12. Lunar Time, Radiant Leadership: How to Work Smarter with Nature’s Calendar

Clock time is collapsing—and radiant leaders are learning how to work with a higher rhythm.

In this transmission, Ava breaks down the outdated paradigm of mechanical time and introduces you to a new frequency of leadership: Lunar Time. You’ll learn how to untether from the pressure of urgency, align with nature’s calendar, and activate your most magnetic productivity—without burnout.

If you’ve ever felt “behind,” chronically rushed, or stuck in patterns of overgiving and under-receiving, this episode will land like medicine. Time, Ava reminds us, is not something you manage. It’s something you embody.

This episode kicks off a powerful 3-part series for Lunar Business Leaders on the New Earth codes of Time, Money, and Trust—and this first one is the key to it all.

🔥 In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why clock time was never designed for feminine leadership, creativity, or nervous system health
• How to shift from urgency into presence and enter infinite time
• The 4 lunar phases decoded as a visionary leadership model
• Why manifestation doesn’t work without nervous system regulation
• What it means to lead from Lunar Time in the New Earth business paradigm

🌀 Ava’s Signature Quote from This Episode:

“We weren’t born to live by the clock. We were born to be time.”

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• ✨ Join The Radiant Moon Collective – Ava’s sacred space for lunar leaders
• 💌 Subscribe to The Radiance Era Newsletter – delivered every New Moon
• 🔑 Explore the Lunar Business Leadership Activation – a 90-day private journey into divine timing, energetic wealth, and sovereign creation (COMING SOON!)

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Transcript

EPISODE 12
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Live Radiant, the podcast where we reclaim ourselves, align with the rhythm of the moon and step fully into our power. I'm Ava, your guide to a life of flow, clarity, and limitless radiance. If you've ever felt stuck, burnt out, or disconnected from your own brilliance, you are in the right place.

Here we blend lunar wisdom, energetic balance, and deep soul alignment. To help you release the noise, trust yourself completely, and create a life that feels as magical as you are. Each week we unlock the secrets of the moon, harness, the power of the law of resonance, and shift out of hustle, culture, and into divine timing, so you can stop forcing and start flowing.

It is time to let go of what dims your light and live radiant. Let's dive in.

All right. Welcome back Radiant Ones. After a [00:01:00] spacious and sacred month of April, I am super lit up to be back on the mic. We are entering a whole new frequency this month. May is officially new Earth Codes Month inside the Radiance era. And we are kicking it off together with one of the most misunderstood, most distorted, and also most liberating concepts that we can ever reclaim.

And that's time. Today's episode, lunar Time Radiant Leadership. How to Work Smarter With Nature's Calendar. If you've been stuck in urgency, overwhelm, cycles of burnout, or the pressure. Or collapsing under the pressure to do more faster. You need this transmission because what I am about to offer you is not time management.

It's time liberation. Let's get [00:02:00] started.

Welcome to May. This is the month of time, money, and trust for lunar business leaders. This episode is the first of a three part transmission of new Earth coats as they apply to business and our, in our professional lives. This episode is like your initiation into lunar time and radiant leadership. It's about how to work smarter with nature's calendar not harder inside of a system that is hollow and collapsing.

So time, there's clock time, which we're familiar with. It's what time is it? It's 24 hours in a day. This is clock time. We all use clock time but a lot of us feel very controlled by clock time, because we allow ourselves to be controlled by clock time, we feel [00:03:00] like there's never enough.

We're operating out of time. Scarcity which is part of the program, the conditioning that we receive. Clock time is mechanical. Lunar time is magnetic. It's elastic. It has a different feel, it's a different way to experience moving through time. Clock time is very mechanical, it's very rigid.

The addiction to urgency that we have , as a collective is rooted in survival consciousness. Scarcity of time is a false story. It's a lie and it leads to burnout. Hyper vigilance, disconnection from ourselves because we weren't born to live by a clock. We were born to be the time to be one with time.

Over the, the centuries clock time has colonized our calendars the way that we move. Through our days, our [00:04:00] weeks, our months, our years. Instead of operating off of the lunar calendar we're operating off of the Gregorian calendar, which is entirely out of sync with natural rhythms like the ones of the earth, like the lunar cycles.

This is intentional, because if we're following this calendar that's disrupting our connection to the natural rhythms, well then what happens? We feel disconnected from ourselves. Well, when you're disconnected from yourself, do you feel powerful?

When you feel disconnected from yourself, do you trust yourself to make decisions? When you feel disconnected from yourself, do you trust others? So here we are, having followed this Gregorian calendar for hundreds of years now, and as a collective, we are out of sync with the natural rhythms that are still around [00:05:00] us.

Not feeling clear, not feeling powerful, not trusting ourselves to make decisions doubting ourselves and then not trusting each other, feeling disconnected from each other and living in fear because of it. When we look at it that way, we can really understand the depths to which living off of the Gregorian calendar affects our wellbeing.

In order to be well, in order to trust ourselves and to live from a place of love and not fear how we function and how we perceive time and experience, time has to shift because if we don't shift the way that we experience time. Then we are forever stuck in scarcity and fear. So the bad news is that we are in this collective, we're in this society that's built around the Gregorian calendar in linear time.

The good news is that nature already has a calendar for us. We [00:06:00] don't have to reinvent the wheel. We don't have to come up with anything new.

We remember the innate wisdom that is within us because of our bodies. And we allow this wisdom to begin to guide us, and we lean into the lunar calendar once again. And when we switch on lunar time, all of a sudden we are never late. We're never rushing. We're operating out of abundance.

There's always plenty of time. There's a time for everything.

When you build your life and structure the way that you lead on lunar time, you work smarter

when you operate around waxing, waning, resting, you work smarter. You end up feeling like you have [00:07:00] more time than you ever had because you're aligning the energy of what you do or not do, or when you make certain types of decisions, or when you pause with a naturally occurring steady rhythm and being in alignment with that rhythm.

Allows you to be part of the flow, be carried. When I say, we work smarter when we operate on the lunar calendar specifically tailoring that to business and leading in the business world we wanna work smarter with nature's calendar, we wanna lead in alignment with this divine.

Cosmic timing. Here's, this is an example of what that could look like. Starting with the New Moon, that's the vision, the theme for the New Moon, stillness. Clarity, envisioning what [00:08:00] is coming up that you desire to create. The New Moon is like your blank canvas. This is where the visionary leads from the quantum field, not the task list.

This is a time to be rooted in safety and security in your physical space. For me, this involves being at home more or being in immersed in nature in areas where I feel completely safe. Both physically and psychologically, and this is really important because when you're envisioning something, when you're directing your attention to your imagination, which is also the field of infinite possibilities, when you're directing your attention there, you're actually away from your body While you're doing that.

Since your attention is not in the present moment, it's projected out into a future, it's just really important to make sure that you're in a space where you feel a hundred percent [00:09:00] safe in all ways. So back to the, the new Moon, where we're leading from the quantum field or the realm of infinite possibilities.

We can sit, we can ask. What wants to come through me? We set intentions that are felt or sensed, not forced, not, I think I should do this because X, y, z, that's linear, right? So it's something that flows through you and that you're called to do it. You can also use this. Time, this energy to tune into what's needed from the future.

You're envisioning the future version of your business or yourself, you can meet with that version of yourself and you can ask what can I do right now that will support me becoming you, becoming this next version of myself? [00:10:00] You becoming the next version of yourself. You can ask your future self, what can I do to support you right now?

And then let that be your intention. You want to, go inward, reflect, receive craft the vision for the next cycle, the next 30 days from this place of energetic alignment. Not any kind of external expectation. Like a CEO boardroom meeting with your higher self.

Now, what happens when we don't honor this phase the new moon phase, which is, it's really like about three days.

What happens if we skip this as we often do in our society? If we skip this, the stillness part of the the New Moon, we end up creating chaos downstream. When we rush into action without first getting the full download without spending the, this time [00:11:00] really dropped into feminine energy, then we fall out of alignment with the natural rhythm.

And that can feel chaotic and it can feel disorienting, and you can feel scattered and also. You can feel like you're alone. I need help and I don't know who can help me and I can't seem to help myself. Those are thoughts that can come up when you're disconnected from these natural rhythms.

Next phase the waxing moon.

This is the time for self-trust. This is where we build momentum. This is a calibration to the new vision, and it's where we take all the action. So this is the phase to move but only in alignment with the vision that you received. Courageous, intuitive action builds self-trust.

When you trust in yourself, [00:12:00] you are trusting in the wisdom that created you. You're trusting in the divine plan, and you're trusting in the timing that comes along with that plan. When I say courageous, intuitive action builds self trust. It's really honoring how much courage it takes. To act out of intuition and nudges and downloads.

When we acknowledge that what we're doing takes courage to do that, not only does that build self-trust, when we act on that, it also helps us reconnect with our innate power. Here in the waxing moon leadership is. It's about the follow through, it's about embodiment the new vision, and it's about showing up before it's perfect and taking that intuitive action to, to build self-trust.

It's saying yes to intuitive nudges. It's committing to [00:13:00] visibility. Even when it feels edgy it's taking those aligned steps. It's following through on the downloads without over planning. If we skip this phase or we take the actions of this phase during another phase where the energy is not complimentary or we hesitate too long, then we end up doubting our vision and we fall back into the old loops of playing small over planning, waiting till it's perfect.

Those are some signs that you're out of sync in this phase. Usually the waxing phases, it's easier for us because we are so conditioned to be in action, as much of the time as possible. This can usually, it can be easier, but we tend to do it for too long. So the key here is to move right into it, and then also to honor that there's a time for this phase, and then there's a time for the next one.

Like there's a time for. [00:14:00] Resting, there's a time for, the envisioning again, there's, it's an ebb and a flow, don't get stuck in the waxing phase and taking all the action. When you've taken all the action that you can, based on the download that you receive, it's time to move into a different energy, and the different energy would then be the full moon.

We call that the visibility code. It's full illumination, it's celebration, and a little bit of refinement. The full moon will show you what's working and also it will show you what's misaligned. So it shines a spotlight on everything that you've been doing. This is the time to share your work.

This is the time to be seen, even if it's not perfect. So you can, this is a time to allow your message to land. Allow it to land and [00:15:00] celebrate any wins that you've had. Because frequency of celebration magnetizes more, and in, in celebration there's also gratitude. Leadership here during the Full Moon is about being witnessed.

And then reflecting the light of your work.

The Full Moon is a great time to host events, to gather, to share bold content to fully launch an offer. It's also a time to evaluate what's feeling misaligned. Not making a wrongness out of any of it. Just accepting that something's out of alignment and having intention to move it back into alignment with grace and detachment from outcome.

Then we also want to receive the clarity that comes with that can come with visibility. During the Full Moon, we want to avoid performing. It's allowing yourself to be seen and fully [00:16:00] illuminated, allowing the light to shine on your work and allowing it to be out there without feeling like you have to perform or chase validation.

Radiance is felt right. It's not forced. If we force radiance, it takes the light out of it and then it's not radiant anymore.

The next phase is the waning moon. This is the release codes. After the full moon, it's a time for integration, a time for rest, and a time for recalibration.

To step into our power here, the visionary in ourselves has to let go. Honoring a pause. Listening to the lessons, taking a peek underneath what can be released or let go of before entering into the next lunar cycle. What are some habits or patterns or strategies that felt out of alignment and they're no longer serving?

This is [00:17:00] where. Nervous system. Wealth is built.

The waning moon or leadership practice here is to detox. Detox your schedule, unplug, reflect on the full cycle. Release pressures here. During the waxing phase, pressures can serve as fuel. During the waning moon, we just let it go. We don't need pressure. You don't need pressure when you're going down the slide, right?

You can make space for what's to come. Gather up insights and prepare yourself to enter. The void space again, the dark moon, the new moon is coming. Prepare yourself to enter into the that next cycle, feeling cleansed, refreshed, gaining any insights and building on your self trust and your power so you enter [00:18:00] into each new cycle as a new version of yourself, as an upgraded version of yourself, and you can do this.

Every single lunar cycle without feeling like you're being pushed or you're exhausted or like it's a lot of effort or like you wanna take a break from it. If you really honor these phases, it just feels like this smooth, delicate rhythm where you're moving up a spiral with grace and intention and.

Feeling more and more like yourself and more and more in your power every time. If you skip this, the waning phase as we often do, because it is about two weeks if you skip this, burnout is coming for you. It helps me to think of it that this period of, rest of receiving is not like a retreat.

It's part of the work. It's a power [00:19:00] recalibration, and it is equally as important as the waxing phase where we take all the action. It is equally as important as the full moon where we celebrate.

/ Now that we've covered those basics on what that lunar calendar under leadership looks like or can feel like let's talk about time in a new Earth and how that differs from what we've been experiencing and how it's available to us.

As a collective, we've been operating off of linear time. Now that a new Earth is upon us, what we have available to us is a different way to experience time. I'm sure you've heard people say, time's not linear. It's a spiral. And it is. But that can be really tricky for our minds.

How I think about time and how I know time to be is that there's the [00:20:00] present moment and then there's infinite time. There's no past, there's no future per se, because it doesn't go in a line. There's the present moment.

There's, right now that's when. We can receive, that's when we can take action. That's when our entire life happens. It's in the present moment. It's always in the present, or there's infinite time. That's the realm of spirit where all possibilities exist. These future versions of ourselves exist.

So when we adapt our calendars from the Gregorian calendar to the lunar calendar. We become regulated in our bodies, in our nervous systems even in our minds, it becomes easier to put our attention in the present moment. It becomes easier to have more present, more present time because we [00:21:00] feel taken care of.

We've shifted out of. That collective belief and program, that there's not enough time, that there's time scarcity. Once we've shifted away from that and we become regulated, then we can time travel. During the new moon phase, the dark moon of the new Moon, we can use that time.

To travel to the realm of infinite time

where we can access these future versions of ourselves, and then we can work on matching frequency with them and magnetizing. Them to us to the present moment so we can do this when we're regulated, when we're dysregulated and we try to do this, then we're self abandoning because our bodies are actually the portal to the quantum field and being fully present is [00:22:00] the only way to access infinite time and that can feel.

That can strike you as a bit of a paradox. And it is but visioning your future self only works if your nervous system is anchored in safety, and it cannot be anchored in safety. If you are operating entirely out of the Gregorian calendar and you're allowing yourself to continue to be controlled by clock time, not just.

Using it as a tool for organization, but allowing yourself to be controlled by it. You are not going to be able to receive at the level or have the capacity to receive that you can

when you no longer believe in time scarcity. When you're aligned with natural rhythms and cosmic time, and then your nervous system is anchored in safety, this is the trap of spiritual bypassing. It's like it's futile daydreaming. [00:23:00] It's dreaming of a future that you can't receive because your system isn't ready.

' cause it continues to be dysregulated by following. The old paradigm way of experiencing time. Right now the new earth is upon us. It's here. It's unfolding before our eyes we're in that transition, and with that time, money and trust are being restructured or rewritten on our planet.

And those two master this lunar time. And operate in alignment with cosmic time and cycles will rise as relevant and radiant leaders of a new earth. The clock is not the compass. The moon is the compass in lunar time, and when you lean into that, then you are no longer behind. In life and when you're aligned, you are [00:24:00] right on time.

This is what it means really to work smarter with nature's calendar. And it's not hustle. Reborn is healing, it's actual alignment, and it's completely available to you. In this present moment,

/ you see clock time is becoming irrelevant and rigid schedules are collapsing.

Urgency. It's outdated, it's going obsolete, it's not necessary, and the future belongs to those who lead in divine timing. And that's what lunar business leadership is. It's not just a vibe like it's an actual skillset and it's one that will keep you relevant and radiant in the new Earth.

When you work with nature's calendar, time will bend for you. Time will work for you.

This episode is just the beginning of the new Earth codes for lunar business leadership. Next [00:25:00] week will be the money codes of the new Earth, and after that we'll be trust and leadership.

If you like this episode, be sure to share it with a friend. Connect with me on LinkedIn and subscribe to the Radiance Era newsletter and drops every new moon. Follow me on Instagram at Live Radiant with Ava. And stay tuned for information on the Lunar Business Leadership activation, which will be a 90 day private journey to align your business with divine timing working directly with me.

More coming on that this month. And just want you to just want you to remember, you don't have to be ruled anymore by the ticking clock. You can choose in this moment to begin to be led by lunar time and know that you are time and you are right on time.

Until next week, [00:26:00] stay radiant. I.