Becoming a Woman – Book Review

May 16, 2013 By 6 Comments
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I really wish I'd had a book on what it means to become a woman when I was 12. The only text I had was Judy Blume's generation defining book, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. I wish that some one would have told me that my cycles would be erratic for a couple of years, not just in spacing, but in flow. Finding that out at a slumber party in the 8th grade was a deeply embarrassing experience (imagine having to knock on your friend's parents' bedroom door in the middle of the night, because … [Read more...]

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Track your cycles

April 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
Wiccan_Triple_Moon By Nyo. (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Since Molly wrote about the benefit to paying close attention to the rhythms of her cycle, I wanted to share some practical resources for getting started. First, Taking Charge of Your Fertility is the best book I know on the subject. It can teach you how your cycle works, how to use evidence like basal body temperature and cervical fluid changes to get a really good understanding of your personal cycle, and how to implement that knowledge for birth control or pregnancy achievement. To put … [Read more...]

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Red Tent Resources

March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment

"Blood Mysteries recall the immense power of the bleeding woman. Power enough to share in great nourishing give-aways. Give-away from woman womb to earth womb, give-away from mother to matrix, give-away of nourisher to nourisher...bleeding freely, we know ourselves as women, as nourishers of life..." --Susan Weed International Women's Day is coming up on March 8th and I signed up for a cool sounding free online class about working with your moon cycle. I'm loving the focus and I hope to learn … [Read more...]

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Moontime

February 15, 2013 By 1 Comment

“…imagine what our lives would be like, what the world would be like if every womoon could bleed and birth inside a sacred circle…” --Antiga in The Goddess Celebrates I've written about moontime several times on my Talk Birth blog in conjunction with a series that I call taking it to the body. Sarah's lovely collection of quotes for Wednesday Wisdom this week brought up musings about moontime that have been floating around for me over the past year. As I commented on her … [Read more...]

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Wednesday Wisdom: Blood

February 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
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A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a theme related to Paganism and childbearing. An invitation to meditate or just to pause a moment and consider. Blood, menstruation, sacred cycles, power... "Honouring our menstrual cycle reminds us how sacred we are." -Jane Hardwicke Collings in Becoming A Woman "Childbearing is a form of power, one of the greatest powers in the world, and menstruation is a sign of that power." -Valerie Tarico "We are … [Read more...]

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