Reclaiming the Divinity of our Moon Blood

“When the women give their blood back to the earth, men will come home from war and earth shall find peace.”

This reclamation is a rebellious act against all the forces that are anti-life, violent, oppressive and woven with lies. It is a reclamation of the priestess. The bringer of peace. The holder of wisdom. This cycle is steeped in the traditions of women, which have been carried in our hands and in our wombs since the very beginning. Our blood is shed as a holy sacrament. A sacred ritual in devotion to the lifeblood of the earth and the loom of creation. The only blood that is not shed in violence, but LIFE.

Women hold within them a libation to creation/god that is innate. It is the ways we are encoded to be ritualistic beings, infused with faith and tradition. This blood is not dirty. That idea is deeply harmful to the ways our bodies are naturally meant to be in true HEALTH and in service to the continuation of life. the fact that a normal and healthy process is considered anything other than beautiful says a lot about what this society really thinks about health vs appearance. Thriving vs dependence. It goes to show how disconnected people have become from those parts of their selves and souls that are wild, and in resonance with nature. It only serves to feed forces that move against truth. Its “toxicity” was a result of harmful and inaccurate stories told by those disconnected from truth and from god. 

Menstrual blood was/is revered throughout history for its ~literal~ life-giving properties. It was known as the source through which women held their powers of procreation. It is the stage of the menstrual cycle when the endometrial lining that had been building within the uterus in preparation for a potential egg implantation is released. That blood is what holds and nurtures a growing baby in the belly when a woman becomes pregnant. Maintaining optimal temperate and offering rich nutrients and cushioning. It is the blankets we were wrapped with in our first ever home here on earth ~ our mother's womb. Without this blood, none of us would be here. It is the foundation of life. The optimal elixir of nourishment. 

There is a Hopi prophecy that says 

“When the women give their blood back to the earth, men will come home from war and earth shall find peace.”

This. This says it all. How highly this blood was thought of, and held as absolute divinity. Holding the power to weave peace in the world. Another layer of this is the kind of effect that the power of women who are centred in truth and fully embodied holds within our greater communities. When women lead, and hold all members to their most exalted forms, the world is better for it. The world may know peace. Our cycles allow us to walk to the edges of death, darkness and pain, and come back home to tend and teach about life. To really Know life. As for giving our blood back to the earth. You just need to offer your blood regularly to your garden to see the kind of nutritious power it holds. Transforming wilting and suffering plants into thriving ones. This blood is rich in the nutrients that plants love and even need to thrive. That is the layer of healing we are encoded to offer back to the land. I eat you and you eat me. We are stewards in this way, tenders of our children, communities, and the earth. 

~ This blood contains ~

☽ Nutrients and electrolytes ( sodium, calcium, potassium, nitrogen, magnesium ) — all of which deeply nourish the earth and plant life when offered back to the land 

☽ Proteins 

☽ Hemoglobin peptides — which is one of the constituents that makes something antibacterial, meaning this blood helps to purify the body and the womb from invasive bacteria when a woman gets her bleed. Another layer of how the bleeding part of our cycles is so deeply cleansing, it helps to clear out whatever doesn’t belong there. 

☽ Stem cells — this is one of the only sources so far known for stem cells that are totally non-invasive and regenerative. A healthy woman bleeds every 25-30 days and gives freely of her blood. 

Its nature is innately pure, for it holds the codes of regeneration, healing and the sustenance of life. Its purpose is wholeness. Something that is so powerfully restorative, and biologically designed for life, is vibrating within pure loving energy. It is sacred. And those stories told otherwise were spread in fear of such power, in fear of what kind of healing and love could/does happen when this power is harnessed. I’ve spoken about this before and here I am again saying it because the truth of it can not be emphasized enough, when women are in harmonic resonance with their cycles, power is locked in tune with our fullest potentials, with our greatest gifts, with the earth's blessings. It is how we are designed to be, and whatever is divinely designed is meant to SERVE us best. 

This song is the melody of creation.

When we pray to our blood, we are praying to/with all that sustains and nurtures life. We are communing with spirit. We are deep within the frequency of the spiral, the center of life itself. 

It is in pure love and devotion to something sacred and ancient 

Women in many traditions partook in rituals of separation, where they would go off into their own sacred temples/tents and spaces to be alone or with their sisters during their moon time. It is interesting to look at the deeper ESSENCE-tial reasoning behind this VS the conservative christian reasoning. It was a time seen as holding great energetic/spiritual and physical power where a woman was asked to move inward to really tap into those processes. Journeys were taken into the spirit realms, dreams were received and bodies were nurtured in their purification processes. It was honouring the intuitive energy during this time and holding a space for those deeper dimensions that become clear to be tapped into. Also practically, a woman feels more reserved, tender, and slower during this time of her bleed and so the body was allowed to be brought into a state of rest and relaxation. The warped idea that they separated because of uncleanliness was told in fear and ignorance, even envy of woman's innate connection to god, and their intimately woven sisterhood that was held in deep privacy apart from other aspects of life. 

If you think about it, menstrual blood probably is the only time a person bleeds profusely and doesn’t drop dead or get ill. In ancient times, this was revealed to be something very significant, and the bleeding times began to weave their stories of spiritual connection, sustenance of life and magic. 

A ritual bath was meant to signify the end of the purification and menstrual process and re-integrate a woman back into her daily life. It was symbolic and also simply a practical purpose to wash away blood when menstruation had ceased. Another way humans love to ritualize everything, because it weaves sacredness, faith, and magic into otherwise mundane actions. The sacred is the mundane in ceremony. 

We have forgotten many of these rites and rituals that intend to honour this time for ourselves. Partly because so many people have lost their connection to the sacred that is woven into daily life, and partly because the menstrual cycle became at least an inconvenience and at most a misfortune. This is how we are weaving magic and traditions back into our lives, by remembering the holy rites of the womb, reclaiming them - along with every one of our mundane acts - as sacred. Every process as divine. Everything that we are as serving in the great potential of our existence.