Hailed as ‘life-changing’ by women around the world, Moon Time shares an embodied understanding of the menstrual cycle. Full of practical insight, spiritual wisdom, empowering resources and creative activities, this book will help reconnect you to the cycles within and beyond your body.
- Learn to live in flow with your cycle and the moon
- Find balance in life and work through charting
- Heal PMS naturally
- Work with menstrual archetypes
- Create ritual and ceremony: menarche, mother blessing, menopause, red tent
Whether you are coming off the Pill, wanting to understand your fertility, struggling with PMS, healing from womb issues, coming back to cycles after childbirth or just wanting a deeper understanding of your body, Moon Time is an empowering read.
This extended tenth anniversary edition includes a diverse range of voices sharing lived experience of many facets of menstruation: endometriosis, perimenopause, menstrual migraine, PCOS, gender dysphoria, PMDD and neurodivergence.
With new sections on:
- Yoga for moon time
- Perimenopause
- Chocolate and herbs
- Expanded and updated resource section.
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Preface to the Third Edition1
Opening6
A journey of self-acceptance8
My journey9
Being a woman11
Breaking silence17
The womb20
Menstruation – physical and spiritual21
The Menstrual Cycle – a biological understanding24
Your inner symphony27
The main phases of the menstrual cycle28
THE WISDOM OF OUR CYCLES31
Dancing in the dark32
A cycle34
Connecting to flow40
ARCHETYPAL UNDERSTANDING42
The Maiden (Expansive)43
The Mother/Creatrix (Generative)43
The Enchantress/Wild Woman (Liminal)43
The Crone/Wise Woman (Reflective)44
Creating your archetypes46
CYCLE CHARTING51
Dream charting54
Integrated menstrual chart55
LIVING AND WORKING BY OUR CYCLES60
Living in synch61
Working by the menstrual cycle63
A new way of working starts with you66
FERTILITY68
OOO A fertility journey OOO69
Fertility and the four phases of womanhood70
Fertility, loss and grief72
Sterilisation73
OOO Fertility Awareness OOO75
Your natural signs and symptoms of fertility76
Menstruation and motherhood80
Blood and milk81
You are not alone83
MOON TIME84
Lunar influence85
Phases of the moon86
Our personal moon cycles88
Living moon wise90
A moon time myth91
Celebrating with the moon93
Creating your own moon celebrations94
New moon celebrations95
THE PILL96
My story97
Informed consent99
Positively choosing the Pill100
MENOPAUSE: MOON PAUSE102
OOO Navigating perimenopause OOO106
Hormone replacement therapy112
LEARNING TO REST113
OOO Moon time yoga OOO120
Water rituals125
HEALING PMS131
What causes PMS?133
Going fallow134
The Crazy Woman135
Honouring your Crazy Woman136
Positively menstrual!138
Instant PMS relief139
Partners and the menstrual cycle142
HEALING OUR BODIES144
Nutritional healing145
Herbs147
OOO Chocolate OOO151
Healing hands154
Womb healing156
CHRONIC CONDITIONS159
Uterine fibroids160
PMDD160
Endometriosis161
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)165
Anaemia167
Migraine169
Adenomyosis171
Cervical cancer172
Finding the right practitioner175
RITUAL AND CEREMONY177
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RED TENTS AND MOON LODGES207
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CLOSING223
RESOURCES228
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Lucy H. Pearce is the author of many life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.Her words have been featured internationally in online and print media as well as in Earth Pathways Diary, We Moon, Divergent Mind and If Women Rose Rooted.An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University and PGCE from Cambridge University, Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.The mother of three children, she lives in a small village by the Celtic Sea in East Cork, Ireland.