🌒 NEW Cycles Journal is Taking Root 🌱

TL;DR: I’m excited ~ Cycles Journal pre-orders will open next Wednesday, June 10th!

First, I’m so grateful for all the kind and honest words I’ve already received from so many of you about your excitement and curiosity around the new undated Cycles Journal. It means the world to me, as for years I held fears that this would break the cycle of annual editions and create a rift in this community.

I AM SO DEEPLY GRATEFUL THAT THIS CHANGE IS A LIBERATING GIFT TO MANY OF YOU & MYSELF, TOO.

I’m grateful I was able to work through this to come forth with something that feels even better in my body, and apparently in some of yours, too!

And so over the next few days, I’m going to be sharing behind-the-scenes peeks at the design and how it all works!

So that you can be a part of the process, too, and see all that goes into independent creation and self-publishing!

And also so that you can feel aware of what you’re getting come next Wednesday, June 10th, when pre-orders open~ since there will be special bonuses and bundles to help honor and celebrate the early commitments in sharing this shift.

How it began…

Years of simmering into moments of convergence is how it usually goes for me…

This is almost always how it looks when I’m deep in brainstorming mode:

It has to be done on the floor, with scraps of paper and notebooks and maybe a few screens.

I am scattered yet cohesive. I make mess into magic.

(fun fact: there are some mock-ups in this image about unreleased projects / ideas I have for the future…)

The in-between stages are notoriously hard for me to record, since it often happens within a few hours of hyperfocus… until it becomes a million iterations.

Then it’s decisions! And this year, I called in more help than I have in the past (continually unlearning the work-hard, work-alone mentality prevalent in my / our lineage.

(I recently realized that I’m the first in my mother’s entire family line to go off to university and graduate with a Bachelor’s degree (and of the first generation / fourth grandchild in my father’s line to do so; I am humbled by this, and hold this privilege with gratitude.)

A special thank you to those who helped during this process: Angie Prelesnik, Lisa Jara, Amelia Hruby, Trine Eneh Stårup, Kristen Camille Williams, Alia Alsaif Spiers, Rachael M, Steffie, & other unnamed. <3

What’s beautiful is that their opinions matched my gut, but it felt good to back it up through communal consensus because I’m not the only one using this journal!!

Essentially, what I’ve come up with is a horizontal version of what the daily / weekly journaling pages currently are (which are really the only major structural change, tbh).

This design reflects the lunar-centric way I’m inviting us to tend to time here.

There are faint vertical lines between each moon phase ~ so you can use them as daily guidelines if that’s how you use the space, or easily ignore them if you just want to use this as a weekly or daily-ish journaling space. Show up anytime within this phase / week and drop your reflections and experiences there!

The main difference is really that each journaling spread is now a lunar phase instead of calendar week.

Each spread now starts with a quarter moon, instead of Monday. So you can still easily continue to use a seven-day structure if that’s what works for you, but you can more readily flow into the lunar phase structure if you’re ready for that shift.

And the bookmark key (included in physical form with pre-orders only, and available as a printable PDF for everyone after) gives you an easy way to reference and insert dates per phase.

Since lunar phases can technically last anywhere between 6 and 9 days, we are inviting in a fluid sense of time and using this space here.

→ how-to instruction will include tips and detailed ways to effectively use the space, since because of this variability, there will occasionally be a spread that has an extra space, or needs to fit 2 days into one column.

The easiest way to know is to just fill in all the quarter, full, and new moon dates FIRST, and then the dates between naturally. (remembering that poem/song “30 days has September, April, June and November… all the rest have 31, except February with 28” will come in handy!)

Other details to note:

• space between each moon phase illustration that prompts you fill in the date and / or your cycle date.
  
  
• over the moons, you can still write astro signs + transits if that’s part of your practice, or circle them at the bottom.
  
  
• simple prompts per quarter phase are also included in the top right corner, so you’re always invited to begin by orienting to the moon & your phase in the cycles… this can be done anywhere on the page, or ignored ~ and I invite you to remember that while the quarter phases are our cornerstones, the waxing and waning of the moon is a fluid spectrum, just like the in-betweens of you and your life + cycle’s phases.
  
  
• and the rest of the space is yours to flow
  
  
  • same mini prompts on the edges of each page, including the Cyclical Mindfulness reminders on the right
    
    
  • and there will now be a collection of moon sign prompts in the front of the journal, so that you can still reference more in-depth prompts per astro sign if you’d like!
    
    

So, what do you think? What questions do you have?

As always, I love to hearing from you! Feel free to add comments~

P.S. Don’t forget to mark your calendar that Cycles Journal pre-orders will open next Wednesday, June 10th! There will be limited-time bonus gifts for early birds. :) I’ll share what they are soon~

P.P.S. Feel free to share this post / waitlist with a friend or community who might wanna hear about it, too 💌