How at home do you feel with your mystical, mysterious, magical side? Perhaps you feel curious about it but have no idea how to tap into it?
Perhaps you feel a quiet but real sense of dread or even terror when you feel into these unknown parts of you. (So many of us do—for some of us, our ancestors lost their lives for their magic, their embodied mystical knowing).
Menstrual cycle awareness is a powerful ally for connecting to the mystery within us all. Here are three ways that your cycle awareness practice slowly, safely awakens your mystical, magical self:
One: It connects you to Deep Time.
The second half of the cycle from ovulation to menstruation—the via negativa—awakens a right-brain dominance and greater access to imaginal, subtle and embodied skills to feel into and draw out the Unknown, step out of your ego’s sense of timing—which is always urgent—and tune into World Timing (a timing that is paced by something far deeper than your ego's knowing).
You move from imposing your own will to being willing and willed: from ‘my will’ to ‘thy will’. There’s room now for the spontaneous, the synchronous, for Mystery to speak and be heard.
The via negativa opens you to the hidden intelligence or deep wholeness at work in your being; to the meaning of your life here on this planet and your responsibility for it. The via negativa restores the poetics of life; it awakens you to the sacredness in all things.
Two: It connects you to your Inner Oracle
When you’re able to separate from the hustle and bustle of the world and take rest at menstruation, you can connect to a natural visioning power. What we call your ‘Wild Power’ can speak. You can become an oracle—an ecstatic speaking not just for yourself but for your community, for the world.
Your Calling, or Wild Power—the mysterious force that organises your life, directing the unfolding of something utterly unique through the particularity of who you are—gets to speak in full technicolour now.
Three: When we practise Menstrual Cycle Awareness together, we Invoke Magic
Cycle aware community connections and space can be alchemical: it catalyses an awareness and authority that we didn’t know we had within us. That is your Wild Power making itself known in you.
This is one of the reasons why we’ve decided to begin a live community round of Cycle Power later this month.
We’ve seen that both the act of respectful listening and the experience of being listened to, create a special zone or territory around you—a protected space from the stuff of normal life that invites in the mysterious.
The cycle-aware presence of others is what helps to hold the space and make it magical or holy. And, above all, dignify your experience. It allows you to hear, feel and sense yourself ever more deeply and tap into your own inner knowing, illuminating insights and solutions to the challenges you face.
