Blue Moon Oracle

11/09/2025

🌿 Choosing Nourishment 🌿

I almost canceled my hike this morning. My couch was whispering sweet nothings and the Sunday scaries felt heavy.
I could blame the tiredness, the busy day yesterday, the commute tomorrow — but I’ve noticed a pattern: when I let my inner teenager eat all the candy, literally and figuratively, I end up emptier, not fuller.

There’s trauma behind that pattern. Growing up, meeting my needs felt like a burden on others, so I learned to choose ease and immediacy over nourishment.

Now I’m practicing a different muscle: choosing what feeds me in body, heart, and mind — always considering how my choices today will impact my future self.

Today that looked like a walk with my friend, the hush of the woods, and a smoothie I made at home (sticking to my budget) — small, ordinary things that restore me in a big way.

Learning to choose nourishment over immediate pleasure involves slowing down, practicing mindfulness, and reflecting on long-term needs rather than acting on impulse.

You can start by asking yourself: “Will this nourish me or deplete me? Will my future self thank me — or resent me?” Listen to your body’s cues, and remember that tiny choices, made consistently, create a vibrant, full life.

✨ Affirmation — I consistently choose what nourishes me.

🛠️ Action — What’s one small thing you can do today that your future self will thank you for? Tell me below ⬇️ and I’ll cheer you on! 🌿

11/08/2025

I do a weekly morning hike with my girlfriends, and it feels like medicine to my soul.

The hush of the woods, the sounds of river-song, laughter among friends and my world becomes safer, calmer — my shoulders soften and my breath lengthens. I feel seen, grounded and loved. 🥰

Turns out those gentle, ordinary moments — a shared walk, bird song, a riverside laugh —are actual medicine- healing body, mind and soul.

Here’s what that little dose of nature + friendship actually does for your nervous system.

🌿 Cortisol ↓ — nature helps lower the body’s stress hormone.
Benefit: calmer, less wired.
How: 10–20 minutes outside or a quiet porch sit.

💓 Vagal tone / HRV ↑ — your parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) system gets a nudge.
Benefit: softer reactivity, more capacity to stay present.
How: slow breaths, listen to birds or water, gentle walking.

🤗 Oxytocin ↑ — the “I’m safe with you” hormone from warm social contact.
Benefit: feeling seen, soothed, and connected.
How: walk + check-in with a trusted friend.

😂 Endorphins ↑ — movement and laughter release natural feel-good pain-relief chemicals.
Benefit: mood lift, quick uplift after a hard moment.
How: laugh together, move a little (brisk mini-walk).

🧠 Dopamine & Serotonin — reward and mood regulators light up with small wins and sunlight.
Benefit: motivation, pleasure, steadier mood.
How: notice small joys, get a bit of morning sun on face/forearms.

🛡️ Immune signaling (NK cell links) — time in green spaces is associated with gentle immune boosts.
Benefit: more physiological resilience over time.
How: sit by water, wander a park or tree-line.

🔕 Threat-signal quiet (soundscape shift) — bird song / running water reduces auditory “threat” cues.
Benefit: faster downshift out of fight/flight into rest.
How: close your eyes and listen for 2–5 minutes.

✨10 minutes starts the shift; regular intervals across a week add up. If a walk feels like too much sit on the porch with a cup of tea. Tiny steps, taken regularly, over time leads to lasting change. Something is better than nothing and it counts!

📣📣📣 Call to Action📣📣📣

Tag a friend you want to walk with this week and write the day + time below — research shows making a specific plan makes you far more likely to do it. 🔬🗓️

Bonus: when you commit with someone you trust, you add accountability and oxytocin (the “I’m safe with you” chemical) 🤗 — so the walk becomes a double-dose reset. ✨👟

If an hour feels big, aim for 10 minutes ⏱️ — and if 10 feels hard, try 5. 🕔 Pick a time, write it here, and let’s do it together. 💛

11/07/2025

In Buddhism, equanimity, or upekkha, is a mental state of calm, evenness, and balance that is not disturbed by emotional turmoil.

It's the ability to remain mentally and emotionally stable while being fully engaged with the present moment and observing experiences without bias or reactivity.

Equanimity is a steady, kind presence — a soft shelter inside you that notices what’s happening without needing to fix it.

When I first heard the Recovery Dharma equanimity meditation, it landed in my bones: my instinct is to calm others, to soothe, to make things right — especially as a woman and a mother.

Equanimity taught me something different and freeing: I can hold people with compassion and still let them carry their own consequences. I can offer warmth without taking on their burden.

Try this when you feel pulled to fix, mange, control or rescue:

Place a hand on your heart. Breathe in for four, soften for four, release for six.

Notice what you want to do.

Notice the feeling behind it.

Ask yourself, "What am I resisting right now?" and internally say "Yes" to letting it exist for a moment.

Affirmation: I am present, kind, and grounded. I can be with things as they are.

11/01/2025

The Alchemy of the Breath

Body:
Your breath is not just air moving in and out of your lungs — it’s chemistry, electricity, and divinity in motion. Every inhale delivers oxygen that feeds your cells, clears your mind, and stabilizes your nervous system. Every exhale signals safety, dissolving tension and rewriting stress patterns stored in the body.

Science calls it neuroregulation.
Alchemy calls it transmutation.
I call it coming home.

You don’t need an hour of meditation or a mountaintop retreat — ten minutes a day is enough to transform your life. Ten minutes of conscious breathing rewires your brain, balances your hormones, and reminds your body that peace is its natural state.

And if ten minutes feels like too much, begin smaller.
Start with eight breaths.
Eight — the number of infinity, of karmic release and renewal.
Eight breaths of awareness is enough to shift your frequency, to open the gate between chaos and clarity.

Transformation doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from returning, consistently, to what’s already sacred within you.

The breath is the bridge between science and soul.
Start anywhere. Stay with it. Watch what unfolds.

✨

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07/11/2025

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05/10/2025

Great Mother,
She who births stars and still sings lullabies into the bones of the Earth,
I greet this day as your daughter—whole, holy, and awakening.

Let my breath be a thread that weaves me back to you,
To your infinite womb where all things are made new.
May I rise rooted, held by your steady grace,
And walk with the knowing that I am never alone.

Bless my hands, that they may serve with love.
Bless my voice, that it may speak truth with compassion.
Bless my body, this sacred vessel,
Strong enough to carry light,
Soft enough to feel the world deeply.

Guide me in my work today,
As I serve others in their becoming,
As I honor the path of healing I’ve walked and the wisdom I now carry.
Let every task, every word, every breath be a prayer in motion.

Help me meet challenge with presence,
Fear with courage,
And the unknown with trust.

Great Mother, remind me that I am part of something vast and sacred—
That my life, my work, my being
Is an offering that matters.

I walk forward in your name,
Lit from within,
Empowered by love,
And anchored in truth.

So it is.

08/11/2024

07/07/2024

“Stanford Professor BJ Fogg writes, “Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.”

Actions become automatic when they’re rewarded, remembered, and repeated. Make good behavior second nature by finding the path of least resistance.

Take a moment now to ponder ways you might set yourself up for success. You can turn a healthy habit into your new normal by pairing it with a reward, planting cues to remember to do it, and relentlessly repeating it. The difference between a habit that you abandon and one that becomes automatic is having a system to make it sustainable.”

06/29/2024