Raise your torch anyway. 🔥
- drdeb59
- Oct 21
- 2 min read
I’m writing to you from the Austin airport on my way to lead a retreat on Lake Atitlán, Guatemala — one of my favorite places in the world.
Today’s Libra New Moon (October 21st) marks the official end of Eclipse Season and the opening of a new pathway.
Thinking about the powerful new moon energy, I wanted to share this poem by Chelan Harkin that feels like a perfect reflection for today:
“What if Galileo…”(by Chelan Harkin)
What if Galileo
Had been too afraid
Of rejection
To share his discovery
That reoriented
Our view
Of the universe?
What if Martin Luther King Jr.
Had feared his dream
Was too idealistic
To share?
What if Jesus or any
Of the great, persecuted
Spiritual teachers
Thought love might be
Too dangerous?
What if Rumi
Feared, “My words might not make
Logical sense. Perhaps it’s best
To keep them quiet.”
What if Einstein concluded
Science
Was already complete?
What if DaVinci
Questioned his value,
Wondered if the Mona Lisa
Had already been done?
What if anyone
Brave enough to create change
Opted instead for silence,
For safety?
Leadership is a great confrontation
Of our perception
Of humanity’s limitations—
And many are not ready
For the light that comes with it.
Raise your torch anyway. 🔥
Leadership breaks the cage—And many are not ready to be free.
Liberate possibility nonetheless.
Suffering is largely
Our silenced, aborted dreams,
Our harbored brilliance,
Our tethered truth,
Our visionary veiling,
Our rejected revolution.
The new world, the new way
Lives within each of us.
Each of us is worthy
To do our part
In bringing it forth—And there is no greater
Or more marvelous
Risk.
May this Libra New Moon remind you that your light, your love, and your leadership are needed — now more than ever.
Austin dancers:
The amazing Jodie Eisenhardt will be teaching my PranaShakti class this week. You don't want to miss it! Wednesday, October 22nd | 9 am CDT Balance Dance Studio Register here
No online class this Friday.
Please dance with one of your downloaded replays to celebrate this new moon energy.
Sending love,
Deb
