This First Quarter Moon may find you, and those around you, sensitive today. You may be easily rattled, or take things more personally than you need to, or just want to hide under the covers.

Remember that those around you are feeling that way too, and that things can escalate quickly in those situations if someone doesn’t put the brakes on.  That task generally falls to whomever has a better idea of what’s going on. It might be you.

Part of the heightened emotionality of the day and the general rawness can be attributed to the fact that this is an excellent day to put down those things you have been carrying around, those events you swore never to forget,  let alone forgive, those grudges, those hurts. Put them down, and don’t pick them back up.

Forgiveness does not constitute consent.

Forgiveness merely means that you won’t keep perpetrating on yourself what someone else once did. Forgiveness is, in essence, the opposite of consent.

So sit, and breathe. Allow each exhalation to be the release of something that no longer serves you. Allow each inhalation to be the replenishing of your life force.

And let go.