unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
— Anne Lamott
We're in the middle of it right now — the Buck Moon portal, which doesn't just live in one single night. It opens about two days before the exact full moon and stays open about two days after, which means this window of energy has been building, and it's still very much alive around us today.
Full moons are traditionally a release point — a natural moment in the cycle where whatever's been quietly building in us over the past weeks gets asked to come to the surface, be seen, and be let go of. And this month's Buck Moon carries a particularly fitting invitation: rest.
So many of us move through our days running on fumes, convinced that pushing through exhaustion is just the cost of getting things done. We wake up already tired. We carry tension in our shoulders we don't even notice anymore. We tell ourselves we'll rest later — and later never quite comes.
This portal is asking a simple but important question: what would it look like to actually stop waking up drained?
That's exactly what I dug into in last Saturday's video — how to interrupt that cycle of exhaustion, calm your nervous system, and finally get the kind of sleep that actually restores you, instead of just pausing the tiredness until tomorrow. If you haven't watched it yet, this portal is the perfect moment to.
Whatever this full moon is asking you to release — old patterns of overworking, old beliefs that rest has to be earned — let it go. You don't need permission to rest. You just need to remember that you're allowed to.
Manifest the good life... why not you?
