555

555 is the first angel number I learned about. I wasn’t too deep into esoteric shit at that time but one of my friends turned to me one day and said “if you keep seeing 555 that means a big change is coming.” Around July 4th 555 came for me. I saw it painted on the side of buildings, in emails, on key fobs, phone numbers. I would go on walks and while deep in thought I would look down and see 55 spray painted on cement. I acquiesced to the change that was coming and settled into my skin.

There was a new moon in Leo yesterday. I have a moon in Leo so it was a particularly loud one for me. I kept walking around the Lower East Side thinking about what was next. When I got back home I wrote down everything I wanted for the next 6 months on a piece of paper and then burned it.

I had a friend recently come up to me and tell me he had been practicing manifestations around new moons. He would deeply connect to the energy of what he was looking for and then it would start appearing. I wasn’t really planning to get into manifestation but after his positive results I’m a bit curious.

I’m not really sure I ever anticipated growing into a woman that would burn pieces of paper on her roof under the night sky, calling in a distant dream, but here I am. I think if you remove all the hocus pocus from manifestation, in its most simplest forms, it’s a matter of connecting to your vision and clarifying your goals. The new moon meditation I did yesterday encouraged me to frame what outcomes I hoped to achieve by the Leo full moon, which will be in 6 months. We always have a million goals and complex dreams, but boiling them down to a couple is what eventually moves the needle forward.

I am reading What Color is Your Parachute for my upcoming job search. I picked it up ages ago but managed to crack it open just this morning on the train. Sometimes I only get in 10-15 minutes of reading in the morning, but the ideas stick around my head for a few hours, framing the reality of what is to come.