PMS, Pre Moon Shadow

Women are the only species who bleed in a cycle that matches exactly with the lunar cycle. Many of you know that if women were all taken out of artificial light, and returned to our wooded, wild, homes, we would all bleed at the new moon. In fact, on the KPFA show, Explorations, last week one scientist said that without the moon DNA itself would not exist.

We are tidal people, being pulled with the moon.

So what is the phenomenon known to the public at large as PMS? Is it hormonal? Lunar? Tidal? The result of unnatural living? Maybe it's completely made up?

The truth lies somewhere weaved up in all those things. As the moon or our personal moon, wanes down to dark, women are naturally drawn inward. We think about ourselves a little more, we become less accommodating and are more vocal about our needs and wants.

This is not a bad thing.

Nature is set up so that women who are bleeding are also, naturally, mothers. Many demands are put on mothers and we are usually happy to step in and nurture where we can. Once a month however, the moon reminds us to slow down, stop over stimulating ourselves - and quite frankly it reminds us to stop automatically taking everyone's shit.

It gives us a few days with a different perspective - the perspective of ME. What do I need? What's bugging me? Who loves me and who's taking advantage of me? What needs to stop and what do I need more of?

Of course this isn't how we are usually able to deal with this time in our lives. There's little quiet reflection and inward speculation for the average, modern woman. This is where PMS gets its bad reputation.

Our bodies, our minds and our souls are spinning wildly trying to get a message to our consciousness. Dashing and surging around our bodies the force of the moon is saying, "You-who! Over here! Look at me! Look at me!" But most of us don't, or can't or don't know to look.

After a very short while of that cosmic voice saying, "Make him pick up his dirty socks." the Kali-ma voice will step in and say "That lazy SOB can pick up his own damn dirty socks and he can DO IT RIGHT NOW!" PMS roars through us wiping everything clear that is unneeded and treating it with no mercy. Like a fire burning out all the dead brush it does so not to harm but to create a more fertile ground so that we can grow.

Our challenge as women of the modern era is to let that fire burn in a healthy manner, stoking our flames slowly yet keeping them hot. We must burn constructively and with purpose or the fire will randomly consume everything in its wake.

Run wild sisters!

Scream and yell in the middle of the woods, punch a pillow, journal, take a day off, take a bath, sit your man down and have a talk (if you can do it nicely, otherwise wait) and make the kids play in the yard for a bit. Let the fire burn and when it's out make good use of your rich, fertile soil. And in the meantime, know that its OK to not take some shit a few days per month.

PMS, Pre Moon Shadow

Women are the only species who bleed in a cycle that matches exactly with the lunar cycle. Many of you know that if women were all taken out of artificial light, and returned to our wooded, wild, homes, we would all bleed at the new moon. In fact, on the KPFA show, Explorations, last week one scientist said that without the moon DNA itself would not exist.

We are tidal people, being pulled with the moon.

So what is the phenomenon known to the public at large as PMS? Is it hormonal? Lunar? Tidal? The result of unnatural living? Maybe it's completely made up?

The truth lies somewhere weaved up in all those things. As the moon or our personal moon, wanes down to dark, women are naturally drawn inward. We think about ourselves a little more, we become less accommodating and are more vocal about our needs and wants.

This is not a bad thing.

Nature is set up so that women who are bleeding are also, naturally, mothers. Many demands are put on mothers and we are usually happy to step in and nurture where we can. Once a month however, the moon reminds us to slow down, stop over stimulating ourselves - and quite frankly it reminds us to stop automatically taking everyone's shit.

It gives us a few days with a different perspective - the perspective of ME. What do I need? What's bugging me? Who loves me and who's taking advantage of me? What needs to stop and what do I need more of?

Of course this isn't how we are usually able to deal with this time in our lives. There's little quiet reflection and inward speculation for the average, modern woman. This is where PMS gets its bad reputation.

Our bodies, our minds and our souls are spinning wildly trying to get a message to our consciousness. Dashing and surging around our bodies the force of the moon is saying, "You-who! Over here! Look at me! Look at me!" But most of us don't, or can't or don't know to look.

After a very short while of that cosmic voice saying, "Make him pick up his dirty socks." the Kali-ma voice will step in and say "That lazy SOB can pick up his own damn dirty socks and he can DO IT RIGHT NOW!" PMS roars through us wiping everything clear that is unneeded and treating it with no mercy. Like a fire burning out all the dead brush it does so not to harm but to create a more fertile ground so that we can grow.

Our challenge as women of the modern era is to let that fire burn in a healthy manner, stoking our flames slowly yet keeping them hot. We must burn constructively and with purpose or the fire will randomly consume everything in its wake.

Run wild sisters!

Scream and yell in the middle of the woods, punch a pillow, journal, take a day off, take a bath, sit your man down and have a talk (if you can do it nicely, otherwise wait) and make the kids play in the yard for a bit. Let the fire burn and when it's out make good use of your rich, fertile soil. And in the meantime, know that its OK to not take some shit a few days per month.

::Classic Mother Lover Goddess::

The Red Sea as Goddess, 1 Nephi 2:5-16

((I know this post is only 2 months old so it's not totally classic but I love it so I wanted to re-post it since I haven't posted any Mor-gan stuff in a few weeks))


In this section of the Book of Mormon we find that Nephi is telling us the story of his father and how his father lead the family away from wickedness and into the wilderness - away from the city and into wild nature.

They made camp by the side of a river and built an altar of stones by the river and made offerings "unto the Lord and gave thanks unto the Lord our God." 1 Nephi 2: 7 (which I believe denotes the fact that the Book of Mormon points to ancestor worship as well as a pagan notion of many "Gods", God's of rivers, cities, the wildreness, etc)

Nephi's father Lehi then goes on to name the river they have camped by. He calls it Laman after his reluctant son who "murmurs" against him.

Now before I go on I need to stop and make an important point that the river we are talking about "emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea" 1 Nephi 2:9

According to Judy Grahn scholar and author of Blood, Bread and Roses; How Menstruation Created the World;

"As "bitter waters," Tiamat describes the salty nature of menstrual blood carried to its greatest earthly denominator, the sea. She is the Red Sea; the Arab name for the eastern shore of the Red Sea is Tihamat. She has been called "Ocean of Blood." Tiamat is menstruation externalized, a complex metaphor about the nature of the earth and other elements. In Egypt, she was Temu or Te Mut, oldest of deities. In Greek, her name is "Goddess Mother," in Latin dia mater. She is measurement/mother/originator by means of dia, two; that is to say, she is creation through separation. Her name is Diameter, horizon, the line that separates heaven and earth, sky and ocean (Grahn 14)."

So we see that this particular river that Lehi lead his family to, that he camped by, that he build an altar by and made offerings to his God by, emptied into the Red Sea, an ancient metaphor for the Goddess, for female energy, for the Earth Mother.

Lehi then says to his son Laman, "O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!" (1 Nephi 2:9)

This happens early on in the Book of Mormon, we are at this point only but a few scant pages in. This sets us up to see "righteousness" as equated with the giving of oneself into the Red Sea. Pouring all of one's energy and resources to the Red Sea.

Righteousness is that which flows toward water, menstruation, Earth, and Goddess.

This sets up an entire structure around the way we view the much talked about "righteousness" within the scriptures and within Mormon theaology (with an "a" for Thea - Goddess).

Choose the Right indeed!

::Classic Mother Lover Goddess::

The Red Sea as Goddess, 1 Nephi 2:5-16

((I know this post is only 2 months old so it's not totally classic but I love it so I wanted to re-post it since I haven't posted any Mor-gan stuff in a few weeks))


In this section of the Book of Mormon we find that Nephi is telling us the story of his father and how his father lead the family away from wickedness and into the wilderness - away from the city and into wild nature.

They made camp by the side of a river and built an altar of stones by the river and made offerings "unto the Lord and gave thanks unto the Lord our God." 1 Nephi 2: 7 (which I believe denotes the fact that the Book of Mormon points to ancestor worship as well as a pagan notion of many "Gods", God's of rivers, cities, the wildreness, etc)

Nephi's father Lehi then goes on to name the river they have camped by. He calls it Laman after his reluctant son who "murmurs" against him.

Now before I go on I need to stop and make an important point that the river we are talking about "emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea" 1 Nephi 2:9

According to Judy Grahn scholar and author of Blood, Bread and Roses; How Menstruation Created the World;

"As "bitter waters," Tiamat describes the salty nature of menstrual blood carried to its greatest earthly denominator, the sea. She is the Red Sea; the Arab name for the eastern shore of the Red Sea is Tihamat. She has been called "Ocean of Blood." Tiamat is menstruation externalized, a complex metaphor about the nature of the earth and other elements. In Egypt, she was Temu or Te Mut, oldest of deities. In Greek, her name is "Goddess Mother," in Latin dia mater. She is measurement/mother/originator by means of dia, two; that is to say, she is creation through separation. Her name is Diameter, horizon, the line that separates heaven and earth, sky and ocean (Grahn 14)."

So we see that this particular river that Lehi lead his family to, that he camped by, that he build an altar by and made offerings to his God by, emptied into the Red Sea, an ancient metaphor for the Goddess, for female energy, for the Earth Mother.

Lehi then says to his son Laman, "O that thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!" (1 Nephi 2:9)

This happens early on in the Book of Mormon, we are at this point only but a few scant pages in. This sets us up to see "righteousness" as equated with the giving of oneself into the Red Sea. Pouring all of one's energy and resources to the Red Sea.

Righteousness is that which flows toward water, menstruation, Earth, and Goddess.

This sets up an entire structure around the way we view the much talked about "righteousness" within the scriptures and within Mormon theaology (with an "a" for Thea - Goddess).

Choose the Right indeed!