let’s drop into the second phase of the cycle: the Waxing Moon / Follicular Phase / Inner Spring 🌒🌱
This is the phase that follows your menstruation (or the new moon)—and it’s bursting with quiet hope, energy, and renewal. Let’s unpack its full significance:
🌸 Follicular Phase (Days ~6–13)
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent → First Quarter Moon
Seasonal Archetype: Inner Spring
Energetic Signature: Curiosity, growth, new beginnings
Hormonal Shift: Estrogen begins to rise → boosting energy, mood, motivation, and focus
🌱 What This Phase Signifies:
1. Rebirth & Reemergence
- After the death + release of the menstrual phase, this is your first inhale.
- A time to step back into the world, like spring buds peeking out of the soil.
- You may feel light, hopeful, inspired—more outward-focused and open to new ideas.
Your spirit says: “What’s possible?”
2. Creative Initiation
- Perfect time to start new things, brainstorm, dream big, and experiment.
- Your brain is more receptive to novelty and problem-solving (thanks to rising dopamine).
- It’s not about perfecting—it’s about planting seeds.
Creativity feels like play here—unpressured, fresh, and full of potential.
3. Embodied Innocence
- This is your maiden energy—a return to self, possibility, sensual movement.
- You’re more likely to be social, curious, and exploratory.
- There’s a softness and a spark—a desire to re-engage with the world, but on your own terms.
4. Cognitive Clarity
- Estrogen enhances verbal fluency, focus, and learning.
- You’re primed for absorbing information, solving problems, and setting intentions.
- Best time to organize, plan, and map out the cycle ahead.
🌿 Practices for the Follicular Phase:
- Try new things (a new dance class, new art form, a new idea!)
- Free-write or mind map without judgment
- Move in light, springy, exploratory ways
- Vision board or set intentions for the full moon ahead
- Let play be your pathway to purpose
🌒 Symbolically:
- You are becoming again.
- You are the new moon’s first light.
- This is the awakening of desire, creativity, and self-direction.