Ilyssa’s Reviews > 4 Seasons in 4 Weeks: Awakening the Power, Wisdom, and Beauty in Every Woman's Nature > Status Update

"Feelings of irritation and discomfort experienced in Week 4, Summer of the feminine cycle are similar to the feelings in the Summer season, as if no shade exists. This tends to be the best phase for staying cool by sweating out (or crying out) what no longer serves you and your life path."

"Nature rules us, awakening us to the highest spiritual attunement. Spring rain and morning mist invigorate and awake our senses. Night jasmine arouses our yearnings. Spring is the sensual time of the year, and the third week is the sensual phase of our cycle."

"Needing more sleep, clearing and preparing the garden, new beginnings, and artistic expression in Fall are similar to Week 1 of the feminine cycle, which is the best phase for lying low, honoring ourselves, and letting our minds create new seeds of thought."

"The entire purpose of the reproductive cycling system is to create, produce; to give life to anything and everything we are a part of. Whether we are mothers of children and/or mothers of invention, our rhythmic cycles have us building relationship circles, big or tiny, wherever we go. We are connectors." - p.73