Friday, November 14. 2008Ovulatory DissonanceI am experiencing an acute case of Ovulatory Dissonance. Don't fret-- I 'm alright...it's a condition I just invented but I think it could sound familiar to many of you... Today I am recovering from a few days with a sick kid. The projectile vomiting, the blazing fever, the body aches...Poor girl! But now that she is back to school I am playing catch-up. Blitzing the war-torn looking homefront, shuffling a mountain of work related papers, looking at looming grant deadlines and the like. I am cleaning the detrius of this disjointed week but my body doesn't like this idea. I am ovulating. My body is wondering where the bacchanal and bonfire are...? and where the party is?! My body wants to create, to be absolutely free, to quest. My life needs me to fold laundry, fill orders, and scramble for the answers to many, many tiresome finance questions.
Wednesday, October 8. 2008HarvestThe wheel of the year passed Autumnal Equinox again! The delicious, golden sunlight is like nectar on my skin...My daughter and I got out into that light yesterday (day 5 of my bleeding) and sat beside a butterfly garden, blossoms laden with Monarch Butterflies. You may think you know butterflies, you may think you love butterflies, or you may even admit that you are jaded and that their weightless, soaring antics do not move you. But yesterday was the Most Amazing Day of Days of the Butterflies (as named by me) and I sat very quietly in the grass watching blossoms laden with flickering orange wings. I consciously let go into the end of the bleeding time when my dreams change, the fog lifts, and the pain drifts away. There is a great deal to harvest.... Just before your next moontime, read poetry please. Read Louise Gluck. Then e mail me and tell me about the dark, impossibly beautiful things it stirred up. Happy Fall! Thursday, August 14. 2008Love Letters and Sorella Luna’s next appearance…Imagine my utter delight The author, “TCR” of That pad-love letter was a I will be making a long Happy Moontime! Thursday, July 10. 2008Not so great expectationsEvery few months my cycle shifts from the usual 33 days to 56ish days..Two weeks ago I fully exepcted to shift into moontime and nothing.Every trick I know: motherwort tincture, handmade local dark chocolate with chipotle and cinnamon, comfort reading historical mysteries, kava root dreams, strawberry smoothies. no shift. so I am waiting, expectantly to let go. And in this time of waiting and waiting I know that this is part of my rhythm.I am not worried that anything is wrong.I am not in pain. I am just full, overwhelmingly full of expectation. and that may be why I am having this long cycle. Emotionally, I am holding a great deal too many expectations. Of myself, my husband, my daughter, my job(s), my sense of self. Things I thought I had let go of and there they sit, welling up and ready to overflow.
when will I let go of this and just be? so as today passes by, the sweltering, hazy weather gone I breathe and try to release expectation ... Wherever you are in your cycle, Happy Moontime! Monday, June 2. 2008YES!Yesterday, I spent a very pleasant hour in the company of seven fabulous young women talking eco-menstruation. I led a workshop at the "Youth Environmental Summit 2008" in Fairlee, Vermont --at the lush pastoral haven that is the Hulbert Outdoor Center. Beautiful lakefront view... It was an honor to be able to create space with these teens as they seek a connection with the wisdom of their bodies and of our planet. We talked cultural misconceptions, taboos, and just plain old practical how to care for cloth pads... Thank you for being part of the great circle of eco-power: Savannah, Mercedes, Marcianna, Catherine, Taylor, Hannah, and Celeste! Happy Moontime... |