Signs You’re In a New Moon Phase of Your Life (Even If It’s Not)
I didn’t create Luna and Lavender because I had it all figured out. I created it because I didn’t, and I couldn’t find anything that actually met me where I was.
I’ve been through the kind of seasons that quietly take everything apart. The kind where you look up one day and don’t fully recognize your own life. And you’re left standing in the middle of it trying to figure out who you are now and what you actually want and why none of the old answers fit anymore.
That’s a new moon phase. And nobody really talks about what it actually feels like to be in one.
So here it is.
You feel like you’re starting over
Not because you failed. Because something ended - a relationship, a version of yourself, a life you thought you were building. You didn’t lose everything. But enough changed that you’re standing somewhere unfamiliar trying to get your bearings. That disorientation is real. It’s also the beginning of something, even if it doesn’t feel like it yet.
You’re quieter than usual
Not depressed exactly. Just internal. Done performing. Done explaining yourself. Done showing up in ways that cost more than they give. You’re pulling back and it might look like isolation from the outside but from the inside it feels more like finally exhaling. Let it. You’re protecting something that’s still forming.
You’re being called toward something you can’t name yet
There’s a pull. You feel it when you ignore it most. Toward something more honest, more aligned, more actually you. You can’t articulate it yet and that’s fine. The fact that you feel it at all means you’re paying attention.
You don’t have the answers…and that’s not a problem
We’re conditioned to treat not knowing as a failure. It isn’t. The new moon is dark on purpose. Not everything reveals itself at the start. If you’re in a season of uncertainty, it just means you arrived a little early.
Here’s what I want you to know that nobody told me when I was in it - this phase is not the problem. This phase is the work. The quiet, unglamorous, necessary work of becoming someone more honest than who you were before.
Show up for it. Even when it’s uncomfortable. Especially then. If you need somewhere to put all it; the hard questions, the things you haven’t said out loud yet, the version of yourself you’re trying to find…that’s exactly why I made Phases. It won’t fix anything. But it’ll give you a place to be honest while you figure it out. https://amzn.to/4mHhArA