Yesterday was the last day of the recent period of Mercury in retrograde motion, so hopefully things will calm down a bit until we go retro again. A few days ago, I looked up into the sky and found the moon just as she was about to duck behind a bank of clouds. I paused where I was (at a gas station, having just filled up the tank and further breaking the bank) and took in the sky.
The older some of us get, the more we tend to look down as we go about our day. Our postures become more hunched, we don’t bother lifting our heads or holding ourselves erect – it’s just easier to give in to gravity at some point. I still like to look up – at the buildings, at the sky, at the moon wherever she might be. It’s a small moment of mindfulness, as it forces me to stop in my tracks (or run the risk of walking into something) and take in the surroundings. Mindfulness need not involve silence or sitting in the lotus position – it comes in little pockets throughout every day if we take a little care to allow it to manifest.
On that day, I looked at the moon, I thought of our small place in the universe, and I went on with my day, a little more grounded.
