the crushed violet

What a difference 29.5 days makes.

What's up with the moons?

My very first(?) domain I blogged on was waxing-moon.org in 2005. I genuinely did not consider that until surprisingly recently, having started this moon thing over a year ago. It was a personal site with all the fanlistings and TCGs and webrings and cliques you can imagine. I believe it was also part digital grimoire, as that was my prime Wiccan era. Waxing Moon, to me, meant to grow and become.

I also used to love Nerd Fitness back in its early forum days, but always struggled to complete the longer challenges, as well as didn't really fit neatly into any of the fitness and weight loss goals most other people had.

So I started doing my own little monthly challenges, based on the moons rather than the dates almost solely because I decided to do it a few days into 2025 and the new moon was roughly the same time. Rather than strictly focusing on fitness or health, it's literally anything I want to work on for the duration of one new moon to another, with the intention of it just being for that cycle. If I decide it sucks, then it just doesn't come back in the next cycle. If it's been genuinely helpful, maybe it goes a few more cycles until it becomes habit.

Coming out of the winter with low energy, I have mostly just been logging whatever I happened to be doing at the time of the new and full moons for the sake of blogging cadence. But I hope to share some of the actual projects and improvements I have been making as the year goes on.

Just look how much the daffodils got done.