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“To menstruate means to live through a monthly cyclical transmutation in which the past is shed and the new is embraced. Experiencing this transformation through conscious ritual and meditation awakens us to our connection with the cycles taking place all around us, and to our relationship with all life.”

“Menstruation symptoms, especially pain, encourage body consciousness by forcing one to experience physical sensations.”

“Menstrual pain puts us in touch with our feelings of being hurt, and by really expressing this hurt we can process the pain. By this I mean we can release it by acknowledging it. Life is a process of gaining self-knowledge. Symptoms give us information.”

“In the Native American tradition a woman is considered to be at her most powerful, psychically and spiritually, when she is menstruating. Resting during menstruation is seen in the context of one’s attention being elsewhere. Your energy is focused on the spiritual plane, on gathering wisdom.”

“When women share their menstrual blood with the earth, either individually or in ceremony, an enormous positive collective power is unleashed that can rebalance and heal the planet. When women bleed and put their blood on the earth, they act as a conduit between the generative forces of the moon and the receptive fertile energies of the earth. Women link these two celestial bodies-the Earth and the Moon.”

“This means that if the full moon triggers ovulation, then women will bleed fourteen days later, on the new moon. And indeed, it seems that this was generally the case in societies that did not use sources of light other than the sun and moon. When exposed only to natural light, women tend to menstruate with the new moon.”

“Many women don’t want to go deeper into menstruation.It suits them better to suppress their feelings with tranquilizers, to spray with vaginal deodorants to disguise the smell of blood, to numb their pain through painkillers, and to absorb their blood with tampons so they never have to actually see it.It’s easier to be a successful woman in a man’s world if you hardly recognize that you menstruate at all.”