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Full Moon: Release Scarcity, Keep Standards
<p>What if the Harvest Moon isn’t telling you to lower your bar—but showing you how to keep it, even when life feels tight? </p><p>In this episode, Liz Vyncy reveals why the full moon’s “release” tradition often goes wrong: we burn the boundary, drop the price, or soften the standard… and keep the real scarcity—overpacked calendars, corrosive commitments, and fear-based yeses.</p><p>Using the Harvest Moon’s astronomy as a living metaphor (a moon that rises with minimal delay, extending workable evening light for the harvest), Liz teaches a simple but profound practice: release scarcity, keep standards. You’ll learn the difference between scarcity (urgency, dread, clutching) and standards (discernment, quality, calm no’s)—and how to stop confusing the two.</p><p>At the heart of the episode are three rapid tests you can run in under a minute:</p><p>- The Body Test: does it tighten you or steady you?</p><p>- The Time Test: what year is this voice from—present values or an old winter?</p><p>- The Plenty Test: would you still keep this if you had plenty?</p><p>With those tests, you’ll do a two-column moonlit sort (“Fear holds this” vs “My standard holds this”), choose one fear-held thing to compost (with a real-world administrative action within 24 hours), and choose one standard to raise—spoken aloud, written as a standing sentence, and defended once this fortnight.If you’ve been wondering whether your high bar is “too much,” this episode is your permission to winnow: let the chaff go to the wind, keep the grain, and walk back into your life one fear lighter—with your crown still on.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Learn more: <a href="https://elegantwitchcraft.com/academy">https://elegantwitchcraft.com/academy</a> </p>