Book excerpt: Have you approached the midlife mark with a creative dream unrealized? Are you trying to find your unique voice and learn how to express it? Do you want to connect the dots between your passions, your natural gifts, and a larger creative calling? If you’re moving into your second or third act of life and you’ve been struggling to define and express your creative voice, you have arrived at the right place! The wisdom of the moon has influenced creative seekers for centuries, inspiring thousands of beautiful stories, songs, dances, paintings, and poems. Through its many phases, it has served as a muse in a variety of ways. Using the moon as a metaphor, Journaling by the Moonlight: Unearthing Your Creative Calling in Midlife takes creative seekers on a mystical journey through the art of journal writing, moving from darkness into light, and exploring the depth and possibility that wants to emerge on one’s unique life purpose path. If you are yearning to feel more fully alive—personally, professionally, and creatively—it is time to illuminate a creative calling that has only revealed itself in fragments and is ready to see the light of day. Discover a better understanding of your own life story and how it can inspire your creative work, all with the help of the moon. What’s still pulling on your creative soul? It’s never too late to be what you might have been!