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This project is inspired by Judy Grahn’s Metaformic Theory.

Metaformic Theory is important because:

  • Metaformic Theory returns women to a crucial place in cultural origin stories, in our histories, in our rituals, in our religions, and in the ordinary and extraordinary everyday things that billions of women do all over the planet—so women can again identify themselves as being part of culture creation in major, leading, and centralizing ways.
  • Men are not displaced from a crucial role in cultural origin stories by this theory, nor are they demonized. The cultural contributions of men, as with women, are put into the perspective of ritual, and so both sexes have a better chance of understanding each other.
  • Menstrual theories teach that synchrony is a primary basis for evolution, women’s solidarity and intelligence, rather than our isolation, weakness or sinfulness, are emphasized. Women can help each other lose the shame and confusion of not knowing where we fit in as culture movers and shakers, and become engaged, active participants. This encourages and enables women to, for example, intelligently struggle to gain a full measure of control within institutions that affect them related to health and our bodies, motherhood, sexuality, the economy, marriage, education and children’s welfare, religion, government, science, the military, the welfare of the planet, and so on.

For more on Metaformic Theory please go to:

 

 Who Uses the Rose Lodge & When

  • Rose Lodge is a space for learning and connecting to Metaformic Theory and for hosting related ceremonies and events.
  • Rose Lodge Membership is available to a small private community in the Orange County with classes and retreats soon to come available to a wider community.
  • Entrainment with the moon cycle and with other women’s cycles often occurs within a close community so it’s very likely that more than one menstruant at a time will be using Rose Lodge which will provide its own interesting data. 
  • The Rose Lodge will always be available for our Crone sisters who hold their blood and ride their power full-out. They may choose a time that is right for them during the moon cycle to participate in the Lodge.
  • Similarly sisters who no longer bleed due to health/medical procedures may also join at the moon cycle of their choosing.
  • On New Moons Rose Lodge will be open to our femme identifying male-bodied members who, though they don’t bleed, have historically held a special station in the transference of menstrual knowledge to the men and children of the greater community. This parallel seclusion time symbolically held on the New Moon will allow for reflection on their relationship to the historical sacred station held by gender-bending folks as well as aligning their minds, metaformically, to menstrual orientation.

Other Information

A moon chart and journal will be available for menstruants to make notes on about when in the moon’s cycle they visit the lodge. Blood Bread and Roses by Judy Grahn and other books related to sacred feminine, sacred queer, nature and magick will be available to study. Per my research, I would love for menstruents to share some of their artwork and journal entries for our Membership archive and Moon library.

The primary menstrual taboos that we will be observing are: seclusion from other non-menstruants, family and typical duties and seclusion from light. Once a menstruant (or symbolic menstruant) has settled they will stay in the hut for the remainder of their time at the lodge -only allowing themselves to leave the hut once the sun has completely set (or doing their best to adhere to this). It is with these disciplines that we will attempt to reorient ourselves towards menstrual principles and gain what possible wisdom therein lay.  

Menstrual seclusion rites reenacted their own discoveries, returning women back along a path of unraveling time, to the chaotic mind before light was seen. Menstrual seclusion accomplished this by a simple taboo: the menstruant was not allowed to see light. Silence often accompanied the cloistering: she could not speak, or she could not speak above a whisper, or her name could not be spoken during the sacred time—as though she were returning deliberately to a preconscious state.

If a woman kept taboo, all life flourished; she had irresistible allure and life-energy. –Judy Grahn

How grateful I am to share this sacred land and project with my sisters. Consider the absolutely radical effect this small shift in practice and thinking may have on our lives and the communities around us! Imagine saying to a friend that you will be unavailable all weekend because you will be observing menstrual taboos! Imagine having downtime during your menses to do your shadow work, spells, spiritual practice, yoga, reading and to take the much needed rest your body is desperate for? Imagine creating a sanctuary here in Orange County for our daughters to learn this healthy and empowering way to view women’s blood? This is the change I’d like to see in the world and it is starting here, with you, now.

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