Wandering Mind

I'm watching so many people close to me bottoming out and I can only hope that today is very bottom and it all goes up from here. I know my mood tends to swing down around the new moon and I was trying to be more observant this time and I think it helped to keep from being so affected. But I'm blaming my friends situations on the moon as it's entirely based on views and mental dispositions and the physical "facts" of the situations could be viewed as much less severe from a slightly different perspective. If it's not the moon, maybe something is in retrograde... whatever it is, I hope things improve for everyone soon.

I actually got up to practice as I thought the new moon was tomorrow (as my google calendar says) but for some reason I thought to double check. and I happily went back to bed for two hours. I'm still making it to my mat every day and I'm happy to be working through those days where I would much rather go home after 3 Surya A's. I'm trying to change my views and limit them to the pose I'm doing rather than all of the poses left to do. So far so good. I've been back at it for a month and haven't missed a day!