The New Moon

I have been following the lunar calendar for many years now. For some reason doing this makes me feel more connected to the cycles of nature even though I live in the city. On Saturday August 7th we had a new moon. This moon is said to symbolize new beginnings. We can't see the new moon so every new beginning starts in darkness in seemingly nothingness. As the moon waxes almost as if by magic it starts to reveal itself little by little. It is as though the moon is reminding us the potential that calmly rests in what seems to be nothingness and darkness. At the full moon we get the big reveal and just after that the moon starts to conceal itself again. It is cosmic peek a boo game.

New beginnings are a perfect time to dream big and it is also a time to start paying attention to all the small details that it takes to bring a dream to live. At the beginning our dreams are just thoughts floating in the recesses of our awareness which are not yet visible not even to our own physical eyes. If we genuinely want to bring our dreams to live we must do whatever is required to do so. The thing about bringing dreams to live is that we usually think about the big and showy actions we think we have to do. In reality it is the constant, the relentless small actions that we perform moment to moment, day by day, that start to reveal slivers of our dream until one day we can see it all. My teacher constantly emphasizes the importance of small, constant, doable, and scheduled actions that we want to perform to accomplish whatever we want to bring to live.

Taking this to heart we can realize that a handstand can start by learning to press your index fingers down on the floor a little more everyday.

See you in class.

Blessings

Jorge Nihal