the buck moon in capricorn
I wanted to start this project last week. I wanted to start it on 7-7-25, because I like the idea it would start on ‘777’. I kept seeing the number plates on the drive to Cornwall.
But it wasn’t meant to be. Life was full in the boardroom (life mentoring, joy coaching and holiday letting!) and in the bedrooms (mine, ours and the boys… )… and my body needed the time to recalibrate from the first strategic and very active 6 months to a more ‘creative’ and free flowing way of living I have planned for the next 3 months.
And in fact, now I love that it is today’s date.
The 10th July the date of the full moon in Capricorn. My star sign. The tenacious, somewhat stubborn goat, with a side of playful giddiness. I am definitely both sides of my sign. Sometimes serious, sometimes verging on childlike mischievousness. I positively embrace it.
I am no expert in Moonology, but I started to follow my curiosity in Moonology a few years ago after opening the door to my spiritual side. I have a moon journal and follow a few accounts on line and am so lucky to have a wonderful soul in my mastermind who is just so in tune with all the magical astral energies who shares her knowledge with us.
I simply know that the full moon is a time to ‘release’ and that today’s full moon is a powerful one. The so called ‘Buck Moon’ that invites us to embrace a renewal, a rising from deep roots.
So the question I am pondering today over an iced decaf mocha latte with oat milk outside Fee’s while the boys go for an ice cream is this…
What am I releasing?
What am I allowing to rise?
I do feel this is a pivotal day.
A line in the sand.
The time that has been.
The time that will be.
The time where the boys were little boys, now young men.
The time where we were both, then one of us, employed, now neither of us, both self-employed with multiple clients, projects and businesses.
The time where we were grieving, healing, strengthening, now loving and living.
Taking a slurp of my mocha, I know what I am releasing.
I am liberating myself from the feeling that it needs to be hard.
That it all has to be hard… health, wealth and love.
I find this one a hard one to let go of because ‘Grit’ is one of my values… (along with a few other ‘G’s to make it easy for me to recall when I need to remind myself who the f*ck I am… )
I don’t think I will ever not ‘work hard’ or not ‘put in the effort’ because I have that streak in me – the Capricorn diligently working towards a lofty height, one hoof in front of the other on a rocky terrain, sometimes treacherous…
But perhaps what I will release is that it has to be HARD work; work that feels like it has no lightness or reward to it. Maybe it is even releasing the attachment of hard work to a reward; a disconnection of one meaning the other.
Instead, choosing that I can enjoy hard work, that feels effortless because I enjoy it.
Instead, choosing that the rewards of life and in life are always there for the plucking, receiving and embracing.
And in the releasing, in the falling back against the grass, to stare at the very blue sky I will let rise whatever rises.
I will finish my quiet contemplation of this first blog entry with one my favourite quotes – my head is full of them – they pop in to my mind at just the right time – one of my gifts I think. And I may paraphrase it… but this is what took away from either the book or podcast when I first heard it.
You have to allow yourself to be a nobody,
In order to become a somebody.
And on that note, from my bedroom in the eaves tonight, to yours… this is your reminder to be brilliant in the boardroom, the bedroom & in your body.
Love always
Ali xo
#remindertobebrilliant #thebrilliantyears #livebrilliantlyalive
post script at 11:11pm
Dropping Tom off at the Mariners, I got a good view of the incredible buck moon over the water tonight of the Camel Estuary in Rock. The sunset was still & clear. Magnificent to see. My camera doesn’t do it justice.
“Ali creates the confidence and trust in oneself to find the answers within. This creates huge self trust and the courage to continue to witness without judgement.”
