
To come home to yourself.
If you're in the dark, I’m with you. 🕯
You are not alone. You are still whole. You are still worthy.
And this moon is holding you gently while you find your way back.
With love,
Charlie