Congratulations! You've been doing better than I did. My first month, I made $1.24. I wrote about this here:

https://medium.com/illumination/the-diary-of-a-small-time-writer-80408f306cbc?source=friends_link&sk=0dcf11f0f7420657c0c9b788fa05612b

Like you, I discovered ILLUMINATION pretty much at the beginning. I still publish there a lot. I also saw you shared this piece to the ILLUMINATION Slack channel - good call. The writer community of ILLUMINATION is there for you and tends to give you some good advice.

Good luck!