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Thirteen Moons
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£20.00 + postage
How to chart your menstrual cycle handbook, and corresponding journal.
There is so much more to the menstrual cycle than the biology lesson given to explain it, in the same way that there is so much more to sex and childbirth than the mechanics. The menstrual cycle is a cycle to base your life around, in fact your life is based around your menstrual cycle whether you realise it or not, whether you pay attention to it or not. Why not pay attention? So much more will make sense; you will make sense to yourself!
Learn to chart your cycle, become aware of the daily changing influence of the moon phases (the lunation cycle) and the effects of the Earth’s season and where you are in your life seasons. Charting your cycle can reveal so much to you about yourself. You will come to know the patterns in your energy levels, creativity, libido, and moods.
Your cycle is a rhythm all your own to plan your life around. It has a huge impact on your experience of life and charting your cycle helps you come to understand and more easily flow with this. Once you understand your cycle and the other cyclical influences, you will be better able to “go with the flow”, working with your body and your cycle rather than ignoring it. You can make your plans to suit you, do things when you know you will have the energy, retreat when you know you will feel to, use your creative energy when you have it.
Each cycle provides a woman with the opportunity to understand and read the messages her body gives her for any specific healing she needs. Each cycle creates the opportunity for as much spiritual growth and personal development that she could want.
There is powerful transformational magic inherent in the menstrual cycle. All a woman has to do to connect with that potential is simply to be with what is, her cycle, happening whether she’s paying attention or not.
Ten Moons: The Inner Journey of Pregnancy
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£18.00 + postage
This book is a valuable preparation for Natural Birth.
A unique guide to pregnancy and birth, written by former homebirth midwife, mother and grandmother, Jane Hardwicke Collings.
This book gives the power back to the woman to be the centre of her birthing universe, returning to her the keys to the long-locked gates of the realm of feminine strength and the spiritual essence of birth.
Herstory
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£11.00 + postage
I want to tell you a story. It’s actually a combination of His-story and Herstory.
History is the story that is written by the victors and supports their actions. The her-story, is a story, that when I heard it, answered a lot of my unanswered and even unasked questions.
Knowing this Herstory helped me to understand a lot of things about how our culture works and what is behind the attitudes and beliefs that we share. I’m going to now give you a big sweep of our Herstory, taking us back in time to the Matriarchy, a time of great respect for Mother Nature, and then the journey of the last 3000 years as that was wiped out by the Patriarchal culture in which we now live…
Mother Nature's Wisdom Children's Book
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£20.00 + postage
Mother Nature’s Wisdom is an educational and interactive children’s book teaching the wisdom of the cycles.
Beautiful illustrations by Freya Rose accompany a journey through the seasons of the Earth and Life.
Ways to flow with the Lunar Cycle and a glimpse at a woman’s cycle remind us of the ancient wisdom teachings from the Earth’s Song of Life.
Becoming A Woman
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£13.00 + postage
​Becoming ~ a Woman is a booklet written by Jane Hardwicke Collings for girls and their parents who are looking for some easy-to-understand information about the menstrual cycle.
Waking the Witches: Ruby's First Blood
£17.00 + postage
Grand-mothered by Jane Hardwicke Collings (Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft) hand drawings by Freya Rose, written by Kari Hill – both graduates of the School of Shamanic Womancraft. This has been created with great thanks for the visions of Bella Tozer and her original story The Sleeping Witches.
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Ruby is a regular 11-year-old, until she learns the power of her blood magick!
Journey with Ruby as she meets her spirit animal, Zasha, and wise woman, Hekate and learns the truth about her Menarche, her first blood and the mission to wake up the witches.
The Shadow lurks within all of us and we’re asleep with the ‘cloak of forget’.
What is this ‘cloak of forget’ and how will Ruby wake up the witches?
A magickal adventure exploring girls’ rites of passage. Be surprised, delighted and transformed!!
Spinning Wheels: A Woman's Ready Reckoner
By Jane Hardwicke Collings
£20.00 + postage
A unique and innovative tool allowing a woman to unravel why she feels the way she does on any particular day.
*IMPORTANT: The Spinning Wheels are specific to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Please ensure you choose the edition relevant to your location.
The Spinning Wheels is a wealth of information in one handy card that tells you the characteristics of each phase of each cycle – Earth season, life season, moon phases and menstrual cycle.
On any particular day you can be aware of all the energies that are effecting you and you are more likely to understand the way you feel. This information enables women to be familiar with the complex interplay of the cycles that influence their every moment.
Thirteen Moons and the Spinning Wheels can be used by women who are new to this process as well as those who are familiar with charting their cycle. Menopausal women, although they no longer menstruate, will see through the process of charting, how their moods and energy levels are linked directly with the moon’s phases.
Using Thirteen Moons and the Spinning Wheels will help you understand and honor your menstrual cycle, one of the responsibilities and gifts of being a Woman.