The Faces of the Moon Mother: An Archetypal Cycle
The first calendars were lunar, menstrual ones used by Paleolithic shaman-midwives in community rituals and ceremony. Our ancestors knew that this primal pattern of the phases/faces of the Moon Mother can be projected onto larger and larger cycles, for understanding the passing of the seasons and the orbiting of celestial bodies. Like all of life, we humans are contained within holograms that imitate the simple lunar \"swing\" from light to dark, and back again.Rowena Pattee Kryder\'s The Faces of the Moon Mother is a handy little guide-book for women (and men) who want to realign with the Mystery of the natural cyclic processes recognized by ancient people. She has synthesized esoteric from many different cultural traditions, and expresses her broad knowledge through her own poetry and drawings, commentary about how each phase of the cycle might be experienced, and simple visualization themes. She anchors the constantly changing emotional reality reflected in the monthly phases of the moon, and then applies that knowledge to the larger 29.5 year \"progressed\" lunar cycle that so significantly structures the transformational development of the human soul. This is a simple and profound book. --Vicki Noble author of Motherpeace Tarot and Shakti Woman