I woke up before the alarm and for ten seconds I could not remember what day it was

✦ TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS

The New Moon

Tonight the sky goes dark. Here is what it means when your dreams do the same.

I HAD THIS ONE TOO

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MONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER

Dear friend,

I woke up before the alarm this morning and lay in the dark, and for about ten seconds I could not remember what day it was. It was the best ten seconds of my week.

Tonight is a new moon. The sky will be dark the same way my ceiling was this morning: nothing in it to tell you where you are.

If you have dreamed of the moon and found it missing, this letter is yours.

The dream where the moon is gone

The moon dream is not always about the moon. Sometimes you look up and the sky is black where something used to be. Other times it is there but wrong: too close, the wrong colour, above a street you half recognize. Both feel the same. Something you counted on to orient you has gone, and you are in the dark.

🌑 I looked up and it was gone	🌕 It was there but wrong
🌒 Everything was too dark	🌓 I was looking for something
Tap the one that fits

People have said things about this for a long time. In almost every old planting tradition, the new moon is when you put seeds in the ground before you can see them. Plant in the dark.

Whether that means anything for your Monday morning is your call. But the feeling in the dream, the one where you look up and the sky gives you nothing, is not usually fear. It is waiting without proof, which is harder.

“	It is waiting without proof, which is harder.

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What you cannot see yet

I have been thinking about what it means to start something in the dark. Not the brave kind. The ordinary kind, where you have done the thing, sent the message, said it out loud, and now there is nothing to look at.

Most new things feel like this. You say something honest and the next morning there is no answer, just coffee and the sound of them not mentioning it.

The new moon does not ask you to be brave. It asks you to wait, which nobody writes songs about.

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Tap one to answer it

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What have you started that you cannot see yet?

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When did you last wait with no proof it was coming?

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What are you doing in the dark right now?

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What would you plant if nobody watched?

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Who do you trust to wait with?

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What did the sky look like last night?

If the dream gave you an empty sky and nothing else, it did what new moons do: told you the light comes back, but not tonight.

Tonight

There is a new moon tonight, and whatever you started this month without seeing it is still growing. You do not need to see it for that to be true.

Tomorrow the thinnest line of light will be there where tonight there is nothing, and that is how most new things look at the start.

You just have to sleep through tonight, which is what you were going to do anyway.

✦ CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY

I am allowed to start before I can see.

Not knowing is not the same as lost.

What I cannot see is still growing.

I do not need proof tonight.

What I started is still there.

Tap the one you need

✦ WRITE BACK

Which of those six was the hard one? The one you read twice, or skipped, or answered in your head and then took back.

TELL ME WHICH ONE

If you are in the dark about something right now, you are in good company. The whole sky is tonight.

Sleep well,

Dream Signs

P.S. A friend told me she goes out every new moon to look at the dark. Tell me what you look at when there is nothing to see. “Only appointment I never cancel,” she said, and went back to her tea.

✦ TONIGHT’S PRACTICE

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Look at the nothing

Go outside tonight or find a window. Look up. There is no moon. Stay for thirty seconds, just looking. Then write one sentence about what you are waiting for.

Tell me what you wrote

✦ MANIFESTATION TIP

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One sentence, present tense

The thing you started this month, write it down as though it already happened. One line, present tense. Close the notebook.

What came back

Something shift after a dream? Tell me about it

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Dream it. Sign it. Live it.

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