New Moon Ritual: May 2024

To be honest, I probably should have skipped this month’s ritual. The last few weeks have been incredibly hectic and stressful, and I didn’t even realize until halfway through the day that it was the new moon. But, because of my ADHD, it’s really important to me to maintain a routine so I decided to stick with it.

Unsurprisingly, this month’s ritual fell kind of flat. I was too tired, too stressed, and too preoccupied with a half dozen deadlines that are barreling toward me. There was one thing that managed to make it through the noise, however:

We are, none of us, individuals. We are the collection of the relationships and experiences of our past and present. None of us exist as something removed from society, nature, politics, etc. The only way that would be true is if we existed in a vacuum devoid of literally everything else. And, since that is not the case, we are in constant relationship with what is around us. Too many of us have forgotten that.