Every night, the moon shows up. Sometimes as a sliver, sometimes full and brilliant, sometimes hidden entirely. Yet it’s always the same moon—always itself—cycling through its ancient dance phases.

We are exactly like this.

Some mornings you wake feeling whole and radiant. Other days, you’re barely a crescent, just enough light to get through. There are times you feel completely dark, invisible even to yourself. And here’s what matters: you’re still you. All of it is you.

The moon doesn’t apologize for being partial. It doesn’t rush its changes or pretend to be full when it’s waning. It simply shows up, night after night (and sometimes during the day), honest about exactly where it is in its cycle.

For billions of years, through every civilization, every human joy and sorrow, the moon has kept appearing—changing and unchanged, different and the same, partial and whole, less and more.

This is your permission to do likewise.

You don’t have to be at full capacity every day. You don’t have to shine with the same intensity on Tuesday as you did on Saturday. Your value isn’t measured by your brightness on any single night. Like the moon, your wholeness exists across all your phases, not within any single one.

The moon teaches us that change isn’t the opposite of consistency—it is consistency. Showing up through all your variations, all your seasons, all your degrees of fullness and emptiness. That’s not instability. That’s reliability. That’s integrity.

Keep showing up. The moon does. And look how essential it is.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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