just some speculation on my part about the moon/menstruation

[feroluce.livejournal.com]

i 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 :)

Comments

[kiapa.livejournal.com]

I agree with your theories about moon phases altering our cycles. I find that I experience a double PMS if I am not in line with the full moon for menstruation. As I am on BCP I have a little control and try to keep them as close as possible. The days of non-BCP are so long lost and far gone I do not recall them.
As for comments made by other posters regarding ‘women’s work’ and a week off..
Why would you need time off for menstruation?
I know my period is not a huge time halting event that alters my daily activity.
Perhaps it was at some point. Or perhaps I am just not as sensitive to issues some women face.
*shrug
I guess I would have been one of the women continuing her work with the servants, pregnant, young and old.

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[feroluce.livejournal.com]

it's not that we "need" time off, it's that it was sort of a well deserved rest period for women just to sort of be...women. and it's not like they stopped working, they brought their sewing and mending and etc. with them into their huts, or whatever it may be. i dont know, it just sort of seems likea really nice sense of community, :)