Have you heard of the Dark Moon phase? For a long time, I didn’t know it either. Even though I had been connecting with Grandmother Moon for years, I dismissed and ignored it as nonsense. But eventually, I befriended it — just as I did with my feminine cycle.
The Dark Moon is the closing of the lunar cycle.
The sacred darkness before the New Moon gently reveals her silver crescent once again.
It is a time of returning inward.
A time to simply be with yourself. To rest in silence. To meditate. Or perhaps to sit quietly on the sofa — or even better, in the garden — allowing yourself to gaze softly into the distance.
This is the season of stillness.
Of restoration.
Of inner listening.
When we allow ourselves to slow down, we may begin to feel what still wishes to be seen, healed, or released before a new cycle begins.
In my garden, this is the moment when I prepare the earth before planting seeds.
The darkness holds a quiet potency. It gently reveals what is ready to be let go of — while also inviting us to replenish our energy and reconnect with our inner strength.
There are many beautiful rituals that can support this phase: connecting with nature, cleansing practices, sacred pauses. But because I spend so much of my life in movement and doing, I now choose something simpler during this time:Silence.
Listening.
Breathing.
I connect with my heart, my womb (our center of power), allowing its energetic body to expand and surround me. I feel the warmth, the embrace, and then I connect with Mother Earth and Grandmother Moon. Slowly, in my own rhythm. Breathing, breathing, breathing — while paying attention to what wants to arise.
This time, only tiredness comes to the surface. The past few days have been challenging, but also joyful. Joyful because I managed them well and because beneath the exhaustion, I can still feel so much strength.
Sometimes it helps not to stop at the first sensation, but to go deeper. If I had stopped at the tiredness, I would never have felt the energy and power lying underneath it. It waits until I surrender to rest.
It says:
“It is okay to do nothing today. It is okay to rest after challenging days. To feel yourself again. To return to your center. To simply be. To reconnect with yourself. Then the energy can flow again. Then your strength can guide you forward on your path once more.”
So I ignore everything I thought I needed to do today.
Something calls me to go even deeper. To let go of everything — and simply breathe.
And there, I can truly feel myself. I can feel my true essence — my true self.
I almost begin to cry, from relief and joy. It feels like coming home.
I feel my heart opening, and I am flooded with lightness. I feel myself expanding into vastness — only spaciousness, joy, relief — while at the same time feeling deeply connected to Mother Earth, deeply grounded.
Suddenly, I sense the passionflower beside me. I can feel it within my crown chakra. It feels as if it is helping me open even further, helping me receive.
I feel joy — joy about working with this plant. But that is another story. I do not follow the thought; I let it pass.
I let go. I surrender. And I begin to simply feel.
Whatever else may wish to reveal itself…
And what I can clearly recognize today is a confirmation of something I had already sensed before. Ahhh, how excited I am to work with plantain and passionflower. It will be another beautiful journey.