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The Moon, your cycle and the female body — without esoteric fog and without medical condescension.

Updated every weekWeekly ForecastVedic calendar with nakshatras for the week · 19 – 25 October · Week of the waxing MoonRead →

Moon & Woman

Lunar rhythms and archetypes

• Before an astronaut made the mistake on the way to the Moon, a four-year-old had already made itRead →
• The eleventh lunar day is named after a maiden who killed a demon while a god sleptRead →
• The heroine of Japan's oldest surviving tale said no to the emperorRead →
• Hina got tired of her family and moved to the MoonRead →
• Chang'e stole immortality, and it was the man who grievedRead →
• A woman who came to astronomy in her forties brought order to the names on the MoonRead →
• Harvest Moon: Three Evenings in a Row It Rises at the Same HourRead →
• A New Focus Every Two to Three Days: How the Moon Travels Your ChartRead →
• Why is my Moon sign different in WooMoon?Read →
• Moon Cheat Sheet: Your Cycle and the MoonRead →
• Inanna descended to the underworld and returnedRead →
• Science has confirmed what women have long knownRead →

Women’s History

Stories, legends and myths

• Nine thousand years ago in the Andes, women hunted big game tooRead →
• Blue specks in a medieval woman's teeth suggest she painted booksRead →
• Henrietta Lacks lived to 31. Her cells are 75 years old and still dividingRead →
• So many people came to watch a woman earn a doctorate that the exam moved into the cathedralRead →
• Smallpox inoculation reached England through a woman the disease had scarredRead →
• Merit Ptah, the “first woman doctor,” was born of a 1938 mix-upRead →
• The way to measure the universe was found by a woman hired at thirty cents an hourRead →
• Your story began long before you were bornRead →
• Medicine has barely studied womenRead →

Women’s Health

Articles on health

• Nobody in the covid vaccine trials asked about periodsRead →
• Through menopause the brain rebuilds, and memory holdsRead →
• You can be low on iron even when your haemoglobin looks fineRead →
• A warm patch on the belly eased period pain as well as ibuprofen didRead →
• After pelvic floor training, more than half of women with stress incontinence said the leaking had stoppedRead →
• Frequent hot flashes last more than seven years for half the women who get themRead →
• On average, it takes almost seven years to get from first symptoms to an endometriosis diagnosisRead →
• Three or four full cups a cycle already means a heavy periodRead →
• 28 days is just one normal length among many: only about one cycle in eight runs exactly that longRead →
• Seven Hours Eighteen Minutes: Where Sleep Stops Holding Your CycleRead →
• Melatonin — the language the Moon speaks to your bodyRead →
• In your cycle, the nervous system needs not only medicine, but rituals of careRead →
• The uterus — the only organ that knows how to be rebornRead →
• The egg does not wait for a winner. She chooses who she will create life withRead →
• Sleep protects your oocytesRead →
• 5 astonishing facts about your bodyRead →

This material is educational and does not replace a consultation with a doctor.