I have wanted to visit Anglesey for an awfully long time. It was the last stronghold of the druids during the Roman invasion, and some say that it is the heart of the UK Neolithic landscape. It is home to the famous Bryn Celli Ddu (‘the mound in the dark grove’), whose passage is aligned to the summer solstice sunrise, which also has what many believe to be a pillar of petrified wood contained within , which is really rather remarkable.

My witch hazel in full bloom

I stumbled across a quote a few years ago now, which I was reminded of as the dust settled after the new moon blast of insight.

It goes something like, ‘the thing that screws us up the most in life, is our idea of how it is meant to be’.

This is so true!

And of course inherent within this is the idea of how we have been conditioned to believe it is meant to be so.

That was one very intense new moon on Friday highlighting our tendency to self-criticism and self-blame. I was aware that my clients and students were being encouraged to find a kinder voice to talk to themselves, to shift the internal narrative to something much more positive.

In my own healing too, I was aware that we were being asked to question the various roles we have taken on and the way these limit us, so too to consider the stories we tell ourselves and the narrative and thoughts running through our mind.

These are interesting times as cosmic forces usher in more change. We are being asked to go deeper still, to seek out the wounding and harm done, to heal and set ourselves free so that our future is not based on what has happened previously and all the various conditioning and limited beliefs, which arose because of this.