Yesterday was the tenth of the tenth, and the world started again.
On Saturday, October 10, the oldest story we have was read again from its first word. The new moon was born that same morning. And on Sunday a new month opens. Three beginnings in two days, stacked on top of each other.
The foundation of your year
Most of the big days of the season are behind us. This week is quieter, and quieter weeks are where foundations get poured. How you set yourself up in these seven days is how the year tends to run.
The old story has a surprising thing to say about how anything gets built. The first act of creation was a step back. Before a single thing could exist, the endless light had to leave an empty place for it.
Creation did not start with adding. It started with making room.
So if your week feels tight, quiet, or a little hollow, you are standing in that empty place. It is where things are about to be built.
Two faces, two lights
The same story says the first human was made with two faces, one male and one female, back to back, and then separated so the two could finally look at each other. It also says the moon was once asked to make herself smaller, with a promise that one day she would shine like the sun.
This new moon is one of those promises. In the old tradition it was given to women as their own day. What that means for how you lead, carry and love this week is in the full reading.
Autopilot
The month that starts on Sunday is an emotional one. Old feelings surface, things sting, and the pull is to react on the spot. Snap, grab, decide something huge late at night.
There is a one-second move that turns every one of those moments around, and it comes straight from the first page of the old story. It is in the community.
One minute, before the phone
The practice this week is the smallest one I have ever given, and it happens every morning before you pick up your phone. The seven days, the sentence to say out loud, and the audio in my voice are in the community.
Saturday, October 17
The end of the first ordinary week of the new year. Whatever you built between now and then is what the rest of the year stands on. Make it something you chose.
The method is built on the lunar calendar and on years of studying Sefer Yetzirah. I do not teach the tradition. I use its calendar as an instrument, and I translate it into the language a modern woman actually lives in.