April New Moon
This New Moon is a journey into your deepest, truest self, as you dare to take your next steps with your intuition and instinct as your most trusted guides.
Intuition versus Instinct
I like to think of intuition as the whiskers of a cat, the antennae of an ant, or the sensory horn of a snail — a part of us that picks up the little nudges of the world: obstacles, possible dangers, and changes in the wind.
Instinct, on the other hand, is something more profound. It is a deep knowing in your body — the knee-jerk reaction to immediate danger or threat, but also the inner wisdom that guides how we live our lives and the paths we choose for ourselves.
This April New Moon is a moment when you can reconnect with your instinct, the nature within you that says 'yes' or 'no' through life’s 'hot's and 'cold's in a very simple way.
Life does not have to be complicated, but sometimes it feels that way because we get lost and entangle ourselves in paths and threads that do not truly belong to us.
This time, YOU get to choose. The universe is ready to tie the loose threads together with you into a new tapestry that is even more beautiful. Even more YOU.
Creating New Patterns
For too long, we have been walking a path that has not been sustainable for either Mother Earth or humankind. We have cultivated a culture of override, woven into the ways we relate to ourselves — and each other. Override of balance, override of our emotions, override of following our intuition and instinct as our guides.
Think of this New Moon as a blank canvas, where you are supported in beginning again.
Try to experiment with leaving your rational mind and conditioning behind for a short while, as you take a moment to brush your first strokes — a moment to let your intuition and instinct speak their truth about your way forward.
The universe is waiting for you and cheering you on to expand into a new expression where you live from a place of abundance, balance, and joy, a place that nourishes your whole being.
This New Moon invites you to walk a new path and enter new territory, as you weave a new life for yourself and those around you.
Take a leap and see where you land. Don’t be afraid. Love yourself for being soooooo beautiful, brave, and wise.
The Moon sees you, cheers for you, and whispers: "You can do exactly that — exactly that — which is in your heart."
New Moon blessings,
Sidsel Solmer Eriksen, Founding Editor
NEW (MOON) HABIT PLAY-list
Train your intution
Try playing a game of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ for a day — from simply choosing whether to have coffee or tea, to feeling into how you want to live your life.
It might seem like a long way from making small everyday choices to making big life decisions. But when we start to train our intuition in small ways, we gradually build the confidence to apply it to the bigger choices too.
It’s really similar to building a muscle — it gets stronger as you practise.Disentangle Yourself
Acknowledge where you have been entangling yourself in the threads and paths of others — jobs that are not your responsibility, and roles that are not yours to play.
As you step out of these places and roles that don't truly belong in your life, you automatically lighten your load and free up space for the right ones — the ones that nourish and support you — to arrive.
Take a Leap of Faith
Often, the biggest reason we don’t follow our instinct — that deep intelligence inside us that just knows — is the fear of being seen.
As we go through life, we experience hurt and betrayal, and sometimes that hurt is linked to moments when we showed our innermost selves and were met with criticism or rejection.
When we made ourselves vulnerable to the opinions of others, we may not have received the loving reactions we had hoped for — maybe indifference at best, maybe criticism at worst.Coming back to what is true for you, and learning how to offer your gift to the world, is a lifelong journey of live-and-learn.
It is one of the great re-learnings of adulthood: to un-own past hurt and childhood trauma, and to start making life choices from the autonomy of your inner knowing.As adults, we are independent of our caretakers’ approval. We have the freedom to choose how we want to live and express ourselves — yet often, our choices are still on autopilot, shaped by old inter-relational patterns from family and society.
Taking a leap of faith doesn’t always mean jumping off a metaphysical cliff or ‘burning your boats.’
Sometimes, it can be the subtle, quiet rebellion of turning inward toward your inner knowing.
Taking a leap of faith can mean trying to leave the reactions of others out of the equation for a while, and instead basing your choices on what nourishes you.
We have likely learned by now that how others reflect our choices is beyond our control.Choices and chances are part of the leap of faith — but they come with a different kind of reward.
When we stay true to ourselves and show our colours to the world, we light up — and the right people can find us.
This is the gift of faith-leaping.
It can become a wonderful adventure of (self-)discovery and kinship, all in one boat.If you find themes of past hurt surfacing, I warmly recommend Brené Brown’s talk on criticism — she is one of the kindest vulnerability cheerleaders around.
SOUL VITAMIN for the APril New Moon
Wind of Change
“I am Change.
I can destroy,
but also bring powerful Change
with a single Blow.
If you let me carry you,
you will experience all that I am:
UNVEIL
An excerpt from The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life by Mark Nepo: