Letting Go of Control

That’s a hard one. Letting go is hard enough. Letting go of control is even harder. Tomorrow night is a full moon night, Full Moon in Pisces, always a tender time for me. It has been such a difficult time for me historically, that I have a note in my Google Calendar to remind me each September to be ready for it. So maybe this year I’m ready.

This Pisces Moon is not just a Full Moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. Letting go on steroids. I listened to a podcast this morning by Dr. Michael Lennox. (I like him because he’s not just an astrologer. He’s also a psychologist, writer, and dreamer. We have a lot in common.) He said this Full Moon, THIS time of letting go, is like going into surgery, lying down, and letting the surgeon take what needs taken. In the end, it’s for the best, but we have to let someone else’s hands do the work.

Anyway, one of my own blog posts touched me last night. I have been spiffing things up on here, and realized I had not put my posts into categories. As of this afternoon, that job is complete, but in the process I re-read a post I wrote on April 30, 2021. It starts with a story I’ve told a number of times about my rage, at age 8, about not being able to find my Easter candy. But it ends with a reminder, from the ancient book of Sirach, that “what is hidden is not your concern.”

We all have our fears, the things we want certainty about, the future we want to pin down, the politics we want to go our way, the church closures we want to prevent (or speed up, sometimes it is a wanting to speed up closing), the life of a loved one we want to extend, and so on. But the hidden things are not our concern. Perhaps Hidden Things will touch the uneasy place in you too. Have a read.