Does the Moon Make You Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?

I’ve always loved the moon. As a young girl, I would ‘study’ it through my bedroom window. I always assumed that there were other people studying the moon at the same time … and I wondered about them.

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My childhood boxes (authoritarian family and strict sheltered religion) started feeling too tight at an early age, so I would ‘escape’ through moon viewings (and reading) I wondered about other peoples’ lives. I dreamed I could miraculously change places with someone else. And I’d imagined a whole different life for myself.

Life moved forward and between a business, too many bills and three babies … I rarely had energy left to notice it, much less spend time studying the moon. But from time to time, I’d happen to see it while driving or up late … and it would be a pleasant familiar feeling.

In 2005, when I turned forty … I noticed the moon again. I was in the middle of a season of trauma and depression (from an accident, not from turning 40) and I spent many hours unable to sleep.

The moon and I became friends again.

So it was with mixed emotions that I read this information one day … a forty-year old person, who lives to be an average age, will see about six-hundred more full moons in their lifetime.

Six-hundred. 600. Six-hundred. 600.

Some days it sounded like a lot … other days it didn’t sound like enough.

With time, help from counselors, re-evaluating my life and allowing renewal to happen helped me move from depression to enjoying life again. One key to a full, meaningful life is embracing every day … and every night.

I’ve become intentional about noticing each full moon. I put it on my calendar. I don’t want a single full moon to happen with noticing it. So every full moon night, I’m on my porch or inside a big window in my living room … sipping a glass of wine and studying the moon.

So I am one happy gal today.

It is “Supermoon” Night!

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Today the moon will make its closest approach to earth in 18 years … so it will be fuller and brighter than normal. More info here.

I encourage you, if at all possible … pause tonight. Lie in the grass or find a comfortable chair. Sip your favorite drink. Take some deep breaths. Be still. Study the moon.

The circumstances of your life won’t change. You won’t be thrown answers (trust me, I’ve begged and pleaded) There won’t be world peace. You won’t see a little green man. You won’t find love. You won’t become healthy, wealthy and wise.

Then again, maybe you will … I think it depends on your definition of  healthy, wealthy and wise.

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