Crazy things happen during a full moon.

Back in March, my friend Sally emailed me and asked if I was okay because I looked like I had lost my “spark”, my “joie de vivre”. I confessed that I was feeling a bit out of sorts because my ex boyfriend’s birthday was approaching and I was getting all nostalgic and misty eyed.

So she wrote back and gave me very specific instructions on how to move on.

She told me that there was going to be a new moon on the 18th and that I should sit down and write a letter to my ex and just get everything off my chest. I was not supposed to actually send this letter to him but it was for myself. To express all the hurt, anger, and love. And then I was supposed to end the letter with good wishes to him and let him go. After writing the letter, I was to set it on fire and see all the old emotions burn away.

Now I must preface that my friend Sally is one of those people who is into all those celestial beliefs like horoscopes and Venus shifting in Mars blah blah but she is also one of the most intuitive people I know. So I trusted her. And, dear readers, you will not believe what happened.

I can not tell you how emotional that process was. I cried the entire time writing the letter and I actually felt as if I was getting lighter and lighter, unloading all the feelings from the past year.

Then she instructed me to write a different letter after the new moon. This time writing a letter to the new person I wanted in my life. I had to describe all the qualities I was looking for in a person. I don’t know why I was supposed to do this but I guess the universe sends you what you want to attract. So I did this. I said I wanted to meet someone who was tall (of course), had nice eyes, dark hair, liked current events and exotic food, had diverse friends. I felt like I was writing a profile for Match.com.

And I’m not kidding here folks but exactly 7 DAYS after writing that new letter, I met…Activity Partner.

He fit the EXACT DESCRIPTIONS of who I was looking for. He loved to travel. He liked tapas and sangria. His friends were like a mini UN delegation. We actually had met a while ago through a mutual friend but re-connected through facebook.

Granted we never had a romantic relationship but I seriously believe that meeting him made it so much easier to get over my old relationship. He was exactly what I was looking for at the time. I wasn’t ready to be in an actual relationship but it was just nice hanging out with a guy without any of the expectations or insecurities that accompany a relationship.

Activity Partner and I would go out for brunch, watch Lost on Wednesday nights with a bottle of wine, go running on the East River (okay we only did that once because I couldn’t keep up with him), exchange advice and stories on relationships, and just hangout.

He moved to Israel a couple of months ago but I’m so grateful for the short amount of time we spent together. I really think he helped Jinius get back on the saddle. Of many different horses. Ha.

So maybe you think all this full moon stuff is crap. Well, yesterday was a full moon and this morning I discovered that maybe my gyno doesn’t know what he’s talking about.