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The Waning Moon: Returning to Rhythm

Oct 12, 2025

 

Dear Beautiful,

I invite you to pause and connect with your breath - an opportunity to notice a soft pull to slow down lately - mornings that ask for gentler beginnings, emotions that sit closer to the surface, or a mind that doesn’t want to plan so much as pause.
These are not signs of regression; they’re signs that your system is syncing with the moon’s waning light.

As the moon diminishes, your body often follows her lead.
For sensitive women, this can feel like:

  • A heaviness behind the eyes - your nervous system signaling the need for restoration.

  • A tender belly or slower digestion - your body processing deeply as it integrates emotional and energetic input.

  • Fluctuating energy - bursts of clarity followed by fatigue, mirroring the moon’s own decline in brightness.

  • A craving for warmth and grounding foods - soups, teas, and stillness that remind your system it’s safe to rest.

  • More vivid dreams - your subconscious completing its own cycle of digestion.

The waning moon teaches that descent is not an ending; it’s a return.
Just as your body knows how to exhale, it knows how to release what is no longer needed when given permission to slow down.
Your biology and soul collaborate here - mitochondria repairing, fascia softening, breath lengthening, mind unclenching.
Integration is not passive; it’s the body’s most intelligent form of creation.


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🕊 Heart Practice for the Waning Moon

  • Evening Descent Breath – Inhale through the nose, second inhale, then exhale through the mouth. Let each exhale carry a soft release through the heart and belly.
  • Journal Prompt – “What part of me is ready to rest, integrate, or release?”
  • Elemental Ritual – Step outside at dusk. Watch the fading light and feel your body attune to the Earth’s slower rhythm.
  • Affirmation –

“I am part of a living rhythm.
I rest, release, and return in my own perfect timing.”

 

With moonlight and heart,

Melissa
Melissa Jean Paulson, MSW
Integrative Mental Health | Quantum Biology Health
Heart Wisdom Re-Alignment Hypnotherapist
✨Rise. Reclaim. Remember. ✨


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