Menstruality is the naming and exploring of the subtle, mysterious forces within us all – and especially the hidden powers that are released when consciousness is brought to bear on our biological life changes.
The practice of menstrual cycle awareness is wonderfully imbued with mystery; it’s the psychological death and rebirth process of the menstrual cycle that leads us to ever more expanded levels of consciousness. An initiatory journey to power that awakens a new kind of intelligence within - beyond the logical, linear thinking of the mind.
Perhaps you feel deeply at home with your mystical, mysterious, magical side?
Perhaps you feel curious about it but have no idea how to tap into it?
Perhaps you feel a quiet but real sense of dread or even terror when you feel into these unknown parts of you. (So many of us do - the ancestors of many lands lost their lives for their magic, their embodied mystical knowing).
Here are three ways that your cycle awareness practice slowly, safely awakens your mystical, magical self:
1. It Connects You to Deep Time
The second half of the cycle from ovulation to menstruation - the via negativa - awakens a right-brain dominance and greater access to imaginal, subtle and embodied skills to draw out the Unknown, step out of your ego’s sense of timing, and tune into the World’s Timing.
You move from imposing your own will to being willing and willed: from ‘my will’ to ‘thy will’. There’s room now for the spontaneous, the synchronous, for the Mystery to speak and be heard.
The via negativa opens you to the hidden intelligence or deep wholeness at work in your being: to the meaning of your life here on this planet and your responsibility for it. The via negativa restores the poetics of life; it awakens you to the sacredness in all things.
2. It Connects You to Your Inner Oracle
When you’re able to separate from the hustle and bustle of the world and take rest at menstruation, you can connect to a natural visioning power. What we call your ‘Wild Power’ can speak. You can become an oracle – an ecstatic speaking not just for yourself but for your community, for the world.
Your Calling, or Wild Power – the mysterious force that organises your life, directs the unfolding of something utterly unique through the particularity of who you are – gets to speak in full technicolour now.
3. When we Practise Menstrual Cycle Awareness Together, We Invoke Magic
Cycle aware community connections and space can be alchemical: it catalyses an awareness and authority that we didn’t know we had within us. That is your Wild Power making itself known in you.
The cycle-aware presence of others can help to make your cycle experience magical or holy. And, above all, dignify your experience. It allows you to hear, feel and sense yourself ever more deeply and tap into your own inner knowing, insights and solutions to any challenges you face.
We wonder…what stirs in you as you read this? How do you sense that your menstrual cycle awareness practice is supporting you to connect to the more mysterious aspects of life, and yourself?
