New Moon Dreams
New Moon Dreams
Your bag is packed with your comfy clothes, slippers, and that book you’ve been meaning to read for.... for ever. You take a final scan around your place to see if you forgot anything. Oh yeah, your toothbrush, but not your razor, that won’t be necessary.
You pull the door behind you and take a deep breath in while you throw your bag gently over your shoulder. You hop in the car to set out to the cabin for the week. It’s the 3rd month in a row you have taken the week off during your period and it has made the most profound impact on your mind, body, and soul.
You can’t believe the world is finally swaying back to having reverence for the magic and mystery of a woman being able to create; a human, a painting, a meal, a career, a poem, a community.
As you get deeper and deeper into the woods you feel the weight of the world slipping away. You pull into a dirt filled driveway to a stunning log cabin and see the cars and motorcycles lined up of the other women inside. You can’t wait to get in.
The front door of the cabin opens wide as you open your car door and a gorgeous long gray hair elderwise, the head of the house, comes out to give you a big hug and take your bag from the trunk.
You wrap your sweater a bit tighter around your waist as you both smile and laugh walking into the cabin.
The next 7 days are filled with nourishing meditation, prayer, food, rest, creative activities, and some silence. Each night you gather with the other women, also on their cycle, and share your dreams, mistakes, joy, and pain. You feel seen, assured, and more confident knowing you aren’t the only one who has all these experiences. You feel connected. You feel supported and it is so strange because you are the receiver and not the giver. You are always the one with your friends and family that everyone goes to. And that is precisely why you came here.
To fill your cup back up so you can energetically, emotionally, physically, and mentally sustain that important responsibility.
You all of a sudden realize you are not in the woods, but your local coffee shop with your meditation app on.
You hear the meditation teacher ask you to “come back to the room.
To the here and now. Begin to wiggle your fingers and toes and when you are ready… gently open. your. eyes. The meditation has ended, have a beautiful day everyone.”
Goodness, that was a powerful meditation, you think to yourself… it felt so real.
Okay, so we do not have this world created yet, but we can continue collectively dreaming about it. We can create a community where even though we can’t leave our responsibilities for how many days we have our period, we can give ourselves time each month to check in with ourselves. To have our go-to resource that feels like a “cabin in the woods” to be supported and take a journey without going anywhere but within our own wise selves.
It is overdue for us to reclaim our cycles as a miraculous gift.
It is overdue for us to circle as regularly as we reach for unhealthy vices. It is overdue for us to gather together and witness each other to see ourselves, that we have far more in common than not.
Wishing you a nourishing new moon!
xo, Meg
