Change & Transition

The hard part of change is rarely the new thing. It's the in-between — when the old has ended and the new hasn't arrived, and you have no idea who you are this week.

Every genuine transition has that empty corridor in the middle, and every tradition marks it for a reason. The discomfort of the corridor is not evidence you chose wrongly. It's evidence the change is real. The lunar cycle is a map for exactly this: release, rest, then plant.

Movement through endings without rushing the beginning.

Leaping into the new thing to avoid grieving the old one.

• Name what is ending and what is beginning, in two sentences.

• Allow one full lunar cycle in the corridor before judging the decision.

• Mark the threshold deliberately — a ritual, however small.

• What am I leaving, honestly?

• What am I afraid the new thing will ask of me?

• Who am I when nothing is decided?

The Release and Ceremony subjects; Death, The Tower and The Fool; Labradorite and Smoky Quartz; the Last Quarter phase.