Moon Time: Harness the ever-changing energy of your menstrual cycle Paperback – April 22, 2015

This book is so loving and nurturing for the woman who didn't get the nurturing from her family of origin. It's perfect for me. I was not taught the Truth about my Moon Time, and I only now have taken action to learn about this super important part of being a woman! What prompted my action was that last month, I decided to stop taking birth control after about 20 years of taking it regularly!!! I have been chemically altering my body with The Pill and I feel remorse. This sweet book has awakened my curiosity and natural sweetness that is my birthright.One thing I learned from this book is the importance of being celebrated by her mother and family when a young lady gets her first period! I never had that-- and I was able to ask my mother for that life-affirming celebration NOW. When I called her on the phone and asked her to celebrate my "first" period, my mom had tears and he said she had never thought of that and she said of course she would. My package is in the mail and on it's way. I don't know what it's going to be, but I asked for a card and something cute with red and pink colors.I feel a healing and an awakening has already taken place. I look forward to my natural Moon Time from now on and learning the insightful gifts that it brings because Life is just that--- a gift!

Moon Time is an absolutely lovely book. It gives great advice on how to enjoy your cycle and really relish one's femininity. Pearce writes knowing her way may not be the way for everyone, and consistently states that one should do only what they are comfortable doing. It is not only a great book for celebrating your menstrual cycle, but also for taking a good look at one's emotions and why we feel the way we do when we do. An overall wonderful read, I've been recommending this to every lady I know!

This book changed the way I view myself as a women and I can not recommend this enough. If you are reading this, order the book, you won't regret it. Good ideas and tips and mixes tradition with science all while making it accessible to everyone. If you want to be on a friendship level with your body and not hating your body and self one week of every month get this book. For real. Right now. If you have young girls, she has a book written towards them, but get both, this for you, that one for them. :-) Enjoy getting your life changed and looking at your cycle in a whole new NICE light.

Has lots of useful, practical, scientific information that you'd be surprised not a lot of women know -- like how periods you get while on the Pill aren't actually periods (including the very clear explanation why). Coupled with lots of great feminine wisdom and spiritual concepts. I love the concepts of honoring our womanhood through ceremony and rites of passage (whether you do so alone or with a group), as well as emphasizing the need for female companionship and feminine communities. For more practical information about hormones and women (including treating conditions such as PCOS and endometriosis) I highly recommend looking into Lara Briden's work -- she has a website and a book.

This book was so life changing to me. The author was so nurturing and wise and it resonated with me so deeply. If you are considering purchasing this book I urge you to. Please allow yourself to receive this beautiful gift of knowledge. Bless

Absolute must read for all women!!! I finished this in about 2 days, such a beautifully written book explaining the beauty and power within our moon cycles. I feel so empowered and so honored to be a woman after reading this book. So much light and wisdom!!! Thank you!!!

It was just okay. Nothing life changing or phenomenal. I wish it was more rich and in depth.

I have never left a review for anything before. But this book is amazing. I was never properly taught about our cycles. Just told we bleed. I actually started at my father's and he threw me on to my aunt who in turn told me to speakto it to my mother (whom i wouldn't see for another 2 weeks because it was summer). This book allows me to go back and forgive myself. I am so glad i took the time to read it. It truly was amazing.

A mettre entre toutes les mains! Achetez le à vos amies, vos sœurs, vos filles, filleuls... pour se reconnecter à nos corps de femmes et à notre cycle menstruel et lunaire. Une bible, pleine d’infos, de découvertes, de ressources et de conseils. Merci à l’auteur pour ce partage, pour ces connaissances que nous devrions avoir dès le plus jeune âge. Si vous subissez vos règles, lisez ce livre. Il vous reconnecter à votre essence féminine et son pouvoir. L’anglais est accessible, se lit rapidement et facilement

This review is my way of thanking the author for this amazing book, it really helped me in so many ways. I started my menstrual cycles at the age of 11, and it was irregular and very painful, so without actually diagnosing me, they just assumed I had endometriosis and put me on Depo Provera. And like so many other women, I was taught that my period was shameful, embarrassing, gross and its only purpose was to burden me like it was some evil curse. Depo seemed to work well for me; it got rid of my menstrual cycles, I had a high sex drive and enjoyed not having to deal with a period. My hatred for being a woman and my sexuality became very problematic areas in my life. For so long I just wasn't ready to deal with this deep seeded resentment I had towards being a woman, and what it means to be a woman.But recently I had the desire to become more connected and in tune with that part of myself. I grew emotionally, spiritually and mentally and was now ready to embrace what it means to be a woman, but I had no idea what that even meant, hence why I started searching for answers and found this book.I was raised in Native Culture. I know a lot of people romanticise it, and surely I had heard stories about women's sacred Moon Times from a few elders, but from a young age I had turned against being female, and in fact I resonated more with being a Tom Boy, so I was taken under the wing of a male Medicine Man who taught me men's traditions, which I've heard is typically not the norm. Apparently women aren't supposed to learn Men's Traditions, and women have their own traditions. Unfortunately my experience with native culture wasn't as pleasant as most people make it out to be, as men would often make jokes like, "we probably just sent the women off to the Moon Lodge to keep the bears away from the village, because the bears would be attracted to the blood" and then every time I would go to a ceremony, men would say "you can't participate if you're on your Moon Time" or "you can't step over these sacred objects if you're on your Moon Time" and they would act afraid and disgusted by it, and this just made me hate being a woman even more, not to mention most of those "Medicine Men" I once respected, turned out to be rapists and abusers, who harmed and took advantage of girls and women. So, I always imagined there was some truth to the old stories about how menstrual cycles make women more powerful, but women are definitely not treated well in modern times in native culture, at least not where I live.So anyway, I had this really strong desire lately to reunite with my female spirit and really learn to love myself. I went off the Depo because I was worried about health concerns, but mostly because I really want my menstrual cycles back, I truly have the sense and feeling now that menstrual cycles are important, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually, and I feel for so long I wasn't truly myself. I think the Depo really stole a HUGE part of me away. I was hoping that this book would explain how menstrual cycles are important on a deep, profound spiritual level, and it really does. It explains all sorts of things I never knew, like how tuning into our natural cycles we can access a deeper spirituality, creativity and really get to know ourselves better, and how even our dreams change based on our cycles. I am fascinated at just how amazing our cycles truly are, and very disappointed that I wasn't taught this at a younger age. If I had been taught this at a young age, I wouldn't have grown to hate my body so much. It covers herbs and many other natural remedies and things I'd never heard of. It explained natural alternatives for birth control that I also had no idea about (I just wasn't taught these things). It explained the connection between the Moon and menstrual cycles, how you can learn to control your cycles by connection to the Moon, plus many ideas for ceremonies, creative projects, self awareness, self growth/transformation and just some really phenomenal ideas that I really resonated with. Menstrual cycles aren't a curse, they are definitely a blessing.And although this book does not give any advice on how to deal with painful endometriosis, it does explain the correlation between lifestyle choices, diet and a lot of other things that can cause irregularities. I am very excited to be just beginning my new journey into Womanhood and learning to balance my menstrual cycles, become all natural and get to know myself and my body on a more spiritual, intimate level.

This book is a must have.I just wish I read it when I was a teenager or when a male gynaecology consultant with a dotty bow tie was telling me how the pill "was the most safe birth control option". He didn't convince me,though,but throughout years I've seen my friends suffer from this "safe option" with side effects ranging from bad acne, rapid weight gain,severe mood swings and even suicidal/self-injury urges. "Moon time" is a life-changing book,truly. It opens your eyes to breathtakingly beautiful connection to the moon, tells you about amazing rituals and ceremonies you can have for yourself or your daughter(s) that connect women to other women as well as return them to themselves, to their roots, to the divine and dark cycles that nowadays get literally cut off and medicated to extent of losing this natural connection. It will tell you about The Red Tent movement and about The Moon Lodges. About the real natural birth control. It will teach you in the most gentle and caring way as is the tone of this whole book. Buy this book for yourself, for your sisters,blood and spiritual, for your daughter, for any woman you wish to see returning to her roots,reclaiming her time of the month, gaining insight and perspective and just starting to feel herself again,unapologetic and full of wisdom. I couldn't recommend any other book more than I'm recommending "Moon Times". It's simply brilliant. Let it guide you to your true self.

Ich fand das Buch schön und anregend, ich wünschte meine Eltern oder andere Erwachsene hätten diese Infos und Sichtweisen für mich parat gehabt, als ich klein war.Ein gutes Buch für alle, die mit einer Vagina geboren wurden, aber auch für alle anderen von Interesse, um mehr Verständnis für diese zyklischen Wesen zu entwickeln!

So easy to read!Love everything about the book