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vaginapaginai dont know if this is a connection that many people have made, but here's an idea. we all have very varied periods, right? some are really short, some are long, frequency varies...etc etc. and it's all normal, it's just how our bodies work. but i think, perhaps, that's not how our bodies SHOULD work. now dont go exploding just yet, i'm just brainstorming some ideas.
the more i tune my life to nature, the more i find my cycle regulating its self, lining up with the moon. maybe we're all so out of whack because we dont do that nearly often enough. in the book "the red tent" the women all live in close proximity, and get their periods together at the dark of the moon. same in the "mists of avalon" series. we, as a society, dont group women together like that any more. we dont gather in tents day after day to do the household chores, mending, cooking, etc. we dont live side by side as WOMEN. we've worked so hard to be equal, only to find ourselves divided as a sex, lacking the unity and sisterhood we once had. this is why many seek out sororities, etc etc, as a means of replacement.
so perhaps, we all are so off schedule with one another because we're completely off of the way of LIFE we once had.
i'm sure none of these are new revelations, i just wanted to share. my rants tend to take many directions :)
the more i tune my life to nature, the more i find my cycle regulating its self, lining up with the moon. maybe we're all so out of whack because we dont do that nearly often enough. in the book "the red tent" the women all live in close proximity, and get their periods together at the dark of the moon. same in the "mists of avalon" series. we, as a society, dont group women together like that any more. we dont gather in tents day after day to do the household chores, mending, cooking, etc. we dont live side by side as WOMEN. we've worked so hard to be equal, only to find ourselves divided as a sex, lacking the unity and sisterhood we once had. this is why many seek out sororities, etc etc, as a means of replacement.
so perhaps, we all are so off schedule with one another because we're completely off of the way of LIFE we once had.
i'm sure none of these are new revelations, i just wanted to share. my rants tend to take many directions :)
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Date: 2002-08-27 09:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-27 10:01 am (UTC)I just did a quick little search on the net about "lunaception" and was reminded that there was more to this than just the moon. Basically the theory is that before we had artificial light, the light given off by the moon affected our bodies and dictated a pattern that governed our cycles. Now that we have so much artificial light in our world, (and hormonal bc) the cycles have been distrupted and we have altogether forgotten that there was a connection between the light and our bodies. I guess the idea is that women in the same geographic area would be in sync because a) that happens when women live closely together and b) the light from the moon in their specific time zone would have the same effect on everyone's bodies in that area.
I think this is really interesting - especially when you consider how many of us have irregular periods, breakthrough bleeding, abnormally heavy or light periods, and consider in combination how many of us work nights/sleep in the day, and think of how much artificial light we really have in our lives.
There's a book called "Lunaception: A feminine Odyssey into fertility and contraception" by Louise Lacey. Apparently she experimented with light and writes about how it affected her cycles and fertility. I'd love to read that.
Really interesting stuff: I thought I'd share!