Reflections beneath the Corn Moon Eclipse
This week, under the last full moon of summer — a Corn Moon that arrives with the rare power of an eclipse — I find myself reflecting on thresholds.
Watching my daughter settle beautifully into her own passage of matrescence (the becoming of a mother) has been luminous. Her rhythms with her newborn have begun to flow with confidence, and the house is alive with the pulse of new life.
And yet, for me, another layer has quietly stirred. As a mother of a daughter who now has a daughter, I feel a threshold of my own. I have begun to call it Lunascence: the luminous passage of becoming a grandmother.
There is joy and gratitude — but also memory and grief. In the early weeks of being close to my daughter and granddaughter, I was reminded of the intimacy of my own mothering years: when I was everything to a child. To revisit that tenderness, distilled now in hindsight, brought a pang of loss alongside the sweetness.
It is the way thresholds work. They open doors into the past and the future all at once. They invite us to carry what is precious, and to release what no longer belongs.
This is the invitation of autumn, too.
The equinox later this month will bring balance to day and night. The Corn Moon and eclipse arrive as a cosmic reminder of cycles greater than us — harvest and release, light and shadow, fullness and emptiness.
Synchronicities shimmer in these moments. The caterpillar I’ve been watching in my garden, nearly ready to cocoon, mirrors this truth: we are always becoming. Whether through new birth, new roles, or new awakenings, life asks us to step gently into the unknown, to honor what has been, and to trust what is yet to come.
This is why I return again and again to the hearth. To listen. To remember. To create spaces where we can honor the thresholds of our own becoming.
Reflection for you:
What threshold are you standing at now?
What are you carrying forward, and what are you ready to release?
If you were to name this moon for yourself — what would you call it?
May this Corn Moon and eclipse illuminate your way. 🌙
If you’d like to walk deeper with me into these seasonal passages, I’m sharing more reflections, soul cards, and Enchanting Seasonal Guides in my Patreon hearth circle → Here’s the link