Why I Made the Lunar Diary

The Lunar Diary began with a question:

What if there was another way to experience time?

For most of my life, I had been living according to a very linear idea of time. There was always something to do, something to achieve, something to finish and something to plan for next.

Eventually, I began to wonder why it felt so difficult to simply slow down.

I started looking at the rhythms of nature instead.

The Moon waxes and wanes. The seasons change. Seeds are planted, grow, flower, go to seed and return to the earth. Nothing in nature is constantly growing.

And yet somehow, we have created lives where we are expected to keep moving forward all the time.

I began exploring the ancient calendars that followed the Moon and the seasons, and I became fascinated by the idea that our ancestors experienced time not simply as a straight line, but as a cycle.

That was the beginning of the Lunar Diary.

A diary for living differently

I wanted to create something that would help me remember that there is a time for beginning and a time for finishing. A time for creating and a time for resting. A time to reach out into the world and a time to come home to myself.

So I made the diary I wished I had.

The first Lunar Diary was a very personal creative experiment. I didn't know whether anyone else would want one.

But they did.

And five years later, I'm still making it.

Five years of following the Moon

Each year, the Lunar Diary has grown and changed alongside me.

I've listened to the women who use it, noticed how they interact with the pages, and allowed the diary to evolve rather than trying to make it perfect from the beginning.

Some things have become central to it — the Moon Maps, the seasonal festivals, the Goddess mythology, the space to track your menstrual cycle and, most importantly, the invitation to simply notice.

Each edition has also become a little more of my own creative practice. I bring together my love of mythology, the Goddess, art, nature and ancient ways of understanding time, and weave them into something that can be used in everyday life.

The 2027 edition is the fifth Lunar Diary.

Five years of Moon cycles.
Five years of seasons changing.
Five years of making, learning and beginning again.

More than a diary

I don't think the Lunar Diary is really about organising your life.

It's about paying attention to it.

The pages gradually darken as the Moon wanes. Mother Moon whispers throughout the diary. There are places to dream, create, reflect, track your cycles, notice the seasons and simply be still.

You don't have to use every page.

You don't have to follow the Moon perfectly.

You don't even have to feel connected to every part of it.

Take what speaks to you. Leave what doesn't.

The invitation is simply to look up from time to time and notice where you are.

And it continues to evolve

I don't know exactly what the Lunar Diary will become over the next five years.

Perhaps that's part of the point.

It is a living project, and like everything else in nature, it is allowed to change.

For now, I'm very happy to keep making it — one year, one Moon and one cycle at a time.

Welcome to the Lunar Diary.

I hope it helps you find a little more space for living, creating, resting and simply being.