New Normal, New Earth

This past weekend, my students and I held a ritual in preparation for the New Moon (happening tomorrow – Wednesday, April 22nd – at 7:26 pm Pacific Time – it also happens to be Earth Day).

We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature. - Sonya Renee Taylor

We talked about the opportunity we have to make a positive change for the future. As so many things are on hold during the pandemic, it is creating a lot of fear for some people. At the same time, it is creating opportunity for reflection, realignment, and envisioning what we WANT our world to be. I don’t want to go back to the status quo, because, to quote Dr. Horrible, “The status is NOT quo.”

New moons are times of setting intentions. So this is the perfect time to set the intention of our ideal experience. And coinciding with Earth Day, it is even more important that we connect that vision with healing the Earth, the Mother that we live on, which provides for all our needs.

In the new normal that I choose, we rise above fear. We see each other, and the Earth itself, as worthy of respect. We live in harmony with the Earth, and with each other as people. We recognize that there is MORE THAN ENOUGH for everyone, and share our resources equitably, taking only what we need. We love each other openly, and express our love easily. We awaken to our power as divine co-creators, and create paradise on Earth.

This video (well, a version of it, I had to go searching for the original) showed up in my Facebook feed this morning. Will you volunteer with me? Will you help hold this vision of our “new normal”?

Blessings,
Mary