Menstruation

[Mara]

What is it with our menstruation? Though it is truly a wonderful miracle of the human body, I can hardly call it pleasant. Many religions created stories around our cycle. I remember reading some quotes from a man who said that every plant a woman touches while in her period, will die, and when she sits beneath a tree, all fruits will rot and fall. The hindu's say women have to avoid holy objects or holy men during menstruation. Aura photography shows that the aura of a woman in her period becomes darker.

Here are some cites from the bible about menstruation: http://www.mum.org/leviticu.htm

I have had several trips during my menstruation and they were all very different from the other journeys. I had my first cannabis experience while on the 4th day of my period and it was a very heavy trip. I disagree with people who say cannabis isn't a psychedelic, because I was completely lost in my mind, and nothing made sense anymore. Visions I had were completely insane. The effects I have during a normal period were 10 times stronger those 4/5 hours.

A mushroomtrip on a 3d day was also not a good idea. The trip was very intense, a triathlon for my senses, soul and emotions, and because I did not eat for about 12 hours before the trip, I was physically and mentally exhausted afterwards. I am not going to do that again!

Have you had a trip during your menstruation? How was it? Was it different? Does a psychedelic substance influence your cycle? Can't wait to hear your story.

 

[magickstar]

I´m just past the age where I can comment on the menstrual cycle but psychadelics (and YES I include cannabis too) have a strong effect on my feminine aspects and approaching menopause.

I have had some very powerful visions with (eaten) cannabis, including birthing myself, feeling my kundalini rising and harnessing my sexual power.

 

[Mara]

Hi Magickstar! Nice to see you here!

I prefer eating cannabis too.

Can you tell me more about psychedelics and menopause? Is a mushroomtrip influenced by menopause? My mother is currently in that stage, and since my father has taken mushrooms, my mother's interest is increasing.

Love n light,
Mara

 

[magickstar]

Hi Magickstar! Nice to see you here!

I prefer eating cannabis too.

Can you tell me more about psychedelics and menopause? Is a mushroomtrip influenced by menopause? My mother is currently in that stage, and since my father has taken mushrooms, my mother's interest is increasing.

Love n light,
Mara

Thanks for the welcome Mara. I do think it is good that older women are here to talk about their experiences and provide balance to the younger males.

It is two years since I last took mushrooms - only because none have come my way since then and I tend not to seek them out. At that time, my menstrual cycle was all over the place. I was just starting the journey into my "crone" phase and it was a bit scary - getting old and all that.

When I had that last trip I found myself going through the complete journey of my sexuality - rediscovering how I had come to be where I was. At one point I felt like a child being overpowered by my father. I had to question this deeply - was this some terrible surpressed memory coming to light, or a projection and distortion of my own feelings towards my dad? I decided it was the later - the feelings of my own body getting mixed up with my memories. It wasn´t pleasant but the mushrooms helped me to work through it rather than deny the thoughts were there.

I felt a balance between the weakness of my approaching old age and the power that comes from maturity and experience. I realised I could choose which model I wanted for myself - either to be weak or strong. With the ´shrooms helping me to connect to the feminine energy of our mother, gaia, I found I could draw on that power and use it to experience my full potential as a sexual woman.

 

[mountain-girl]

when im on my moon my senses become very intense-almost anamal-well not quite that good, but i can smell/hear/taste/see everything so much better, i can also sense thigns better, my dreams are always lucid and often meaningful, i can tell how poeple are feeling and can feel what im feeling better. idk, for me at least, living is intensified when im on my moon, i mean your moving with the cycles of the earth, i like it. i dont get heavy periods tho cause im a bit underweight, but i guess thats good. im only a fe years into my moon cycle, still a maiden moon phase to a crone one, however an iboga trip introduced me to the crone-very itneresting. ive tripped twice on my moon, and, like with life only more, it way intensifies it both in term of visuals and meaning. i would only tripp on my period if i was incredibly mentally prepared and had a good reason

 

[Mara]

im only a fe years into my moon cycle, still a maiden moon phase to a crone one, however an iboga trip introduced me to the crone-very itneresting.

I'm not familiar with these terms. Is it some kind of paganism?

 

[magickstar]

im only a fe years into my moon cycle, still a maiden moon phase to a crone one, however an iboga trip introduced me to the crone-very itneresting.

I'm not familiar with these terms. Is it some kind of paganism?

Yes, the ideas are central to paganism and it´s a big subject. However, it basically relates to the phases of the moon as a goddess - how it is born (new moon) how it grows like a young girl or maiden (waxes), how it is like a mature woman or mother (full moon), how it ages and dies like an old woman or crone (wanes). Broadly, you are a maiden until you are sexually mature (menses) when you become a woman and potentially a mother. When menopause starts one enters the crone phase.

If you have ever seen any triple-faced goddess pictures, this is what it relates to and it is why the energies of the moon are seen as feminine in nature.

Interesting that mountain-girl mentions an iboga trip introducing the crone phase. On Psychonautica podcast 50, that i have just listened to, Daniel Pinchbeck talks about iboga and how he was placed in front of a mirror and saw open-eye hallucinations of himself as a baby, right through to his old age and death.

 

[jungfrau]

hello..everybody..just discovered the all female community today...so writing my first post...

cannabis been the only thing i have tried during my periods,i did not really feel any difference in the intensity of the high,infact the cramps and backaches which i generally suffer during the periods were less severe i mean the pain subsided down after smoking a bit of cannabis..it felt good....

boom shankar