Full moon in fiery Aries, the spiritual warrior for truth. And the first truth you must hold close is who you truly are and what you need to thrive. Now is the time to come home to yourself without any disguises.
This big beautiful Moon is in a trine with Vesta, the asteroid of devotion and sacred inner fire. Vesta (Hestia) is an ancient goddess of the hearth. She carries a reminder to nurture self and Soul. Before you charge out into the battle for truth and justice, a strong inner fire is required.
The Laussel Relief, stone carving of woman holding horn with 28 marks. Southern France.. 27,000 BCE
Before the Catholic Church created its own calendar, Europeans followed one based on the moon rather than the sun. This ancient calendar lays out a year with 13 months. Each month is 28 days long, the length of the human menstrual cycle.
13×28 = 364, plus one holy day = 365 days in a year.
The lunar calendar has exactly 4 weeks each month that coincide with the 4 phases of the moon: new, waxing, full, and waning.
In Gaelic, the words for menstruation and calendar come from the same root: miosach and miosachan. The Chinese divided the sky into 28 lunar mansions that Earth cycled through. Maya women say their calendar originated from menstruation as well. Cultures around the world honored the lunar calendar.
The Church erased the lunar calendar, focusing instead on 12 solar months. The number 13 became unlucky, tied to witchcraft. And menstruation was declared unclean and taboo.
But women around the world continue to cycle with the moon, physically and emotionally.
“My political activism always grew out of my spiritual understandings of the Earth as the living Mother because the Goddess is injured wherever there is injustice, wanton cruelty, poverty and pollution.”
