What the full moon taught me about presence

There’s a moment, when I’m deep in drawing, where the world falls away.

It usually happens when I stop trying to get it “right” and start simply being with the form. Sometimes I’ll spend nearly the whole session on a single part—a knee, a hip, a collarbone—while the rest remains unfinished. Suggested, sketched, but not resolved.

And yet, when I look at it later, it feels whole.
Not because it’s done. But because I was present.

That’s the energy of the Full Moon in Artifex Lunaris.
This isn’t the phase for rushing to share or editing yourself into visibility.
It’s the phase of being inside the work. So fully present, you lose the edges.

In that phase, I write:

What if the act of making is the point?
Not for others. Not for outcomes. Just for the full, luminous now.

This is the moon of process. Of flow. Of returning to your piece and letting it speak again.

Not everything needs to be finished to be beautiful.

Not everything needs to be shared to be real.

So if you’re creating something—quietly, in the background, not yet ready to show—know this:

That, too, is radiance.

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🌕 Artifex Lunaris is a four-phase creative cycle in rhythm with the moon.
The full moon is about showing up. Not performing. Just being with the work.

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With presence,
Margaret
Letters from the studio, insights from the stars