Monday Moon-day
I find on Mondays, even now that I’m out of the 9-5 grind, still hold this very lunar, non-linear energy. Do you feel the same?
Monday is an Old English (pulling from Latin) translation for "moon day". In fact, in the Vedic traditions of the East, each day of the week has a planetary correlation.
Sun - Sunday
Moon - Monday
Mars - Tuesday
Mercury - Wednesday
Jupiter - Thursday
Venus - Friday
Saturn - Saturday
The moon is watery. It rules our emotions, the tides, menstrual cycles, and is connected to the inner world. It’s got big High Priestess Energy (HPE).
I had this whole argument with my father once, in a vain attempt to get him to understand why I use astrology as a tool for navigating my life.
I posited:
“We don't dispute that the moon rules the tides, right? So why do we believe we're somehow separate from the lunar cycle? In particular when over half our body composition is H2O.”
Admittedly, it was a JV attempt to get an electrical engineer to believe something see in mainstream culture as “woo woo”. But back in 2017 when I began to take genuine interest in the lunar cycle, it just clicked for me. It was, well, intuition. I was able to feel how true this cycle was for me simply based on my own experience of the moon, of Mondays, of all of it.
It’s like this: we have these months, that are made up of weeks, which fit into a calendar year (which, IMO if we went by the lunar calendar everything would make so much more sense) and we track the moon's waxing and waning.
But why?
Answering this is a whole series of posts I won’t get into now, but in short, the light of the moon enabled our species to:
understand time
and thus create calendars
hunt and forage at night
navigate the seas
…and so on and so forth
So to me, it doesn’t seem that wild to believe we each hold deeply ingrained, natural wisdom in our moods, emotions, and cycles. And that La Luna is a teacher toward understanding these enigmatic feeling states more fully.
In my own life, too often, I let the outer world determine my mood. It used to be,
“Ugh it's Monday, time to wake up to early. To do xyz blah task I don't want to do. To grind. To commute. I HATE Mondays."
Since leaving my corporate job, I went through a whole phase where I loaded up my Mondays out of… guilt? Habit? Reflex? Same Sunday Scaries were appearing, but no sign of logging on at 7am to check emails. No early client calls. No team meetings.
I began to ask myself: with all this new found free time that I have, what do I want to do? What do I even like? What am I not doing that I now have space to do? Why am I NOT doing it? So many old stories are still living in me, through mood and emotion, waiting to be expressed. (TBH, it’s my main, very selfish motivation for sharing on this platform.)
The moon is mysterious. Dark. We see one side of her. And yet, she’s completely predictable. Her 28 day cycle is as regular as it gets. She travels through each of the 12 astrological constellations repeatedly, in the same order. She completes her phases from waxing to fullness and waning to newness each and every cycle.
The simple paying attention of the lunar cycle has been life changing for me. Sure, we can get fixated on “what it means” when the moon is in whatever sign at whatever phase, but the true potent wisdom lies in the simplicity of paying attention to what’s here now. What sensations do you feel? What’s your breath like? What mood are you in? What phase is the moon in? Which sign? And so on, and so forth.