New Moon Symbolism
Happy new moon.Looking up into her body now, we will see only the vastness of potential available to us (at least, in the northern hemisphere).
Maybe that’s what’s bugging me.
What? Why would infinite potential bug me? The prospect of unknown opportunities - whole new realms of mystery waiting to be discovered… These concepts are spiritual jackpots to the philosophical journeyer. So why the bugginess?
I think it’s because of the endless-openness our new moon proposes. The new moon symbolism speaks to us of an emptiness that is unfathomable. Our ancestors knew it, and we know it too, on various levels.
New moons remind us of the void, the gaping hole that is nothingness. The first step. Another beginning. A new revolution.
With so much change going on in our lives, yet another new beginning can seem overwhelming (particularly on a cosmic level which will compound our mundane levels of change).
What’s more, a sense of empty-ness tends to prompt one to start finding stuff to fill the void. Consider that sentence – it’s vague, but astounding in it’s implications.
Is this true for you? If a sense of empty-ness is detected, do you go about trying to “remedy” it by filling the void?
I do. My Western socialized mind runs to fill up – not empty out.
So, when encountering the newness proffered by her highness the Moon, I sometimes find myself anxious and edgy – scrambling around trying to do, do, do, (gathering up, filling up, plugging the holes) instead of be, be, be.
Whether we’re filling the void with thought or things, there’s a time to cease the stuffing. This is that time.
Being is what the new moon, in her infinite wisdom would have us do.
This new moon, I invite you to join me in the following:
- just be.
- stop stuffing.
- swim in the void.
- relish the beginning for what it is: Freshness.
- settle in the emptiness (resisting the urge to fill it).
Some other pages on the moon symbolism you may find interesting:
Native North American Full Moon Symbolism
