The inner seasons of your menstrual cycle
08.11.2022
I don't know a single woman who woke up to her cyclical power out of mere curiosity on a sunday morning.
We all came to this revolutionary path because in some way we struggled in a linear world order.
We felt there was something more beneath the pain of not being understood and fitting into a system of power that teaches us into forgetting our own power.
The female body has a different sense of time and being in the world, quite the opposite to the linear patriarchal way of doing things. It is clocked to the moon and the seasons.
Every menstrual cycle you meet two different energy currents and four season, two per current.
The currents represent the two main energies of the universe: Yin and Yang, expansion and contraction, inhale and exhale, day and night.
The currents represent the two main energies of the universe: Yin and Yang, expansion and contraction, inhale and exhale, day and night.
Each "menstrual cycle month" (an average healthy cycle length varies from 24 - 38 days), corresponds to the whole cycle of four seasons. These four season are connected to the hormonal shifts happening within the two currents, Yin and Yang, leading up to the two peak moments of ovulation and menstruation. The highlights of each cycle.
What are the four seasons?
As you bleed you enter your inner winter. You withdraw energetically from the world and your energetic body becomes very permeable and utterly sensitive.
As you rise slowly from your bleed you move into inner spring. You are likely to bit by bit feel more outgoing and the wish to get things done might return.
As you ovulate you are in your inner summer. The energy is quite high. For some that feels like a lot of momentum to do things and be in the world, and for others it can be quite overwhelming and feel "too much of exposure."
As you move into the second half of your cycle you enter the premenstruum, what I like to call the "exhale." The days get shorter, the leaves begin to get brown and fall off. You have entered inner autumn.
In each phase you have different needs, strenghts, psychological tasks and vulnerabilities.
So the idea to live each day in the same way, is just a big big illusion and very aggressive to a cyclical body.
As you rise slowly from your bleed you move into inner spring. You are likely to bit by bit feel more outgoing and the wish to get things done might return.
As you ovulate you are in your inner summer. The energy is quite high. For some that feels like a lot of momentum to do things and be in the world, and for others it can be quite overwhelming and feel "too much of exposure."
As you move into the second half of your cycle you enter the premenstruum, what I like to call the "exhale." The days get shorter, the leaves begin to get brown and fall off. You have entered inner autumn.
In each phase you have different needs, strenghts, psychological tasks and vulnerabilities.
So the idea to live each day in the same way, is just a big big illusion and very aggressive to a cyclical body.
Between each season you've got crossover days. Something most women don't even know exists.
Days where you where you stand "in-between" the season that is already gone and the season that has not yet come. Many women feel disoriented during those days, like the ground being pulled away from under their feet. It might help to take it slow on those days, to take stock of what's ahead of you or what you are stepping away from.
And then there's the mirroring of your cycle in the moon too of course.
If you want to learn to get to know yourself in the different phases of your cycle, observing nature can help incredibly. Look at the moon. Its waxing and waning. Look at how nature breathes in circles. I promise you will find yourself there too.
"Watching the moon at dawn
Solitary, mid-sky
I knew myself completely
No part left out."
Tzumi Shikibu
Have you noticed these changes?
What helps you to navigate your cyclicity?
