Member introduction post.

[byrdie.livejournal.com]

Hullo,

In 1998, I stopped using Depo Provera after five years due to voluntarily sterilization (tubal ligation, something I've wanted consistently since I was 12). Depo screwed my cycle all to hell, and before that I'd been on the pill since age 20. So I'm still fascinated by the fact that I have a cycle, by the fact that I do go through a mild PMS, etcetera and so forth. I don't go quite as far as Anne Frank's adoration of her "sweet secret," but I think it's pretty nifty in some ways.

I was amused to notice this community existed after reading Rob Brezsny's Televisionary Oracle, since that's where I'd first read of the concept of Menstrual Huts and the Funky Temple of the Pomegranate Grail. Sadly, I didn't have anything to say on the topic at the time.

However, my period just started recently, and fall is approaching, which I always brace myself for (long story). This time around, I noticed that I used my typical agitation to push myself to try to find local communities of black new-agey spirituality in Seattle, something I've been wanting to find since March of this year when I saw Luisah Teish live.

I find it interesting that I finally followed-up on my desires with this big push of courage during the beginning of my period. It could be a combination of that, an attempt to fight off future gray-day blahs, and general synchronicity, but I think I may try to track this in the future ... if the beginning of my cycle are actual power days for me at this point in my life. I've heard that, and I've heard that women should just lie back and do nothing for a week. Maybe it's that they should do whatever they jolly well want and follow their hearts. Dunno.

We shall see, though.

And thanks to whoever made this community. I've liked this concept for a while now. :)

Comments

[namaste21.livejournal.com]

if the beginning of my cycle are actual power days for me at this point in my life

I read that women are tricked by society into thinking that their period makes them weak/sick/etc. that's it more of a mind over matter deal, and that your period is actually a time in which you're more powerful...

of course, I haven't had a period since I read that, so I have no way to test it out. :)

[(Anonymous)]

On the other side of the coin, I believe that looking at it as the time of greatest power is also simply an attitude of mind over matter. Kind of a "if you believe it, so it shall be" sort of deal.

Of course, I definately think that's a far better way of looking at it than the former...