Let us celebrate the Hermit's Moon of inner knowing. Because we are no longer people of the land, and because the notion of a hermitage is frightening to some, we appeal to the inner hermit, which is accessible to everyone. The inner hermit can help a sense of balance return to an excessively extroverted and outer-directed culture. Meeting the inner hermit under an ascending full moon, we look to our individual and collective futures with internal peace and happiness. The inner hermit awakens equanimity.
Equanimity sparks the phenomenon of vision, which is so essential to our lives.
We ignore the Hermit's Moon only at deep individual and social peril. In joy and caring let us look backward before going forward into a 21 st century that is still of our own making. Let us intend and dedicate all our actions to peace in the coming century. Looking backward under the light of a Hermit's Moon there are certain ways of thinking and feeling, certain attitudes and certain worldviews that must be left behind. We must be ready to put down our baggage.