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- 07 Dec, 2025 *
Spirituality evades me, despite feeling a strong yearning for spiritual connection. I’ve tried to connect with the universe in several different ways, but it doesn’t usually stick. There is one thing that persists though, even if only intermittently. I made friends with the moon. I try to perform rituals around her cycle, setting intentio…
Home Thoughts and Stuff Poems and Things Me All the Blog Things Fascist Seeds Project
- 07 Dec, 2025 *
Spirituality evades me, despite feeling a strong yearning for spiritual connection. I’ve tried to connect with the universe in several different ways, but it doesn’t usually stick. There is one thing that persists though, even if only intermittently. I made friends with the moon. I try to perform rituals around her cycle, setting intentions with the new moon and reflecting on those intentions with the full moon. It’s been a while since I’ve actually performed those rituals, but I still maintain a less formal connection by observing her and letting myself be moved. Sometimes it feels like she knows she’s being watched, and she’s watching back(in a completely not-creepy way). Maybe the reason I can keep this up more easily than other types of spiritual connection is that there’s always another chance. The moon will wax and wane regardless of whether I set up a ritual. When I was a kid, my mom was in prison. She would write to me and tell me to talk to the man in the moon, and he would pass the message to her. I still talk to the moon sometimes. That might be sort of cliche, but it’s cathartic and it can help me find clarity. I don’t like to pray. It feels like a lie—I don’t believe there’s a god that’s really listening. But the moon can’t be denied. She’s always there, even on a cloudy night. (Despite the lore of the man in the moon, she feels like a she to me.)
I’ve been hearing a lot on the news recently about government projects to mine the moon. It makes me feel sick. It feels innately and obviously wrong. I worry about a day when the moon isn’t there anymore and what that would do to the Earth. But I also worry that somehow the spiritual magic of the moon could be depleted. Will she still hear me when we’ve stripped her of all of her resources?