Your womb is a mirror

Your womb is a mirror.

In the Australian Aboriginal tale of rainbow snake, there are two sisters. One gives birth and the sight of her blood flowing causes her sister to spontaneously menstruate, at which time they are both engulfed by the rainbow snake who takes them into the psychic watery underworld. In another version of the tale they make entwined rivers with their blood which summons the snake.

I can't remember the amount of times my womb has opened during a birth or directly after I've returned home. Often I have questioned our modern practice of fertile women birth tending, because traditionally it would have been maidens and crones holding this rite of passage. Women who would not spontaneously bleed in the presence of blood.

One of the biggest predictors of whether a woman will conceive is if the women in her friendship group or at work are pregnant. When I worked in a coffee shop we used to joke it was the office chair, but really our wombs were mirroring each other. It makes sense, historically we could have nursed each other's babies when needed, could have moved through the rite of passage together... Or maybe these are groups of souls agreeing to come down together.

I don't think it's a coincidence my own baby entered my womb in the month that I attended a birth and a baby blessing.

In the Yurok Native American tribe the story goes that the women used to menstruate together, where they would dive deep into a lake to retrieve precious shells that would increase their abundance. Whether you believe it was a literal lake or whether it refers to the potent psychic powers of the menstrual state, it doesn't matter.

If a woman was out of sync with her sisters she would sit under the full moon and ask to be aligned. We now know that exposure to bright light around the full moon causes menstruation with the new moon.

Premenstrual tension only exists in industrialised societies that have no spiritual beliefs surrounding menstruation or ritual to mark it as a time of rest and reflection, and women who experience PMT are more likely to have male partners living with them, children and full time jobs. At this time we lose the ability to gaslight ourselves that we are fine with our lives and our needs are being met. The womb screams as she mirrors our true feelings back to us.

When we go on our womb journey, we reclaim ancient wisdom that has been lost to us - the insights from the psychic depths of menstruation, consciously releasing from the womb, the ritual that meets a fundamental need for wholeness. The cosmic mystery of it all that mirrors the moon and the wombs of other women.

You can work with me one to one or through my online courses Sacred Womb Journeys and The Medicine Wheel of the Womb.

2024

This year was one I began feeling quite low and lost - I felt stuck at a particular part of my healing spiral, I kept saying to my best friend "I feel like I'm trying to shed something and don't know what".

For me, no matter what is happening personally, my work is always the thread that I follow, blessed to witness so many amazing stories and journeys, always reminded of the magic, meaning and synchronicity. All I need to do is keep showing up and keep my heart open.

I'm so grateful to the plants for how generous they were with their wisdom this summer. And grateful to my husband for his patience with the process.

Witnessing my children growing so wonderfully, getting more confident each day, more loving and more competent has been the biggest blessing.

The most beautiful memories this year were attending two births where I had also facilitated the handfasting ceremonies, and in the portal created through working with these two families my own sweet baby was guided across the veil into my womb.

I was also thrilled to finally birth the project that has been in my heart and womb, my immersive online course in womb energetics - The Medicine Wheel of the Womb. I hadn't anticipated needing to record most of it in the throes of first trimester but getting started writing and recording was a condition the womb gave me before the child would come, and after that, it all came fast!

You can work with me up until the end of May 2025, for women's healing retreat days, womb reiki, shamanic womb healing, Closing the Bones, women's full body massage and Magdalene Rose Activations, before I enter the birth portal 🌹

So much love to all my womb pilgrims this year.

Jenny xxx

Your cervix is your real third eye

Within every woman is an all-seeing eye, that passes unseen in a crowd like an old hooded crone, yet sees all. This eye holds the wisdom of all the women who have come before her, right back to the very first woman. Deep within her womb, at the gateway, a woman's wild instinct remains intact beneath all the layers of gaslighting and conditioning.

Every month a menstruating woman journeys with the Crone wisdom of the cervix, the premenstrual phase as the cervix prepares to open and release what is ready to die. This phase reveals everything that we have been unwilling to see, everything that has become intolerable and unaligned with truth. If there has been trauma or violation, this phase can become extreme, a destabilising fixation to journey further to death, desiring to escape completely.

We must be connected to our inner wild wisdom to allow a baby to pass through our cervix, to experience shamanic states of menstruation, and Crone comes into her full power when we experience the rite of passage of menopause.

When this is held, when the woman is allowed to die to herself and be reborn, the cervix is no longer used for the life processes of menstruation and birth, the woman becomes an embodied oracle of Truth (as hard as that truth may be to hear!)

Through our womb work, we become skilled at allowing the wisdom of what our inner Eye sees to rise up and be expressed.

You can journey with the Crone and the other energetic gates of the womb in my new course The Medicine Wheel of the Womb.