reset – Thoughts From The Passenger Seat

I’m continually working on my understanding of how the sun, moon, stars, and signs align and how they can affect my day (or years!).

I receive the Moon Omens newsletter and follow on Facebook and today the email started out with “Happy Virgo Season, Nancy!”

I’m getting better at knowing the start and end of Zodiac signs, mostly because I’m born on the cusp of Aries with an April 22nd birthday. Even the cycle of the moon once you remember when a full moon is.

But this email gave me pause and brought back some memories of this time period. It said:
“This is a season for refining your everyday routines, cleansing toxicity from your life, and bringing your mind, body, and spirit back into alignment.”
“This is a perfect season to right any ships that are steering off course in your life, and to create new habits and routines to help you stay in alignment with your ideals.”

I immediately thought about those few weeks before going back to school. Fourteen years from first grade to last year of college. New uniforms, making sure everything fit, getting back into good morning habits (no more sleeping late!), notebooks, pens, pencils, and binders.

After that last year of college, when late August arrived, I felt a sense of mourning. I would never again have that new start. That feeling that the clock has reset to zero, and I could start all over again. It was quite a few years before that feeling went away.

But now, I see it still is a time to reset and restart. To find a new path and create new habits and routines, to help me stay in alignment with my ideals.

The clock can still reset to zero.

My birthday was yesterday and with that always comes my thoughts for my “new year”. It’s a nice little reset four months into the actual new year.

A couple of things I’ve noticed. I spend too much time reading other people’s blogs instead of writing on my own TWO blogs. This one and my family one.

I spend too much time, again reading, trying to “figure myself out” through astrology. It has given me an understanding of myself but I want to make sure I don’t lean too hard into it. What happens when I finally figure it out? Like the dog who catches the car. Will I be any happier? Not likely, so maybe I’ll try to keep some of that mystery alive.

I continue to work out every day but it’s only been since last week that I am coming to grips with my diet. What’s the old saying? It’s 10% exercise, 90% diet. I reinstalled the My Fitness Pal app and have been tracking my food. Keeping it realistic to lose a 1/2 pound a week and that appears to put me at the healthy part of my diet overall. Of course, with my first weekly weigh in, I gained 2/10th of a pound but I’m blaming it on the soy sauce with the sushi for my birthday dinner. I just have to stay realistic. Overall though, I feel great!

We haven’t started any biking yet this year and I’m looking forward to riding on my Specialized that I bought last September. I managed to sell my first bike, the Salsa, last week and I’m glad that someone starting out will get to enjoy it. With that said, I’m going to take each opportunity that comes up to ride without thinking about what’s on my desk or that “I need to be there”, when it’s likely I don’t really need to be there.

Overall, I’m pretty pleased with the first four months but I always appreciate that birthday reset!

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Virgo Season

A New Year