Dear Reader,

Two days ago, around 10 a.m., I stepped outside and looked up at the sky.
She looked unreal.

Not metaphorically—literally.
A perfect crescent moon, drawn with such precision it felt like someone had painted her there.
Hanging in the South, her round edge facing East. So flawless, so still.
And she’d be gone by the weekend.

Something about that moment hit me.
Staring at that moon—the same one I’ve been looking at for half a century—every cell in my body whispered a truth I couldn’t ignore:

The rest of my life is shorter than what’s behind me.

And I’m not being dramatic. It was the morning of my 50th birthday.

We don’t get infinite time.
Not in this shape.
Not in this body.
Not in this story.

I’ve always known this.
I make a practice of not forgetting.

You can ask my friends—they rarely know how to respond when I say things like, “We’re all gonna be dead before we know it.”

It sounds harsh, but it’s not.
It’s clarifying.
It slices through the noise.

Because when we remember we’re mortal, we remember what matters.

But that morning, looking up at the moon I’ve known my whole life, I came face to face with a deeper layer of paradox.

Paradox, Reader, is life’s organizing principle. (And it’s one of the three magical axioms I teach in Liberation Magic).

And here’s how it showed up that day:

When you realize you don’t have much time left…
you might want to slow down.

Yes. Slow down.

Because strangely, beautifully, paradoxically—
​slowing down is the spell for making time expand.

If you want the day to fly by in a blur, stay busy.

Fill it with tasks.
Rush from one thing to the next.
Do, do, do.

And boom—it’s nighttime. Another day gone.

But if you want to feel the fullness of your life...
to breathe deeply,
to receive insight,
to be moved by your own magic—

Move as if you have all the time in the world.

Act as if.
And somehow… you make it so.

This isn’t poetic fluff.
It’s a working principle of magic.
It’s how you bend time.
It’s how you remember the sacredness of every minute.

If you want to slow down time, start here:

🐢 Go slower than you think you can
⏸️ Pause between tasks
1️⃣ Do one thing at a time
🙅‍♀️ Say no more often
🧘 Sit in silence
🌙 Stare at the moon

Let life stretch out again.
Let the divine surprise you.

This is one of the doorways into Liberation Magic.

And it’s open to you, always.

No matter your age.
No matter your to-do list, your regrets, your past, or your fears.

Your power is here.
Your magic is real.
And your time is now.

Courage, truth, and infinite love,

I don’t believe in magic, but I know that it works! Magic is not a belief system, it’s a practice that works. Don’t believe me? Come try it out. If it doesn’t work, you lose nothing. But if it does… your dream life is about to begin! About Me →

“El poder está en la acción.”

— Maritza Schafer

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