Pisces New Moon - are you crying yet?
Added 2019-03-07 18:53:21 +0000 UTCI just got off the phone with my best friend Joie. We call it a “hanging from the cupboard door” moment. When you’re overcome with emotion and need someone to hold onto. “Fucking mercury retrograde Pisces new moon bullshit”, she said. Her boyfriend is going back to his wife. It hurts. She knew yesterday was also my anniversary with my ex. The anniversary of the best kiss I’ve ever had, so many years ago. Naturally it fell on such an astrologically intense day. We screamed into the void together.
March is always a tough time for me. Historically speaking. I struggle the most with seasonal affective disorder in March. That depression sinks in so deep. Last year there was so much intensity, finding out I was sick, finding out my ex had cheated on me and lied, falling in love with Elly, a work schedule that didn’t give me time to breathe, throwing a slumber party, throwing away a 7 year relationship. Just so much emotion. The month went by in a blur of tears and sleepless nights.
I’m proud to say that this year I’m doing better. I’ve set better boundaries with my work contracts. I scheduled the slumber party for April. I’ve set some personal goals for processing break up stuff and working hard on moving on. I’ve planned lots of low-stress, small moments of peacefulness. I’m really trying.
Before this winter started I had a friend tattoo apple blossoms onto my wrist. There’s a lot of personal and family symbolism in my choice, but mostly I wanted a reminder that winter never lasts forever, and spring always does it’s thing eventually.
Nothing blooms all year. 🌸

Comments
Beautiful tattoo. You seem to have so much on the go. Remember to take time to relax, both with your friends and loved ones, but also time alone. Hugs!
Sunset Ridge
2019-03-08 06:43:18 +0000 UTCIt's not being an easy time for me either, this March. Many supportive hugs offered, if you want to share them with me. Those are gorgeous apple blossoms, though! Thank you for sharing them. I have my own apple symbolism going -- there's a little two-inch twig in a pot on my windowsill, the one survivor from an attempt at rooting stems from my favorite apple tree on my family farm last winter. Last year it had three leaves, but they fell off months ago, and now I have this bare twig on the windowsill that I water, in hope that it will see spring and have leaves again.
Brooks Moses
2019-03-07 19:18:31 +0000 UTC