Once In A Blue Moon

by Stephanie F. Earls


During this week, today's moon has been filling out, lingering, reminding us even before twilight that this full moon is extra.

It hung soft and sound over the beach on Sunday. Wednesday it hovered, translucent, over town at dinner time. Last night, bright and nearly full it was pink-tinted and floated up over the tree line outside the window of the studio where I teach.  I love how the moon has the ability to stop us in our tracks, hold our gaze and shower light in darkness.  I marvel at how the moon reflects the nourishing, sometimes overwhelming rays of the sun, transforming them into a light which is graceful and pure: serene.  Today the moon is full and though perhaps at sunset it will be tinted pink, being the second full moon of this month, it is a blue moon.

sfe: Maine Sky 8/2012

Full moons represent wish fulfillment. They are dreams coming to fruition.  The blue moon in particular signifies a rare and wonderful occurrence. It is beauty and abundance. It is heaven's token representing YES!  It is mother nature's message telling us that the foundations we have set over the sweet month of August could certainly have rare, wonderful and abundant potential. This full moon is nature's treat: a bonus!

Tonight as the plump moon rises for the second time this month consider which wishes in your life are coming true. Become receptive, like the moon. Listen carefully, look around and within with soft eyes. Notice what is happening in your life, in your mind, in your spirit. Ask yourself if what you see and hear and feel could be wishes coming true. Perhaps they are hopes never uttered but which have been launched on the most sublime level, from your heart. Realize the places where you've felt a little reprieve, an extra smile, a bit of hope. Consider the message in the sky that there is a little extra available to you now if you just take a moment to be still and lift your gaze.

Wishes (in truth and coming true) are subtle, like the moon. They shine gentle light and grace into our lives. Tonight let's take the chance, once in a blue moon, to open our hearts and be available to our wishes come true.  Let's celebrate, say thank you, and ask to see clearly what is happening in our lives.  Nature will surely answer and as we become still and gaze upward, hear her...YES!