Spiritual Growth

Growth is rarely a straight line, and it rarely feels like progress while it's happening.

Mostly it feels like the same lesson, in a smaller size.

That smaller size is the evidence. The situation that would once have taken six months now takes a week — not because it stopped happening, but because you recover faster.

Faster recovery, gentler self-talk, better questions.

Treating growth as a project with a deadline and a leaderboard.

• Compare to last year rather than to other people.

• Keep one practice for a full cycle.

• Write one page each Full Moon on what has changed.

• What would have derailed me a year ago that didn't this month?

• What lesson keeps returning in a smaller form?

• What am I gentler about now?

The Universal Laws; the Full Moon Awareness Ritual; The Star and The World.