Cycles - Embracing our womanhood

Let’s celebrate nature’s
abundance. 🌿
Today is the longest day
of the year.
Midsummer represents the
peak of summer, full of the
sun’s warm and life giving
energy.

Happy Summer Solstice ☀️

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In Celtic cultures…
The young maiden was seen as
the flower; the mother, the fruit;
the elder woman, the seed.

The seed is the part that contains the
knowledge and potential of all the
other parts within it.

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You have a unique body and mind,
with a particular history and conditioning.

No one can offer you a formula
for navigating all situations and
all states of mind.

Only by listening inwardly in a fresh
and open way will you discern at
any given time what most serves
your healing and freedom.

— Tara Brach

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The menstrual cycle is the most basic, earthy cycle we have.
Our blood is our connection to the archetypal feminine.
The macrocosmic cycles of nature,
the waxing and waning,
the ebb and flow of the tides
and the changes of the seasons,
are reflected on a smaller scale
in the menstrual cycle of the individual female body.

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It’s not about being perfect.
It’s about realizing your wholeness.

FULL MOON ECLIPSE
— in SCORPIO.

Transformation &
Release.

By understanding your own
monthly cycle you can tap
into your own true potential.
Knowing which part of the
month you’ll be at your
strongest, sociable, fragile
or tired is so helpful.
Planning in advance how to
utilize these phases each month
can be incredible powerful.

~ Embrace your phase.

Photography — Irving Penn

The most fundamental and
radical of these changes is
learning how to love and
accept your precious body
right now.
It is, after all, the temple
that houses your soul.

— Christiane Northrup

The great mother whom we call
Innana gave a gift to women that
is not known among men, and this
is the secret of blood.
The flow at the dark of the moon,
the healing blood of the moon’s birth
- to men, this is flux and distemper,
bother and pain.
They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky.

In the red tent, the truth is known.
In the red tent, where days pass like
a gentle stream, as the gift of Innana
courses through us, cleansing the body
of last month’s death, preparing the body
to receive the new month’s life,
women give thanks — for repose and restoration, for the knowledge that
life comes from between our legs,
and that life costs blood.

Passage from ‘The red tent.’
—Anita Diamant

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A healthy cycle should be
around 28 days with fresh
red blood.

Don’t panic if you have a
different cycle but the colour
of your blood and how we
feel says a lot about our
health, emotions or stress
we deal with etc..

For example heavy cramps,
brown blood, cloths, long
cycles are a sign of stagnation.

When you start tuning into your
cycle and listening to the
rhythm of your body there’s
a great chance your symptoms
might disappear.

Allow your body to take rest in
times it’s asking for rest.
Even if it’s just 5 minutes extra.
Planning your month with taking
notice of the phases you go
through can help a lot.

Acupuncture can also focus on
balancing the hormones,
improving blood circulation and
promoting ovulation.

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A healthy cycle should be
around 28 days with fresh
red blood.
Don’t panic if you have a
different cycle but the colour
of your blood and how we
feel says a lot about our
health, emotions or stress
we deal with etc..
For example heavy cramps,
brown blood, cloths, long
cycles are a sign of stagnation.

When you start tuning into your
cycle and listening to the
rhythm of your body there’s
a great chance your symptoms
might disappear.

Allow your body to take rest in
times it’s asking for rest.
Even if it’s just 5 minutes extra.
Planning your month with taking
notice of the phases you go
through can help a lot.
Acupuncture can also focus on
balancing the hormones,
improving blood circulation and
promoting ovulation.

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We have to dare to be ourselves,
however frightening or strange
that self may prove to be.

Authenticity is everything!

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For mothers who have lost a child—born or unborn.

For mamas holding a sick child.

For women who have yearned for a child and have been unable to conceive.

For those who have lost a mother.

For those who never knew their mother.

For those who had a mother walk out on them.

May you be comforted in your loss or in your longing.

Mothers and mother figures everywhere.

You are all appreciated, honored and you are seen.

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Our inner guidance comes
to us through our feelings
and body wisdom first ~
not through intellectual
understanding.

Christiane Northrup

I love the ones
who are two parts crazy
and a portrait of poetry.
I love the ones
with an intention
covered in wild dreams.
I love the ones
who don’t always roar
but the quiet ones
who feel deeply,
are awkward at goodbyes,
and have secret talents
like walking through fire.

Poetry

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A healthy cycle should be
around 28 days with fresh
red blood.
Don’t panic if you have a
different cycle but the colour
of your blood and how we
feel says a lot about our
health, emotions or stress
we deal with etc..
For example heavy cramps,
brown blood, cloths, long
cycles are a sign of stagnation.

When you start tuning into your
cycle and listening to the
rhythm of your body there’s
a great chance your symptoms
might disappear.

Allow your body to take rest in
times it’s asking for rest.
Even if it’s just 5 minutes extra.
Planning your month with taking
notice of the phases you go
through can help a lot.
Acupuncture can also focus on
balancing the hormones,
improving blood circulation and
promoting ovulation.

SEE your own power.

FEEL your own power.

BE your own power.

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Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

Christiane Northrup

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FULL MOON IN LIBRA

Let there be
BALANCE
&
HARMONY

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Still, far too often girls are given
the message that their bodies, their
lives, and their femaleness must be
apologized for. Have you noticed
how often women apologize?

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Spring Equinox

Fuel your growth as the days
get longer and the sun grows
warmer.

A time of new beginnings.
A time to hold space for your
dreams, hopes and wishes.

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United
We
Can






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Charting your moon cycle
is a helpful tool to read your
cycle.
It allows you to get to know
your unique rhythm and how
to live in sync with it.
Start a menstrual chart on
the first day of bleeding,
this is the start of your next
cycle.
Just simply write down your
mood, dreams, energy level,
symptoms and so on at the
end of each day.
After a few months you’ll
see your own pattern
which makes it easier to
embrace your own highs
and lows and just follow
your flow.

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How beautiful would it be
if we could just see souls
instead of bodies?
To see love and compassion
instead of curves.

Words by karen Quan

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Crossing the Threshold
to Motherhood.

Beautifully captured
by .sorgini

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Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.

Rumi

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You are loved.
You are beautiful.
You are radiant.
You are seen.
You are YOU

Loving yourself
is the greatest
revolution.

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The last months brought
us in a space of not knowing,
forcing us to go slower.
Taking life day by day.
Listening to our inner voice
what’s serving us or
what’s not.

This is exactly the energy
of the second half of our cycle.
As well as a new moon’s energy.
Reflecting and coming back to
ourselves.
An invitation to question and
re-evaluate.
During the second half of our
cycle we're right brain dominant.
Which connects us to our
creativity, intuitive wisdom
and brings us deeper to our
own personal truth.

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Yes You Are

REMEMBER

It is terrible how much
has been forgotten,
which is why, I suppose,
remembering seems
a holy thing.

Anita Diamant

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It is terrible how much
has been forgotten,
which is why, I suppose,
remembering seems
a holy thing.

Anita Diamant

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CYCLE AWARENESS

Which part of your
cycle are you in?

Your monthly cycle has four
unique phases and each one
brings different strengths
in you.

The female body ebbs and flows
like the tides of the ocean, over
and over.

Learning to honor these tides,
moods & energy, honoring your
needs is the key to maximizing your
true potential.

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Traditional Native American saying …

At her first bleeding a woman meets her power.
During her bleeding years she practices it.
At menopause she becomes it.

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Diving into this new
year with an open heart.
In gratitude for all the
women (and men) in
my live.
Let’s keep inspiring
each other!
Let love rule! 🤍
Welcome 2021 ✨



#2021

To all of you out there...
keep shining your light!

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