"The Holy Grail"

The Holy Grail is the womb, and it's contents menstrual blood, the sacred substance, "soma" the elixir of Life.

The Moon Goddess rules the Oceans, the tides, the Sacred Menstrual Periods of Women. Yes, you heard me correctly. We need to Honor our bodies as we as individual women are SAcred Vessels of the Divine. We are each Goddesses in microcosm.

Your periods, are essentially what marks us as females,it is what makes us women, this fact that we bleed.

"Only women Bleed" was a song by ALice Cooper in the '60's which I believe was the only song to ever address this topic and be a hit, in the history of pop music.

We bleed, 13 times a year in concert with the Moon's gravitational pull on our bodies. Our monthly flows are Sacred Gifts that we have. Most women call it "the curse" they are "on the rag" and really dislike having to go through the often crampy, irritable, bloated feelings that most women have.

When we treat our periods as special, wonderfull, honour our bodies and ourselves as Sacred Vessels of the Divine we stop experiencing PMS.

It is only when we go against the natural flows of life that dis-ease appears. SO GO WITH YOUR FLOW. Let it Bleed! that was another pop album by the Rolling Stones many years ago. Seems the men have more to sing about this than women? Be proud of your periods. Be good to yourself honour your sacred blood, for it is the Blood of Life. It is the Holy Grail, your womb the Sacred Cup that holds the Blood. It was intimated in The Da Vinci Code that Mary Magdelane was the Holy Grail but to be more precise it was her Menstrual Blood, the Holy Blood that is the essence, which each woman has, that is in itself the Sacred Cauldron of Life.

Men do not partake directly through their physical bodies of this Mystery. The power to live, shed blood regularly and not die was seen in ancient times as magical and sacred. In fact they are envious of woman's power, they do have Venus Envy, not the other screwed up Freudian way of looking at it. You have been brainwashed to believe that this is so.

The word Taboo which menstruation has been linked to for thousands of years originally meant Sacred.

From the beginning of the time when female humans began their menstrual cycles,men were in awe by the power that women have to bleed and not die. They were seen as Immortal, like a snake who sheds its' skin but does not die. The connection between women, snakes and immortality are archetypal symbols. Snakes are also connected in Eastern Traditions with Kundalini energy, pictured as a snake coiled within the bottom of the spine. Kundalini energy is the human connection to the Divine, and menstrual energy is connected to that power too.

Talking about your period even though it has come "out of the closet" so to speak recently is still not seen in a positive light by most women and certainly a positive natural approach towards women's moon time hasn't "bled into" the mainstream- yet.

Menstruation used to be known as the curse. This is Judeo-Christian, and many other Patrirachal religions brainwashing technoque for dis-empowering women for thousands of years, like the cursing and defaming of Eve, Lillith etc.
Indiginous peoples such as Native Americans and Hawaiians honoured women's monthly bleeding cycles as Sacred. That time of the month was called Moon Time and Native Indian women went to Moon Lodges,huts,or shelters in the ground to set apart their regular cycles from their bleeding times. It was noted that women were at the height of their psychic powers when bleeding, and so that time set aside was not originally to shun them or see them as unclean but to empower them to be with their bodies, their blood flows, to dream, rest,and renew.

Women's menstrual blood was considered holy and powerfull, you and I and babies came from the same blood, it is pure and full of nutrients. Menstrual blood was scattered on fields to fertilize them. It is still a great fertilizer, and is recommended that you use your sacred moon blood on your house plants,or garden, dilluting with water and watch them bloom.

Before the advent of modern electric lighting all women bled at the same time. Ladies you know yourselves that this is still true today when women live together their cycles blend together and occur at about the same time,even with artificial light interfering with our cycles. Because our bodily rythyms are governed by the Moon, all women ovulated on the Full Moon, where a big bright ova shined down on the earth from the sky, and all women menstruated on the dark or New Moon. All women were psychically and physically joined together in their rhythms! Imagine the power of that!
Well of course it terrified the men,so what was originally considered scred became taboo. The name became twisted in its meaning as thousands of years of Patriarchal and religious rule took over.

A young girls menarche, or first menstruation was an occassion to celebrate. The girl was set apart, some endured tests and physical hardships as an initiation into adulthood, and perhaps to prepare her for the work of eventually being able to give birth. Evry young girl should be honoured as she becomes a woman at this time.

I want to say that this is a fantastic idea, as menstrual blood even though it has come "out of the closet" so to speak recently is still not seen in a positive light by mostwomen and certainly hasn't "bled into" the mainstream yet.
Menstruation used to be known as the curse. This is Judeo-Christian, and many other Patrirachal religions brainwashing technoque for dis-empowering women for thousands of years, like the cursing and defaming of Eve, Lillith etc.
Indiginous peoples such as Native Americans honoured women's monthly bleeding cycles as Sacred. That time of the month was called Moon Time and Native women went to Moon Lodges,huts,or shelters in the ground to set apart their regular cycles from their bleeding times. It was noted that women were at the height of their psychic powers when bleeding, and so that time set aside was not originally to shun them or see them as unclean but to empower them to be with their bodies, their blood flows, to dream, rest,and renew. Women's menstrual blood was considered holy and powerfull, after it was recognized that babies came from the same blood, and so menstrual blood was scattered on fields to fertilize them. It is still a great fertilizer, and is recommended that you use your sacred moon blood on your house plants,or garden, dilluting with water and watch them bloom.
Before the advent of modern electric lighting all women bled at the same time. Ladies you know yoursleves that this is still true todaywhen women live together their cycles blend to occuc at about the same time,even with artificial light interfering with our cycles. Because our bodily rythyms are governed by the Moon, all women ovulated on the Full Moon, where a big bright ova shined down on the earth from the sky, and all women menstruated on the dark or New Moon. All women were psychically and physically joined together! Imagine the power of that!
Well of course it terrified the men,so what was originally considered scred became taboo, although the word taboo itslef originally meant sacred. I think it was just twisted as thousands of years of Patriarchal and religious rule took over.
Young girls first onset of menstruation was an occassion to celebrate. The girl was set apart, some endured tests and physical hardships as an initiation into adulthood, and perhaps to prepare her for the work of eventually being able to give birth.

Menstrual blood must be re-imagined as a Holy, Sacred, Prescious Gift, not a curse, or something to be despised,or defiled.
It is what separates the men from the women. All PMS,like any other physical discomfort or disease, stems from the relationship we have to Spirit, to our bodies, emotions.
When we honour our periods as special times out, to allow ourselves to rest and renew as we shed our uterine linings like a snake sheds its' skin, we embody the life cycle mysteries, of birth, death, re-birth and transformation. Women are inherently living the life cycle, much more so than men.
Menstrual blood,like birthing blood is the only human blood that is shed naturally, not caused from physical harm, damage or injury and not linked to physical death. Therefore it it the Blood of Life.

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KMT. peace.