Thread: Who loves their cycle?

What a wonderful point and I think very true! If women embrase their womanhood - all of it and celebrate it, life would be easier. Much of what we experience starts in our heads. For a long, long time being female has been suspect. We been supressed, repressed, depressed and just plain pressed! Health studies are done on men, rather than women - even breast cancer studies have been! Women have been hidden away and menstration has been treated as something dirty that indicates a flaw.

Truth is that in the long past, women were revered for their abiltity to produce life and their cycle was part of that wonderful and powerful ability. We have a great deal of phalic symbolism today (Look at the Washington Monument and all the skyscrapers) but there once was as much or more, clearly understood Vulva and Vaginal symbolism. Doorways were painted red, for a reason. A woman's menstural time was seen as a time of special power for meditation, which is why some cultures developed a practice of the women separating themselves during this time - later that was warped into a separation due to uncleanliness. We need to reconnect to celebrating this time! This business of pills designed not just prevent pregnancy (it seems many work by killing desire) but to all but eliminate a woman's cycle. This is wrong. It gives an implicit sense that our sheading of the uterine wall is a problem. It's not, it means we are women! Not little girls, not some sort of mindless airheads but beings capable (with a partner) of bring new life to the world. We also bring love, new ideas, and joy - when we are connected to who we really are.

When you dislike something, when you dread it's approach - of course you have more problems. When you are exposed to all sorts of toxins, both physical and mental, you have more problems. Perhaps we need to celebrate this more. How about a special symbol for our special days? Hummm, this has me thinking.