02/12/2025
🌑 🩸🌕 Every person who experiences a menstrual cycle deserves at least one or two days of deep true rest, undisturbed space and freedom from responsibilities. During our bleed, we enter a ceremony. Our energy drops, our senses heighten and beneath those senses lies a field of deeper awareness and transformation. In this space, what we most need is (self)care.
We should not be expected to answer our phones, open our doors, or offer our energy to anything or anyone we haven’t chosen to. Yet, so often, we abandon ourselves.
During menstruation, I invite you to return to the “3 Sacred S” ~ solitude, silence and sleep. These S shouldn’t be seen as a luxury, they should be honored without guilt, self blame or pressure. They are meant to arise from a place of self love and from the instinct to protect our sacred energy. For some, this looks like nourishing meals, fire, ritual offerings, gentle somatic work or emotional release. For others, it is simply allowing the world to wait.
This is how we stay tuned to our nature and to Nature, instead of betraying her and becoming bound to the system’s unhealthy rules and rhythm. This is how we reconnect ~ how we remain creative, in harmony and regulated. How we remain whole, true and wild.
This is how we protect ourselves and others when we are at our most vulnerable. This is how we meet the divine feminine ~ the one beyond gender. Not the diluted, modern idea of a woman defined by constant strength and limitless capacity, but the ancient feminine: vulnerable, open and powerful in her softness. The feminine that does not need to harden to be strong.
By honoring this, we’re rebalancing the feminine and masculine within us. We allow them to move together, instead of against each other, inside our human bodies. And in doing so, we help co create a world that no longer asks people in their cycle to abandon themselves, but invites them home.
